Some of you will know, that I'm currently trying to get off Xanax, in my worst I was taking about 3mg (1 in the morning, 1 in the afternon and 1 at night) a day, I've been with 0.5mg a day for about a month, needed to get a new prescription and asked the doctor the reduce the dosage and he agreed, so I'm now on 0,25mg/day.
No crippling anxiety yet, I'm very happy with this, everytime I lowered the dose I was scared that the anxiety would return, I'm not talking about the "normal" anxiety, like my doctor told me, I'm anxious person, that's part of who I am and that is not going to change, what had to be changed was the major, uncontrolable anxiety I used to have, could not focus, could not do anything, my heart rate skyrocketed, I could not stay still, could not eat, if I did I would threw up shortly after, I had this feelings for days on end.
What I'm trying to find here is a bit of reassurance, has anyone been through the same and got ok after stopping treatment ? I actually have a tingling sensation in my stomach, like I'm excited for being so close to get off xanax, I took it for years, so I feel like I'm conquering something important here, still have some withdrawal symptoms, but nothing major like stopping cold turkey.
No crippling anxiety yet, I'm very happy with this, everytime I lowered the dose I was scared that the anxiety would return, I'm not talking about the "normal" anxiety, like my doctor told me, I'm anxious person, that's part of who I am and that is not going to change, what had to be changed was the major, uncontrolable anxiety I used to have, could not focus, could not do anything, my heart rate skyrocketed, I could not stay still, could not eat, if I did I would threw up shortly after, I had this feelings for days on end.
What I'm trying to find here is a bit of reassurance, has anyone been through the same and got ok after stopping treatment ? I actually have a tingling sensation in my stomach, like I'm excited for being so close to get off xanax, I took it for years, so I feel like I'm conquering something important here, still have some withdrawal symptoms, but nothing major like stopping cold turkey.