Posted by Larry Hoover on December 17, 2005, at 0:10:40
In reply to TO EDUK !!!!!!!!!CURRENT STATUS!!! WITHDRAWING, posted by Jeroen on December 16, 2005, at 13:51:39
> hi ed, how r u? im currently stopping the tranxene 15mg cold turkey after 8 months twice daily, and i feel more like myself at this moment but im scared.
I hate to speak in Ed's place, but I'll give you my best advice. First, I think you would be wiser to reduce the tranxene dose more slowly than your cold turkey process. You won't feel symptoms right away, but around the third day, you will very much feel the withdrawal. It has a long half-life, but a powerful withdrawal syndrome. Just the same as withdrawing from Valium, diazepam, because both Tranxene and Valium metabolize to nordiazepam. So, I suggest a similar withdrawal schedule.
Take 15 mg a day for a week, and if you feel okay, take 15 mg every other day for two weeks. If that's okay, then empty out half the capsule and take one every other day for two weeks. Then you're done with tranxene. That's my advice.
> im want not to stop seroquel entire, i want to take 100 mg twice daily, because at that dose i felt good now im on 400mg before bedtime and 100 mg at morning, its sedative.
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> ED IS reducing 50 mg a week safe like 350mg then second week 300 mg or can i do it faster? PLEASE I NEED YOUR ADVICE ON THISThat is the maximum rate you can reduce it, in my opinion. Reduce by 50 mg, after a week. 50 mg each week. No faster.
Did you try the vitamin E with vitamin C, like I suggested?
Lar
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