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Originally Posted by *Laurie*
So I think you are going waaay too fast. First of all, I don't know which benzo is hardest to come off of...I've heard that about every benzo. Anyway, I've been on Klonopin for 20+ years, and want to stop taking it as it stopped being helpful for me years ago. I started out at 2 mg./day and took a full year to go from that 2 mg. down to 1 mg. Now, I'm not suggesting that you take that long to titrate down your Xanax, but I do believe you'd have more success by taking at least 2 or 3 months to fully stop the medication.
I understand the desire to get off quickly, but honestly, in my experience going too fast off a benzo backfires. I've ended up extremely sick and messed up from doing a quick taper.
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I never said anything about wanting to be completely off of it in, say, 1 month. I know that's totally unrealistic. My problem is that they don't make a Xanax XR pill smaller than 0.5 mg. So I had no choice but to go from 2 mg to 1.5 mg immediately.