Day 4 of taper - a good day!
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Day 4 of taper - a good day!
Happy Friday everyone.
I realized after I woke up today (I actually slept about 7 hours!
) that I was feeling pretty decent!
I'm tapering off the benzos/ambien/booze & doing very well.
Yesterday I had 1 beer at 5pm, and then 1 benzo at 10pm. That was it!!!! A typical day for me was anywhere from 3 - 15 drinks, plus 2 Ambien or 3 klonopin.
Anyway - I'm happy today. I know later tonight, or tomorrow, I may feel like a ball of crap (maybe not!), but for today - I'm happy.
I saw an old friend for lunch today, and she said "wow, you look great. You have color in your face". I was thinking - yeah, cuz I'm not a hungover mess.
It feels good to not be hungover, and not to have severe heartburn. I haven't needed a Pepcid all week. AWESOMENESS!!!
Ok - shutting up for now.
- Sparky
I realized after I woke up today (I actually slept about 7 hours!
) that I was feeling pretty decent!I'm tapering off the benzos/ambien/booze & doing very well.
Yesterday I had 1 beer at 5pm, and then 1 benzo at 10pm. That was it!!!! A typical day for me was anywhere from 3 - 15 drinks, plus 2 Ambien or 3 klonopin.
Anyway - I'm happy today. I know later tonight, or tomorrow, I may feel like a ball of crap (maybe not!), but for today - I'm happy.
I saw an old friend for lunch today, and she said "wow, you look great. You have color in your face". I was thinking - yeah, cuz I'm not a hungover mess.
It feels good to not be hungover, and not to have severe heartburn. I haven't needed a Pepcid all week. AWESOMENESS!!!
Ok - shutting up for now.
- Sparky
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Hi Anna - I am tapering off everything together.
Initially I thought "oh, I'll just stop drinking" but realized that wasn't going to do me much good if I was taking pills every day/night.
Slow & steady should win the race for me.
Initially I thought "oh, I'll just stop drinking" but realized that wasn't going to do me much good if I was taking pills every day/night.
Slow & steady should win the race for me.
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today marks the end of a full week. still in the tapering process but thats more about the rx's i think. by now ive reduced pills by 50% and alcohol by 90%. hubby is proud of me 
its been wild.... going to bed sober. not sleeping great but i expected it.
we went out to eat & i used to be buzzin by the time dinner came. we had awesome sparkling water instead.
weird not needing to go buy beer & wine every two days. my husband said 'hey maybe thats why i have extra money in my account'. I said yep..cuz im not adding booze into the grocery cart!
:c02 that was my easiest way of getting booze into the house before.
good changes... im happy about them. hard work....more to come.
- peace to u all
its been wild.... going to bed sober. not sleeping great but i expected it.
we went out to eat & i used to be buzzin by the time dinner came. we had awesome sparkling water instead.
weird not needing to go buy beer & wine every two days. my husband said 'hey maybe thats why i have extra money in my account'. I said yep..cuz im not adding booze into the grocery cart!
:c02 that was my easiest way of getting booze into the house before.good changes... im happy about them. hard work....more to come.
- peace to u all
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hi itch.... yep my doc is in my back pocket & we discussed my plan as well. i tapered off xanax in 2006 so im an old pro heh heh.
funny.... i never abused my rx's ever. just needed them to sleep. but the alcohol has always been for getting bloody bombed. alas both need to be slowly withdrawn for me after i went thru a wicked year protracted wd from xanax.
funny.... i never abused my rx's ever. just needed them to sleep. but the alcohol has always been for getting bloody bombed. alas both need to be slowly withdrawn for me after i went thru a wicked year protracted wd from xanax.
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