Hello. I quit Xanax cold turkey one month ago after 14 years of usage. I took anywhere from 3 mg a day for years to just 1mg daily the last 7 years. I decided to quit because one day driving to work I realised I forgot to take the Xanax. I was feeling just fine until it dawn on me I had forgotten to take it and immediately your mind starts freaking out. This really angered me and so I decided enough was enough. I was tired of Xanax dictating my life and wanted to quit for good. One thing I must convey is that too many Xanax users have too much respect for the drug and this is why it is hard for them to quit. You must shift your mind set into respecting the power of ones mind over the drug. The first few days after quitting I experience an over all "flushed" feeling where as I just felt totatlly useless. Brain fog, depression, muscle spasms, agitation and insomia all appear. For three weeks these symptoms shift back and forth and you start to worry you will never be sane again. After three week, I started coming out of the hole and things really started looking good. Its been one month now and my mind is clearer than it has been in 15 years. I am much happier and have absolutely no problem associating with peers and being pro active. Having said this, I am how ever still experiencing severe upper leg ( thigh ) muscle spasms. They are unrelenting and have been active for days with out letting up. Cant sleep because of this and really driving me nuts,

Sometimes the rebound effect is worse than the initial symptoms you experienced or it can make other symptoms you have had so much worse than ever before. I truly believe it's the body trying to seduce you back into popping that little white magic fix. Cold turkey is not always the safest approach and definitely not the easiest so well done on your perseverance. I cold turkeyed it 2 years ago and had 2 grand-mal seizures, won't ever do that again...

I do want to agree that for most people, quitting a strong drug like Xanax "cold turkey" can actually be very dangerous! and one should always try to taper off a medication like this under the care of a physician

sometimes I wonder if I am a freak. I stopped close to 200 milligrams of oxycodone cold turkey with no effect. Never got a high off it. Like I said I stopped 6 milligrams of xanax per day with no effects. Stop lyrica with no effects etc. From what I have read I sincerely don't recommend it I guess my body is just a fluke.

I hope you have at least told someone close to you what you have done (quitting cold turkey). If you have an adverse reaction later on this could be critical information for the doctor or whomever is treating you at that point. I'm sure the course of treatment would have a lot to do with the reason for the adverse reaction.

Wow, Mark. I wonder how this could happen
to you since you have posted several
Times that you went into opiate withdrawal
Severely when given Suboxone by your doctor
Which is very like stopping cold turkey.

Your Oxy dose was very high to have no
Withdrawal with a sudden discontinuance.

Drugs that sit on neurotransmitter receptors
Whether controlled substances or antidepressants
or gabapentin etc. need tapering so the nerves
can adjust to pre-drug conditions.

Readers here should always discontinue with
Medical supervision, and never on their own.

it is very hard to understand precipitated withdrawal. I understand that. But please read about suboxone and subutex before understanding it. Oxycodone can not be taken with subutex subutex cannot be taken within 12 hours of oxycodone. That is a totally different story and unrelated to regular withdrawals.please read about it before discussing it the doctor gave them both to me to take at the same time by mistake for pain. He was an idiot. I kind of wish I never brought it up at it is it is very difficult for the average Lay person to understand I am finding out

I wonder if this is the main thing OP was concerned about?