I have been on alprazolam for eight months and the thing nobody warned me about is the daytime sedation.
I asked for the refusal to be noted in the record and got what I asked for within a week.
Withdrawal symptoms are not the same as side effects, and conflating them wasted a year of my life.
Timing matters more than I expected. Taking it at the same hour every day made the daytime sedation less random.
Rebound anxiety at the end can outlast the taper itself, which is why the last bit takes as long as the first.
Genuinely open to being told my reasoning is wrong here.
It gets smaller. Not easy, smaller. That distinction kept me going.
Small wins count. Walking to the mailbox is a data point. Same for me with alprazolam, unfortunately.
Print the page.
Following this because I am in the same place and have no idea what to ask at the appointment.
Same here.
Ten percent cuts. Slower is faster.
Changing prescriber does not reset anything, and people discover that the hard way.
Same shape here, different drug. The thing that helped was documenting the refusal rather than re-arguing it. They refer rather than write. Same for me with alprazolam, unfortunately.
Ten percent cuts, of the current dose not the original. That is the arithmetic that keeps it survivable.