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Posted by Jeroen on February 25, 2006, at 13:52:05
hi, i hope you can answer my question i didnt found it on the board.
im twice on 15 mg of tranxene AM and PM
how do i withdraw safelly? im going to try it. it do help improve my TD symptoms.
Posted by Larry Hoover on February 25, 2006, at 13:52:05
In reply to TO LARRY HOOVER - TRANXENE, posted by Jeroen on February 21, 2006, at 11:35:39
> hi, i hope you can answer my question i didnt found it on the board.
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> im twice on 15 mg of tranxene AM and PM
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> how do i withdraw safelly? im going to try it. it do help improve my TD symptoms.The metabolic pathway of tranxene is very similar to that of diazepam, so there would be little point to switching over to that drug, to do a taper. You might as well just do the taper with tranxene itself. If you want to go ahead, I'd see if you could manage dropping immediately to 10 mg/bid, and then dropping by 2 mg per week thereafter. Something like that.
Unfortunately, I do not think of myself as a benzo expert, so I hope other posters will offer their input. I also do not see how this withdrawal might prove beneficial with respect to the TD. Did you try increasing your dose of magnesium, or adding in some niacinamide?
Lar
Posted by Phillipa on February 25, 2006, at 13:52:05
In reply to Re: TO LARRY HOOVER - TRANXENE » Jeroen, posted by Larry Hoover on February 21, 2006, at 13:06:10
Jeroen isn't your blinking bad again and doesn't Ed want you try a different med. Can't remember which one know he will be popping on soon. Fondly, Phillipa
Posted by mattw84 on February 25, 2006, at 13:52:05
In reply to TO LARRY HOOVER - TRANXENE, posted by Jeroen on February 21, 2006, at 11:35:39
Isn't Tranxene Clorazepate? I am just going to wing this one on my way out of the office here... If I recall both Valium and Tranxene are metabolized the same way, thus there wouldn't be much advantage from switching right away. The only benefit I can see is that you can probably get to a much smaller dose with valium than tranxene.
Also TD symptoms will not improve through withdrawal from benzos, you would definately want something adjunct during withdrawal. Could be as easy as Propanolol or Clonidine or you may need something stronger such as Lamictal. I have also heard promising reviews of Keppra regarding this.
Hopefully someone can come clean up after my messy post, best of luck!
Matt
Posted by johnnyj on February 25, 2006, at 13:52:05
In reply to Re: TO LARRY HOOVER - TRANXENE » Jeroen, posted by Larry Hoover on February 21, 2006, at 13:06:10
Hi Larry and Jereon:
My benzo story...Tranzene.
I was very irritable when I withdrew from tranzene. It was making me more depressed. I was on 22.5-mg and cut the 7.5 tabs in half to drop. It was tough but it is definately DOABLE.
The hardest for me was the last 7.5-mg. I cut it in half and was very depressed for two weeks. I did sleep a lot which was strange. I didn't really feel anxiety per se just very down. After two weeks it broke and I felt better.
I cut that in half and got very depressed again. and then I stopped it all together. I was feeling bad, but sleeping well for 1 month and then it broke and I felt better.
Some of my withdrawal symptoms were:
1. sensitive to light and especially sensitive to smells. My appetite was very bad after each drop. I could smell things so strongly it was weird. I had to eat more bland things and drink juices, etc. Not much nausea, just an overactive sense of smell that made things unappealing to me. I stuck it out each time and slowly came out of it.One good thing is that my ability to have complex thoughts and think more clear really improved.
I was on this drug for over ten years and instead of weaning off a doctor upped my dose and that eventually led to some bad depression. Going off was a sleep doctors idea and he said it probably was causing sleep disturbance and causing problems with REM. Sure enough weaning off improved my sleep. But, now I am on remeron and getting off is harder than benzo's in my opinion.
Hope this helps some. Any questions? I would be glad to answer about tranzene. Also, drink a lot of WATER while weaning off. It helped me a ton.
johnny
Posted by Jeroen on February 25, 2006, at 13:52:06
In reply to Re: TO LARRY HOOVER - TRANXENE, posted by mattw84 on February 21, 2006, at 19:48:15
withdrawing cold turkey from this medicine is bad im a year on it...
Posted by Phillipa on February 25, 2006, at 18:59:18
In reply to Re: TO LARRY HOOVER - TRANXENE, posted by Jeroen on February 25, 2006, at 10:23:55
Jeroen never withdraw from a med like this cold turkey. It is dangerous. Fondly, Phillipa
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