I began taking 1mg at night, one .5 tablet at bedtime and one .5 tablet in the middle of the night. Did that for a couple of years. Reduced to .75 mg per day for a while and finally one .5 mg tablet nightly for a couple of years. This seems the Goldilocks dosage for me, not too much not too little. Nevertheless, I absolutely was dependent on it daily, worried what it was doing to my aging brain, and I knew the time would come that my tolerance to it would demand I begin increasing the dose, so I realized that I definitely wanted to be completely rid of taking this miserable drug. I tried decreasing to one half then one quarter pill daily but had poor success at that. Finally, knowing that my dosage was low enough that I probably wouldn’t have a seizure by going cold turkey, I stopped taking daily doses but did take a pill every other day at first then every three days, and so on. Now, I take a pill every few days, sometimes more often, but I feel my chances for success are very good, even though I often feel quite miserable without taking it. (This a monstrous drug to try to stop taking on a daily basis.) That’s why I was wondering if another anti-anxiety drug not a Benzo would be helpful. Good luck, nanagizer, with your challenges with stopping. It is a tough one, but easier, I think, if you just accept that it will be painful with plenty of suffering to cut down and quit, but it will be worth it, and it won’t kill you.

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