03-31-2017, 12:51 PM
Hi MadHatter! 
I've been through tapers, countless cold turkeys, and seen many, many do the same.
You said you take approximately 4mgs of X throughout the day? Sometimes lower?
In the "tapering world" of benzos, or even should a person not tapering forget a dose, especially the benzos with a short half-life such as X has, even ONE mg is a HUGE drop, and MANY get more symptoms over that loss of 1mg than just the dream issues. Especially because you've been on that same dose for 7 years.
This has happened to me, a lot of friends of mine, and MANY people who are acquaintances of mine. Often with far, far more symptoms than the odd dreaming. A very common symptom of even a small drop in dose is depersonalization and derealization. And one mg of the shorter acting benzos is not as small as many people think. It's actually considered quite a large dose.
I hope you are doing well.
Abigail
I've been through tapers, countless cold turkeys, and seen many, many do the same.
You said you take approximately 4mgs of X throughout the day? Sometimes lower?
In the "tapering world" of benzos, or even should a person not tapering forget a dose, especially the benzos with a short half-life such as X has, even ONE mg is a HUGE drop, and MANY get more symptoms over that loss of 1mg than just the dream issues. Especially because you've been on that same dose for 7 years.
This has happened to me, a lot of friends of mine, and MANY people who are acquaintances of mine. Often with far, far more symptoms than the odd dreaming. A very common symptom of even a small drop in dose is depersonalization and derealization. And one mg of the shorter acting benzos is not as small as many people think. It's actually considered quite a large dose.
I hope you are doing well.
Abigail