Suggested manner of tapering benzodiazepines (alprazolam, etizolam, lorazepam, diazepam, clonazepam, etc)
Many persons who have been taking benzodiazepines or other tranquilizing prescription medicines will experience withdrawal symptoms if they try to stop the medicine abruptly. Tapering-off, i.e. reducing the doses gradually is recommended. But specific details on how to taper-off are usually unavailable or inadequate. Tapering-off can be done by changing two variables, i.e, dose quantity or amount(like 2 mg, 1.5 mg, 1 mg, etc) and interval between subsequent doses(like once in a day, or twice a day). For example: A person has been taking "2 mg clonazepam a day"(Clonazepam 2 mg at once, every 24 hours) may taper as follow: He can increase the interval between doses from 24 hours to 30 hours for the first 10 doses, while maintaining the same dose, i.e. 2 mg. Reduce the dose to 1.5 mg, while keeping the interval the same, i.e. 30 hours, for the next 10 doses. Increase the interval from 30 to 36 hours while keeping dose the same, for the next 10 doses. Reduce the dose to 1 mg, whi...