I don't take ADs but it does depend on which type you take. I do know that those drugs known as benzos are highly addictive and withdrawal is often only possible by micro-tapering sometimes over a very long period of time eg a year. As CLKD says you can use liquid forms of the drug to do this. I seem to remember there is someone on here who has done this but hopefully she will be along to help you if this is the one you take?
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Hahahhaha what a co-incidence. It was a microtapering lady on a benzo withdrawal site that lead me to this forum.
I hope this isn't too much of a ramble, but I thought I would share as I enjoy writing.
It meanders on about micro-tapering benzos, the difficulties I had with my GP, the same GP I had hrt difficulties with.
A popular, bubbly, normally nice mannered GP/
I was prescribed valium to take a few times a week. My GP would prescribe 28 x 5mg a month.
She assured me that I would not get hooked if I stuck to a few times a week and refused the shorter acting lorazepam citing it as more addictive.
If I'd taken 0.5mg - 1.5mg lorazepam a few times a week for the time I was on valium, I doubt that I would have got withdrawal when stopping them as they are in the system a fraction of the time that valium is.
After a few years, I got to a stage where I didn't want to take valium anymore, so I just stopped taking them, and a couple of weeks later, I got hit, suddenly, as if overnight, really bad anxiety, sweating, waking up with wet neck, and I believed I was addicted, as valium stays in the system a long time.
I went on various benzo withdrawal websites, while I was tapering down in steps, but only really got any solace and productive help from a lady with a site dedicated to micro tapering.
So, with syringe in hand, and valium dissolved in milk I microtapered my way off it painlessley.
It was a member from a another benzo withdrawal website, that suggested I may be going through perimenopause and to see my GP.
I got the test and over a year later after trying various hrt's, and settling at 100mcg evorel plus utro, my sweats/flushes went, my IBS went, and I felt less anxious.
I admit that I parked myself for a year, on femoston, even though it did diddly squat, as I was not absorbing it, rather than going back and asking for patches, I procrastinated and suffered on for another year, symtoms worseing, because, my normally very pleasant GP, turned into a fire breathing dragon when menopause came into the conversation.
When I told her that my femoston 2/10 was not working, she said that she didn't want me treating oestrogen as if it was valium.
She said that if I was not willing to try the evorel with inbuilt norethisterone patches, I would just have to 'go through' the menopause, and that it was only temporary, and hrt was risky.
She looked up utrogestan but could not find it, and was getting more ratty. As I struggle when dealing with people who get ratty, I just left the subject alone until a year later when I could bare it no more, because by this time, I was walking around in a vest top on a rainy november.
Getting back to this GP who did not want me to treat oestrogen like valium, she was the original prescriber of valium and also, the GP who prescribed me enough valium to taper.
She's known me for years, but now I see her plus others, due to availability, and most are ok, but some are difficult.
One would not give me patches due to my migraine auras but finally, after emails to and fro with Dr Currie, I found one GP who prescribed me utrogestan.
Here's where the saga links to the valium.
Me being in peri from age 42, and not being aware, meant that it took me five years to taper valium
I was still getting periods and I being only 42, I took the IBS, the moods and the hot sweats/flushes to be valium withdrawal symptoms.
It was only at age 47, did fate lead me to the lady from the benzo withdrawal site, who suggested I follow it up with my GP.
What a tapestry of events hahahhahaha
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