As I mentioned earlier Claudia these are very complicated issues that I don't have answers to. How much I wish I did. You could mention to him that the American Society of Addiction Medicine has recently published guidelines for safer benzodiazepine tapering at 5%-10% cuts on each progressive taper and that the tapers will involve withdrawal symptoms that you can report as you go through each cut in tapering and you may have to hold at any time on any taper for your brain to adjust slowly, gradually and in the safest way possible minimizing but not eliminating in every case acute withdrawal or Protracted Withdrawal Syndrome. There is also medical recognition now by the American Society of Addiction Medicine of BIND (Benzodiazepine Induced Neurological Dysfunction) resulting from fast tapering beyond the recommended 5%-10% tapers. Sadly your provider may not understand any of this. We must defend our position that we took the medication as prescribed and it changed our nervous system and got us physiologically dependent on the medication taken as directed and that this is not our fault and we desperately need help with the safest patient guided slow, long taper in line with the most tolerable tapers and necessary holds for whatever length of time. It's all very complicated but these are the facts. Some people have switched to a different type of Benzodiazepine like you mentioned from Ativan to Klonopin but there just are no guarantees and many try to stay on the original benzodiazepine for the tapering process. I know how difficult this is because it's as if we're on our own with very little knowledge understanding of what we are going through. You have moral support here.🙏💜