I'VE BEEN TAKING ZOPILCONE FOR 15 YEARS.

I know how you feel.. I'm in the same boat

Sorry for your troubles. Sincerely. I am not yet addicted to them as i buy them off a street so im kinda like a binge drinker only a binge zoptaker instead. Lately tho i took nine and was disappointed to find i didnt really feel them coz unfortunately i love my zops but only take 28 over a two day period as and when i can get them which is usually about once a fortnight. Last night i took nine but i reiterate i didnt feel them and am about to pick 28 7.5 s up from the chemist. Do you think il feel four after not feeling the nine last nite and also how long does it take to become addicted to the zops as that worries me? Like i said so sorry for your problems.

In my opinion, your GP was in the wrong here and should not have issued you with this type of medication in the first place. There is far too much prescribing of pharmaceutical drugs these days that are not vital to health or life. It is obviously putting you through dreadful withdrawal problems, some of these drugs are worse than heroin which can be out of your system in a comparatively short time. Stick at it, I know it is not easy and may cost you sleepless nights but ultimately you will get through it. My own case was very different and can be read in some detail elsewhere on this thread. I wish you well.

This prob won't help too much. But you need to get all the support to cut down. 

My bf just recently passed away, now was taking up to 15-18 a day. He started needing them to clam during the day.

It was a battle. And later his central nervous systems wasn't doin well and he passed away from a medication reaction. 

Be carefully with it. And he was a sober guy too, no booze!! 

I know this posts been here for a long time but I really need help I don't see any light at the end of the tunnel and to be honest I'm so lost atm I've been on zopiclone for the last 9years had a lot of s**t from my childhood that I didn't deal with long story short as I'm sure you don't want to listen to me but my doctor has decided (not even my normal doctor a new one) that I shouldn't be on them anymore so I have to come off them have cut my pills to half the dose in my first month (that they was giving me. my partner also got them to help me sleep) so I'm now down to 3.75mg I haven't slept for 3 days n jus feel like ending it all I can't sleep can't eat can't concentrate im a failure at everything snappy n just feel totally lost and I've no one to turn to I really don't know who to go to or where to turn sorry to jus drone on just wondering if anyone knows correct weaning process I've seen the tablets online and I'm tempted to buy them n don't even care if there not right I've lost my partner because I jus cannot cope and he moans that I'm up all night etc I feel like I'm going to lose my son too :'(

Hello again everyone,

i just want to say that YOU CAN GET OFF THESE PILLS! It takes a long time to wean. IT took me over a year. DO NOT BUY THEM FROM THE INTERNET! Follow the Ashton manual. It will be the toughest battle of your life but YOU CAN DO IT.

There is light at the end of the tunnel. My life is a million miles from that desperate post four years ago. I'm clean of everything for years now. Life is so much better.

there is hope, keep on keeping on. IF I CAN DO IT SO CAN YOU!

Sending you all huge love and hope. 

It WILL be ok xxxxxxxx

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I have been on Zopiclone for 14 years.  Hooked completely.  After being on them for 2 years I started drinking alcohol too.  My addictions spiralled out of control.  I managed to give up alcohol, it wasn't plain sailing but not as bad as I thought.  I do suffer with anxiety, which is why I guess I get addicted to anything which will calm my mind from racing. I tried to switch to Ambien, at first I was successful, but started taking the Ambien in the day to calm me down, and went back to the Zopiclone at night for sleep.  Bamm, now I had two addictions.

I read all the horror stories about coming off Ambien, how I would have to taper, etc, I would get really frantic if my tablets had not arrived (bought off internet) and one day that was it, they never arrived, I'd been tapering and tapering and was down to my last two Ambien, although I still had plenty of Zopiclone.  My normal day would be 3 Ambien after waking, 3 Ambien in the afternoon and 3 early evening with 6 or 8 zopiclone to go to bed.  So I had two Ambien left, that was it.  I took them.  The following days were not as bad as I thought, maybe I was lucky.  I'd been taking the Ambien for two years, was expecting hell, but no, I kept telling my mind "I can do this I have no choice".  

So now I'm left with the Zopiclone!!  I am trying to taper this too.  I want to get my life back.  I want what everyone else has, freedom and not this ball and chain that I am tied to.  I am sure it doesn't do my anxiety any good, I would like to be able to just have some in the bathroom cabinet for "just in case" and not take them every night.  I have hope as I quit drinking, quit Ambien.  On another post where people are calling the withdrawals hell, one guy commented that he embraced his un-drugged mind and put it to use, writing, catching up on TV shows, reading, whatever you can manage to do.  It was the only positive thing that I read. I'm going to try to be positive and hope this works.  Insomnia sucks big time.

IVE BEEN TAKEN ZOPLICONE FOR TEN YEARS AND HAVE HAD NO SIDE EFECTS ,IVE TRIED NOT TAKEN THEM AND WALK AROUND LIKE A ZOMBIE AND JUST CANT FUNCTION DURING THE DAY ,IVE JUST HEARD THAT BUY TAKEN THEM OVER A LONG PERIOD OF TIME IT CAN SHORTEN YOUR LIFE DOSE ANYONE KNOW IF THIS IS TRUE.