In answer to you question….Here is my method of tapering.

1. You flush your medicine down the stool.

2. You tape yourself to a wall for at least 3-4 months with duck tape.

3. You did your fingernails in the wall as tight as you can.

4. Then you pray with all your might that no one comes to paint the walls till you are ready to be scraped off.

Please check with your doctor before trying this method and if he/she approves DO NOT undertake this method even upon consent. LOL

Actually this is not far from the truth. J

I cold turkeyed Xanax on ,Sept. 27, 2001, having no idea what I was in for. I was only on 1 mg. of Xanax for three short months. I was allergic to the medicine from day one, but the doctors had no clue what was happening. God knows I saw plenty of docs during that time….most of which included plenty of cardiologists.

After praying to God that if I was going to stay on planet earth, it was going to have to be Him that did it, I stopped the Xanax and the Inderal I was on at the time.

Well, I found out very quickly what was going on and prayed again for help to make it, because I knew I was not going to make it through w/d otherwise. He led me to a program called Narconon (Which seems to be disliked by many on the other board, but came to my rescue in a time of need……and no, I am not a Scientologist) Narconon uses Mega Doses of certain vitamins to counter withdrawal. I personally would not recommend this unless you are on a very low dose and could not taper as I was.

I do believe that a positive outlook on our recovery is necessary. We will heal and time will prove that.

((((Hugs)))) , Healing and Prayers to xxxxx and all that read this,

Ruth

6 mo. Xanax Free ( Cold Turkey )