Seizures benzo withdrawal. lifes looking great

[sonicwhite]

Wulp, got my Tenncare. Which is Medicaid and now I'm going to see about a doctor soon.

 

[shatter eyes]

I had two i am told.. also from cold turkey benzo

Guess i was shaking it out...
I felt head brain ears very hot after and super tired body.

2 was caught by partner at time. Only changes were offing benzo

 

[Gamereign555]

Those short half-life/short acting benzo’s are dangerous. They pack quite a punch to panic.

I actually preferred clonazepam and diazepam. The effects last along time and it stays in the body for far longer.

I observed with me that I could skip taking them for two days but on the third day I had to take a dose.

I think this is because it is still technically in the body and therefore doing some therapeutic effect. While it may not feel like, it is preventing withdrawal sufficient enough to prevent seizure.

These drugs are very potent and valuable in the fight against anxiety and panic for us. And in some cases they are the only ones that work.

Taking benzodiazepines properly will ensure that doctors allow us to keep taking them.

The smallest dose possible for therapy to be effective should be the amount taken and no more. Ever.

Problems with alprazolam and lorazepam are the intense and often unpredictable rebound effect which is the terrible anxiety felt right before you feel it is time for the next dose.

This makes you want to take more and if you do before you are supposed what happens is a large amount of builds up in the body and then leaves the body quickly, increasing the anxiety felt by the next rebound effect for the following dose and so on and so on and so on until you are out of medication prematurely.

Doctors won’t prescribe them again and again if you eat them like candy. So we must learn how to manage our prescriptions in a safe manner.

The advantage of diazepam and clonazepam are that this effect is spread out over a longer period of time and the rebound effect, provided the drug is not being abused and taken more often the needed just for a high, is greatly lessened or nonexistent.

You need only remember that the drug must be taken at some point before it’s half-life expires.

It is important to note that all benzodiazepines that I have taken with the exception of Temazepam, Has rebound anxiety that will occur well before the drug actually needs to be taken. This is not at all when it must be taken. It is just the minds way of telling us “we need more “but we mustn’t listen to that voice.

It is easier to resist the slower acting longer half-life benzodiazepines. This is good because it will keep our toxicity low which means the likelihood and severity of a seizure is less if we can’t take our medication before it has a chance to completely leave the body. Not only that but we have longer between doses before risk of seizure.

There are two things going on:

1. Rebound anxiety always feels worse than the actual anxiety that you feel and always seems to occur before your soonest suggested next dose, this is normal, you just have to wait and not take it early!

If you double your dose for whatever reason, then feel the rebound effect, and then take your normal dose, your next rebound effect will occur much sooner than expected this is because a larger amount of the drug has left your body and the amount you took does not keep up with that level! This could cause you to have a panic attack and end up taking more of the drug right away! If you do this you were already in trouble, so don’t do it! It’s through this vicious cycle that most people who take Xanax or Ativan and run quickly of their meds!

2. Withdrawl anxiety has a different feeling to it then the rebound anxiety or your normal anxiety. This is the number one sign that the half-life to your medication has run out and is no longer in your body, you are at risk of seizure now! Most people I have talked to experience hot flashes and other symptoms along side the anxiety and it might be hard to distinguish In panic mode.

I observed all of this in my attempts to take myself off of the medication. I never had a single seizure and I was taking myself off of clonazepam. I did not have the money to spend months weaning myself off and by understanding how the drug works I was able to save a lot of time without putting my body in jeopardy. Also I got absolutely no help from doctors setting up a step down schedule for me.

Somewhere on this site possibly buried by now is a breakdown of how you can get yourself off of benzodiazepines using diazepam in a very safe way and over varying lengths of time of your choosing.

I am not a professional.

If you can find that guide on this site you should refer to it if you have to.

Of course see if your doctor can help with stepping down off these drugs first.