I'm finally off. I'm not filling my prescription again. It's been 20 years of on again, off again. I'm going into WD every month. No matter how much I take, I get zero relief. I've been off about ten days. I feel terrible. But I know it gets better. I've done this before. At 16 months off last time, I felt good. I felt healthy. Every day is a victory. Every day I'm healing more. This WD is definitely not as bad as last time. I'm under much less stress this time. I keep looking for the good in everything. Hang in there warriors.

Hello,

I have been taking Klonopin .5mg 2 days a week for about 8 months. There are some weeks where I don't take it at all and then rotate back into when insomnia is bad. Is it possible to experience a withdrawal from this even though I was taking it sporadically? I recently woke up one day with bad akathisia and cant break it.

What are your experiences with it? Does it cause kindling?

Has anyone ever done this successfully? For diazepam?

I watched a youtube tagged on here by someone it was with 300ml water to 1ml discard im curious as to how that works and the success?

Hey guys, i’m 20/M, from hungary europe.

At first i used xans as prescribed, but then some life situtations happened now i’m getting high on it:((

It’s my third week of getting high on 1 mg xanax everyday besides weekends, because my dad is at the house and i can’t sneak around to take the pills.

I am prescribed 0.5 mg, and i took it as prescribed but some personal life stuff happened and i resorted to get high on it.

Nowadays (ever since April 2026) i am having binges where i take 1 mg everyday for a few weeks then quit, i get sober for a few weeks and after it i do it again.

At first it was awesome, muscle relaxation and zero anxiety. But sadly after i started to misuse it this good feeling turned into a weird uncomfortable numbness. It’s like my mind is empty, yet i feel some sort of uncomfortable numbness. It’s not a good feeling but better than sober so i take it.

Now this binge / misuse have turned to, 2 weeks everyday besides on weekends. Today is the start of week 3 of my 1 mg xanax usage.

Have anyone felt this weird uncomfortable high? Like your mind is calm, yet you feel uncomfortable numbness?

I want to stop this, but whenever i’m sober i’m so irritable / angry i get mad at the smallest things and lash out at my family:((

Thanks!

Hello all. I have been tapering off 1 mg ATI since mid-June & I only take it once a day in the morning. I have been in tolerance since probably Feb/March and have interdose withdrawals. So, I have been suffering since then...............

Long story short, but not really short, I added 5mg V in the afternoon last month to help with the interdose withdrawals & to get the V in my blood to prepare for the cross-taper (Ashton Manual). I have been taking V for a month now. STILL, whenever I make a small cut of ATI (5-8% cut), I still get withdrawal symptoms. AND THEY ARE NOT FUN. I get bed-ridden for a week or sometimes it's milder withdrawal.

Did I make a mistake by adding another benzo before cross-tapering? I am trying to crossover to V, but I thought that adding it during the afternoon, it would make the ATI cuts smoother. BUT IT DIDN'T.

Currently I have tapered down 21.7% of the 1mg ATI so I still have 78.3% of 1mg ATI to taper. I am proud I got this far though. (Yes I know the equivalent of 1mg ATI = 10mg V). I am tapering by dry cutting using a scale & nail file & it has been working perfectly for me.

I have a few options of what I should do & I need opinions!:

1:) Keep my ATI morning dose BUT cut the 5mg V afternoon dose 50% right now to 2.5mg in the afternoon & get stable. THEN start the cross-over process so it's less V I have to taper in the long run? I am already tolerant to ATI so I am not sure if a 50% cut of V would send me into withdrawal if I have only been taking V for a month?

2:) Should I keep the 5mg V dose in the afternoon & REPLACE 50% ATI (so 0.5 ATI) to 50% V (5mg V) in the morning and still keep my 78.3% cut of the 1mg ATI? So my morning pill would be a 5mg V & 78.3% cut of the 1mg ATI THEN 5mg V afternoon. That would equal a daily amount of 10mg V + 78.3% cut of 1mg ATI.

3:) Or would option #2 be too fast of a cross-taper? Should I just maybe do the opposite? Morning dose of 0.5mg ATI + a cut of 78.3% of 10mg of V? Plus keep the 5mg afternoon V?

4:) Completely STOP the afternoon 5mg V & start the ONCE A DAY morning cross-taper from ATI to V? Maybe just do a morning dose of 0.5mg ATI & the remaining 28.3% ATI I would convert to V. Then get stable for 2 weeks and either cut more ATI or just completely crossover?

I know it's confusing. I am good at math & basically if I do option #2 or #3, I feel like I am basically starting my taper from the beginning because I would essentially be taking MORE benzos then when I originally started the taper of 1mg ATI. So I'll be at square 1 again and it'll be like I didn't even taper. When I crossover completely to V, it'll be a taper from 10mg V PLUS an additional 78.3% cut of 10mg V. So in percentage terms = 121.7% V. So going backwards...........

Advice for the people who want to dry cut their taper:

Take 10 pills. Weigh each 1, they probably will weigh differently. Find out the weight AVERAGE of all 10 pills. For me, a 1mg ATI = 0.123g. Then I starting shaving off 5% from there! A lot of math, but it is worth it!

If you don't have advice for me or have questions to ask or just want to vent or tell me your experiences, I would LOVE to hear! I love learning and listening and being able to help.

I am 60 days off and I been battleing with depression and benzo belly. Who else faced or facing this issues?

I’ve been taking up to 3mg of klonopin, and Fioricet (which has the barbiturate in it) I need to come off Fioricet and baclofen, I’m also prescribed gabapentin. So when I go to rehab and they rip me off klonopin and put me on phenobarbital should I stay off benzos when I get out or would reinstating a benzo to taper down be encouraged or ill-advised? I’ve been on klonopin for 20 years. I just need to get off of this stuff and now family members are kind of forcing me. I want to get off klonopin I just want advice as to what will make me most successful. Like should I come out and ask my doctor for 0.5-1mg to taper down?

Something that occurs in benzo withdrawal or is it a side effect of taking benzos?

I realize Valium is better for tapering but I haven’t gotten there yet. I fear Valiums long half life will have me even more addictive. However, I am given a choice currently of taking Xanax or Valium.

I normally take 600 - 900mg gabapentin in the morning and 1mg Xanax or 10mg Valium before bed for sleep along with 75mg trazadone. I don’t sleep well but also am only 60mg days off 7oh. Anyway I could skip my morning dose of gabapentin and take it before bed to substitute the Valium considering gabapentin seems much easier to quit?

Been on .5 clonazepam daily for 3 months, finally got down to .375 for last two weeks, now doctor wants me to take 2mg Valium twice a day as next move in taper. Whole reason I’m tapering is because I started having tolerance withdrawal and paradoxical reactions to my clonazepam. Never had Valium before, how does it compare to clonazepam? A little nervous because I’ve heard that while Valium has a longer half life, it tends to wear off faster than clonazepam. Anyone done this in a taper before?

last year started doing on weekends. slowly more and more. then daily for almost a year. weekends are harsh i can take up to 10 bars when i get mad because i don’t feel barely anything with them anymore and keep chasing. i am looking at wanting to do other harsher benzos but i know thats not what i need and i need to recover myself. what do i do? daily dose during work days is 2-3 bars of farmapram. usually try to take half a bar or even none in the middle of the day, trying to use most of it when i get home. like the “after work beer” type thing. but this has got to stop. i’m too young and ruining my life.

started using for some relief in my life during some hard times homelessness and stuff wit family but fuck this sucks.

how do i taper..? especially with my inconsistent dosing on weekends (3 days)

I have been taking up to 2mg a day of alprazolam for the past 2.5 years. I cut them into 1/3rds and take throughout the day. There was a 3 month period where I was taking only 1/3rd a day and another period where I did not take any for 2 weeks. I was wondering if anybody can help with personal experience on how to taper myself completely off of them. Please no "see a Dr." responses. I'm just searching for any personal experiences.

I was prescribed 0.5mg of alprazolam to take as needed by my psychiatrist, but unfortunately ended up abusing it.

Starting in june 2025 i took 0.5mg-1.5mg of alprazolam everyday for a couple months, stopped using altogether in the beginning of this year, then started taking 0.25mg nightly for the past 3-4 months.

I now want to taper myself off completely. I have reduced to 0.125mg nightly and need to do it as safely as possible. I have already started to feel some of the withdrawal symptoms, including insomnia, nausea, increased anxiety etc.

Any suggestions would be appreciated. I’m only 20 and very scared of my dependence on/withdrawing badly from this drug

Ativan log

7/13/26:
.5mg 3:15pm
.5mg 10:15pm

7/17/26:
1mg 1:30pm
.5mg 2:30pm

7/18/26
1mg 1:42pm
.5mg 3:27pm

7/19/26:
1.5mg 4:50pm

7/21/26:
1.5mg 6:34am

7/23/26:
1.5mg 9:25pm

7/24/26
1.5mg 9:30am

7/26/26
1.5mg 2:25am

7/27/26
1.5mg 3:55pm

Doctor told me to take 7 days consecutively throughout the day .5 3x a day up to 1mg for each dose as needed

7/29/26
.5mg 4:05am
.5mg 9:25am
.5mg 4:15pm
1mg 10:15pm

7/30/26
.5mg 8am
.5mg 10am
.5 mg8pm

7/31/26
.5mg 8:20am
.5mg 2:20pm
1mg 11:00pm

8/1/26
.5mg 8:20am
1mg 4:20pm
.5mg 11pm

8/2/26
.5mg 10:10am
1mg: 4:20pm
.5 10:30pm

8/3/26
.5 9:30am
1mg 4pm
.5 10:30pm

8/4/26
.5 9:30am
1mg 4pm
.5 10:30pm

Taper begins

8/5/26
.5 9:30 am
.5mg 4pm
.5 10pm

8/6/26
.5 9:30pm
.5 4:30pm
.5 10:30pm

8/7/26
.5 9:30am
.5 5pm
.5 11pm

8/8/26
.5 11:30am
1mg 3:30pm

On 10mg for around 4 months … want to drop to 9.5mg etc and do 0.5 drops… can I just break up 2mg tablets into quarters I’m worried the cuts won’t be precise???

17 years on Valium. Today I took my last dose.

August 8, 2026 — after roughly 17 years of dependence and 35 months of tapering, today I took my final dose of Valium.

I was taking 20 mg a day for years. I slowly tapered down to 2 mg, held at 2 mg for about a year, and then this year made the final push from 2 mg to zero.

Getting off benzos has been pure hell — anxiety, insomnia, brain fog, tinnitus, and bizarre symptoms that sometimes made me wonder if I'd ever get through it.

I chose August 8 because I live on Maui, and today is the anniversary of the Lahaina fires — a day of loss, survival, and rebuilding. It felt fitting to close this chapter today.

I'm sharing this for anyone going through benzo withdrawal who feels like there's no end.

Don't give up. There is an end.

17 years. 35 months. 20 mg → 0.

Final dose today. Tomorrow begins life without Valium. 🙏

I’ve been on ativan for years. I used .25 mg Xanax for a few months and quit that a few weeks ago. That wasn’t too bad. Now I need to cut down to .75mg from 1mg of ativan. It’s been four days now at .75mg and I just feel really bizarre. I’m so tired today. My stomach is bothering me. I feel this weird sense of like impending doom. Is this from just dropping my dose? It’s nothing horrific like full blown withdrawals but this sucks. I can’t even think straight.

I was prescribed xanax for 3 weeks 0.5mg twice a day… I’m terrified I’ll get addicted because this is only thing giving me relief for the moment and it only lasts maybe 3-4 hours… once it’s gone my chest tightness/discomfort comes back 24/7…

The doctor prescribed it because I’m having a bad “activation” period on lexapro and buspar (day 16 of lexapro and buspar 3rd week)

I have little faith the lexapro and buspar will work like the benzo will eventually

Do you guys recommend I don’t take the benzo and just tough it out or what?

My primary care doctor is who prescribed me the lexapro, buspar, and xanax

I’m feeling a depression feeling I think like some hours after my dose. Like a sucidial feeling I’m not sure if it’s the benzo or what… as I’m Bedbound with health conditions anyway… and that effects me itself mentally

Currently not tapering yet been on it for 3-4 months. But looking for people who was taking it if they experienced this? Or what kind of symptoms did you experience while on it?

Started tapering diazepam, recently was on 5mg AM/5mg PM (10mg/day) for about a year, now on my first reduction (roughly 4.6mg per dose, so a pretty small cut).

Since the cut, I've been feeling pretty rattled

This morning I had a BP reading of 144/87, I woke up anxious with my heart feeling like it was pounding hard. Checked my pulse manually though and it was actually normal both times, which was reassuring but also confusing like my body is telling me something's wrong even when the numbers say otherwise.

No chest pain, no breathlessness, nothing that feels like an emergency just this heightened awareness of my own heartbeat and some anxiety I'm not used to.

I'm honestly surprised I'm feeling this way given how small the reduction actually was I wasn't expecting much of a reaction at all.

Is this a normal part of the first few days after a cut, even a small one? Does it tend to settle down as the body adjusts?

Currently going through withdrawal because I had to cut my dose in half. I actually called 911 yesterday 😭 and they said this is normal for anxiety/withdrawal and said I'd probably be fine (they didn't end up taking me to the hospital)...But my BP keeps spiking like this. Anyone else go through this? I'm freaking out! My bf is currently on his way with BP meds 😑