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Protracted Benzo withdrawal

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Hello, @ejezbeta - wanted to welcome you to Mayo Clinic Connect. I'm sorry you have not found the physician help you were hoping to find for the alprazolam (Xanax) withdrawal for your husband.

Another thread on Connect you may want to check out deals with tapering from alprazolam (Xanax) specifically https://connect.mayoclinic.org/discussion/going-off-of-xanax

How is your husband doing today?

@brit - just wanted to confirm which benzodiazepine you are tapering off of right now? How are you doing?

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Sorry, but we do not eat procesed foods because of the junk in them and never have. I always canned a lot of our foods, buy local beef and pork and chickens and eat organic eggs and organic butter. I grew up on nasty margerine but in my 20's realize it was a lie and was poison so switched to butter. My husband's problems have not been caused food but by a stupid doctor who put him on Xanax for his headaches!! Benzos are only suppose to be prescribed three weeks at most and this was known in 1970! My husband was on Xanax 22 years and was put on antidepressants ( Benzos cause depression according to Harvard) and on an antipsychotic for sleep( unbelievable! Like I would want him to develop tardive dyskenesia!) and an epileptic drug( he is not epileptic!). . For 22 years every other year we went to some specialist for wierd, oddball symptoms which now I realize was caused by Xanax because it lasts 4 hours and then you go into withdrawals! He only took his Xanax once a day or twice so was ALWAYS in withdrawals!! I had him slowly wean off of everything over months, the Seroquel took two tries because he did it in only two months and paid for that. The Xanax he did in 6 months but not correctly because he was still drinking coffee, drinking a beer occasionally, taking his prescription arthritis pills all of which can help cause prolonged withdrawal syndrome because they work on the same receptor site. He goes to a pain clinic for an opiod for pain caused by the xanax withdrawal by since startng that he has gotten worse. Opiods work on a different site, the MU site but I think that is not true and they still somehow affect he bnzo withdrawal..He has been off of Xanax for 26 months but started having withdrawal symptoms 18 months ago and they have progressively worsened. MSU neurologists(3 different ones), know that his nerves are not conducting adequately to his muscles but do not know why. They so far have ruled out the MS,Parkinson's, and other things. We were told that if it was a serious disease process he would be dead or in a nursing home by now but no diagnosis. Well , it is PROLONGED BENZO WITHDRAWAL SYNDROME! Read the Ashton paper from Great Britain. I have spent the last 5 years trying to figure out his problems, first by spending over 80 hours reading about the methylation system and what his particular snips could be doing( he had his DNA checked) because he NEVER got rid of his headaches but got a lot more symptoms THANKS TO XANAX. Thanks to the internet, I can read about a lot of studies done at universities and not just in this country and also get information from the Lancet Journal of medicine.So please do not try to make me feel better about anything. I am very angry at the whole medical system as it is based on mountains of lies. In 2018, Harvard said in their medical journal that cholesterol had nothing to do with heart attacks and cholesterol lowering drugs cause depression, not to mention dementia. Was that on the news? No! The Psychiatric group met in Zurich, Switzerland and in February of last year and released a statement saying that GENERALIZED ANXIETY DISORDER was made up by he pharmaceutical industry to sell their anxiety drugs. I am looking for answers to my husband's PROLONGED BENZO WITHDRAWAL SYNDROME not someone to patronize me.