Posted by Zandy on September 18, 2010, at 15:15:23
In reply to Re: Silenor came in, tried it, dissapointed! » Zandy, posted by Maxime on September 16, 2010, at 19:40:32
I went back to using Bonine, a antihistamine that you can pick up at most grocery or drug stores. Both the Bonine and the Silenor give you next day drowsiness, but the bonine is safer, plus the Silenor made me tearful.
I wish that I had never step foot into a pain clinic. First they inject me with steroids that shut down my HPA axis and put me into adrenal crisis, then they got me addicted to Oxycodone (which thankfully I got myself off of through much trepedation), and along the way they kept increasing my Ativan to help with nausea and muscle pains which it turns out were caused by the Oxycodone.
Now I have to do a slow switch over from Ativan to Valium which will take 8 weeks, then once I am on Valium only I will wean down 1 mg every two weeks over a 60 week period. That is a total of 68 weeks.
I have tried to go faster but always end up vomiting, get muscle pain/twitching, and my anxiety goes through the roof.
It is going to be a long road, especially with the insomnia, but in the end I know it will be worth it.
If any of you are going through benzo withdrawal I encourage you to go to the following link. A guy named "John G" wrote a very inspiring story about his withdrawal from benzos. The web address is:
http://www.benzodetoxrecovery.com/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=829
I found out from John G and other posters that benzos can also cause urinary incontinence. I was wondering why I had this problem at such a young age.
I also have the common symptom of weak/heavy feeling legs John G describes, all these things that went away once he was off benzos.
So every time I get discouraged, I read his post and realize things will get better, I just have a tough battle to make it through.
Thanks to all!
poster:Zandy
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