Xanax

Help with Weaning off Xanax

Help with Weaning off Xanax

For the patient weaning is a Critical process. Never forced anyone to wean, as that is doomed to failure. Placebo expectations are very powerful in the withdrawal experience.

 The concept of withdrawal relapse was merely the drug company’’s way of distracting attention from withdrawal (much the way Paxil is marketed –– I guess GlaxoSKB learned from Upjohn). Most patients feel sure that they will relapse if they stop Xanax. This seems to be a part of the collective unconscious in PNE and needs to be discussed in detail.

 Common reductions for a person on 0.5 mg three times a day a typical suggested tapering would be:

• 0.50 mg 0.50 mg 0.50 mg to start
• 0.50 mg 0.25mg 0.50 mg at first drop and revisit in a week:
• 0.25 mg 0.25 mg 0.50 mg (assumes sx worse at night) for a week stretch mid dose until it drops off at night dose
• 0.25 mg 0.50mg one week at comfort
• 0.25mg 0.25 mg (beyond comfort) one or two weeks
• 0.125 mg 0.25 mg (one week –– some stop here)
• 0.125 mg 0.125 mg (one week –– more stop here)
• 0.125 mg (a few days)

Seek medical assistance with this process, Weaning to quickly can be dangerous and health threatening.

This is not ment to be a chart, simply a resource to better understand the process.