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Old May 20, 2014, 03:57 PM
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Benzodiazepine withdrawal syndrome - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Two months to a year and even a small re-exposure will put you right back to square one. They are pure hell. The are not supposed to prescribed for more than a few weeks due to these issues and docs never tell you how the withdrawal will be worse than your original anxiety...

You might have to taper off more slowly. My cousin finally got off of them at 2 years....but she was trying for a while.
Well, I'm ****ed. I've been taking a fairly high dose of these for a long time now. Boy that pisses me off. Just more proof that doctors are incompetent pieces of ****.
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