WOOPS and WindySan,
WOOPS, thanks for your
encouragements and
compliments on my photos. I look forward to seeing more of yours...
I have already started my taper schedule. I am into week three of about a 5-6 month slow taper based on Ashton's Chart, that my doctor agreed to for me.
And I have gone to the switch to Valium from Xanax. My doctor switched me too fast off the XANAX, but I got through it.
I agree XANAX may be the very hardest taper for me too, because with it's short half-life and my "speedy little metabolism" it was terrible for me....
I tried C/T from 3 mg. XANAX a day, a month or so ago, and it d**n near killed me...go back and read my first newbie posts and you will see the agony I was in.....
But now, with this Valium taper, I have not even felt ANY effects after a reduction...I am even not having to take the total dose prescribed some days.
But, luckily, I was only on XANAX for about 4-5 months. Way too long, I know, but better than years..
And I can't fathom why people get their feelings hurt or feel disrespected so easily on here by PEOPLE THEY DON'T EVEN KNOW OR FOLLOW THEIR POSTS/PROGRESS.
If someone I had never heard of wrote that they thought I was the "sorriest Ba**ard ever," it would make NO difference to me.
But, if YOU, or Ten, BARTO, WindySan, Mikiglen, RUNVS, and others I follow and keep up with their posts, it would hurt my feelings some.
I guess because I feel like I kinda KNOW y'all and consider you guys/gals my FRIENDS!
Hey WindySan, I respect YOUR way of getting off these things too. ONLY you know YOU, and you know what is best for you.
Me personally, I want off so badly and, at least at the present, CAN follow the taper schedule.
But everyone is different.
I am LIKE you in one regard. I have always been an "overdoer." I also figure if ONE is GOOD, then 50 OUGHT to be better.
I'll catch myself wanting to purchase 3 or more of the same shirts or sweaters - just because the price is marked down so much..... Like, keep some for later, which never comes, ha.
Anyway, I like you folks, and thanks for being here for me,
