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2018-2020 I was on .5 klonopin and stopped cold turkey. In 2023 put back on klonopin until 2025 tapered down to 1mg Valium over 6 months. I reinstated klonopin .5mg in January 2026, I know now that was stupid. I was rapidly changed from Lexapro to Zoloft to clomipramine in about a month Hospital cut klonopin off cold turkey 2 months later and I trusted them and didn’t continue taking it. Fast forward 3 months of rapidly changing antidepressants and I decided I want to be off meds after 15 years. I’d just started to stabilize my nervous system. Doctor changed me from 5mg Trintellix that id been on for 5 weeks to .5 Rexulti in a week. Then three weeks later she told me I could stop the rexulti in just a week. I started having horrible surging anxiety and finally broke and took 8mg Valium over 3 days along with some alcohol on 2 of them. Since stopping the rexulti and the Valium alcohol slip, I was dog sick for 2 weeks, sleep crashed, waking with drenching sweats, my face and arms are burning, hands and feet profusely sweating, have akathisia that is getting better but the head pressure tinnitus and obsessive research of trying to figure out what is wrong with me is awful. I barely eat, I cannot function, feel like there is a hornets nest in my chest. This has been going on for 6 weeks now and I am nearing the end of my rope.

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u/ZJM129 — 2 days ago

Please help

2018-2020 I was on .5 klonopin and stopped cold turkey. In 2023 put back on klonopin until 2025 tapered down to 1mg Valium over 6 months. I reinstated klonopin .5mg in January 2026, I know now that was stupid. I was rapidly changed from Lexapro to Zoloft to clomipramine in about a month Hospital cut klonopin off cold turkey 2 months later and I trusted them and didn’t continue taking it. Fast forward 3 months of rapidly changing antidepressants and I decided I want to be off meds after 15 years. I’d just started to stabilize my nervous system. Doctor changed me from 5mg Trintellix that id been on for 5 weeks to .5 Rexulti in a week. Then three weeks later she told me I could stop the rexulti in just a week. I started having horrible surging anxiety and finally broke and took 8mg Valium over 3 days along with some alcohol on 2 of them. Since stopping the rexulti and the Valium alcohol slip, I was dog sick for 2 weeks, sleep crashed, waking with drenching sweats, my face and arms are burning, hands and feet profusely sweating, have akathisia that is getting better but the head pressure tinnitus and obsessive research of trying to figure out what is wrong with me is awful. I barely eat, I cannot function, feel like there is a hornets nest in my chest. This has been going on for 6 weeks now and I am nearing the end of my rope.

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u/ZJM129 — 2 days ago
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2018-2020 I was on .5 klonopin and stopped cold turkey. In 2023 put back on klonopin until 2025 tapered down to 1mg Valium over 6 months. I reinstated klonopin .5mg in January 2026, I know now that was stupid. I was rapidly changed from Lexapro to Zoloft to clomipramine in about a month Hospital cut klonopin off cold turkey 2 months later and I trusted them and didn’t continue taking it. Fast forward 3 months of rapidly changing antidepressants and I decided I want to be off meds after 15 years. I’d just started to stabilize my nervous system. Doctor changed me from 5mg Trintellix that id been on for 5 weeks to .5 Rexulti in a week. Then three weeks later she told me I could stop the rexulti in just a week. I started having horrible surging anxiety and finally broke and took 8mg Valium over 3 days along with some alcohol on 2 of them. Since stopping the rexulti and the Valium alcohol slip, I was dog sick for 2 weeks, sleep crashed, waking with drenching sweats, my face and arms are burning, hands and feet profusely sweating, have akathisia that is getting better but the head pressure tinnitus and obsessive research of trying to figure out what is wrong with me is awful. I barely eat, I cannot function, feel like there is a hornets nest in my chest. This has been going on for 6 weeks now and I am nearing the end of my rope.

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u/ZJM129 — 2 days ago

Help

2018-2020 I was on .5 klonopin and stopped cold turkey. In 2023 put back on klonopin until 2025 tapered down to 1mg Valium over 6 months. I reinstated klonopin .5mg in January 2026, I know now that was stupid. I was rapidly changed from Lexapro to Zoloft to clomipramine in about a month Hospital cut klonopin off cold turkey 2 months later and I trusted them and didn’t continue taking it. Fast forward 3 months of rapidly changing antidepressants and I decided I want to be off meds after 15 years. I’d just started to stabilize my nervous system. Doctor changed me from 5mg Trintellix that id been on for 5 weeks to .5 Rexulti in a week. Then three weeks later she told me I could stop the rexulti in just a week. I started having horrible surging anxiety and finally broke and took 8mg Valium over 3 days along with some alcohol on 2 of them. Since stopping the rexulti and the Valium alcohol slip, I was dog sick for 2 weeks, sleep crashed, waking with drenching sweats, my face and arms are burning, hands and feet profusely sweating, have akathisia that is getting better but the head pressure tinnitus and obsessive research of trying to figure out what is wrong with me is awful. I barely eat, I cannot function, feel like there is a hornets nest in my chest. This has been going on for 6 weeks now and I am nearing the end of my rope.

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u/ZJM129 — 2 days ago

Did 3 days of low dose Valium and some alcohol reset my benzo withdrawal?

2018-2020 I was on .5 klonopin and stopped cold turkey. In 2023 put back on klonopin until 2025 tapered down to 1mg Valium over 6 months. I reinstated klonopin .5mg in January 2026, I know now that was stupid. I was rapidly changed from Lexapro to Zoloft to clomipramine in about a month Hospital cut klonopin off cold turkey 2 months later and I trusted them and didn’t continue taking it. Fast forward 3 months of rapidly changing antidepressants and I decided I want to be off meds after 15 years. I’d just started to stabilize my nervous system. Doctor changed me from 5mg Trintellix that id been on for 5 weeks to .5 Rexulti in a week. Then three weeks later she told me I could stop the rexulti in just a week. I started having horrible surging anxiety and finally broke and took 8mg Valium over 3 days along with some alcohol on 2 of them. Since stopping the rexulti and the Valium alcohol slip, I was dog sick for 2 weeks, sleep crashed, waking with drenching sweats, my face and arms are burning, hands and feet profusely sweating, have akathisia that is getting better but the head pressure tinnitus and obsessive research of trying to figure out what is wrong with me is awful. I barely eat, I cannot function, feel like there is a hornets nest in my chest. This has been going on for 6 weeks now and I am nearing the end of my rope.

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u/ZJM129 — 2 days ago

What is going on?

2018-2020 I was on .5 klonopin and stopped cold turkey. In 2023 put back on klonopin until 2025 tapered down to 1mg Valium over 6 months. I reinstated klonopin .5mg in January 2026, I know now that was stupid. I was rapidly changed from Lexapro to Zoloft to clomipramine in about a month Hospital cut klonopin off cold turkey 2 months later and I trusted them and didn’t continue taking it. Fast forward 3 months of rapidly changing antidepressants and I decided I want to be off meds after 15 years. I’d just started to stabilize my nervous system. Doctor changed me from 5mg Trintellix that id been on for 5 weeks to .5 Rexulti in a week. Then three weeks later she told me I could stop the rexulti in just a week. I started having horrible surging anxiety and finally broke and took 8mg Valium over 3 days along with some alcohol on 2 of them. Since stopping the rexulti and the Valium alcohol slip, I was dog sick for 2 weeks, sleep crashed, waking with drenching sweats, my face and arms are burning, hands and feet profusely sweating, have akathisia that is getting better but the head pressure tinnitus and obsessive research of trying to figure out what is wrong with me is awful. I barely eat, I cannot function, feel like there is a hornets nest in my chest. This has been going on for 6 weeks now and I am nearing the end of my rope.

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u/ZJM129 — 2 days ago

Did 3 days of low dose Valium and some alcohol reset my benzo withdrawal?

2018-2020 I was on .5 klonopin and stopped cold turkey. In 2023 put back on klonopin until 2025 tapered down to 1mg Valium over 6 months. I reinstated klonopin .5mg in January 2026, I know now that was stupid. I was rapidly changed from Lexapro to Zoloft to clomipramine in about a month Hospital cut klonopin off cold turkey 2 months later and I trusted them and didn’t continue taking it. Fast forward 3 months of rapidly changing antidepressants and I decided I want to be off meds after 15 years. I’d just started to stabilize my nervous system. Doctor changed me from 5mg Trintellix that id been on for 5 weeks to .5 Rexulti in a week. Then three weeks later she told me I could stop the rexulti in just a week. I started having horrible surging anxiety and finally broke and took 8mg Valium over 3 days along with some alcohol on 2 of them. Since stopping the rexulti and the Valium alcohol slip, I was dog sick for 2 weeks, sleep crashed, waking with drenching sweats, my face and arms are burning, hands and feet profusely sweating, have akathisia that is getting better but the head pressure tinnitus and obsessive research of trying to figure out what is wrong with me is awful. I barely eat, I cannot function, feel like there is a hornets nest in my chest. This has been going on for 6 weeks now and I am nearing the end of my rope.

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u/ZJM129 — 2 days ago