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Anyone have high anxiety? What do you do to help?
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@daveshaw
What ever you do not let the doc. put you on benzos for more than 4 weeks or you will develop a tolerance or dependence on it and the road to getting off it is most often long and painful.
Do not go cold turkey but tapper very, very slowly and research your options very carefully.' At only after .5 mg for five months, it may take me a year or so to get free of them.
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@gunshy I think much like when opioids first came on the market benzodiazepines were though to be non addictive. I have stayed on them because they balance out my other medications and I have kept my dosage the same for over 36 years.
Having just turned 75 this month and because I don’t drink or smoke and vigorously exercise 6-7 days a week my PCP told me to keep taking them. Withdrawal is difficult and her practice is entirely senior citizens and if they continue to drink she will tell them they have to get off them or quit drinking. Most quit drinking.
Good luck in your efforts to get off them.