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Depression & Anxiety | Last Active: Feb 23 2:44pm | Replies (329)
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Hello, @rauter, and welcome to Mayo Clinic Connect. Thanks for your perspective on the Ashton Manual, benzodiazapines and use of diazepam (Valium) to come off of them.
Here is some Mayo Clinic information on diazepam (Valium) https://www.mayoclinic.org/drugs-supplements/diazepam-oral-route/description/drg-20072333, including side effects and precautions.
You mentioned volunteering for a drug addiction clinic. Wondering if you also have had personal experience, @rauter, with tapering off of benzos?
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Hi Lisa, thank you for your input and links.
Yes, I had issues with Benzos..and still I am on Gaba-ergic drug Lyrica in its moderate amount. I attended the D-Addiction center after being on two benzos simultaneously. Xanax and Klonopin. I was on 3 mg of each when I felt like something disciplinary should is due in my habit. In effect I was on 6 mg of Xanax since both are equipotent. I could tide the usage and say bid adieu to Xanax after 3 week stay. I left them with two months supply of Klonopin 2 mg.
After sometimes clinic contacted me, this time with information of a new Gaba drug's arrival. It was Pregabalin (Lyrica). I got involved in an outpatient research in which I could come off Klonopin 2 mg by being myself to the maximal therapeutic dose of Lyrica (600 mg daily in two doses)
I didn't experience withdrawal horrors from Klonopin. But I think Lyrica has its own problems long-term. Memory getting mixed up. Klonopin was better in the cognitive department. I am thinking of ditching Lyrica for the old-fashioned Klonopin. I will make it slowly. Lyrica doesn't need a tapering as we observed in patients.
Thank you once again