My Benzo Withdrawal Timeline (which symptoms and when)

I’m coming up on 33 months and I’m still dealing with windows and waves. My remaining symptoms are depression,dpdr and lack of motivation and some nerve pain. I having windows where it all lifts so I’m getting close thank god.

I'm actually experiencing my taper right now and I've been looking all over YT for someone to talk about symptoms of withdrawal. I cannot thank you enough for this video. I'm down to .5 a day and just feel under the weather and have muscle pain. Not sure how soon I'll be going down to .25 but hoping if I stay on that for a while it'll help soften the withdrawal symptoms when I'm completely off. This is the most realistic and honest video about getting off of benzos that I have found. You are wonderful and thank you again!

Hi, I’am now two years off Kolonipin, almost the same as you. It would be interesting how our healing goes from here. We all heal differently i know but would be happy to see how you are progressing. Your doing a great job with your videos. So very helpful ! Keep them coming. It’s helpful when you go through all the symptoms. 🦋

It' good to know that you are better now. Your videos are full of nature, birds , they give very fresh feel. You didn't mention about mental symptoms in this video, I think it's so good that you didn't have any. Now for me, at 10 months off, every day my symptoms are changing, but mainly struggling with mental stuff, that is very difficult to cope with. If I try to engage in present or in some work, my mind brutality pulls me back inward. Severe head pressure, heavy screwed feeling in head is sometimes unbearable, did you have this? As you say that we heal as time passes, but these horrible symptoms are not as intense as they are now. I am scared that my mind is altered by these benzos. it's so difficult to believe that we can recover from this.

So sorry you went through all this! You are truely strong for making it through this total hell. I'm currently taking 1mg of klonopin and tapering super slow. Just curious why did you decide to taper off so quickly and didn't do a micro taper? You're videos are great!

Hey. Thanks so much for your help. Would you consider doing a video on dp/dr and what you went through??! I’m 3 years out. Did it feel like your brain had a shield around it too. My cognitive sucks too. You look great. Don’t worry. 😊. I posted a few times on your channel. Akathisia is still bugging me but at a more buzzing inside now. Anyway. Thx. 😊❤p

I am 12 months into withdrawal. 10-20 ml of Valium for 15-20 years. My DPDR was pretty intense. I awoke at least three days where I didn't know who I was. That was very scary. Talk about a panic attack. I am finding those around me are getting sick of me being sick. I can't speak of my illness to nearly anyone. They have had enough and I look fine! lol! Yeah, look. My restless leg was so intense that both my legs were going at once for months. Sleep was unobtainable. Hypnic jerks. I had 500-1000 different points on my body all firing at once for hours while trying desperately trying to sleep interrupted with these hypnic jerks like someone slamming their fist into your back every 5 minutes or so. Did you have that? After 12 months off I am finding my brain working incredibly well in the fact that I can figure things out in a split second and am surprised by it. I like your art. Keep drawing. It is very soothing. My memory is bad in the aspect of remembering what I went through during my acute phase and after that for about 6 months. I did take notes. Glad I did. I agree that my life may be a crazy train, but it is preferable to the bland, grey, life I was leading during the drug intake. I have zero regrets just like you. I have read that after acute withdrawal, you get convinced that the drugs are the answer, again. I have made a promise to myself that if I am going to off myself, and am serious, I will go back on the drugs to save my family from that sadness and generational misery. Like the video and thanks again for posting.

I didn't hear one person talk about increase of exercise and better eating and vitamin and supplements

Wow, I already have all the symptoms you listed for MCAS that you mentioned. I also started getting hives, sweating, and a specific kind of eczema on the palms of my hands.

Ps. You should frame and sell the drawings. There awesome. 😎

Your videos are really hopeful. I am 10 months off xanax, but suffering mainly, dpdr, head pains, eye pain with blurry vision, disassociation issues. Dpdr is fluctuating in intensity, but this is the most scary and disturbing symptom. Did you have this? Head pains are also incresed recently. As you are 2 years off, do you feel fully healed? or what sre the symptoms that are left now if any?

Good.work brother WE DO RECOVER !!

I have dealt with derealization, depersonalization, and dissociation since I was a kid. I have CPTSD. My first panic attack was from this when I was a very young child, I’m not sure what age, but it was definitely elementary school. It impacted me so much that I remember it very vividly. I had woken up from a bad dream and went outside to play. I remember looking up at a huge tree I was standing under and thinking about my dream. Then I started wondering “what I’d this is a dream right now that someone else is having and they could just wake up?” Then I started feeling like nothing was real, or i didn’t know what was real. Then I had my first panic attack. I don’t remember anything else after standing under the tree. It all probably only lasted minutes, but I’m 50 years old now and it’s still a very vivid memory because of how disturbing it felt.

I was on 1mg for 10 years I’m doing a liquid compound taper from Ativan my experience with my taper is not sleeping having more anxiety and panic..6 months into my taper.

I’m coming up on 5 years after CT klonopin. Do NOT recommend CT but had no docs willing to admit it’s a problem in my town. About 70% of me has returned, but I’m still riding the struggle bus.

Would CBD or Cannabis help with the withdrawals and seizures? CBD has been used for epileptic seizures and neurolgical issues. Cannabis doesn't have severe withdrawal issues and can relieve anxiety symptoms. Would this help?

5 years out for me. Most of the more intense symptoms have resolved but I am left with weight gain, vascular issues, rapid aging, fear of driving, agoraphobia, hypersensitive, moody, prolapsing organs, just to name a few. No, we don't all heal.

I got derealization while still on a low dose of Valium only a month on it for neck muscle tensions giving me migraines. That prompted me to immidiately want to be off and I did 3 day in hospital voluntary for that with gabapentin and flexeril and it work for me! When I couldn't sleep from muscle issues and restless leg and neck pain was in full swing again flexeril put me back to sleep. So but this is for only 1 month on 5 mg Valium so they know how to handle that ok but long term prob not so well. Oh and I took clonidine for high blood pressure AND to relax which was great.

Unfortunately, I’m one of those people with chronic akathisia. Most of my worst symptoms didn’t erupt until I was 4-12mths off. My inner akathisia exploded 60-90 days off, but I didn’t start pacing until 14mths off. I have stood 18-40hrs for over 3 years. The first things I noticed was a tinnitus explosion 30 days off. I noticed it increasing on the way down but this was from another planet. It was a freight train on rails. It is still there 4 years off, I just acclimated to it. It’s maybe gone down 10-20%.

Can you please tell me what dose of ativan you were on? Can you tell me how long? And how long the taper was? Thankyou.