Submitted by: Helen: "Helenjora"

How to do water titration to slowly taper off benzos:

Equipment needed:

a tall lab cylinder that will hold 150 to 200 ml of water

a mortar and pestle

a small battery-operated mixer

a small lab cylinder that will hold 10 ml of water

a dropper or syringe

a continuing supply of the benzodiazepine you are taking

Process:

Grind the pill in the mortar and pestle. Fill the tall lab cylinder to a

predetermined amount, for example I use 200 ml of distilled water for my .5

mg klonopin dose. Pour a little of the water in the

cylinder onto the powdered drug and grind it some more. Then rinse the

mortar into the battery-operated mixer, using the water in the cylinder

until all of the powder in the mortar and on the pestle has gone into the

mixer. The mortar will become colored from the dye used in the pills, do not

be concerned about that.

Hit the spin button on the battery-operated mixer. This puts the

benzodiazepine particles into suspension in the water. There is no need for

the pills to dissolve or be water soluble; putting the particles into

suspension is sufficient to insure random dispersal for long enough to

adjust your dosage.

On the first time you use this method, take the dropper and remove a small

amount of the water. Use the small lab cylinder to measure this amount to 1

ml. Discard this amount and drink the water that remains in the mixer. Then

add a little more water from a cup and hit spin again to get all the residue

out of the mixer and drink that.

Using my own program as an example, 1 ml of .5 mg klonopin dissolved in 200

ml of water equals .0025 mg or 1/200th of a pill. Had I chosen to start with

150 ml of water, a 1 ml reduction would be .0033 mg or 1/150th of a pill.

The original principle behind this method was to reduce by 1 ml more each

day, thus theoretically I could have gotten off my .5 klonopin in 200 days.

However I experienced problems, probably due to my pre-existing poor health,

and have had to hold at doses for a while to allow my brain to catch up with

the accumulated cuts.

The advantage to this method is that as long as you have a sufficient supply

of pills, you can reduce at your own rate and make tiny reductions. The

brain is not going to be able to differentiate

between a dose of .4975 mg of klonopin and .4950 mg. The cumulative cuts

will add up, and if you need to take a break and hold, then you can do that

easily with this method.

I believe it is better to travel down this way over a given period than

making a bigger cut and holding there for the same period of time. The

amount reduced in the timeframe will be the same, but it's a gentler way to

get there.

The math may seem daunting but you simply divide your dose by the

milliliters of water you intend to use to find the amount of drug per 1 ml

of water. My .5 mg klonopin divided by 200 ml of water

equals .0025 mg.

It takes me about five minutes to prepare my dose. I believe the hardest

part is obtaining the equipment. A Power Mixer can be obtained by calling

1-888-783-8433 and graduated cylinders and mortars and pestles can be

obtained from pharmex.com. Another place that sells graduated cylinders is

usplastic.com, phone number 1-800-809-4217.

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