I am 2 years off after 7 years of valium. Now that there is no inhibition, my drive and mood and many other things are back but still dealing with anxiety symptoms not as bad or nearly as bad but i think this is somewhat permanent but its nothing too serious but I hope in the next years these symptoms subside but i dont mind it anymore
Off topic so my apologies. My wife has been watching your channel for quite some time. She has a colonoscopy/endoscopy scheduled tomorrow. They are going to be using propofol. She was on clonazepam .5mg for nearly 17 years. She did a two year dry taper and has been off close to two years. She still has sporadic withdrawal symptoms such as dizziness, muscle twitching, and sharp pains at the back of her head among many others. Should we be concerned about propofol? Thank you.
Sorry to hear she's still struggling. Usually post taper protracted people in the benzo community tolerate propofol pretty well. Hopefully she'll be fine ❤🙏
Sleep was back and forth depending on diet and certain things. It's good now with regulat meditation. I mostly stay away from processed foods, chemicals, etc
Your videos are so informative. It is almost 70 days I quit benzo after tapering. But still suffering from physical and mental symptoms. Physical are more manegable, but mental symptoms are frightening. I never had any issue before benzo, but during my taper, a constant feeling of unreality was there. After coming off also, a patch of detachment from surrounding disturbe me and gives me intense anxiety. Did you experience any mental symptom after coming off? Will they fade away with other physical symptoms? Pl respond.
@@BenzoBrainsthanks. I try to eat a plant based balanced diet, but I don't take any supplements except the calcium tablet which I am taking before benzos. Do the symptoms that have gone or now less in intensity can come back as time passes?
May I ask how long you’ve been off, which benzo you were on, at which dosage and how long you tapering lasted? And are you feeling more like yourself now?
Hi again, I have wrote you few times. I'm having really pure hell the whole time in my taper. I have that "brain lock" you said it is normal and many other people as well. Can horror waking ups be due to benzo and tapering? I have had few people saying it is part of the process for many. I have so bad waking ups, no brain, and feel like I die and then think I have to die and have to fight against the thoughts. I get no windows. I can't anymore go even for walk and my mom helps me to get food and going to store is awful, feel depersonalization and derealisation and disconnected from people and enviroment. And totally brain dead whole day. This is my third time to try to get off of this drug. I had in spring ct at hospital from 5 mg of diazepam and I came home with brain lock (had it just two weeks away over a year ago when I was in bad withdrawl symptoms of oxazepam after detox and had crossover to diazepam 10 mg and it took all my witdrawl symptoms away and brain lock also. I had few good weeks and could function normally. But taper was too quick and went badly wrong. In summer they tried me klonopin to get me relief for a while and then taper but it didn't help. Half year later I said to my doctor that I think I suffer withdrawl even don't taper and want to taper with Ashton manual and she was willing to read it and we started over three months ago. I have dropped from total 60 mg of diazepam and klonopin to 27,5 mg of diazepam. I tried to force myself earlier to walk but my body doesn't have power and I fear leaving home. Exposer doesn't help. I'm isolated and can't even be with my partner or anybody else than my mom when we go to store. I tell my hell (that I can't believe it is true) all the time to my loved ones and feel like I'm in a different reality from other people. I fear I have the worst brain injury that anyone has had. Can't understand TV or anything normal. I fear taking trash out. I have still 50 mg of short quetiapine and 150 mg of long quetapine and 20 mg of temazepam that doctor says will be taken away after diazepam. I have dropped quetiapine 100 mg in the beginning of taper. I'm normally confident active social person and now i'm alone mostly and in constant fight or flight state and panic and terror. I have very good doctor who understands now benzo and also that that temazepam (benzo) has to be tapered but she says not until first diazepam because she is afraid too many changes and that I start to not sleep, she admits that it is also making me depressed etc. I have watched one guy's videos and he had much xanax and tapered with Ashton manual and says he was also not functioning during the benzo and also tapering and that due benzo brain and body becomes disabled. He was isolated at his home for three years and survived and lives normal life. Please if you can answer me and tell me if you heard that someone has had "brain lock" very long time and waking in horror and death and obsessive suicedal thoughts (my doctor knows these) because feels like not one day anymore totally not brain understanding anything, can't function, just eat and go to shower. It would really help me to continue my taper. I fear I won't ever get my normal life back. I would really need hope that I'm not the worst case and only one who can't survive even I'm so weak at this point already and have lot to taper. I would have a great life ahead if I heal. Thank you for this morter march, I try to do it everyday and also ten minute breathing meditation, that is all I can do. I know you are busy but would be great if you can give me hope to my constant severe problems. I am very depressed because I can't be myself and ecercise and be with people etc. I fear I have to die. I don't want to. This has been going on for 1,5 years. Have ten months to taper to zero. If I can get to ten mg at home I will do milk titration 0,5 mg per week. Lots of love and all the best to you. Thank you.
I'm sorry you've been suffering so much for over a year now. Certainly cutting your quetapine like that at the beginning of your taper made you more unstable. Dosing with short acting Restoril every night could also be making you feel worse. Ashton highly recommends switching all benzos over to one longer acting benzo and then tapering them all together. Punching your system with more benzos at night as your tapering can be counter productive. This may be something to discuss with your doctor. You're not the worst case, not by far, although I know it seems that way. That's the benzo talking, feeding you fear that somehow you're the worst and you can never come back from this. But you can and will heal. It's just a matter of time and givinng your body the proper support it needs to heal. Functional medicine can be very helpful in this regard if you can find a knowledgeable practitioner. Keep going. Don't listen to the lies. These things all get better with time.
@@BenzoBrains Thank you so much for answering, I really am grateful. I have asked my doctor to switch temazepam to diazepam at night. But she says no. I will ask again. She has read Ashton manual and is very kind. Is my brain dead state normal? It went once away like I told year ago when I was in bad withdrawl symptoms of oxazepam and doctor gave me first time diazepam 10 mg and my withdrawl symptoms went away, also brain lock nyt taper was too quick and went badly wrong. I can't understand and simple things and feel like I'm not part of this world and people. I'm isolated a lot because I tell my hell all the time to my loved ones and feel like I am in a different reality from other people, in hell. Please if you can answer that it is normal that brain doesn't understand daily tasks and that people can live normal lives and everyday wake up brain dead in total horror and feel like I can't take one day anymore like this. Thank you for saying I'm not the worst case. I can't do barely anything. If I go to the store to get food with my mom I feel like I'm not part of normal life and cry in the car. I am very depressed because I can't do things i love, exercise, cook be with my partner and mom and other people. Take a new puppy. Thank you if you can answer that brain not functioning normally. You have heard so much so you have the knowledge. I'm thinking ending my life everyday because of this. And my doctor knows it. I would have a great life ahead if I heal. Thank you so much.
@@BenzoBrains ❤ I really am grateful to you that you use your time and knowledge for me. I'm so scared with this brain. Am living life not worth living isolated alone. Everybody just waits will I get better. I have mom and brother and partner who helps me to get food and meds. But I'm alone. And I was doing very intense exercises before this hell, cycling (my partner is ex competive (i don't know the word) biker and he always made very hard cycling exercises and I loved them even I have this rare brain decease and have had two strokes in head when i was child and went through very big surgerys and my decease is calm, mri was fine in spring and doctors say it is not causing this brain lock and it has never done that and also it wouldn't have helped with 10 mg of diazepam year ago) running, walking and going to gym. Now I can't go anymore even for walks. I fear I have permanent brain damage. And I have seen the insomnia, puking etc in low doses and I don't know how to even get to low doses because I'm so exhausted and hopeless. I want my life back, my normal brain back. I want to fight these drugs off me. I just don't have power, I still try. I went to acupuncture, have known him very long but he couldn't help, he tried but said I'm too full of meds and he can help if I get off and then balance my system. Thank you if you can give me hope about dealing with brain lock and that it is normal and this is fight worth suffering. Thank you. ❤
I've seen some people really benefit from it during withdrawals and others seem to react adversely. Like anything else during this process it's kind of a crap shoot. I have a site you can look at if you want to try it leeflyorganics.com
Hey I’m currently on a tapering plan with my doctor he first started me with 5mg of Xanax taken in the morning and every 3 days It would go Down by 1 mg. I have been abusing xanax for 5-6 months and I have told my doctor this and I was using high doses some even up to 12 mg of xanax and also was using clonazepam at the same time and I told my doctor this and he gave me this tapering plan and now I’m on my last day of this tapering plan which I just took 1 mg of Xanax 3 hours ago and I already feel the withdrawals coming and I have been thorough out the whole tapering process and I have my appointment with my doctor in 3 days so really now I have to wait cold turkey for 3 days which I know will be hard. My question to you is what do I tell my doctor and how do i tell him that I still been having withdrawals throughout the tapering process without him thinking I just want to abuse more Xanax or benzos?
@@BenzoBrains thanks a lot I will find information through the link you sent and email him how I feel and a tapering plan with a longer acting benzodiazepine and even maybe bring up the Ashton method to him when I see him. Also tell him about drug testing too because I am serious about staying clean and I want to quit safely thanks for your input!
Hey Jocelyn! How is your recovery? I cold turkeyed effexor stupidly without the knowledge 2 years ago. Still suffering but getting better over time. Do you think it’s not a good idea to reinstate years later?
I think you sound like you are slowly healing. Getting back on will halt that and could actually not work the same now you're off. You could develop new problems now with reinstating and should you decide to get off again this time post withdrawal symptoms could be much worse. I would seek out other options, dietary, therapy, spiritual etc
Did you also do a special diet along with your other healing activities? Any specific one? At what point did you realize you were coming out of the withdrawal? I watched some of your other videos and it seems like it took a while, but I am curious because some people say they came out if it suddenly. I am 15 months in wd and it still hasn't let up. Anything you could share would be appreciated. God bless
Hi yes I did. I speak about my initial diet and things that really helped. I think I forgot to mention that I also started on a gut reset diet protocol for several weeks that my doctor recommended to balance my gut flora and fauna. But otherwise it's all in this video. th-cam.com/video/IssnniPeUGw/w-d-xo.html Then later on, after a set back I started a keto diet which I mention in a few of my videos. Both diets were very helpful for sleep and brain issues. The keto diet really helped heal my derealization
Would you care to write a description of this in the comments? I found it a little difficult to follow and sometimes reading it helps. Also a little description on what this is exactly doing would be awesome! Thanks for considering 🙏🏻
I’m off from benzos for about four years but I still have brain zapping and brain fog fatigue I’m trying TMS for the depression but it’s not helping much do you have any suggestions? And I still have tinnitus, how long this things still going to happen, I’m desperate
I still have tinnitus to varying degrees. I got that from my first cold turkey off Ambien. It's not a problem for me though. Lots of things contributed to my healing from brain zaps. Changing my diet and balancing my insulin fluctuation, hormonal balance, and gut balance with a functional medicine doctor really helped. You could try searchin FNDs or holistic practitioners in your area. Brain fog and fatigue were really helped by a ketogenic diet for me. Sometimes it's caused by toxicity and so, honestly a coffee enema can really help clear that up for me as well if that's the case.
PLS HELP!! i had really bad problems after i wanted to taper off too fast i was without sleep 7 days my nerves were hyperactive i thought i was dying every day …i am back on the dose where i started 5 weeks ago.. now i am trying to find a base so I can withdraw .. 2 days ago I put my current dose into water (1mg Lorazepam i thought about micro tapering) and drank it 4 times a day so i have more steady concentration in my blood but now After 2 days im getting more excidet and overstimulated than before when i was cutting the tablet into 4 pieces. Can you give me tips for my case? I'm really worried that I've finally gotten damage to my nervous system from tapering off too quickly... AND in the years before I also had unconscious withdrawals that were too fast, but apparently they were still tolerable i wasnt even aware of all these problems can come with benzos, im sadly taking them for about 5 years on and off... BUT what happened NOW shook me awake. I also have some supplements and remedies at home CAN ANYONE please assist me what i can take now to help me with my symptoms? On my current stage? (1mg Lorazepam, not even tapered but still strong fluctuations with strong overexcitation) pls pls anyone :((( maybe add me on whatsapp or contanct me via email pls!!
Hi there are Facebook support groups for benzos you can join and reach out to people there. It can take a few weeks for your body to adjust to a new dosing schedule and delivery method when you're so sensitive. You could give it a few weeks until you adjust or switch to the micro cutting method I demonstrate in my pill cutting video. I'm glad you're awake now. I'm sorry it's so painful
@@BenzoBrains Many many thanks for the answer. I went lorazepam withdrawal from June-November last year (unfortunately they switched me to diazepam in one day way too quickly) but somehow managed to do it. Then I was clean, but this year I had to take one pill again and again because of my underlying illness and now for a month continuously again. Was then on 0.5 of 1mg initial dose probably too fast and got really into problems. I'm back on 1mg for 1 week now but somehow it's not enough or the switch to the water method (2 days ago) was too fast. I don't know if I should stick to 1mg (I think I prefer solid tablets instead of water Solution for now) or if I should even go up to 1.25 or 1.5... the excitement is unbearable :(( although I had a little less over the weekend but I think it got worse again after switching to the water solution...
@@BenzoBrains if you could please tell me your opinion… is it possible to withdrawl only with lorazepam? With 4 doses per day? Im so in pain and have hyperactive nervoussystem… tried to switch to diazepam but got panic from it… :(
@@sulix6472 it sounds like there have been a lot of changes in a short period of time. What was your original dose? How long after you got up to 1 mg before you started the water method. Are you just dropping your pill in water or have you started reducing as well? All these things can add up along with the possibility of kindling
@@BenzoBrains hey i took 1-1.25mg for 3 weeks (5 years before on and off) then tried to taper down… got up on 1.25 again for 1,5 weeks but im far away from stable… im losing it…how should i please taper off am an absolute wreck :((( i feel like this is the end with me…I'm in a psychiatric clinic now and everyone here thinks there is no such things as i describe... and have now given me quetiapine for the night... and we would start tapering it off next week... I just want to get out of this hell
Hi I would look into your taper method first. Are you cutting or micro tapering? Some people can use cbd though to ease symptoms but others have adverse reactions. Like anything with this process it's kind of a gamble.
@@BenzoBrains In an Air B&B. Went from Orlando to rural Georgia. I don’t think Orlando was the best place to be when you have a benzo problem. Didn’t expect to have to call 9-11 ..12 times in 2 weeks and have to get a lawyer and potentially go to court and attempt to file a restraining order that was denied. I have PTSD and went from 3.5mg to 6-8mg as this was going on. Now I’m back to 4mg. I’ll never forgive Orange County, FL for doing this to me & my Mother.
Thank you Jocelyn! You’ve always been outstanding at explaining things. This helped.
Wow so immediately? That's fantastic!
Jocelyn, you are so freaking AMAZING!!! You're literally the strongest woman I have ever seen!!
You are a beautiful soul! Thank you for this!
You're welcome
almost 2 years off klonopin, ativan, xanax.. this channel helped so much
Happy new year and welcome back!! Thank you for this .
Thanks and you're welcome!
Done that everday for 23 years. It keeps my back straight. I focus on "Today I'll forgive others and allow others to forgive me."
@@pauldavidcrisp that's a beautiful mantra
Not that I feel much better, but I just hit 8 months off, 1051 day taper from Klonopin!!!
Stay strong warrior.
Thank you for the video! I really like the idea of "Coming to self"
You're welcome!
I’m thankful to see you back uploading. I’ve been having trouble with the ambien 🙁
I am 2 years off after 7 years of valium. Now that there is no inhibition, my drive and mood and many other things are back but still dealing with anxiety symptoms not as bad or nearly as bad but i think this is somewhat permanent but its nothing too serious but I hope in the next years these symptoms subside but i dont mind it anymore
Good to see you. Big Pharma tried to drop in on me. Thanks to you, I dropped big pharma like a hot potato.
Thanks from Bharat!
Thank you very, very much for sharing this!!! I can't wait to try it! Thank you! :)
You're welcome!
You need to post more madam!
One way i find for my clients to “get in” to themselves is playing a tone from a tuning fork or a singing bowl. And just listen and feel. Boom!
Love it
Jocelyn. Did you go to a clinic in Mexico that you found relief at?
Yes I did stem cell therapy with Dr Calzada in Tijuana
Any suggestions from CA , Bay Area. Terapist or treatments?
Sorry i would just recommend looking up functional medicine practitioners, or integrative medicine in your area.
Therapists and treatments are the cause, not the solution.
Taper slowly.
Where do you gain this information? It is always good to give a nod to them. 🙏
It's in the title and video description 😉
Oh I see it! Thank you. as long it feels good to you is what matters. Have a blessed life!!!
Off topic so my apologies. My wife has been watching your channel for quite some time. She has a colonoscopy/endoscopy scheduled tomorrow. They are going to be using propofol. She was on clonazepam .5mg for nearly 17 years. She did a two year dry taper and has been off close to two years. She still has sporadic withdrawal symptoms such as dizziness, muscle twitching, and sharp pains at the back of her head among many others. Should we be concerned about propofol? Thank you.
Sorry to hear she's still struggling. Usually post taper protracted people in the benzo community tolerate propofol pretty well. Hopefully she'll be fine ❤🙏
shouldn't the other arm be pointing to the back?
Just curious what your diet is like now?what's a typical day of food? What about your sleep? Did you find sleep harder to heal?
Sleep was back and forth depending on diet and certain things. It's good now with regulat meditation. I mostly stay away from processed foods, chemicals, etc
Your videos are so informative.
It is almost 70 days I quit benzo after tapering. But still suffering from physical and mental symptoms. Physical are more manegable, but mental symptoms are frightening. I never had any issue before benzo, but during my taper, a constant feeling of unreality was there. After coming off also, a patch of detachment from surrounding disturbe me and gives me intense anxiety.
Did you experience any mental symptom after coming off?
Will they fade away with other physical symptoms?
Pl respond.
Yes the mental symptoms were brutal for me but the did get better with time and dietary changes, including the right supplements prescribed by my ND
@@BenzoBrainsthanks. I try to eat a plant based balanced diet, but I don't take any supplements except the calcium tablet which I am taking before benzos.
Do the symptoms that have gone or now less in intensity can come back as time passes?
May I ask how long you’ve been off, which benzo you were on, at which dosage and how long you tapering lasted? And are you feeling more like yourself now?
Hi I have update videos that discuss these things..my first video on this channel is when I was toward the end of my taper
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What if I can't close my right eye seperately?
Then just look up at the thumb and focus with the eye that's supposed to be open
Hi again, I have wrote you few times. I'm having really pure hell the whole time in my taper.
I have that "brain lock" you said it is normal and many other people as well. Can horror waking ups be due to benzo and tapering? I have had few people saying it is part of the process for many. I have so bad waking ups, no brain, and feel like I die and then think I have to die and have to fight against the thoughts.
I get no windows. I can't anymore go even for walk and my mom helps me to get food and going to store is awful, feel depersonalization and derealisation and disconnected from people and enviroment. And totally brain dead whole day.
This is my third time to try to get off of this drug. I had in spring ct at hospital from 5 mg of diazepam and I came home with brain lock (had it just two weeks away over a year ago when I was in bad withdrawl symptoms of oxazepam after detox and had crossover to diazepam 10 mg and it took all my witdrawl symptoms away and brain lock also. I had few good weeks and could function normally. But taper was too quick and went badly wrong. In summer they tried me klonopin to get me relief for a while and then taper but it didn't help. Half year later I said to my doctor that I think I suffer withdrawl even don't taper and want to taper with Ashton manual and she was willing to read it and we started over three months ago. I have dropped from total 60 mg of diazepam and klonopin to 27,5 mg of diazepam.
I tried to force myself earlier to walk but my body doesn't have power and I fear leaving home. Exposer doesn't help.
I'm isolated and can't even be with my partner or anybody else than my mom when we go to store. I tell my hell (that I can't believe it is true) all the time to my loved ones and feel like I'm in a different reality from other people. I fear I have the worst brain injury that anyone has had.
Can't understand TV or anything normal. I fear taking trash out.
I have still 50 mg of short quetiapine and 150 mg of long quetapine and 20 mg of temazepam that doctor says will be taken away after diazepam.
I have dropped quetiapine 100 mg in the beginning of taper.
I'm normally confident active social person and now i'm alone mostly and in constant fight or flight state and panic and terror.
I have very good doctor who understands now benzo and also that that temazepam (benzo) has to be tapered but she says not until first diazepam because she is afraid too many changes and that I start to not sleep, she admits that it is also making me depressed etc.
I have watched one guy's videos and he had much xanax and tapered with Ashton manual and says he was also not functioning during the benzo and also tapering and that due benzo brain and body becomes disabled. He was isolated at his home for three years and survived and lives normal life.
Please if you can answer me and tell me if you heard that someone has had "brain lock" very long time and waking in horror and death and obsessive suicedal thoughts (my doctor knows these) because feels like not one day anymore totally not brain understanding anything, can't function, just eat and go to shower. It would really help me to continue my taper. I fear I won't ever get my normal life back. I would really need hope that I'm not the worst case and only one who can't survive even I'm so weak at this point already and have lot to taper.
I would have a great life ahead if I heal.
Thank you for this morter march, I try to do it everyday and also ten minute breathing meditation, that is all I can do.
I know you are busy but would be great if you can give me hope to my constant severe problems.
I am very depressed because I can't be myself and ecercise and be with people etc. I fear I have to die.
I don't want to.
This has been going on for 1,5 years. Have ten months to taper to zero. If I can get to ten mg at home I will do milk titration 0,5 mg per week. Lots of love and all the best to you. Thank you.
I'm sorry you've been suffering so much for over a year now. Certainly cutting your quetapine like that at the beginning of your taper made you more unstable. Dosing with short acting Restoril every night could also be making you feel worse. Ashton highly recommends switching all benzos over to one longer acting benzo and then tapering them all together. Punching your system with more benzos at night as your tapering can be counter productive. This may be something to discuss with your doctor. You're not the worst case, not by far, although I know it seems that way. That's the benzo talking, feeding you fear that somehow you're the worst and you can never come back from this. But you can and will heal. It's just a matter of time and givinng your body the proper support it needs to heal. Functional medicine can be very helpful in this regard if you can find a knowledgeable practitioner. Keep going. Don't listen to the lies. These things all get better with time.
@@BenzoBrains Thank you so much for answering, I really am grateful. I have asked my doctor to switch temazepam to diazepam at night. But she says no. I will ask again. She has read Ashton manual and is very kind. Is my brain dead state normal? It went once away like I told year ago when I was in bad withdrawl symptoms of oxazepam and doctor gave me first time diazepam 10 mg and my withdrawl symptoms went away, also brain lock nyt taper was too quick and went badly wrong. I can't understand and simple things and feel like I'm not part of this world and people. I'm isolated a lot because I tell my hell all the time to my loved ones and feel like I am in a different reality from other people, in hell.
Please if you can answer that it is normal that brain doesn't understand daily tasks and that people can live normal lives and everyday wake up brain dead in total horror and feel like I can't take one day anymore like this.
Thank you for saying I'm not the worst case. I can't do barely anything. If I go to the store to get food with my mom I feel like I'm not part of normal life and cry in the car. I am very depressed because I can't do things i love, exercise, cook be with my partner and mom and other people. Take a new puppy.
Thank you if you can answer that brain not functioning normally. You have heard so much so you have the knowledge. I'm thinking ending my life everyday because of this. And my doctor knows it. I would have a great life ahead if I heal. Thank you so much.
@@BenzoBrains ❤ I really am grateful to you that you use your time and knowledge for me.
I'm so scared with this brain.
Am living life not worth living isolated alone. Everybody just waits will I get better. I have mom and brother and partner who helps me to get food and meds. But I'm alone.
And I was doing very intense exercises before this hell, cycling (my partner is ex competive (i don't know the word) biker and he always made very hard cycling exercises and I loved them even I have this rare brain decease and have had two strokes in head when i was child and went through very big surgerys and my decease is calm, mri was fine in spring and doctors say it is not causing this brain lock and it has never done that and also it wouldn't have helped with 10 mg of diazepam year ago) running, walking and going to gym. Now I can't go anymore even for walks.
I fear I have permanent brain damage. And I have seen the insomnia, puking etc in low doses and I don't know how to even get to low doses because I'm so exhausted and hopeless.
I want my life back, my normal brain back. I want to fight these drugs off me. I just don't have power, I still try. I went to acupuncture, have known him very long but he couldn't help, he tried but said I'm too full of meds and he can help if I get off and then balance my system.
Thank you if you can give me hope about dealing with brain lock and that it is normal and this is fight worth suffering. Thank you. ❤
Pls need your opinion using cbd hemp oil to help Benzo-Withdrawals by dr oz , pls advise tks
I've seen some people really benefit from it during withdrawals and others seem to react adversely. Like anything else during this process it's kind of a crap shoot. I have a site you can look at if you want to try it leeflyorganics.com
@@BenzoBrains tks so for taking time to respond
Hey I’m currently on a tapering plan with my doctor he first started me with 5mg of Xanax taken in the morning and every 3 days It would go Down by 1 mg. I have been abusing xanax for 5-6 months and I have told my doctor this and I was using high doses some even up to 12 mg of xanax and also was using clonazepam at the same time and I told my doctor this and he gave me this tapering plan and now I’m on my last day of this tapering plan which I just took 1 mg of Xanax 3 hours ago and I already feel the withdrawals coming and I have been thorough out the whole tapering process and I have my appointment with my doctor in 3 days so really now I have to wait cold turkey for 3 days which I know will be hard. My question to you is what do I tell my doctor and how do i tell him that I still been having withdrawals throughout the tapering process without him thinking I just want to abuse more Xanax or benzos?
Don't tell the doctor you are tapering.
Drug dealers don't want people to quit.
@@BenzoBrains thanks a lot I will find information through the link you sent and email him how I feel and a tapering plan with a longer acting benzodiazepine and even maybe bring up the Ashton method to him when I see him. Also tell him about drug testing too because I am serious about staying clean and I want to quit safely thanks for your input!
Hey Jocelyn! How is your recovery? I cold turkeyed effexor stupidly without the knowledge 2 years ago. Still suffering but getting better over time. Do you think it’s not a good idea to reinstate years later?
I think you sound like you are slowly healing. Getting back on will halt that and could actually not work the same now you're off. You could develop new problems now with reinstating and should you decide to get off again this time post withdrawal symptoms could be much worse. I would seek out other options, dietary, therapy, spiritual etc
Did you also do a special diet along with your other healing activities? Any specific one? At what point did you realize you were coming out of the withdrawal? I watched some of your other videos and it seems like it took a while, but I am curious because some people say they came out if it suddenly. I am 15 months in wd and it still hasn't let up. Anything you could share would be appreciated. God bless
Hi yes I did. I speak about my initial diet and things that really helped. I think I forgot to mention that I also started on a gut reset diet protocol for several weeks that my doctor recommended to balance my gut flora and fauna. But otherwise it's all in this video. th-cam.com/video/IssnniPeUGw/w-d-xo.html Then later on, after a set back I started a keto diet which I mention in a few of my videos. Both diets were very helpful for sleep and brain issues. The keto diet really helped heal my derealization
So this is to calm the amygdala ? It should help with sleep then? Does it take a while before the body reacts to the exercise?
Yes it took me some time before it started helping me with sleep, in combination with daily kundalini meditation/ breath work
Would you care to write a description of this in the comments? I found it a little difficult to follow and sometimes reading it helps. Also a little description on what this is exactly doing would be awesome! Thanks for considering 🙏🏻
I’m off from benzos for about four years but I still have brain zapping and brain fog fatigue I’m trying TMS for the depression but it’s not helping much do you have any suggestions? And I still have tinnitus, how long this things still going to happen, I’m desperate
I still have tinnitus to varying degrees. I got that from my first cold turkey off Ambien. It's not a problem for me though. Lots of things contributed to my healing from brain zaps. Changing my diet and balancing my insulin fluctuation, hormonal balance, and gut balance with a functional medicine doctor really helped. You could try searchin FNDs or holistic practitioners in your area. Brain fog and fatigue were really helped by a ketogenic diet for me. Sometimes it's caused by toxicity and so, honestly a coffee enema can really help clear that up for me as well if that's the case.
how are you now?
How you feeling now hun? X
Great! Thanks
I’m going through benzo issues and would love to interview you.
PLS HELP!! i had really bad problems after i wanted to taper off too fast i was without sleep 7 days my nerves were hyperactive i thought i was dying every day …i am back on the dose where i started 5 weeks ago.. now i am trying to find a base so I can withdraw .. 2 days ago I put my current dose into water (1mg Lorazepam i thought about micro tapering) and drank it 4 times a day so i have more steady concentration in my blood but now After 2 days im getting more excidet and overstimulated than before when i was cutting the tablet into 4 pieces. Can you give me tips for my case? I'm really worried that I've finally gotten damage to my nervous system from tapering off too quickly... AND in the years before I also had unconscious withdrawals that were too fast, but apparently they were still tolerable i wasnt even aware of all these problems can come with benzos, im sadly taking them for about 5 years on and off... BUT what happened NOW shook me awake. I also have some supplements and remedies at home CAN ANYONE please assist me what i can take now to help me with my symptoms? On my current stage? (1mg Lorazepam, not even tapered but still strong fluctuations with strong overexcitation) pls pls anyone :((( maybe add me on whatsapp or contanct me via email pls!!
Hi there are Facebook support groups for benzos you can join and reach out to people there. It can take a few weeks for your body to adjust to a new dosing schedule and delivery method when you're so sensitive. You could give it a few weeks until you adjust or switch to the micro cutting method I demonstrate in my pill cutting video. I'm glad you're awake now. I'm sorry it's so painful
@@BenzoBrains Many many thanks for the answer. I went lorazepam withdrawal from June-November last year (unfortunately they switched me to diazepam in one day way too quickly) but somehow managed to do it. Then I was clean, but this year I had to take one pill again and again because of my underlying illness and now for a month continuously again. Was then on 0.5 of 1mg initial dose probably too fast and got really into problems. I'm back on 1mg for 1 week now but somehow it's not enough or the switch to the water method (2 days ago) was too fast. I don't know if I should stick to 1mg (I think I prefer solid tablets instead of water Solution for now) or if I should even go up to 1.25 or 1.5... the excitement is unbearable :(( although I had a little less over the weekend but I think it got worse again after switching to the water solution...
@@BenzoBrains if you could please tell me your opinion… is it possible to withdrawl only with lorazepam? With 4 doses per day? Im so in pain and have hyperactive nervoussystem… tried to switch to diazepam but got panic from it… :(
@@sulix6472 it sounds like there have been a lot of changes in a short period of time. What was your original dose? How long after you got up to 1 mg before you started the water method. Are you just dropping your pill in water or have you started reducing as well? All these things can add up along with the possibility of kindling
@@BenzoBrains hey i took 1-1.25mg for 3 weeks (5 years before on and off) then tried to taper down… got up on 1.25 again for 1,5 weeks but im far away from stable… im losing it…how should i please taper off am an absolute wreck :((( i feel like this is the end with me…I'm in a psychiatric clinic now and everyone here thinks there is no such things as i describe... and have now given me quetiapine for the night... and we would start tapering it off next week... I just want to get out of this hell
Hi I'm trying to taper of klonopin after a month of use 1 mg and have withdrawal. Can I use cbd oil to help me with ingzitey and symptoms
Hi I would look into your taper method first. Are you cutting or micro tapering? Some people can use cbd though to ease symptoms but others have adverse reactions. Like anything with this process it's kind of a gamble.
Not to be confused with the _Monster Mash._
Although just as entertaining 😉
Wow, look at that bedroom !
Yeah, we have definitely come a long way from needing foodstamps and Medicaid when my kids were little!
Just got harassed and kicked out by my landlord on NYE.. while trying to taper off Xanax 😔
I'm very sorry. Many are homeless unfortunately while going through this. I hope you have a place to stay
@@BenzoBrains In an Air B&B. Went from Orlando to rural Georgia. I don’t think Orlando was the best place to be when you have a benzo problem. Didn’t expect to have to call 9-11 ..12 times in 2 weeks and have to get a lawyer and potentially go to court and attempt to file a restraining order that was denied. I have PTSD and went from 3.5mg to 6-8mg as this was going on. Now I’m back to 4mg. I’ll never forgive Orange County, FL for doing this to me & my Mother.
@@waynegrow Sorry to hear that. We’ll be filing a lawsuit soon.
Never let a county or state force feed you pills.
I sent you a PM on Facebook.