Dreambirdie
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I don't want you to think, Dreambirdie, that I'm a pill pusher.
Wasn't that you I saw on the corner today... with that little baggie of stash?
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I don't want you to think, Dreambirdie, that I'm a pill pusher.
I don't blame you with this horrible history. I think we are so different from each other and how we react to medications.
For example a few years ago, I started Xyrem for sleep. I believe many patients take it and are fine.
It worked well for the first 5 nights. On the sixth night I had a psychotic episode here I was in an altered state of being that lasted 3 days. It was the scariest think that ever happened to me. i had to be rushed to the doctor who had to give me meds to bring me back.
I can't tolerate any antidepressants either. I become suicidal when I take them. Yet, Klonopin so far has worked for me even though I wish I didn't need it.
I don't want you to think, Dreambirdie, that I'm a pill pusher.
I don't blame you with this horrible history. I think we are so different from each other and how we react to medications.
For example a few years ago, I started Xyrem for sleep. I believe many patients take it and are fine.
It worked well for the first 5 nights. On the sixth night I had a psychotic episode here I was in an altered state of being that lasted 3 days. It was the scariest think that ever happened to me. i had to be rushed to the doctor who had to give me meds to bring me back.
I can't tolerate any antidepressants either. I become suicidal when I take them. Yet, Klonopin so far has worked for me even though I wish I didn't need it.
I don't want you to think, Dreambirdie, that I'm a pill pusher.
Nielk, OMG, I had almost the same reaction to "X"! I thought I was the only one! It, too, was the scariest thing that ever happened to me! I was only on it for a week but for about 3-4 days after the last dose I still felt like a completely different person- a lunatic to be frank. And the first dose of "X" never put me to sleep at all so I just laid there hallucinating and crying and feeling like I had to vomit the whole time. I stuck it out because I went through so much just to be able to try the medication and feel deep down that my sleep disorder is preventing me from healing and I thought "X" was the wonder drug that would heal me. When I told this to the sleep doctor they would not for a minute admit that "X" could have caused this (UhHumm, I read the long printout of all the side effects, they obviously did not) and more or less pushed me out the door and out of their practice.
Jenbooks -
I know it's because I didn't properly titrate off - I didn't expect the severe w/d and didn't even know about titration until about day 4 - but it wouldn't have mattered.
My dr. decided I needed to get off of it, and in his opinion it should take no more than 4 weeks max for me to wean slowly off my small dose. At that point that's what I did - but when I was out of my Rx, I was left to w/d off of the majorty of the dose cold turkey.
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Hi themoonisblue,
I also thought I was the only one! As a matter of fact my doctor had to call the pharmaceutical company to report what happened to me. I had to fill out papers for them and had a phone interview with them. I thought that now they would have to include it on their list of possible adverse effects. I'm sorry you also had to go through this. At the time, I thought they would have to lock me away because I felt insane!
Me too! I was like totally nuts!I never felt like that before in my life. I don't know, maybe "X" reacts in some weird way in certain people with their brain chemistry and perhaps hormones. There are probably a lot of people out there who have had terrible reactions to it. When I finally read the complete, long printout that came with "X" it was quite scary the side effects that had been reported in clinical trial. No one told me! But I am glad that when it does work, it seems to be lifechanging for some people.
It is very bizarre though that a medication could leave a person in an altered mind-state for 4+ days after stopping it-when the med is supposed to leave your body in 2-4 hours?
August59, It also gave me next day anxiety as well, which I didn't have before! Actually anxiety for like 4 days after I stopped it.
I am still waiting for a new miracle sleep medication! Hurry up chemists! I'll sign up for your clinical trial!
I'm very close to nailing a certain pattern of vary strong responses to various supplements (mb12, adb12, methylfolate, l-carnitine fumarate, etc) and has "tolerance withdrawal" as it is often called with benzos or at least intolerable side effects. Anxiety is oftenh present as a symptom. This appears to include many posting here on this page. There is a reasoanbly complex biochemical reason for this kind of reaction to benzos along with finding startup on some supplements to be intolerable. I believe I have identified it. I need your help with some more information to nail down the pattern. Thankyou.
http://forums.phoenixrising.me/show...M-TINY-DOSES-answers-near&p=258554#post258554
Hi Fredd. Im fine with most benzos eg Klonopin I had no issues coming off of when I wanted to.. Im currently on Temazapam and have no issues with it ...
but did get quite a start up reaction when I took Hydroxocobalmin B12 injections. Fortunately people had warned me before I started that there is sometimes start up reactions so I ignored the reaction I had and keep taking it (I would of stopped it otherwise).
The way my body reacted to the first B12 injection was, I broke out with big facial sores which ended up weeping (note I do have MCS but this isnt one of my MCS kind of reactions. I cant tollerate SSRI or SNRI drugs).. With B12 start up, my face looked like someone on crystal meth. (thou Im not even a person who gets pimples).
For anyone who dont know what crystal meth addicts look like so doesnt understand what I looked like from first B12 injection.. check these drug addicts before and after pics out http://www.thegooddrugsguide.com/ga...wful-consequences-of-abusing-crystal-meth.htm (see that big sore on that guys cheek, I had sores like that all over my face which lasted first couple of weeks)
I put the whole early B12 experience down to it possibly making some kind of build up toxin clear out from my skin. (I think the second injection of it gave me more of those spots but not as many as the first one did., I had noticable improvement in my brain fog by about the 4th injection (It may of been the 5th)