BenzoBuddies Community Forum

Please welcome our new members!

Please read these important forum and site policies before posting to the forum.

Let us help you celebrate being benzo free by starting a thread here, this board is not intended to be used as a blog, but feel free to post updates as you reach certain milestones.

We strongly encourage members to post their Success Stories. It can be an invaluable source of inspiration for those still tapering or recovering to read how others have returned to (near) normal health. When posting your story, you should be:

• benzodiazepine-free for at least two months;
• (mostly) recovered from your experience;
• feeling positive about the future and this should be reflected in your Success Story.

For general taper enquiries and help with direct taper plans from your present benzodiazepine (ie pill-splitting).

Help and support for substitution tapers.

Help with liquid titration preparation and withdrawal schedules.

Please create a personal log to track your progress during withdrawal and post-withdrawal recovery. You can detail life events, symptoms, changes to dosage, diet, or anything else you feel is relevant. Other members cannot reply to your log. Your log is intended purely as a withdrawal and recovery aid.

For support, general information and feedback during your benzodiazepine withdrawal and post-withdrawal recovery. Please post to the taper boards for help with taper plans.

For help and support for the problems and issues associated with sudden or rapid withdrawal of benzodiazepines. Please note, outside of exceptional circumstances, rapid withdrawal of benzodiazepines is ill-advised and potentially dangerous. Please read the stickied post for further information.

Having trouble sleeping? If your problems are caused by benzodiazepine withdrawal or not, please post here with your concerns, tips, and recommendations. You're free to discuss sleep aids and therapies associated with insomnia.

Support and tips for managing anxiety and panic attacks.

For issues arising out of poly-drug use and withdrawal; drug interactions; and how other prescribed and over-the-counter medicines might affect benzodiazepine withdrawal.

Your experiences of non-conventional treatments, therapies and supplements, and how they relate to benzodiazepine use and withdrawal.

The focus of this board is upon benzo withdrawal and recovery, but with feedback and interaction from Buddies. Specific taper and withdrawal questions should be addressed on the dedicated taper and withdrawal boards - this board is more for moral support.

Inspirational stories, art, literature, poetry, and the like. What helps make your benzodiazepine withdrawal more bearable?

For non-support orientated benzodiazepine discussions. Perhaps you have a pet theory or personal experience you would like to share, or would like to discuss the state of benzodiazepine research.

General news media items about benzodiazepines, other medications, and related subjects.

For discussion unrelated to benzodiazepine withdrawal.

For support with your general (non-benzo) health needs.

Keep up with what's happening at BenzoBuddies and within the wider benzodiazepine withdrawal community.

Please use this board to post your suggestions and comments.

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