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Ending anxiety drugs post-cancer?

Addiction & Recovery | Last Active: Aug 29 1:02pm | Replies (3)

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Yes it will be problematic. Especially Valium. Next is Ambien. First
You will have to do an extremely slow taper off of Valium Which obviously your doctor doesn’t seem to think there’s a problem, like most of them,they don’t mind giving them out but when you need to get off of them, they seem to think you can do a cold turkey. Get on YouTube to find more information about this. You have no idea how many people are dependent on Ambien and Valium. Next go on Facebook on beating benzos and you will find many people on there that have the same problem you have and there is help but I have a feeling It is not going to be with your doctor. If you can find someone locally, good luck. I can’t reiterate this enough, especially Valium. It has to be done slow ,,a slow taper. I was only on Lorazepam For one month and not one doctor would help me get off of it so I kept just getting refills so I wouldn’t have any withdrawals for four months and the only person I could find that would help me was on Facebook on the Beating Benzo website. Because I built up such a tolerance to this benzo, it’s taking me about eight months to get off of it doing a very slow taper. I wish you all the luck and please check out both of these sites

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Thanks, I have refills to get me through mid-October so should probably start the taper soon as in TODAY. I do feel my anxiety has calmed down after being diagnosed with cancer--I'm used to it now and am in the home stretch of treatment. I will check out the group you suggested.