Posted by cecilia on March 9, 2006, at 17:11:48
In reply to sub-therapeutic doses » cecilia, posted by Squiggles on March 9, 2006, at 6:31:18
Valium has a long half-life, but from my understanding has an initial "kick in" effect, which clonazepam for most people does not have, and which makes Valium more tempting for abusers than clonazepam. I've never abused drugs, and I've been thinking that, since no antidepressant has ever worked for me, I should give up hoping that my depression will ever be "cured" and try to focus on the one symptom that meds do have some effect for, anxiety. I really think my chronic depression is secondary to lifelong biological anxiety anyway, but I don't know whether my pdoc would be willing to let me try trials of different benzos and see if anything works better than clonazepam. He's actually pretty liberal in this regard, in addition to the clonazepam he prescribes small doses of Xanax prn, and temazepam and ambien for sleep. I had to laugh, I've been weaning off Marplan for surgery and because it didn't work, and when I went to my primary care doc for my pre- op exam she said that, even though I was almost off the Marplan, maybe it was having an effect because I seemed less anxious than on previous exams. Needless, to say, it wasn't the Marplan, I told her I'd taken a Xanax before the exam and she looked a little disappointed to see her theory blown. She's not a great believer in benzos, thank goodness for my pdoc. Re anxiety and depression, sometime I think I use anxiety to defend against depression and depression to defend against anxiety-I wonder if anyone else can relate to this. Cecilia
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