@raspberrytorte:

I used "The Ashton Method" to get down to 25% of one milligram of the Clonazepam i was on. One milligram of Clonazepam equals 20 milligrams of valium. So you see, my plans to cut my valium down by 0.5 milligrams a month are very conservative. Your plans seem far too ambitious.

Benzo cuts must be made small and cautiously. Cutting a dose in half is far too big a cut. You'll just go into benzo withdrawal. See if your doctor will support "The Ashton Method" of substituting in valium for your benzo (Clonazepam or Ativan [Ativan is 10X one milligram of valium]). "The Ashton Method" is best because valium can be cut in such small doses.

Doctors here in Ontario will support "The Ashton Method." It is the most cautious and easiest method of getting off a benzo. And even then, it's challenging at the lower doses. Witness my experience going below five milligrams of valium.

I've learned to take it slower near the end of a benzo taper, because the cut represents a larger fraction of the dose. For example, i had no trouble going from 20 milligrams of valium to 19 milligrams. But i had horrendous trouble going from 5 milligrams to 4 milligrams. That's because it's a 5% cut in the first case, and a 20% cut in the latter. The end of a benzo taper is always harder.

I hope to conquer the last 5 milligrams but cutting down slower at 0.5 milligrams. I have my doubts tho. I just don't know if it's worthwhile to attempt it, given that i may end up in jail if i go into benzo withdrawal.

Cuts of 0.5 milligrams are about the smallest i can practically achieve with a pill cutter, cutting 2 milligrams valium pills [the smallest size on the market] that are scored and snappable into 1 milligrams quite easily, into halves to achieve a 0.5 milligram cut.

If cuts of 0.5 milligrams are still too challenging, there is a lab here in the city who will prepare a solution of valium that can be cut in smaller doses, and taken with a syringe-eye-dropper orally. That's my fall-back if the 0.5 milligrams cuts are too impossible. If that doesn't work, i'll just have to give up and reconcile myself to being a drug addict for the rest of my life.

So angry with Doctor Patrizia Cavazonni for turning me into a narcotic-dependent patient. So negligent! Criminal! Drug dealer!

And now she's with the US FDA. I sure don't feel safe having her in charge of what you Americans eat and drink. Psychiatry is notorious for not being an evidence-based branch of medicine. Surely a plain old Medical Doctor would serve as a better leader of the FDA than a psychiatrist, who relies on anecdotal evidence, doesn't even insist on double-blind studies nor longitudinal ones either.

The woman is a fool. She cried during an appointment with my peer, whining, "You don't know how hard it is to be a psychiatrist AND a mom!" Loser! How unprofessional!

She used to wear the shortest of mini-skirts and she had neurodivergent MALE patients. She was a pretty, tall, thin blonde who drove a motorcycle and was addicted to aerobics.

But still, i'm sure her male patients had a lot of trouble concentrating on what she was saying when her skirts were riding up to her vagina! What a train-wreck she was. A sshhiittyy doctor and a sshhiittyy human being.

Well, i'm stuck with the legacy of my experience with her, nearly thirty years later. So sorry i ever encountered this criminal of a doctor. Trying my best to dig out, but the decks are stacked against me, and because of my misfortune of encountering Dr. Patrizia Cavazonni, i may never be able to travel out-of-province. I may never get to see the world because of this drug dealer of a doctor.