u/Antique_Honey_361

Hi everyone, I’m looking for some guidance and local recommendations.

I’m in the Rock Hill / Charlotte area and dealing with a couple of broken teeth (amongst other dental work needed) that are making it hard to eat comfortably. I don’t have dental insurance and I’m on a very limited income right now.

I’ve already scheduled an appointment with Affinity Health Center, but it’s a few weeks out. I’m trying to find something more immediate or affordable for urgent care in the meantime (like emergency extractions or basic treatment).

If anyone has been in a similar situation or knows dentists/clinics that are honest about pricing, offer payment plans, sliding scale, or helped you get urgent care without insurance, I would really appreciate any suggestions.

Thanks in advance, even personal experiences would help a lot. 

I’m around ~60 hours into stopping and just wanted to share my experience in case it helps someone else going through something similar.

For background, I had been using for about 6 months and tapered down over the last few weeks of April from around 200mg to 14mg before stopping. I also set up care through QuickMD during the process and honestly had a really good experience, the doctor was super understanding, non-judgmental, and just very kind about everything. That alone made a big difference in how supported I felt going into this.

The first couple days were still rough. Mainly physical anxiety, hot flashes, GI issues, and those waves of “doom” feeling. Sleep was off too.

This time has been noticeably more manageable compared to when I’ve tried stopping CT in the past. I’ve had access to comfort meds, mainly Gabapentin, which has helped take the edge off a lot of the physical stuff.

Even with that, I still had symptoms, mostly GI issues, temperature swings, and anxiety waves, but overall it’s felt more manageable than doing it without any support.

Right now at around 60 hours, things feel like they’re starting to level out. The anxiety and physical symptoms have mostly settled, and what’s left is mainly some lingering gut discomfort.

It definitely feels like I’m starting to turn a corner compared to the first couple days, not 100% yet, but more stable and with more moments of normalcy coming through.

Just sharing in case it helps someone else, it’s been up and down, but things do seem to shift more than it feels like they will in the middle of it.

If you’re going through something similar, you absolutely got this, I promise 💕

I got prescribed clonidine and gabapentin through QuickMD for withdrawal management. I’ve been taking 14 mg of 7, every day, for the past few weeks, but have been tapering from 60-90 mg since December. I take one tablet in the morning and that’s it. My last dose was around 7am. I’m stuck in the anxiety, doom loop state and was wondering if these meds will help and I’d like to know what I should realistically expect. I haven’t slept well in about 48 hours, should I just take 7OH for the next couple of days to try to let my nervous system catch up and then go completely off? Idk.

I’m kind of struggling right now and just need to hear from people who’ve dealt with this before.

I’ve been taking around 14 mg of 7OH once in the morning and I’ve been trying to taper off, but lately the anxiety has been getting really intense. I keep getting these waves of dread and fear that come out of nowhere. It feels like something is wrong even when nothing is happening. I get hot flashes, restlessness, and this really uncomfortable on edge feeling that doesn’t fully go away.

It’s starting to mess with my head a lot and I’m having a hard time figuring out what’s withdrawal, what’s normal anxiety, and what’s just stress from everything else going on in my life right now.

I was originally planning to drop down to around 12 mg, then 7 mg, and then stop completely, but now I’m worried that might be too fast and make everything worse.

I also have access to a prescribed low-dose benzodiazepine .5 mg Klonopin, but I’m not currently taking it and I’m unsure how people typically handle anxiety during a taper like this or whether that is something that helps in situations like this.

Right now I just feel overwhelmed and unsure what the safest path forward is. I don’t want to keep feeling like this, but I also don’t want to make it worse by tapering too fast or handling it the wrong way.

If anyone has gone through 7OH withdrawal, I would really appreciate hearing what helped you, especially around the anxiety and dread waves and how you got through them.