Author: laddertipper
Posted: Sun Dec 18, 2011 11:05 pm
| Redemption wrote: |
| Laddertipper this may be off-topix but am I correcting in assuming your taking Klonopins? I think that’s helping your situation in regards to sub detox. I sometimes take those aswell and realise I feel much better as though I get an endorphin rush. I take it that if you was not using Klonopins you feel the sub detox more gruelling then you are experiencing now. Not to sound mean but I would be more hopeful if you had done the sub detox without any comfort meds other then Clonidine perhaps, it would given me more hope a long term user can come off subs without long term benzo use and whatnot. I only wish so many long term Sub users would not relapse and complain about this extreme depression and PAWS, some even say they felt PAWS within 3-4 months, man is that how long it takes for half life to catch up once you step off subs? Jesus. |
I’m sorry I cannot give you more hope, because I’m taking Klonopin. I am in the process of getting off it. However, I’m going slowly because of the Sub thing lingering and because I have a history of seizures. I actually was able to reduce my Klonopin dose during my taper and even more since I jumped. I’ve been on Klonopin since 2005, right around when I started Sub. In 2005, I went on 3 mg/day for seizures. Then, I dropped little by little. During my taper I dropped down to .5-1 mg. Now I’m taking closer to .5. Not sure how much that could possibly be helping me when I’ve been on it so long and have actually been reducing. I think my body is probably very used to it by now and my Sub experience would not be much different without it.
I still do have PAWS. It’s just not bad. It’s annoying but it’s all a mental waiting game that I’m going to win, because when I really put my mind to something, I do win. And I still believe getting off Sub is very doable.
laddertipper