Posted by cybercafe on March 16, 2003, at 16:40:26
In reply to Re: Gabitril ( any one like it?) » Ritch, posted by utopizen on March 14, 2003, at 20:15:12
> I had a textbook example of paranoia and psychosis, and possible anxiety, but in a psychotic way.
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> I had no orientation to time and place. My memory was 30 seconds, then I would forget what happened 30 seconds ago, throughout the night. I became paranoid I would be noticed as paranoid and locked up in a mental ward, so I told my college roommates not to trust me for the whole night on anything I told them and not let me leave the room until the next morning.
interesting... is that what is meant by the confusion part of psychosis? hmmm... and which symptoms come first (confusion, obsessive thinking, paranoia, delusions, hallucinations, ??) ...my doc tells me i could get psychosis from ritalin so i'm wondering if there are any warning signs
like is psychosis a gradual or sudden thing?
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> Somehow, my doctor refuses to give me Klonopin. He gave me Gabitril to avoid Klonopin. He claims I might get seizures on withdrawl, but I told him an FDA insert for meprobamate says that's only likely if a person has a history of seizures. The insert also advises a barbitutate be used to avoid seizures during withdrawl, which he laughed at as being too extreme. Yet the FDA is VERY tight on what goes in those inserts, so I think he's got a serious paranoia if he thinks giving someone Phenobarbital for 2 weeks during benzo withdrawl is "extreme."yep i had about 7 doctors try to get me off benzos... then one finally found an alternative (gabapentin)... then i went to see one of the best docs in the city and he demanded i take klonopin... thought it was very foolish to take gabapentin.. :)
gabapentin did work for me until i started work, then i found 2400 mg gabapentin less effective than 1 mg clonazepam :(
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