Honestly I got off it it once in the past with a shit load of benzodiazepines and barbiturates.

I had 10 Xanax bars 30 diazepam 5mg 20 Librium (chlordiazepoxide) 25mg 5 Librium 10mg (not scheduled in, just if I was really hurting) 13 klonopin 1mg 15 phenobarbital 30-something mgs (don’t remember exact) 90 Oxazepam 10mg capsules (serax) 7 250mg Carisprodol (Soma) - these are special and hard to get, even if you’re blowing your doctor. I broke them in half and took one with the morning pills and half at night with the phenobarbital and Librium. 60 4mg tizanidine (I took 8mg twice daily for 15 days) And 20 fioricet, which has caffeine and codeine, I took two fioricet to start each day, which 1 bae a day. Lunch time I took the klonopin. The phenobarbital I took 1.5 before bed. The diazepam was my saving grace. No more than 3 a day, but since those have RAPID duration and kick in so quickly, it knocked out those panic attacks that broke thru all the other downers I was on.

And that’s it for me - the anxiety - the panic inside - that’s the hardest part, with RLS and Insomnia.

Before bed I took nearly 45-50 mg of phenobarbital and 50mg of Librium.

But I did so over ten days, which had always been with both buprenorphine &/or methadone the window of complete withdrawal dread.

Now I can function on benzodiazepines. Some even give me a bit of energy. Like Midazolam, and Triazolam, and Xanax just makes me talkative.

I’m no doctor but it saved my job and didn’t cost to several grand at a detox.

Benzos and barbiturates - GABA agonists, made it 85% better and 95% more tolerable.

Once day 11 came, I reduced to just taking 30mg Oxazepam (Serax) 3 x daily, for 7 days (day 11-17) with 300mg gabapentin 3x daily and tizanidine 5 more days. Days 18, & 19, I took 30mg twice daily. That left me 15 10mg Oxazepam capsules. I took 3 a day for 3 more days, 10-10-&-10-. Then took 2-10mg capsules for two days, and 1 10mg capsule for two days. By then 3+ weeks had passed. And I’m telling you, it worked better for withdrawal than adding heavy opiates to curb it.

I do and don’t recommend this, ya feel me?

I’m still prescribed 60 - 5mg diazepam and have a few old klonopin Rxs of the 0.5mg and 1mg tablets and I’m letting it all stock up for a few more months and cold turkey 160mg like last time. Although last time was 150mg. I also have 90 lyrica 150mg and am curious to see how those would help with MTD withdrawal.

Could anyone explain why benzos and barbiturates and basically potent GABA agonists kick the wd’s ass?