Posted by Quintal on February 5, 2007, at 15:14:04
In reply to Re: Ashton Rocks!, posted by Squiggles on February 5, 2007, at 14:57:48
>Then there must have been another factor
influencing my need to raise the Xanax-- possibly
the Synthroid was too highThat could be true. I know myself how it can cause hellish anxiety to raise your thyroid hormone too high.
>This too is strange. I took clonazepam for
7-10 yrs with no need to raise it; then my dr.
raised by .50 totalling to 1.0mg and I was fine.
I could have stayed there indefinitely, except
for my ill-considered attempt to withdraw from
that given my success with Xanax. It was that
horrible attempt that led to the necessity for raising it even more just to stabilize.I felt no need to raise my dose above 4mg for over a year. I think I was actually seeking oblivion, just trying to forget, by raising the dose that high. It's wasn't really a therapeutic dose.
>I hope you feel better coming off.
Thank you. I do feel mentally sharper, though at the expense of being a little frail in the face of stress. I think I'll find a way around that with time. It's a shame my GP won't follow Heather Ashton's recommendations and give recovered addicts more time to heal emotionally after an abrupt withdrawal - she expected me to be ready for work two weeks after my last (20mg!)dose of clonazepam. I think that's the type of ignorance Heather was trying to address in her letter to Rosie Winterton and I'm very grateful to her for doing that.
Q
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