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Re: Benzodiazapines and drug life cycles » Alan

Posted by Squiggles on November 7, 2002, at 19:32:41

In reply to Re: Benzodiazapines and drug life cycles » Squiggles, posted by Alan on November 7, 2002, at 18:16:54

Sorry, regarding "get real", what I meant was
that one cannot expect perfection because there
are many demands on the medical resources in the
world.

I will step lightly here as my memory may be wrong,
but I believe that the Xanax was prescribed POST
the Synthroid, which in view of the present reduction
(from 0.155 to 0.112) may have caused panic. I am
well aware of the effects of too much thyroxine,
as i had a severe reaction (palpitation, sweats,
1 hr. sleep per night, horrible anxiety, etc. etc.)
when they were trying to adjust me and gave me 0.175
after a year of taking none at all; if you are
a med person you can imagine the effect of that.

However, anxiety ALSO appeared with panic for many
years inter-dose Xanax dosing, which means that i
was getting tolerance. Part of the problem was that
for about 7 years I was on a tiny dose 0.50 and then
maybe at max 1.0 and later when things got rough
i sneaked to 1.5 or 2.0 occasionally.

When I complained about panic (often) the cause
was not known. As i said they wanted to give me
Celexa, but I insisted that I had to get off
XANAX, and that
I had to get the Synthroid lowered too. Both
worked - both were responsible. I have a feeling
that the whole picture was murky and it is easy
to understand how polypharmacy like this can
make things difficult to unravel.

The Rivortril on the other hand was truly a nightmare,
and I believe i should have been taken off with
Valium or carbanezam [sp?] - as i had a seizure.

What makes me think I would be better off without
drugs? The fact that I had never shown any signs
of manic depression, and that I became very ill
with strange and unusual symptoms for me (including
panic attacks) in the duration of taking Valium;
At the time I took Valium for exam jitters, I was
not being watched; I hypothesize that I may have
withdrawn when the prescription ran out and presented
with severe psychiatric symptoms. I was quite
sick (depressed, hypersexual, anxious, constipated,
disoriented, etc.).

I had a breakdown (very strange) -- it felt like
i was regressing, crying and not sleeping for a week.
That's when they gave me something to sleep, and then
prescribed lithium--which worked. But it could have
worked on Valium withdrawal.

That's my reasoning. If I am wrong, either way
I am lucky as lithium is a very good drug. BTW
I have asked what the effect is on normals, in case
there has been a misdiagnosis; interesting that
it does not change people that much--just mellows
out anyone's mood.

Squiggles


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