Zoe, congratulations on how far you've come!!!
TM and LadyNancy are absolutely right ... slow down your weaning pace, for as long as necessary to get a sense of stability ... I went cold turkey (no choice, long story), and did it the "quick" way ... quick in terms of getting off the drug itself, but the recovery from the "quick" has been -- is -- very long ...
As for the anxiety, you most surely are not alone ... I believe that it's one of the possible long-term "artifacts" of crapalta ... especially for those of us who are older, and the ones of us who quit cold turkey or dosed down too fast ...
I'd had anxiety/panic before, most definitely ... but the crapalta withdrawal stuff is of a completely different kind / quality ... my description, which I think I stole from Gail, is "worms in the stomach" ...
The important thing, at least for me, has been to practice "not panicking about the panic" ... try to avoid "anticipatory anxiety" ... and, to come here to talk about it, and read what others have written. You are not alone, in any part of this process ...
"home remedies" -- a heating pad placed over your stomach / solar plexus area (very soothing), self-acupressure of the solar plexus area, and holding a pillow against your chest when you sleep ...
CBT is very helpful for some of us ... others, including myself, use yoga, especially the breathing exercises ...
be sure to take your supplements -- B complex, good multi-vitamin, and Omega 3 (eek, 6? brain fart here).... but, be careful if you take magnesium (it needs to be the chelated kind, and most importantly, it causes anxiety in some people....TFL discovered that!)
In terms of meds, there are other alternatives than benzos to deal with anxiety ... FH knows about hydroxyzine (sp?), and I use clonidine ... it's a bp med that also works on adrenaline ... stops the adrenaline "loop" that gets going with anxiety, a totally different way of working than benzos ... neither the hydroxyzine nor the clonidine are addictive ...
Hang in there!