Reply to I am tapering my lorazepam posting for accountability

Forum Index » Health and Medicine

Reply to "I am tapering my lorazepam posting for accountability"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’ve been following this thread and you’re doing great, OP, but I also wonder why you don’t consider help with addiction, which is what it seems you struggle with even if your prescriber enabled it. Relapse is common, and you haven’t even completely weaned yourself off yet (for reference, a medically supervised and safe detox would have you off the benzodiazepines in 7-10 days, not the 3+ months you’re doing and I saw you just picked up a new script).

This is not an attack on you- these are addictive substances and it is not a weakness that led you to be dependent on them. However, you will be vulnerable to a relapse or cross addiction if you don’t do the work to figure out how to cope without a substance.

Wishing you success. [/I don’t think this is accurate. I was on a medically supervised detox from Ativan at Silver Hill Hospital and it still took me months. They got me started and I finished on my own. Seven to 10 days would cause wild withdrawal symptoms.
[/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics