temazepa taper help please

[[La...]]

HI,my benzo brain is getting pretty darn foggy and I need some more help with my taper plan. I am doing the 10% cut  every week or longer with water titration and a bit of variaion depending on how I am feeling. I started on Feb 5th This is what I was told to do in the beginning, open my 30mg capsule, mix it into 100ml of water, take out 10ml and drink the rest , giving me a dose of 27mg, I have slowly increased that and last night took out 16 mls and tonight I will take out 19mls giving me a dose of 24.3, I will do this for a week and then take out 27 mls giving me a dose of 21.9. can any one follow up on this for me, So far I am sleeping pooly, have blurry vision in the evening, have some feeling of throat tightness and feeling of not being able to take a deep breath, heaviness in my thighs. Is this too fast and should I make it simple from here on and just reduce by one ml every night, any advice or opinions would be greatly aprreciated, thank you so much Ladygrace

[[Te...]]

Ladygrace, sounds to me like you are experiencing interdose withdrawals.  Those are the type symptoms I was having plus others when I tried the liquid tapering  method of Temazepam.  That's exactly why I ended up going the Ashton Valium taper and so for it's working great.  I've had 3 days of feeling really good since completely discontinuing the Temazepam.  I honestly believe the short acting benzo were causing me the most problems.

 

Taz   

[[La...]]

Hi, this could be right but I have already spoken with my Dr and he will not switch me to Valium , he looked at me as if I was a street addict just looking for more drugs, If I continue to have difficulties I will bring in pertinent pages from the ashton manual and the wiki articles, I have also spoken with2  pharmacists who dont think think there is any need to even do a slow taper, just drop to 15 mg for a few weeks , no wonder so many people fail to get off these drugs its sickening the lack of knowledge about benzos in the medical community. rant finsished. I will just keep plugging away with a slow, slow taper, thanks for responding I am glad you are doing so well in your cross over. Ladygrace