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What Benzodiazepine-Induced Neurological Dysfunction Is, and What It Is Not
What is benzodiazepine-induced neurological dysfunction? Benzodiazepine-induced neurological dysfunction, or BIND, is the name the patient community and a growing number of clinicians use for the cluster of symptoms that can follow long-term…
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Epsom Salt Baths Are a Ritual Many Patients Find Soothing for Withdrawal Pain and Akathisia
For many people in benzodiazepine withdrawal, the hardest part of the day is the evening, when the burning in the feet turns up a notch, the legs begin to hum, and the…
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Allodynia During Benzodiazepine Withdrawal: When Light Touch Feels Like Knives and Your Skin Hurts Everywhere
Last night you pulled the sheet up over your legs and flinched. A bedsheet. Cotton, soft, washed a hundred times. And it dragged across your skin like something serrated. Maybe it is…
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Tinnitus Occurring During Clonazepam Reduction: A Symptom of Benzodiazepine Withdrawal
The house is finally quiet, and that is exactly the problem, because somewhere behind your ears a thin electric ringing has started. You press your palms over them and it does not…
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The Polypharmacy Trap: When Tapering Off One Drug Means Taking Six Others Just to Survive
Many people start a benzodiazepine taper with one bottle and end up with a counter full of them. There is the benzodiazepine you are trying to leave, and beside it something for…
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Hitting the Wall: Do Certain Dose Thresholds Create Unique Challenges in Clonazepam Tapering?
The first stretch of your taper almost made you hopeful. Two milligrams became one and a half. One and a half became one. You felt the cuts, but you handled them. Then…
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Using an Oral Syringe for Liquid Benzodiazepine Tapering: A Simple Guide to Precise Measurement
There is a scene almost everyone in a benzodiazepine taper knows by heart. A tablet on the kitchen counter, a pill splitter poised above it, a press and a snap, and then…
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Compounding Pharmacy Concentrations Explained: Understanding the Math Behind Your Liquid Taper
The first time you read the label on a compounded liquid, it can feel like a pop quiz you did not study for. One milligram per milliliter. Numbers, slashes, abbreviations. If word…
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The Two-Syringe Method: Using Dual Concentrations to Achieve Precise Benzodiazepine Dose Reductions
In the middle of a benzodiazepine taper, the numbers get small. Smaller than tablets. Smaller than half tablets. Smaller than anything a pill splitter could dream of producing. That is the plan…
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Gabapentin and Pregabalin During Benzodiazepine Tapering: Borrowed Relief That Creates a Future Debt
In many tapering stories there comes a moment when someone offers a cushion. We can add gabapentin, they say. It will take the edge off. And when you have been white-knuckling a…