Posted by floatingbridge on October 2, 2011, at 17:52:41
I have felt the personal need to taper my Xanax XR. I had been taking 1mg twice daily.
After about ten days of mostly taking only 1mg daily, I told my pdoc. Five days ago I was scripted, at my request, for 0.5mg twice daily of the XR.
I have been doing much better lately, but stressful events this week have really crunched me. I seem to have little reserves for dealing with significant stressors, and this worries me. I got through them well enough, but this weekend I am feeling exhausted (as in bed) and finding faint icky thoughts circling.
I took an extra Xanax and noted it in my mood/med log.
Is this too fast a taper? I can realistically expect some more stress next week and the week after. Rather than knuckling through and falling back to very maladaptive behavior, I am wondering if I should take the pressure off and discuss going up one step, like 0.5mg 3x per day until I stabilize again.
I thought tenazepam and gabapentin at bedtime would cover the decrease.
(I have EMDR scheduled for the week after this. Cbt is coming up, too. Oh, arrrgh.)
I see both therapist and pdoc later this week.
I dig a pony.
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