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withdrawn when the prescription ran out and presented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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