etizolam for alprazolam withdrawal

[aq.]

does anyone have experience with this?

I've been on alprazolam 1mg 1xday for 1 year now. my doctors office is VERY slow to refill my prescription for some reason. I tried to hold off on taking the alprazolam last night but I had to take it because I started to have withdrawal symptoms, mostly auditory hallucinations and when I closed my eyes it was as if I could "see" the brain misfiring. I took my alprazolam and it went away.

i have some etizolam and was wondering if I could take this in place of my alprazolam. i have 3 left and my refill is due on 7/10. I take it as prescribed. I just really freak out when my benzos are low.

thanks

 

[weekend addiction]

Yep I had to do this with my klonopin. I take 1mg a day and was running out and couldn't get a refill (or so I thought crazy mix up!). It worked for the time being. Aprozolam and etizolam are more similar than etizolam and klonopin so I think it would be an even smoother transition.

 

[THECATINTHEHAT]

Sorry if I'm being dumb here but how can your script be running out before you refill if you're taking it as prescribed?

 

[aq.]

Yep I had to do this with my klonopin. I take 1mg a day and was running out and couldn't get a refill (or so I thought crazy mix up!). It worked for the time being. Aprozolam and etizolam are more similar than etizolam and klonopin so I think it would be an even smoother transition.

great thanks for the info.

Sorry if I'm being dumb here but how can your script be running out before you refill if you're taking it as prescribed?

I'm due for a refill on the 10th of July. I have 3 left. I get anxious when I'm running low. I don't abuse my Xanax.

 

[THECATINTHEHAT]

great thanks for the info.



I'm due for a refill on the 10th of July. I have 3 left. I get anxious when I'm running low. I don't abuse my Xanax.

Oh so you're prescribed a certain amount over a certain period of time to use as and when rather than a standard daily dosage that you have every day?

I guess the only thing to say is that yes you can use etizolam as a pretty effective backup just be careful that 6 months down the line you're not taking 50mg etizolam a month as well as all your scripted alprazolam. If you're feeling the need to top up this script then there's every chance the same thing is going to keep on happening down the line.

If it's a case of you are on a daily dosage and you're short because of an administrative issue at your pharmacy or doctor or whatever then you need to politely inform them that it's not acceptable to leave you short of a medicine that causes physical dependance for even a single day really and that you will be taking your businesss elsewhere if it keeps on happening (I guess you're in the US and have that option from the way you write the date). Politely of course.

 

[aq.]

^^ thanks I have an appointment with her today after work, so hopefully I'll actually get somewhere with talking to them in person. I don't know why they drag their feet with this. I was hospitalized once for benzo withdrawal thanks to them not filling it when my monthly refill was due...

 

[THECATINTHEHAT]

I've had so much shit with stuff like that. Learned to be polite but strong in insisting that it's not acceptable.

I've also been to hospital with benzo withdrawal (200mg diazepam a day), and they sorted me out with some anti-emetics and 20mg diazepam. I then had to drink for a couple of days until supply resumed. That was my fault/

I was also hospitalised once just because I was ill and couldn't keep my methadone down and was going in to pretty heavy duty wd (80mg per day), and they game me anti-emetics and diazepam and I could then manage my methadone. Not really my fault.

They were both unpleasant though, and you don't get a good reception. Still, sometimes you gotta do what you gotta do to get right, and you're lucky if they help you out.

 

[weekend addiction]

^^ thanks I have an appointment with her today after work, so hopefully I'll actually get somewhere with talking to them in person. I don't know why they drag their feet with this. I was hospitalized once for benzo withdrawal thanks to them not filling it when my monthly refill was due...

Hahaha they use to take me off of psychiatrist-prescribed benzos cold turkey in the psych hospital to make me suffer. They thought I was an addict. And so fuck me right?

They forcibly sedated me 3 or 4 times for raising hell. One bitch nurse got a gallon of ice water dumped on her back right before her shift ended. They treated me like an animal and that's what I became. As for the person concerned with how I run out of klonopin early...it was more of a case of me moving to a new state and not setting up treatment. I called the doc and he gave me a new script so I got lots of etizolam for no reason but I know not to be stupid (giggles and runs to the cornenr with a blister pack and a bubbler of pot).

 

[aq.]

docs are so stingy with benzos and think that everyone and their mother is abusing them. I need them for legitimate reasons!

I got 60 1mg klonopin from her today and she wrote me a script for buspirone. Any experiences with buspar?

 

[THECATINTHEHAT]

The reality is that a long-term benzo addiction is almost never the right answer. Unless you're being scripted it for epilepsy or something then every last avenue should be looked down before just smashing out a benzo script.

They are prescribed mainly for things that for the majority of people can be eased through with a talking cure. There are very few people who can't have something like GAD treated with a talking cure. That doesn't create a customer though, it creates a treatment.

I would really disagree with the argument that doctors are stingy with benzos. I would say that in the UK they have got to where they need to be in terms of controlling their prescription, in America it's still just wild drug-dealing though. I mean adverts for Xanax on tv? A society that thinks that is ok is sick in the head to me.

We're just moving on to the next generation of GABAergic drug with gabapentin and pregabalin now etc and it's the same thing all over again really. Drug company says this is a new, safe drug that's not addictive, loads of docs dish it out....suddenly anecdotal evidence starts pouring in that actually that's not the case. History repeating itself just the drugs are worn down in strength once more.

 

[weekend addiction]

There are very few people who can't have something like GAD treated with a talking cure. That doesn't create a customer though, it creates a treatment.

I would really disagree with the argument that doctors are stingy with benzos. I would say that in the UK they have got to where they need to be in terms of controlling their prescription, in America it's still just wild drug-dealing though. I mean adverts for Xanax on tv? A society that thinks that is ok is sick in the head to me.

We're just moving on to the next generation of GABAergic drug with gabapentin and pregabalin now etc and it's the same thing all over again really. Drug company says this is a new, safe drug that's not addictive, loads of docs dish it out....suddenly anecdotal evidence starts pouring in that actually that's not the case. History repeating itself just the drugs are worn down in strength once more.

There are no benzo commericals in America though we do get commericals for Lyrica and Ambien. But nothing like vicoden commercials or benzo commercials or anything ha! Always wondered if it was just considered bad manors to advertise addicting drugs or what? They out to advertise Desoxyn everyone would beg their doc for scripts and we'd have pills everywhere!

 

[aq.]

lol yeah certainly no commercials for benzos, opiates, or desoxyn. I can only imagine what the advertisements would be like.

an update about the buspar I posted about earlier: it's working great with the clonazepam :D I feel good. haven't been able to say that in a while.