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I have been on alprazalam and temazapam and clonezapam since mid-May of this year. They stopped working and I want to get off of them and try CBT. Any ideas? If I don't take something, I get zero sleep that night. Last night I got 2 hours but took 2 15mg temazapam. Help.
Have you spoken to your doctor about a tapering-off plan? It’s best to reduce medication only under the supervision of your doctor. Research suggests that combining CBT with sleeping pill tapering does not have a negative impact on the effectiveness of CBT. Therefore, there is no need to wait until you are off the sleeping pills before trying CBT.
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I totally agree with Martin in regards to going off this medication under supervision of your doctor that has prescribed them.
I had been on them for almost 38 years and finally decided enough of feeling like I was drugged. I was also on many other medications and also decided to go off of them but one at a time. But I didn’t share my feelings or actions with my doctors which was a big mistake. The only other medication that I can say is worse is Valium which I also have been taking for 30 years. If you don’t consult your doctor and at least let him or she know what your going to do you run the risk of many side effects one of which can be seizures. By not consulting my doctors I set myself up for failure – not being able to go off it successfully – there are correct ways of going off any medications. I was at a Christmas family get together and has a seizure in front of my young Grand Kids and my own kids. Worse of all I didn’t even bother to share what I was doing with my Wife. I am off of of those nasty Benzo’s and will never go back on them again. I had been is a really bad auto accident some 39 years ago and was having a terrible time adjusting to the Halo Brace that I was wearing do to my Fractured neck and having all of my vertebra in my neck and other area’s of my spine. I am now trying to go off Valium which I did the same thing I didn’t consult my Doctor this time either. I finally had to tell him and found out it wasn’t a good idea my body still needed them from still issues in my spine from the accident. Pills are not the answer to not sleeping but I was afraid if I quit taking them that I wouldn’t sleep. Well I wasn’t sleeping good even while taking them. I wish you all the luck. Cheers
Notice in my other post I didn’t share with you how to go off those nasty Benzo’s. I didn’t because I would be setting you up for failure and also running the risk of what happened to me. Plus each Doctor has their own way of wanting their patient to go off of certain medications and some even require going into the hospital. I am not a professional so my experience could be totally different than someone else’s going off of a medication. Hopefully you will be smarter than I was and consult your doctor. Please don’t listen to anyone about how they went off a certain medication you need a doctor to monitor you. Thank You
Thank you for sharing your experience, Cooper — and for emphasizing the importance of talking to your doctor if planning to make any changes to an existing medication regimen.
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Hello, there’s a website dedicated to helping and supporting people taper off of benzos: benzobuddies.org. There are a lot of good people and resources there.
Theres another site, survivingantidepressants.org, that is related and they really helped me and a lot of other people properly wean off SSRIs/SNRIs and other “mood altering” medications.
Doctors preach that these drugs are non-narcotics and therefore there’s no withdrawal and someone could cut doses in half over short periods of time or quit cold turkey but this is far from true. My pdoc gave me bad advice like this and I was in absolute hell for for over 1 month and I’m still suffering with poor sleep and stomach problems 4 months later. Things are improving but the folks over there really gave me a lot of helpful advice and tools. Now I’m learning how to deal with insomnia over here.
I agree with others, talk to you doctor, but also educate yourself on the proper methods for tapering benzos because those drugs in particular must be tapered properly.
I wish you the best in your edforts to get off benzos.
Thanks for sharing those resources, Mark.
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