Dreep wrote: Kadafi39 wrote: Dreep wrote: anyone recommend some cbd oil? decided to give it a try to get rid of some of my withdrawal feelings.
CBD oil in all honesty is going to do nothing for you, it wont help with withdrawal from benzos and the calming effects are negligible.
From personal experience I have learnt the worst way to kick a habit is to replace it with another. CBD will do nothing for you and then you'll most probably look for something else, its what people do when they are addicted.
If you actually want to kick it you need to be 100% sure youre never going to touch another and then just quit cold turkey, every time you have urges remind yourself you dont want to be a slave to benzos any longer and it does nothing positive for you and if you carry on you'll end up in a box sooner than you should.
Try and work out and do other things you enjoy to occupy your time. Goodluck mate.
Wish I could cold turkey but 24 days ago I accidentally went a day without benzos and ended up with my mother phoning the police because I was having some sort of breakdown then police just chucking me in an ambulance where I proceeded to have a seizure, got out of hospital and made a weird post on here because in my delerium I thought shit had kicked off on here with my gf. So cold turkey is out the window, tapering is a fucking nightmare so trying anything to relieve symptoms.
I was on xanor for like 4 years (from my doc), pretty heavy dose in the end as you have to be extremely strong of character not to increase dose when the effects more or less vanish.
To kick it I made a schedule with my doc for three months, tons of stuff online how much you can go down every week depending on dose and time of usage.
Thing is, shit builds up under a long time so even after you have quit by the book and the major withdrawals are gone you will have to deal with tons of new worthless withdrawal stuff over the coming months. I was extemely sensetive to light, it itched like hell like all the time, sweats, sleeping is totally fucked and with that a healthy bit of paranoia.
I just drank heavily for about a year, then I was ok.
I’m a heavy drinker at times but have zero addiction tendencies with alcohol, so that worked for me. I would suggest doing weed or some other stuff with low addiction potential as a temporary substitute.
Kicking it cold turkey is of course the best but if you have been using for a while I think that will be practically hard as you would need to lock yourself up in a dark room for a month or two as you wont be able to function.
