Thanks for the video. Very useful. I am a 69 year old on multiple psyc drugs - clonazepam .88mg/ flueoxetine5mg/ olanzapine1.25mg/ and lamotrigine50mg. I have tapered all these meds from higher doses and had relatively mild problems. I am currently tapering only clonazepam @10% of last dose every 15 days by water dissolving the .125 mg tablet in 20 ml water and discarding 10% of solution progressively every 15 days to give me a 10% hyperbolic reduction. Is this the right way to go , my psychiatrist doctor who is MD specialist doesnt have a clue about tapering benzos.

Who has loved ones left.....

I have 29 pills left after that im giving it to God to get me through the wd

Finally found a doctor willing to help me wean off after years of different doctors just raising my dose and dismissing my worries about clonazepam. Weaned off from 4mg daily to 1mg daily and slowly working my way down... Your videos are really helpful. It's good to know I'm not alone. Thank you!

Never take even one.

I have taken valium for 40 years is there any hope im 70

Since 3 years or more i took it but not continuesly dosage is clona 1mg ssri 15 mg daily now symptoms are panic sweating blurr vision ,after taking 5mg ssri+ 0.25 clona feel ok kindly advice how to taper it off or remove it

You need to tell people how to Taper... must you go half or quarter dose.. and for how long.. not everyone can go to a Clinic for withdrawal thank you so much ❤

Hi can i crush .25 mg of clonazepam and place in a capsule for tapering purposes? thank you again!!!

This is helpful info. I know you’re required to say talk to your doctor but doctors only know how to prescribe. I’m doing a slow scale micro-taper on my own. My doctor doesn’t know what the Ashton Manual is.

But if your symptoms get too unbearable, you have to change your plan…right ?? Thank you for the video !!!!

I wake up every morning so anxious I often throw up. I took Clonazepam as needed for almost 10 years. At some points, daily use was necessary. At others, it wasn’t. I had several years I was on no drugs at all. But now that my anxiety is getting worse, I realize no one wants to prescribe me the ‘miracle drug’ that got me through my early twenties panic attacks. I feel like begging the doctor to please help me and prescribe me the clonazepam because NOTHING I have ever been prescribed works the same. They’re putting me on all these bipolar medications and hYdroxyzine (which has been useless) and I’ve lost 30 pounds from not being able to eat or function. Once you’ve been subjected to benzodiazepines does ANYTHING else even work? Losing hope.

I feel so much more optimistic after watching these videos.

What if I’m on liquid Diazapam??? Can i do it?

My doctor decided to cut me off clonazapam after I’ve been on it since I was 12 years old and now I’m 32 years old. I’m so scared. I’ve had 3 seizures because she decided to taper me off in a week. I can’t do it. I’m having a super hard time.

Hi, Someone mentioned you have a book out. Could you give the name of your book? Thank you, and thank you for all the information, and sharing. I don’t feel alone on this.

I've been taking klonopin since 1999 and I never had any withdrawal symptoms. A few years ago i stopped taking klonopin for a few months and had no issues. I did start taking it again for sleeping issues, but im only on 2mg daily. And it works great.

Still suffering effects from 28 years of Zanex 3.0 MG per day , its been nearly one year clean now still trying to get back to normal sleep Chronic Insomnia still lingering. Sleeping only 2.00 hours a night chronic fatigue. Its worse than coming off opiates

There's no informed consent!

Great knowledge

My wife put ofloxacin ear drops on her ear & now all she hears is muffled sound. It’s been a week & she’s scared as hell. She’s not experiencing any dizziness just the a layer covering her ear. Does anyone know if this is a common side effect? I’m American I have no health insurance

Hi, I have developed neuropathy from Ofloxacin, pls help me how to recover

Weed helps !

Just smoke weed when you are tapering. It really helps believe me ( without tobacco ) nicotine is also poison & addiction 2 weed is way way less harmfull then evil benzos ..

I can see why they would call it addiction, however, in my experience , heroin smoking is addiction!

After Quaaludes were made illegal I figured that Benzos would follow suit..alas the practice of Anesthesia would stop that since Benzos work so very well to obliterate memory during amputations. IV Ativan is also an excellent drug for calming people down from Stimulant caused Psychosis, or Hallucinogens @ even types of delirium.

Beautiful Joslin!!!!!!

Almost 4 months now after a slow taper. Crying a lot and feeling the loss of time and life. Burning muscles and brain stuff. Having windows.

Are you better now.

Did you recover and then experience set back from herbs or high histamine foods?

Really good video 💚

Its a chemical brain injury

In England - do we still hit the FDA up on withdrawal symptoms. The last 4 years was hell for pain , I was fast tapered after 23 yrs . I gave up as life turned miserable with little sleep and not being able to tune off . I have a whole list of symptoms- And yes I am now screwed! Opiates were a walk on the park to come off in comparison.

My doc ( because of Non prescriber Psych had it in for me ). 23 years of valium 60 mg reduced to 3 mg within 18 months and blackmailed. 4 year clean and STILL in agony! Self prescribed this xans year - had enough of aching period. It is nice to actually sleep again. Seriously bad 💩 is in benzos & pharmaceutical companies and doctors had a deal with pumping these prescriptions out ...then the sunshine rule came out in 2015-2016. I am yet to wd from Xanax I am yet to find a doctor or Psych that gives a 💩 and has proper knowledge of. Not even Dr professor Petersonwas was took seriously when seeing doctor s so HOW do you expect 'us' to be believed? Thanks you for this upload.

Is this channel still active? I'm on Xanax 3mg per day PRN and have been for thirty four years. I need to taper or find a Doc to prescribe

I’ve been on .5 mg klonopin twice a day for 5 years. I figured I was fine as I can go even a day without. Recently while moving, I lost my medication 5 days before refill… I lost my meds during a moving trip. My dr said he could get sued or whatever he said something like that. I had also lost my health insurance (hmmm maybe the reason), so he had me go to a crisis center the reperscribed it quickly but now he won’t give it in again.i called said the insurance should get back soon, and waiting on them to get back to me but it’s been 3 days of hell. I need help. My job prevents me from going and staying to the hospital, I don’t get why he can’t just help me wean off them. I am at a loss I am dumbfounded. He said this dosage shouldn’t cause withdrawal, but my brain isn’t working right. I’m a server and bartender so I n the d to be able to communicate I apologize for bad typing I’m crying. He put me on busprione last time, and it’s not helping!

THOSE OF YOU THAT STRUGGLED, WHAT WAS YOUR XANAX DOSE AND SCHEDUAL

Would have liked to hear more on taking xanax in mornings, but having a bad habit of drinking each night

How are you now from everything benzos etc?

What were the supplements you took that were harmful? So i know,.....threw the process......?

You look so beautiful....xxxxx

So the taper is 300 days

Any suggestions for tapering when you travel?

I recently got an option to get prescribed liquid V (compounding pharmacy) I'm debating whether to go with the compounding pharmacy or this this micro taper. My doc is willing to reduce every month by 10% but this method seems to give your brain more time to allow to get used to the cuts.

I've been on Xanax since 2014 starting at 1mg prescribed for insomnia. I am currently at 4 mg a day . 1 mg morning 1mg afternoon and 2 mg before bed All doses 8 hrs apart. I want to know that I never had anxiety or panic attacks until being on the medication long-term. Unless I experience a traumatic event or a stressful situation. I was in a near-death automobile accident August 22nd. I now suffer with PTSD, sleep paralysis or dreaming while awake even though I'm not sleeping, anxiety and panic attacks as well as severe insomnia that will sometimes last upwards to 30 days or longer. Withdrawal symptoms that I experience while taking these medication is the brain zaps, insomnia, severe tension headaches, tinnitus once in awhile, I find myself overthinking everything worrying too much even about things that have happened way in the past in my life in which I did have a very abusive childhood unfortunately with my parents. I sometimes feel like I want to be self isolated. I have never and don't abuse my medication I only take as prescribed with experiencing these symptoms. I am 48 years old and feel like I I'm so dependent on this medication physically and mentally. I also want to please note that my doctor is perfectly fine with keeping my medication prescribed to me, again which is 4 mg per day, I also take Lisinopril 20 mg per day for blood pressure. I'm at the point in my life to where I want to make the choice for myself to get off this medicine. There's no fear of my doctor stopping and taking my medication, but it's definitely on my mind because in the past I've had two doctors retire and had a terrible time finding a new doctor that would prescribe me my same regiment of medication without dropping my dosage dramatically. I currently live in Volusia county Florida. What I'm confused about is why these doctors and psychiatrists down here are not educated on how to correctly slow taper off the medication with little to no withdrawal symptoms. My current physician I've only had for the past 6 months. The previous doctor at the office retired without no notice and nobody telling me. Finally I thought I had a doctor who was going to be willing to work with me and work on a slow taper to get off the medicine or at least minimum 0.25 per day if necessary. My new doctor forced me to sign a controlled medication consent form. What that means is I can be urine tested or blood tested at any time to make sure I'm not using any other illegal drugs this also includes medical marijuana card even CBD and I'm using my medicine which is fine. The only weird thing about this form is that I have to fill it at only one pharmacy and if the pharmacy is out of stock of my medication it requires me to speak to my doctor even if I fill it at a different location same pharmacy. That's kind of the scary part, I also want to point out that she's not very personable with me and definitely don't feel comfortable having her as my current primary physician. The problem in the State of Florida is that I have Medicaid, in the majority of doctors down here will not prescribe the medication I'm taking even with all the documentation and prescription history of the prescriptions I've been taken for now almost 11 years with all my medical release forms from previous for current doctors. I suppose it's always in the back of my head that something could happen and I won't have my medicine anymore, but the worst part about this whole situation one more time is I cannot seem to find an MD a doctor or psychiatrist that is willing to work with me or understand why I am going through. This sounds crazy to me because I'm talking to these doctors about I want to get off my medicine I'm not trying to stay on. I also want to point out that my doctors in the past have tried to use ssris or other medications in combination with my Xanax. Thankfully I have chosen never to take any of those things and never will. It will only make everything worse. So I have a question for you, with your experience in research what do you believe is the correct way to slowly taper without any additional pills you need reduced to help just want to stop having any horrible withdrawals especially with no assistance from any other medication that's going to make things worse? Where do I go from here, after viewing so many horrible stories of people making this decision to stop medicating it doesn't seem like nobody has a very good experience and I'm scared to start taking away this horrible pill I never wish anybody to take. It ruined my life and still does. I just want life to get back to normal and be the best version of myself to raise my two kids to be successful and confident. In order to do this I need to be off this medication, living life with dependency on a pill is no way of living. And the fact that I have withdrawals while on the medication sometimes is ridiculous. There's also been times to where the pharmacy runs out of my medicine and I have to go one in the longest 3 days without any medicine whatsoever. So the longest I've had to go without my medicine is about 3 to 4 days and I can't even describe the terror in mania I was feeling during this period. Sounds were heightened, I had extreme vertigo, dizziness, feeling of impending doom and worry. Very high blood pressure and pulse rate, extreme insomnia, brain zaps and feeling like I'm going to faint or something bad is going to happen to me basically in severe panic attack mode. So the final question is what is your recommendations ? I watched all these videos on Dr Josef taper clinic podcast and all they talk about is the horror stories of coming off this horrible medicine or similar medications that affect your gaba receptors. So where the confusion lies is how do you correctly come off the medication again I've been almost 11 years on this medication and I'm the one wanting to get off. I'm not being forced to right now. when I talk about things to friends or family they don't believe me they feel like I'm making it up and making excuses. Unfortunately the only close people I have around me are my two children and my brother. Obviously I don't talk about this with my kids I have my brother to talk to but he is also currently on Lexapro and experiencing bad depression in which it's hard to take advice from somebody who's going through a bad experience at the same time. If you please have time can you contact me, I would really like to have a conversation with you. if you can somehow arrange a conversation over the telephone please let me know through this message. God bless everyone on here going through a similar situation. I sit here confused should I just stay on the medication and is it safe long-term should I get off this horrible medicine as soon as possible. You have seem to come such a long way and you should be proud of yourself 🙏 Thank you for everyone sharing their stories because there's a lot of people listening and looking for an answer. Being slave to the pill that we call benzos or ssris or something similar. I wish I would have known the dangers before I ever took my first dose of this medicine 😞

Its getting there can u take methadoneS well S taken them both but only for a couple of weeks while I morning my younger brother death

I believe this is what is happening to my daughter right now. The dr keeps saying her seizures are emotional. I think it's from the gaba. She stopped cold turkey.

Benzogjrl, thank you. Also, I must compliment that you are a ravishing beauty. 😊

I’ve just watched 3 of your videos. I’ve got a story and a half of 8 horrific years of being a lab rat. I tapered myself down of my own accord, started April 2023 to this day, Saturday, 31st August and I’m down to 2.5 mgs. My Dr is wonderful! I’ve had horrific experiences with the medical industries. I’m an Author, Poet, Writer and Investigative researcher. I use to fast, without food 3 days a week and still workout 6 days a week, I’m a health and fitness advocate and adore nature. Everything for the last 8 years has stopped and been a loss. If not for my Christian faith I wouldn’t be here. I could share so much, however, not on here. Thank you so much for being deeply courageous, understanding and caring. My Dr is going to partner with me to get a Benzodiazepine Clinic opened here in Melbourne, Australia. Too many people are suffering this unequivocal hell. It’s unacceptable! Our Drs, Psychiatrists, psychologists are so misguided and misinformed. I’ve already contacted my Local Government Representative and would you believe, she’s a Dr! As of yet she hasn’t returned my call. I will call her back, though. Again, thank you so much for sharing your experience. It’ll be so comforting to so many. Melbourne, Australia.

We should call you Benzos beauty, for helping so many people out there !