Benzos Help! Afraid to follow my doctor's directions.

[CrackAndScrabble]

I get muscle tremors if i've been skipping my valium dose. I'd only worry about it if its very frequently or increases in intensity. I couldn't tell you how long it takes for them to go away though. I don't think its life threatening but only you can really be the judge of that.

 

[LOGan1314]

Mr. Hedges- wow, your first post was VERY uneducated....

And to the op it all depends how you feel. If you feel like physically it's fucking you up than just stop and explain it to your doctor.

 

[DistyBoi]

Sounds like maybe a form of RLS syndrome, typical of benzo withdrawal. Get an opinion from another doctor and keep some valium handy incase shaking gets very bad, there should not be any major interactions between ritalin and diazepam so I don't know why your doctor said that. But I'm no doctor, best bet is get multiple opinions.

 

[Miss Kirsty]

I think it very unprofessional of your DR to tell you to abruptly stop talking your vals. As others have said its dangerous to do this. You can DIE from benzo withdrawal. Is there any chance you can get another DR?..Saying that...You seem to be going ok at the moment. You have said you have more scripts or tabs stashed, so use these to wean...At least down to 2mg...
ZOLOFT...i was taking this for a month and hated it. I was not depressed but MY Dr was taking it himself and said it gave him lots of energy and made him happy????WTF???So he gave me a script...I took em for the month and never got my repeats refilled...No withdrawals from the Zoloft...Also, in Australia...NSW to be exact...I heard of Drs being paid incentives to prescribe certain pills....Zoloft being one...My Dr was a complete fuck up and is now unable to prescribe opiates or addictive drugs...And he was shipped to the back of Bourke!!!

Please dont jump from 10 mg Val to zip!! It really could be dangerous...Also, wont your Dr know if you use an old script and get a re-fill?..She would know you are not following her instructions...Shit as they are!!!...Hope this helps and good luck....

 

[EndlessSummer]

I wouldn't recommend ANYONE taking Zoloft or ANY SSRI's. They are the most worthless, greedy, class of drugs ever synthesized. They WILL NOT help your depression in the long run, they will only take your money and your mental stability. Look up documentaries on google about anti-depressants and the companies that make them. SSRI's are NO better at treating depression than a SUGAR PILL in their own scientific trials of the meds...and the cost???? Zoloft is like $200+ a month. Diazepam is like $20 a month, and a MUCH better anti-anxiety medication than ANY SSRI. Stick with the Valium and the Ritalin, if they work for you, but drop the Zoloft and anything else like this that they try and give you. They are just ROBBING you...

I call bullshit. They might not have worked for you, but they've helped many people including myself. At what cost? I don't know entirely, but they do work for a lot of people.

Not on any at the moment and my sex drive is cheering, but even now I imagine I'd be a lot more stable if I were on them. Sometimes waves of depression and hopelessness really suck.

 

[THC2LSD]

You might not get serious withdraws from that low of a dose of valium/temazepam, but some people have had seizures withdraws from an equivalent dose of xanax. Have some valium or benzo handy if it's unbearable. Also don't drive.

Shouldn't be a problem with the zoloft. It's probably the ritalin and the rebound effect of temazepam causing your anxiety in the first place.

You should talk to your doctor about xyrem(sodium oxybate or GHB). It should help with your insomnia and narcolepsy.

 

[Miss Kirsty]

I call bullshit. They might not have worked for you, but they've helped many people including myself. At what cost? I don't know entirely, but they do work for a lot of people.

Not on any at the moment and my sex drive is cheering, but even now I imagine I'd be a lot more stable if I were on them. Sometimes waves of depression and hopelessness really suck.

Exactly..People shouldnt generalise...We are all different..

 

[suessmayr]

I think it is both madness and negligence rolled into one awful combination to advise a patient to stop a benzo and an SSRI simultaneously. Zoloft, despite what people on here have said, is associated with SSRI withdrawal. Benzos are obviously much much more difficult to come off, and 10mg diazepam, while not an extravagant dose, is not a dose you jump off at cold turkey. Diazepam you get down to 1-2mg or even less before stopping.

Further, it is common to prescribe a benzo to a person coming off an SSRI to help keep them from spinning out. Your doctor is actually doing the complete opposite and taking away the dose you're already on.

If you're spinning out it's almost certainly because of the ritalin. Just cut that shit out, there are other things you can do for wakefulness.

 

[Titus]

Fortunately my pills are covererd by insurance. If you can get my presriber to script me a benzo that would be great. I can't get them to do this so need to get it myself if I want it. Dr's are programmed to not presribe benzo's to anyone with a history of addiction. I"m an ex-alcoholic so no dr wants to prescribe me a benzo.

 

[Titus]

Provigil/Modafonil is a great drug for staying awake. It has the benefits of coffee without the side effects (jitters, etc). It might be tough to get a dr to prescribe it as I think it's just approved for narcolepsy at this point and think it's still patent protected but this med can be obtained from overseas sources. It doesn't have any of the 'get high' effects that ritilin has (if you want to call what ritilin does getting you high). It's great to use for things like tournament poker as it will keep you alert without any stimulating properties like caffiene or ritilin.

 

[rollinballs85]

I have actually tried Nuvigil which is basically the same as provigil and had a very bad reaction to it. It got my way more "high" then ritalin ever has. In fact ritalin doesn't even get me high.. it barely just keeps me awake. That Nuvigil/Provigil stuff felt like a 8 hour come down off of meth or something (which I tried a handful of times in my younger years)... worst drug ever(for me). I even started hallucinating toward the end. Other people have had really good results with it though, everyone is differernt.

I have tossed the idea of Xyrem around.. not sure my sleep specialist would prescribe it.. and I want to stabalize myself before looking into other drugs at the moment.

Went to Urgent Care today, they gave me more benzos, I made the urgent care doctor call my primary.. he bascially said she was completly ignorant and uninformed on benzo withdrawl and if she doesn't educate herself and work out a taper with me to request a referal to a pain management/ addiction specialist.

 

[Miss Kirsty]

Went to Urgent Care today, they gave me more benzos, I made the urgent care doctor call my primary.. he bascially said she was completly ignorant and uninformed on benzo withdrawl and if she doesn't educate herself and work out a taper with me to request a referal to a pain management/ addiction specialist.

Thank God you found someone whos a professional and tells you the same as we did!! Your Dr was totally inept! She appears to know jack shit! Get another Dr mate...All the best..You can do this...

 

[Miss Kirsty]

ALSO.....
Be fucked if Id give her a chance to "Educate herself"..Get a new Dr.....IMHO...

 

[DistyBoi]

he bascially said she was completly ignorant and uninformed on benzo withdrawl

Thank god you did this, what he said is pretty much what I said from the start It's always wise to get second opinions. Even third opinions if you are really worried.

Just don't abuse the benzos they have given you. Save them until you absolutely HAVE to use them and getting off them will be a lot quicker. I ended up taking just 1-2mg doses of diazepam when my withdrawals got bad years back, and even though many people will say that dose is basically placebo it does help for a few hours.

The less dosage you take the less frequently the quicker the withdrawals will be over with, it might be uncomfortable but it will help you start to get off them quicker.

 

[King Hop Head]

I ABSOLUTELY know about benzo withdrawals, that is why I recommended KEEPING the valium and ditching the Zoloft. Benzo's are a wonderful thing, I could not survive without them even tho I do not take them every day, but that day that I need them, I NEED THEM. I tend to have to deal with STRONG episodes of wanting to kill myself, and if I didn't have some benzos on hand for those times, I would be dead. I was talking about how WORTHLESS of a medication SSRI's are...they are nothing but money makers for big pharmaceutical companies...and i've never met ONE person who was actually helped by Zoloft or Prozac or Lexapro or ANY OF THAT BULLSHIT. I was pretty much saying that it sounds like this persons Doctor is a QUACK!! Get a second opinion...DO NOT quit the benzos abruptly as that will make your life a TOTAL HELL. Benzo withdrawal is no joke, every bit as awful as heroin withdrawals, and I've been thru both...
I'm not ignorant, you just didn't understand the context of what I was saying....but it's all good. Peace in the middle east homeskillet...

SSRIs may not be for everyone, they've helped me out a ton.

Benzo's can also be useful, but have far higher levels of tolerance development than SSRIs.

Benzo's give a nice mellow relaxed feeling, thats why it has such levels of abuse. If I was on Benzos instaed of SSRIs I would probably get only half the amount done at work, I know from when I've taken an Etizolam after lunch.

SSRIs don't cost me loads, just £7.20 prescription charge as we have a state run National Health Service, though that may change with our new right wing Conservative government

 

[Trigeminal]

SSRIs may not be for everyone, they've helped me out a ton.

Benzo's can also be useful, but have far higher levels of tolerance development than SSRIs.

Benzo's give a nice mellow relaxed feeling, thats why it has such levels of abuse. If I was on Benzos instaed of SSRIs I would probably get only half the amount done at work, I know from when I've taken an Etizolam after lunch.

SSRIs don't cost me loads, just £7.20 prescription charge as we have a state run National Health Service, though that may change with our new right wing Conservative government

What do you take? I'm thinking about starting one--to deal with anxiety caused by benzo withdrawal. I hate the fucking word benzo.

 

[DistyBoi]

What do you take? I'm thinking about starting one--to deal with anxiety caused by benzo withdrawal. I hate the fucking word benzo.

To be frank most SSRI's are shit. Yeah, they work for some people don't get me wrong (there's a good reason clinical studies have approved them for decades now), but I seem to find a trend nowadays that most people end up giving up on SSRI's and end up using more atypical anti-depressants. SSRI's take weeks/months to build up effacious serum levels to have much positive effect.

These sort of drugs are more for doctors to recommend based on your personal situation than a random nitwit like me using an annonymous name on a random forum.

 

[Trigeminal]

To be frank most SSRI's are shit. Yeah, they work for some people don't get me wrong (there's a good reason clinical studies have approved them for decades now), but I seem to find a trend nowadays that most people end up giving up on SSRI's and end up using more atypical anti-depressants. SSRI's take weeks/months to build up in your blood plasma enough to have any effect.

Anyways, these sort of drugs are more for doctors to recommend based on your personal situation more than a random twat like me using an annonymous name on a forum.

I definitely have my doubts. But my life has been so fucking shitty for so many months now that I'm looking for any way I can to get better.

 

[DistyBoi]

Go for a two hour jog/walk. Now.

Do it again tomorrow, and everyday for a week, then get back to me.

Also have a fuck every day or so, purely as another way to exersise. If you dont have a girl/boy available, pay for one.



Exersise and new activities really does seem a much better option than most of the drugs people use to help them if they are feeling down.

 

[Miss Kirsty]

Correct me if im wrong (LOL im sure you all will)...hahaha...
BUT
with antidepressants, dont they give you a fake ceratonin hit and while you get the ceratonin from a pill your brain stops making it? Which can cause alot of problems getting your brain onto making it again...when you stop getting it from a pill...scuse spelling..