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First Benzo Prescribed to you for an anxiety disorder?

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Supeudol

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Okay, so I have been thinking about this for awhile.

MODS: Please move this to the appropriate section of forums if this is in the wrong place. I thought BDD night fit perfect for theism but maybe drug culture is more suited fir this. We shall see. ;)

So Bluelighters , if you DO have a legit anxiety disorder, what was the FIRST benzodiazepine you were prescribed and how did it work for your anxiety condition?


My FIRST Anxiety Disorder that I was diagnosed with was "Severe Panic Disorder" and first prescribed 0.5mg of Ativan SL (Lorazepam) by my physician at the time and it worked okay, but I found I needed about 4mg or more in order to get relief because my anxiety attacks were so crippling.

So, Let's hear what some other Bluelighters were first prescribed for anxiety disorders? Q
 
First time was alprazolam .25 twice daily if needed. Then my doc changed it to alprazolam XR 1 mg daily.
 
I suffer from moderate to severe anxiety, especially with specific triggers (i.e., social anxiety, test taking, leaving the house, anything to do with numbers, family stress, PTSD diagnosis in 2001). Xanax .5 didn't touch my symptoms. 1 mg had a mild, immediate effect but didn't last more than 30 minutes. A higher dose didn't help with that so switched to Clonopin. First Rx was for 1 mg 2x daily but since I started back to school my dose is 2mg up to 3x daily. I hardly ever need the third pill so I hoard them for really severe attacks when I need two at a time. I have found that grinding the extras into a fine powder and dosing it sublingually (sp?) works for instant relief.
 
Oxazepam... didn't do shit. So I got alprazolam, which was fantastic at first. I used that shit for many years, and the fucking ignorant doctor would just increase my dose periodically... The last year I used I needed at least 5 mg/day just to avoid wd symptoms.

It took almost a year to detox from that shit with a slow valium taper. Then it took 2 more before I could sleep somehow normally.

I now firmly believe... hum, I fucking KNOW that benzos aren't a good treatment for anxiety disorders, or ANY disorder for that matter if they're used long-term. They are good for SHORT-TERM treatment ONLY, cos after a couple weeks, unless you increase the dose, they won't help AT ALL, they'll just mask early wd symptoms, making you believe they help (which they do, kind of...). It is pure ignorance to prescribe those long-term, in fact it is properly harming people to prescribe that shit for weeks and months. Anxiety grows worse because it goes basically untreated, and is in fact aggravated by the treatment. Moreover, long-term use of benzos compromise intelligence, lucidity, memory - things that the anxious person badly needs to confront and control his/her problems.

Paradoxically, the last thing an anxious and panicky person needs is an access to benzos daily... Most doctors and shrinks are ignorant fucks. In my case at least, they could've prescribed me opiates with much less harmful consequences... I had to learn myself how to control my anguish, and I found my own antidepressant treatment which includes kratom, rhodiola and SJW. I've never felt better since childhood...
 
Social anxiety disorder with panic attacks, clonazepam 0.5mg as needed. It works great but I get terrible rebound anxiety the next from it, I don't need it that often but I'm going to see if my doc can switch me to a shorter acting benzo to see if that helps with the rebound anxiety.
 
I was prescribed alprazolam .5mg a day; I took it for five weeks .25-1mg a week, stopped, and had the worst panic/anxiety.
 
Oxazepam 15mg x3 daily, took it as needed, always had lots left. Guess I didn't really have that much anxiety to begin with, rather got them prescribed with Zoloft for depression with anxiety.
 
I have a legit anxiety disorder. I guess they classified it as GAD (Generalized Anxiety Disorder).

The first and only benzo I was prescribed (and still am) was clonazepam. 0.5mg x 2 a day.

It does work.

Although I've been on the same dose for about 3 years now so I really don't notice the effects that much. But my anxiety decreased.
 
For anxiety, doctors here like to give bromazepam, always fucking bromazepam! And yeah, i don't like bromazepam for anxiety (long come up and in general not very useful against panic). Alprazolam is waaay better even in minuscule doses, but i never took them (or any benzo) on a daily basis.
 
Tiesto said:
Although I've been on the same dose for about 3 years now so I really don't notice the effects that much. But my anxiety decreased.
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The clonazepam did NOT cure your anxiety. Benzos don't cure anything. If you don't feel nervous now, the fact is that you wouldn't feel nervous at the moment even if you never had clonazepam. You are just stabilized on a dose - i.e., you are addicted to this dose of clonazepam. You don't feel the effects that much because THE ONLY effect of your dose is to postpone wd symptoms. If you stop abruptly, what you will experience is wd symptoms, not ''rebound anxiety''. Your ignorant doc or shrink screwed you... :|
 
Abhaya said:
For anxiety, doctors here like to give bromazepam, always fucking bromazepam! And yeah, i don't like bromazepam for anxiety (long come up and in general not very useful against panic). Alprazolam is waaay better even in minuscule doses, but i never took them (or any benzo) on a daily basis.
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I wouldn't say that, Alprazolam is an excellent benzo, don't get me wrong, but it's duration and half life are way too short leaving people with terrible rebound anxiety.

I think thats pretty damn good that doctors in Italy prescribe Bromazepam so easy. Up here in Canada, Bromazepam is very hard to get written. Bromazepam is actually a very useful anxiolytic benzo. I would love to live in Italy! Damn...
 
Longhauler said:
The clonazepam did NOT cure your anxiety. Benzos don't cure anything. If you don't feel nervous now, the fact is that you wouldn't feel nervous at the moment even if you never had clonazepam. You are just stabilized on a dose - i.e., you are addicted to this dose of clonazepam. You don't feel the effects that much because THE ONLY effect of your dose is to postpone wd symptoms. If you stop abruptly, what you will experience is wd symptoms, not ''rebound anxiety''. Your ignorant doc or shrink screwed you... :|
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lmfao

I guess I should have clarified things a bit better. I never meant that my anxiety was "cured." It's almost what you said, I guess. Like when I was having bad anxiety, and took my clonazepam, I calmed down. Now it's almost like, I've been so used to this feeling, I've learned to adjust to it. I can go days without taking my clonazepam and not get anxiety or withdrawal symptoms. So yea, I just take it because it's there. But sometimes like I said, I don't take it.
 
Tiesto said:
lmfao

I guess I should have clarified things a bit better. I never meant that my anxiety was "cured." It's almost what you said, I guess. Like when I was having bad anxiety, and took my clonazepam, I calmed down. Now it's almost like, I've been so used to this feeling, I've learned to adjust to it. I can go days without taking my clonazepam and not get anxiety or withdrawal symptoms. So yea, I just take it because it's there. But sometimes like I said, I don't take it.
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Alright... sorry man. (not sure what I should feel sorry about but, still...). It wasn't really directed at you anyway, more at the damn benzos, you know.. They're over-prescribed in the States, that's a fact. I'm not saying that they shouldn't be prescribed at all for nobody... but almost! lol.
 
Longhauler said:
Alright... sorry man. (not sure what I should feel sorry about but, still...). It wasn't really directed at you anyway, more at the damn benzos, you know.. They're over-prescribed in the States, that's a fact. I'm not saying that they shouldn't be prescribed at all for nobody... but almost! lol.
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Oh bro no need to say sorry man. It's a forum, and not just any forum, this is BLUELIGHT! (WOOT!) A place where we're all entitled to our opinions and what not! But nonetheless I appreciate it lol. I understand where ur coming from with the over-prescribing of benzos. Also on top of the prolonged dosage increases that occur.
 
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