Used to play ice hockey and went thru opiate withdrawal after an injury resulted in a prolonged hospital stay (this was just before the crackdown started). After going thru that I’m oddly fascinated by this nightmare. All the best and it doesssss get better y’all
Thank you for making your recovery video. I was on 2 mg of Klonopin a day for 12 years. Did a 3 month taper and now I am on day 510 post taper of my recovery. I have extreme exhaustion, wooziness\brain fog in the head, subpar sleep, extreme constipation that I take Linzess for, muscle tightness all over, and other symptoms. This has been the most grueling thing I have ever gone through. I hope your recovery is easier and quicker than mine
Hope you are doing better, just watched your video and i know too well what you went through,i am withdrawing cold turkey from a decade and half of hardcore benzo abuse it started as a perscribed medicine and you pretty much know the rest, please continue to get the word out about the nightmares of benzos
I know your struggles I pray for you. I’ve got pmdd and have to detox kolonopin and Lunesta. Did your hysterectomy work on your PMDD I keep asking my doctor if the hysterectomy will work and he says it will not work for me he tried to put me on birth control pills but I do not do well on medication now since I have been kindled
For some benzos stop working after a period of time for others it works forever. Bottom line if you must,need, or want to stop taking benzo's you have to taper very very slowly. Many MD's don't recognize this. Stopping cold turkey can kill you via a seizure, or even suicide because the withdrawl symptoms are brutal. A good doctor will be very cautious about prescribing benzo's.
Do you know if people stop high dose Xanax cold, can they be put back on to taper to reverse the damage? I'm scared to because I've tried lower does after months off but go into withdrawal next day! Doesn't make any sense!!
@@bigups8103 I believe that 100% because I didn't realize that anxiety meds had to be tapered down so after 5 months of use I stopped cold turkey... I was ok for four days and the fourth night is when withdrawals hit. A Walgreens pharmacist urged me to start taking my medication immediately and never do that again. He saved my life. Within three days I was starting to feel a lot better..
@@mamabear8879 really it was Walgreens that took me off of 22 years of 4-8mgs a day. I hated them for it because once the damage was done, and I almost died, my brain refused to accept me taking even small doses every once in a while. My doctor's were more than happy to keep giving them to me but they didn't work. After 6 months I stopped trying. Now I'm 18 months completely off them and I'm starting to heal. Just a warning I thought them keeping me on them because anxiety was bad was a good thing. Well it will only make it worse! I know you won't listen just like I didn't until I had no choice but get some therapy and try to water taper. Take Care
@@bigups8103 I had no idea a pharmacy could cut you off like that. That is crazy and horrific at the same time.. This is actually my second go round because last time, 2013-2014, after a year of withdrawals, I truly believed the massive amounts of antipsychotics and antidepressants they had me on were to blame and somehow I believed anxiety meds were safer. That is a dangerous way to think... Six years later here I am again. It is because I knew what was happening I had a slight bit of insight into what I needed to do, so when the pharmacist told me to take my meds I did. But I can agree and totally vouch that once withdrawal symptoms set in there is nothing you can do to make it better, it has to run its course. Mine was a little over a year this time. Idk how long this one will be. I am sorry they did you dirty like that, no pharmacist should ever think they can override a Dr
@@mamabear8879 they were right about mixing them with opiates being a dangerous combination but after filling them for 22 years it was even more dangerous than that! If it was going to kill me I think it would have happened years ago. But yeah they can refuse filling any prescription. I tried going to another pharmacy but nobody had the bars and after one day without I was too sick to get out to fight it! I think you're right about all the antidepressants and antipsychotics being hard to stop to. I was only on them for sleep after this but seen many people struggling getting off them! Stay Strong! Prayers up!!
Used to play ice hockey and went thru opiate withdrawal after an injury resulted in a prolonged hospital stay (this was just before the crackdown started). After going thru that I’m oddly fascinated by this nightmare. All the best and it doesssss get better y’all
Thank you for making your recovery video. I was on 2 mg of Klonopin a day for 12 years. Did a 3 month taper and now I am on day 510 post taper of my recovery. I have extreme exhaustion, wooziness\brain fog in the head, subpar sleep, extreme constipation that I take Linzess for, muscle tightness all over, and other symptoms. This has been the most grueling thing I have ever gone through. I hope your recovery is easier and quicker than mine
Ken Smith how are you now ?
Can we get an update
Hoping to hear you are doing better: 5 years later.....let us know. 🙏
RESPECT! 🙌🏻
Hope you are doing better, just watched your video and i know too well what you went through,i am withdrawing cold turkey from a decade and half of hardcore benzo abuse it started as a perscribed medicine and you pretty much know the rest, please continue to get the word out about the nightmares of benzos
I love your hair here. ❤️
I know your struggles I pray for you. I’ve got pmdd and have to detox kolonopin and Lunesta. Did your hysterectomy work on your PMDD I keep asking my doctor if the hysterectomy will work and he says it will not work for me he tried to put me on birth control pills but I do not do well on medication now since I have been kindled
For some benzos stop working after a period of time for others it works forever. Bottom line if you must,need, or want to stop taking benzo's you have to taper very very slowly. Many MD's don't recognize this. Stopping cold turkey can kill you via a seizure, or even suicide because the withdrawl symptoms are brutal. A good doctor will be very cautious about prescribing benzo's.
Do you know if people stop high dose Xanax cold, can they be put back on to taper to reverse the damage? I'm scared to because I've tried lower does after months off but go into withdrawal next day! Doesn't make any sense!!
@@bigups8103 I believe that 100% because I didn't realize that anxiety meds had to be tapered down so after 5 months of use I stopped cold turkey... I was ok for four days and the fourth night is when withdrawals hit. A Walgreens pharmacist urged me to start taking my medication immediately and never do that again. He saved my life. Within three days I was starting to feel a lot better..
@@mamabear8879 really it was Walgreens that took me off of 22 years of 4-8mgs a day. I hated them for it because once the damage was done, and I almost died, my brain refused to accept me taking even small doses every once in a while. My doctor's were more than happy to keep giving them to me but they didn't work. After 6 months I stopped trying. Now I'm 18 months completely off them and I'm starting to heal. Just a warning I thought them keeping me on them because anxiety was bad was a good thing. Well it will only make it worse! I know you won't listen just like I didn't until I had no choice but get some therapy and try to water taper.
Take Care
@@bigups8103 I had no idea a pharmacy could cut you off like that. That is crazy and horrific at the same time..
This is actually my second go round because last time, 2013-2014, after a year of withdrawals, I truly believed the massive amounts of antipsychotics and antidepressants they had me on were to blame and somehow I believed anxiety meds were safer. That is a dangerous way to think...
Six years later here I am again. It is because I knew what was happening I had a slight bit of insight into what I needed to do, so when the pharmacist told me to take my meds I did.
But I can agree and totally vouch that once withdrawal symptoms set in there is nothing you can do to make it better, it has to run its course. Mine was a little over a year this time. Idk how long this one will be.
I am sorry they did you dirty like that, no pharmacist should ever think they can override a Dr
@@mamabear8879 they were right about mixing them with opiates being a dangerous combination but after filling them for 22 years it was even more dangerous than that! If it was going to kill me I think it would have happened years ago. But yeah they can refuse filling any prescription. I tried going to another pharmacy but nobody had the bars and after one day without I was too sick to get out to fight it! I think you're right about all the antidepressants and antipsychotics being hard to stop to. I was only on them for sleep after this but seen many people struggling getting off them!
Stay Strong! Prayers up!!
I am guessing you are a nurse?
Go on to GABA, very effective! 🙏🇦🇺
If it effects the same area of your brain doesn't it prohibit healing? Do you find it helps and what about the blood brain barrier thing? Thanks!