Posted by sukarno on July 2, 2010, at 20:00:46
In reply to Re: Switch to Xanax; depression vanishes; QOL up » sukarno, posted by Phillipa on July 2, 2010, at 19:42:42
"But seriously when life events were going well I could stop the low doses and not have any withdrawal."
Same here. I found it very easy to taper Tranxene from 7.5mg QID to only BID in a matter of weeks without any withdrawal symptoms that I could remember (in 1996) when life was going really well for me.
I took a trip to Mexico with my friend and we had a great time. No anxiety...no need to increase the dose back to the previous one until winter came around. Winter always made me feel more anxious, perhaps because of cloudy, short days which worsened depression and thus anxiety.
With Xanax though it is pretty hard for me to reduce the dose. In 2004 I tried reducing the dose by only 0.25mg and didn't expect anything bad to happen, but woke up in the middle of the night sweating, breathless and nervous. It wasn't severe, but was unnerving. :-(
Life wasn't that great then though either. Lots of background stress. I suppose if things were as good as they were back in '96, I would be able to taper off much more easily or at least I wouldn't need this high of a dose.
alprazolam (Xanax) 1mg TID
black tea: 3-4 cups/day
GNC Ultra Mega Gold vitamin supplement, BIDDx: panic disorder, MDD (unipolar, melancholia), perfectionist, probable PTSD
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