How do you get off of Xanax?

[Luke]

In an effort to help me stop drinking, my doctor prescribed 1 mg of Xanax which I take nightly to help me sleep.  This has proved effective and has helped me stop using alcohol to help me sleep.  I have been taking the 1 mg dose of Xanax for about 7 months now and I would like to get off this medication.  I have heard horror stories of people trying to do this.  How do you recommend I wean myself from this medication?  The 1 mg tablets can be cut in half but would dropping to .5 mg/day be too sudden a jump?  Thank you.

[Desperate18]

     I have been on 2 1mg's tablets a day for well over 10 years,  what is the best way of weaning myself off of this? I really want to get out of this addiction really bad.  I'm afraid of getting seizures can anyone here give me some advice on what would be the best way of going about doing this in the safest way? Thanks to all.

[Michelle12264]

PLEASE HELP.  My son is addicted to xanax.  He is spiraling and I am going to lose him.  I do not know what to do to help him.  He wants help.  We have no money.  He tried cold turkey and ended up in the emergency room with seizures.  He got a concussion from falling and broken teeth.  PLEASE PLEASE HELP ME.  I'M BEGGING.

[deblessard]

I was on 1 mg four times a day and got pregnant and had been taken the xanax for years as soon as i found out i was pregnant i went off it cold turkey, i was sick at least eight months of my preganancy, it was like having morning sickness, i got thru it and my daughter is a healthy 18 year old. i stayed off it because i was nursing, then went back on it and now he just up my does to 2mgs four times a day for severe aniexty. good luck

[OpenMind24hours]

You should start your own thread under "post a question". You should get lots of answers.

[mammyann]

I have been self useing for 2years about 1to 2 bars a day. Went one day with out last may an has a seisure. I want off I dont kno how an I am scared I dont want my kids to see me have another seizure again can anyone help

[BenCroz]

I have been taken xanex regularly for about 2 yearsfyearsfrom doses ranging from doses ranging from 4mg to upwards of 10mg I dont take it more then three days in a row because as much as it helps my anxiety it has started to help. I tryed to get xanex prescribed to me but because of me being a 20 year old male I guess I fit the profile of someone that would abuse. So unfortunatly for me it is easyer to find xanex bars then it is to buy a beer so I began self medicating. Before my uses of xanex I had anxiety and anger issues if I taper off how should I? and if I do will I be full of anxiety and and anger for ever? Any answers would be fully appreciated sencierly Ben C