Hey everyone. I know someone (yes, it really isnt me) who is going through severe xanax withdrawal. She has taken xanax for years and has had to stop cold turkey, off of 3 mg a day. Today is day 2.

I have tried to help her with whatever I have on hand. So far 10mg Inderal, 200mg L-Theanine, and a strong cup of kava brew. The kava helped for awhile but upset her stomach too much.

Now, this person has NO tolerance to opiates, and does NOT use drugs recreationally. She has asked me to help her find anything to help her sleep etc. I can not seem to find any benzos in town right now. My friend just called and can get me 4mg Dilly's. Would it be safe to give someone going through benzo withdrawal like 1-2mg of dilaudid, oral of course, just to help with pains and such. Do opiates lower or higher seizure threshold? (Main concern)

Also, how long does the severe effects of xanax withdrawal usually last? 3-4 days?

doesn't seem like a great idea to give her opiates, seems like a really good way to get her to transfer her addiction instead of actually end it

I'm not worried about that. She has taken percs/demerol etc. after surgery, she is not a drug addict. I am looking for something to help her get through a couple days of pain from benzo withdrawal. She has no access to any opiates, nor will have any at all. I am talking about small amounts of opiates to help ease benzo withdrawal.

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1) try to convince her to wean off.

2) take her to a doctor

3) yes, opiates lower seizure threashold

4) why would that be dangerous?

Because the main worry with benzo withdrawal is seizure. If opiates lower your seizure threshold, that might make taking opiates while withdrawing from benzos dangerous. Do you have any sources that say opiates do that, by the way?

Was she given a script for these Benzos? If so and (for some reason) she has had it taken away it'd be fairly easy for her to get a doc to prescribe here something like lunesta to help here sleep off the wd symptoms. If they were prescribed what kind of idiot doc would just yank her script all at once?

About a month for the really severe effects, many months for the symptoms to slowly ease. Since she's been on them for years, it isn't going to be quick.

Don't give her any weed, as the anxiety makes benzo withdrawal a lot worse.

1-2mg of hydromorphone taken orally is really quite a small dosage man. Hydromorphone is really only the uber-potent super heroin superceding drug that it's made out to be in the minds of kids who haven't taken it. Oral dosages for someone with no tolerance begin are recommended to be begun at 2-4mg every 4-6 hours, but in reality most people take upwards of 6mg's with no tolerance. The opiates will help her withdrawal yeah, but no matter what you do she's still going to feel like fucking arse man. Give her 4mg and see how she goes, if nothing else it'll calm her down a bit.

I have to question though, what sort of fucking doctor puts a patient through a cold turkey withdrawal? Dr's aren't stupid, they go to school and learn all about these drugs, what happened? If she's having full-on withdrawals she should go to the fucking dr's office now and fucking demand that he gives her something to help her whilst her body sorts itself out.

Booze would probably ease the symptoms better than opiates, as benzos and alcohol both work on the same GABA receptors in the brain. Give her a few shots of spirits and see how she's feeling. Then if it works, keep it going and wean her off the booze.