If this is the message you are referencing, I can tell you I did stop taking pantoprazole. Because it’s a coated tablet and can’t be broken in half, I took one every other day for about a week. Then one every three or four days and after a month, I just stopped. The symptoms I was having were very low belly pains, especially on the left side of my body. My doctor said that is where the sigmoid colon is. He was totally expecting to find a problem there during my colonoscopy, but there was nothing. When I stopped, the pantoprazole, the pains went away within a week. I also realized my body didn’t even need this type of medication anymore. Symptoms of Gerd and reflux have hardly returned at all. Also, the doctor tried to get me to take omeprazole before I stopped PPI’s altogether, but I had no luck with that one either. Same awful stomach pain. All PPI’s gave me the same trouble. I did try famotidine. This is possibly going to sound weird. I did Pepcid AC and got horrible stomach aches every time I tried it. I found generic famotidine at the grocery store in a 20 mg dose. I can take it without any problems. Just the Pepcid made my stomach go crazy. 🤷‍♀️ the problem with taking stuff like this every single day is you don’t even know if you need it anymore because you take it out of habit. I don’t know if you have missed days of your pantoprazole and felt horribly because of it. That would be a different story than mine. my body did not miss it at all. Also, pantoprazole is supposed to help heal ulcers in conjunction with other medication. I got my first stomach ulcer in March of this year while I was still taking pantoprazole. That makes no sense to me. So, onto the benzos. This one would depend on how much you are taking. I take .5 mg daily. When I talked to my doctor right before my back injury, he said stopping alprazolam should not be difficult at all because it is such a low-dose. I am using the time while I’m stuck in bed to half the pill and am taking .25 in the morning and .25 in the afternoon. I am not supplementing with pain pills or muscle relaxers as he suggested. He said that would make stopping the benzo even easier. I don’t want to trade one for the other and I really hate pain pills. so for the last three days, I have still taken the same amount daily but think over the next few days. I will stop the afternoon .25 and possibly by next week. Start to skip every other day with the morning. I don’t know if this is helping you at all and I’m dragging on and on. I can say that even splitting my small dose into two separate ones, the quivering I had in one of my hands has stopped already. I was starting to feel like after taking this medication for so many years, even at a low-dose that my body was begging me for more and I refuse to go there. I would rather feel slightly bad stopping, but right now I’ve got bigger things to worry about. if there’s any questions you have or anything specific I might be able to help with, please feel free to message. I’ll be on the lookout!