Medications carefully and safely let go
You got them for a good reason – for pain treatment, for insomnia, for the bad moment. She helped. Today, you swallow them without thinking — and without them, you can’t.
What has quietly shifted.
sleep aids are often the first - against lying awake at three in the morning, which you can not afford. Tranquilizers follow if the tension no longer subsides during the day. Pain medications may have been prescribed after surgery — and have stayed because they also dampen something else: the inside, which has become heavy.
The effect decreases, the dose increases. They switch between doctors so that no one notices how much overall. They plan to travel with a view to supplies. You feel a moment of displeasure at the morning mirror gaze over what you have made a support—and then take the next one because the day is waiting.
This is not a test. Anyone who recognizes several sentences knows the problem more precisely than any outsider. What is missing is a safe space where letting go becomes possible gently, medically and without drama.
Typical Questions and Observations
These indications are not self-diagnosis. They help to arrange the personal concern for a specialist discussion.
- You have been taking medications for years that were originally thought to be short-term.
- You feel that the effect wears off - and increase the dose silently high.
- You get prescriptions from several doctors so no one sees the whole picture.
- A day without tablet is hard to imagine today.
- You know it's too much - but discontinuation is unthinkable, because then the sleep is gone, the pain there, the tension back.
- You have tried it before. It was bad. They have declined.
Why it does not go alone.
sleep aids, sedatives and strong painkillers — especially benzodiazepines and opioids — are not easy to discontinue. The body has become accustomed to the chemical support, and abrupt cessation can be from excruciating to dangerous: insomnia, anxiety, tremors, in rare cases seizures. That’s why people don’t let go for years even though they want to.
With the right medical accompaniment, it looks very different: a gentle, slow dose reduction, tailored to you, with medical monitoring, with complementary procedures that support sleep, rest and pain in other ways. Thus, an impossible project becomes a feasible one.
At re:NOW this happens in a refuge where you do not have to show anything. Who you are, no one knows outside this house. You disappear for a stay — and come back with something you haven’t had in a long time: clarity without a pill.
Accompanied, dosed, discreet.
At re:NOW, an internist-specialist team and a psychotherapist with many years of experience in the safe reduction of such substances work hand in hand. We take physical consequences seriously—sleep, pain, vegetatives—and at the same time work on what has needed support in life.
In a place where silence has been at home for nine hundred years: the Kloster Beuerberg on Lake Starnberg.
Good to
know.
How safe is discontinuation for benzodiazepines or opioids?
With medical assistance very safe. We reduce slowly, in small steps, with medical monitoring. This avoids the unpleasant and in individual cases dangerous consequences that abrupt cessation can have.
How long do I need?
That depends on what and how long you have taken. Some stays start with a first reduction phase of 12 days, others build up longer. We discuss this in the personal consultation honestly and realistically.
What if the sleep gets bad again afterwards?
sleep is one of our core themes. At re:NOW, we combine polysomnography, hormone balance, breathing techniques, daylight management, micronutrients and psychotherapeutic work so you can sleep again without a tablet. It takes patience, but it does.
Does my family doctor know about it?
No, unless you want it. We are a private institution. What you entrust to us remains between us. If you want to involve your family doctor, we will help. If not, no one will know.