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Taking Chlordiazepoxide For Anxiety And Tension. Addicted To The Medicine. Cure For Addiction?

Respected sir,
Since last four years I am taking a treatment of Chlordiazepoxide for Anxiety and Tension headache. Now I am addicted of this drug when ever I tried to stop this drug I get Angiety, stress, & tension headache feel weakness in body. To stop this addiction I started Escitalopram Oxalate & Clonazepam 5 mg & 0.5mg. I want to stop all these medicines but couldn't stop.
My age is 45 years. I am diabetic patient taking a glimepride 1mg BD sugar level is a normal. BP is normal. Please give me a proper treatment.
Thanks,
Pastor Tarachand Chakranarayan

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Pastor Tarachand Chakranarayan
C.N. Heights [Phase-1], Gulmohar Road,
Ahmednagar 0000
M.S. India.
Thu, 16 May 2013
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Hello,
It is really a big problem coming out of such types of long standing addictions.
But if you act smartly and intelligently,you can come out of it.
You can achieve this very slowly.
Start using only 3/4 th of your escitalopram and take full clonazepam.
Use it for 4 to 6 weeks and once your body gets stabilised on this dose,you again bring down the quantity by half.
Again use it for 6 weeks and then again bring it down to 1/4 th.
This way you can get rid of escitalopram in next 6 months.
After this you can repeat the same schedule with CLONAZEPAM.
I tell you,you can do it.
I have done it several times in my practice and have always succeeded.
Thanks
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Taking Chlordiazepoxide For Anxiety And Tension. Addicted To The Medicine. Cure For Addiction?

Hello, It is really a big problem coming out of such types of long standing addictions. But if you act smartly and intelligently,you can come out of it. You can achieve this very slowly. Start using only 3/4 th of your escitalopram and take full clonazepam. Use it for 4 to 6 weeks and once your body gets stabilised on this dose,you again bring down the quantity by half. Again use it for 6 weeks and then again bring it down to 1/4 th. This way you can get rid of escitalopram in next 6 months. After this you can repeat the same schedule with CLONAZEPAM. I tell you,you can do it. I have done it several times in my practice and have always succeeded. Thanks