NeuroDr
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- Aug 20, 2008
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So I’ve struggled with anxiety my whole life and I really just kind of push through it. The past few years somewhat regular low dose use of ketamine has been very helpful. I’m a therapist and have done lots of work in understanding the roots of it and utilize any skills I can in trying to mitigate effects outside of drugs. I don’t like SSRIs and don’t want to go on those but have been feeling exasperated enough lately to begin the process of scheduling an appointment with my doctor and letting them know my whole history and my understanding of benzos and what I want and why.
I’ve also had great success years ago with etizolam when I used to have easy access to it, and may order again, but would like to have proper medical script for a legit benzo.
Meanwhile, I’ve had a stash of flubromazepam for at least 5 years that I’ve never touched out of anxiety for it’s well-known duration of action. But I decided to try some yesterday, about 6-8mg (given scale accuracy), and what a gem I’ve been sitting on! It’s been 21 hours since I took that dose and I could probably go down to 4mg because I do have a little more sedation and generally slow cognition than I’d like. But the anxiolytic properties were amazing! I could see this being a once a week kind of thing since I still definitely feel the effects. My work as a therapist at a free harm reduction outpatient clinic in a high crime/poverty neighborhood in a major U.S. city is high stress, high vicarious trauma, which definitely adds to my anxiety levels. And I think at a lower dose I can maintain energy to do my usual activities I enjoy outside work but take the edge of my GAD. Feeling very hopeful.
I’ve also had great success years ago with etizolam when I used to have easy access to it, and may order again, but would like to have proper medical script for a legit benzo.
Meanwhile, I’ve had a stash of flubromazepam for at least 5 years that I’ve never touched out of anxiety for it’s well-known duration of action. But I decided to try some yesterday, about 6-8mg (given scale accuracy), and what a gem I’ve been sitting on! It’s been 21 hours since I took that dose and I could probably go down to 4mg because I do have a little more sedation and generally slow cognition than I’d like. But the anxiolytic properties were amazing! I could see this being a once a week kind of thing since I still definitely feel the effects. My work as a therapist at a free harm reduction outpatient clinic in a high crime/poverty neighborhood in a major U.S. city is high stress, high vicarious trauma, which definitely adds to my anxiety levels. And I think at a lower dose I can maintain energy to do my usual activities I enjoy outside work but take the edge of my GAD. Feeling very hopeful.