Posted by Maxime on August 6, 2003, at 8:32:40
In reply to WEENING OFF XANAX, HOW MUCH, HOW SOON?, posted by Danielle0 on August 4, 2003, at 15:55:20
Hi Danielle - Yikes, your doc wants you to stop cold turkey? Crazy! I was on Klonopin and stopped cold turkey and was so sick - nausea, dizziness, I couldn't stand up and I spent more time with head over the toilet bowl than I ever have in my life!
You can start by cutting the .25 in half and stay on that for a week and so on and so on. You will get to the point where you will only have to take it every second day.
It took me three months to come off of 3 mgs of Klonopin (which I know is not the same as 3 mg of Xanax).
Maybe someone on this board would be able to provide you with a schedule to use.
If you go cold turkey, expect 2-3 weeks of feeling like you are coming off some hard drug!
Good luck!
Max
PS. If I find any more information I will post it here. :-)
> Hi, I've been on Xanax 0.25 mg twice a day for 3 months. Then my anxiety got worse and I was up to 0.25 once in the morning and two at night for about a month now, because my anxiety is worse at night. On bad days, I have taken as much as 1.5 MG over the course of the day, but that was only one day here and one day there, not every day. So now, I've been on one 0.25 in the morning and two at night before I go to bed. Total of 0.75 MG a day. I want to now ween myself off and try to do without. My doctor wants to just quit me cold turkey and has tried by stopping the meds before. He'd be of no help in weening me. I want to know how to go about weening myself off. And in intervals of how long in between each reduction?
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> Thanks so much!
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