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Re: Social Anxiety in OZ (Damn Benzophobes) » Alan

Posted by Squiggles on December 5, 2002, at 11:43:42

In reply to Re: Social Anxiety in OZ (Damn Benzophobes) » Squiggles, posted by Alan on December 5, 2002, at 11:07:58

Alan,

To do the issue justice, i could go back
to my notes and posts at "Benzoland" and
retrieve all the research I have done, as
well as the debated in The House of Lords
and the voluminous evidence Charles Medawar
and others have collected. There are books,
articles, doctors's testimonials, patients'
testimonials -- there is enough evidence
for the huge civil lawsuit that was started
in England some years ago, but dropped for
lack of funds.

Please don't make me go through it again - you
can look for yourself.

At the end of the day, I do believe that no
matter what contrary evidence i prsented (for
example it is 25 years that the benzos have
been used, the practice of giving them on
a daily basis for anxiety is presently being
dropped, the realization by the Brits and the
Canadians at least, that rage accidents, pilot
mistakes, domestic violence, car accidents,
rebound panic attacks, psychotic episodes, insomnia,
elderly falls and breaks of bones, etc.
can all result from habituation to these
drugs and do.

When I got off the Xanax (which gave me years of
panic attacks) my doctor congratulated me. Why?
Because it is almost impossible to get off.
Also, your assertion that this habituation could
be managed and that i needed the drugs in the first
place is wrong on two counts: One, the anxiety
may have been percipiated by something else, e.g.
hyperthyroidism (in my case), and secondly, you
are proposing indirectly that someone started on
Xanax at the age of 16, should continue to take
them forever -- that would require the accumulation
of the dose. My own doctor, did not want to raise
the dose after it got high in his opinion. Why?
Because a high dose of benzos lead to a high
and more intense accumulation of side effects, not
to mention the interaction with other drugs. Case
in point, I had dyspnea at the higher levels of
benzos before I lowered them.

As for the Rivotril, I am not so sure that I have
epilepsy just because i am bipolar. I think that
was a vogue 20 years ago to diagnose bipolars as
being a species of epileptics and therefore add
an anti-convulsant. I felt perfectly OK when i
was given Rivotril with just the lithium. I did not
know why i was given it. But i know, and my
doctor knows that after 15 years i cannot get off
with a seizure or a stroke or both.

And one last point: these are not individual
guidelines that i have been treated under - these
are the medical and pharmacological state of the
art that has been practiced on everyone with
bipolar disorder or affective and anxiety disorders
in the past 25 years.

But, as you said, or should I say, complained,
they are presently being changed on account
of the horrendous addiction and withdrawal
phenomena now cited in the medical literature
and legal records.

As for WHO -- if any report i have read is
general - it is that one. But, as i said
the truth will out, especially if it is the
administrators, the doctors, and the health
professionals who take these drugs. There is
nothing like experience to provide conviction
in a theory of this type.

Squiggles


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