MakeItStop
Greenlighter
- Joined
- May 24, 2016
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So I have a very unique situation which is my own fault, but here goes.
I got on Sub years ago because it was either that or my parents were shipping me out to a boot camp rehab. Of course, any addict would do Sub. A couple years into Sub I talked my doc into giving me Xanax .5mg for the withdrawal that I was half assing in the first place. Long story short, I got dependent/addicted to both.
About 6-7 months ago I stopped taking Xanax .5mg once a day as I was just using it for sleep. Two weeks go by without any WD's (maybe sub masked them). Then out of nowhere I start getting DIZZY and have HEADACHES. To top that off, my sleep is terrible. I'm wanting to lay in bed all day and I have been since I work for myself and had money saved up.
2 months into being off Xanax with bad sleep, I decided to take it again just to see if my symptoms of bad sleep and fatigue/dizziness/headache would go away. Well it didn't, and now I literally have to take .5-1mg broken up into 1/4s throughout the night to get 5-7 hours of bad sleep.
I had a sleep study done and they said I have mild obstructive sleep apnea. Well I am in my 20's, excercise everyday, and have never had issues with sleep until this past year. I feel its the mix of Sub and Xanax, as well as potential damage of detoxing quickly off Xanax.
I want to come off both ASAP, but i've been off work for two months and need to get back into it. What the hell should I do?
Has anyone experienced poor sleep, fatigue, headache, and dizziness, from Xanax or Sub?
I got on Sub years ago because it was either that or my parents were shipping me out to a boot camp rehab. Of course, any addict would do Sub. A couple years into Sub I talked my doc into giving me Xanax .5mg for the withdrawal that I was half assing in the first place. Long story short, I got dependent/addicted to both.
About 6-7 months ago I stopped taking Xanax .5mg once a day as I was just using it for sleep. Two weeks go by without any WD's (maybe sub masked them). Then out of nowhere I start getting DIZZY and have HEADACHES. To top that off, my sleep is terrible. I'm wanting to lay in bed all day and I have been since I work for myself and had money saved up.
2 months into being off Xanax with bad sleep, I decided to take it again just to see if my symptoms of bad sleep and fatigue/dizziness/headache would go away. Well it didn't, and now I literally have to take .5-1mg broken up into 1/4s throughout the night to get 5-7 hours of bad sleep.
I had a sleep study done and they said I have mild obstructive sleep apnea. Well I am in my 20's, excercise everyday, and have never had issues with sleep until this past year. I feel its the mix of Sub and Xanax, as well as potential damage of detoxing quickly off Xanax.
I want to come off both ASAP, but i've been off work for two months and need to get back into it. What the hell should I do?
Has anyone experienced poor sleep, fatigue, headache, and dizziness, from Xanax or Sub?