TERRIFIED!!!! HOW DO I WEAN OFF 6 MG XANAX per day?????

[newone58]

I am on 6 mg  of xanax per day in .5mg doses every two hours. my incompetent doctor approved this schedule to help me taper off duragesic/fentanyl patch. NOW I AM TERRIFIED as i have severe anxiety on the xanax taper meds, self neglect, cannot function- LIFE IS LIVING HELL!! Am confused all the time, and getting no support at home.
PLEASE PLEASE HELP !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!    
Terrified of detox facility- as it may take quite a while to get off- but, terrified of seizures and withdrawal if i do this on my own.
ANY HELP PLEASE, DEAR GOD !!!!!

[nursegirl6572]

This thread is from this past december.  Just FYI.

[dwrjr]

What are you waiting for, just go do it. If I was you, I would check myself in. This way you get ballance help all the way around, detox, counceling, supervition,  What do you have to be afraid of? Your already freaking out, at least by checking in you will for sure detox and come back down to a normal person. However you need to do it soon or you will loose Everything that's important to you. That alone should scare you enought to straiten up and check in.

[pywacket768]

I am 44 year old female and have been taking 6mg xanax for over ttwenty years. I was prescribed by shrink for panic attacks. As years went by I no longer am able t work, go outside and am on disability for agoraphobia. I rarely leave the house, nor will I even sit on the front porch of the house. I went to a rehab for a week about five years ago to get off the xanax as I have adapted to the xanax it does nothing for me, memory is shot etc. The detox involved taking all the xanax away and replacing it with I think 5mg of Klonopin a day. I made it through the week at hospital/rehab-then they sent me home. That 5mg klonopin was nothing I was freaking out and having panic attacks in the house. I had to go back on the xanax 6mg in order to function I couldn't even really talk so people could understand me after I was detoxed from xanax and put on 5mg Klonopin. It was totally wrong way to detox. Since I have changed shrinks and he added 60mg of buspar spread out in 20mg doses three times a day. This stopped the inner shaking and hand shaking and I am still on it. Maybe buspar is something you should try. But like I said still on xanax along with buspar and have ambien to sleep, since I can never sleep either. If you want to talk you can email me at ***@**** Hope this  helped as I know the pain I feel like my life has been destroyed.

[newone58]

PLEASE HELP with this!!! I found an addiction psychiatrist who says he can detox me outpatient using  Klonipin and Depakote. But, found out he has some trouble with the Medical Board. This sounds too good to be true???
DEtox at home with no real supervision????

[newone58]

thanx. one rehab charges 3K to be admitted i dont have. the other is a full hospital medical facility- but , they will not tell me what they do- just medical detox and cut you loose- or give you support and coping skills like the 3K facility. yes, these people think i can go off xanax one pill per week, and will have no problem- i am scared of seizures because i have been on lower doses of xanax for about 20 years. also, suffering too badly. so i dont have any info on the full medical hospital. i have tried and called all i know. there are little or no detox places in texas-i tried- called them all. very scared. half of all the folks say detox/rehab and half of ppl i know think that i can do it at home. but, i am addicted to these pills and cannot live like this any longer. sorry , not trying to be a baby, just trying to get real options on what to do.

[mommy1988love]

Sorry didn't want to mislead anyone..I'm ONE year clean in Feb.2013. Lee