I find this benzo very potent at 0.25mg. I have been using it for sleep in 0.75mg range everynight. How easy are these to stop and if anyone has any expierence with this benzo please share. Also the next day sedation is to much i can't get out of bed.
The answer to this depends on how long you have been using them and at what sort of dosage. Everybody becomes tolerant to the effects of benzodiazepinnes, but with most compounds people find that they lose the sedating qualities of the drug alot more quickly than the anti - anxiety properties.
Benzodiazepines potentiate a neurotransmitter called GABA, and along with other drugs that act on the same brain mechanisms such as ethanol and the barbiturates, will eventually be tolerated if taken regularly over a period of time. Once tolerance is established, no further effects are achieveable from these drugs unless the individual dosages are increased. Eventually, one will become tolerant again to the higher doses their brains are now used to, and once again further effects will only be achieved if the drug dosage is increased, and if one decides instead to stop taking the drug as it no longer works, there is a chance that the person will experience withdrawal symptoms. Withdrawl from GABA potentiating drugs should always be regarded as a serious medical problem requiring management, as withdrawal symptoms from these sorts of drugs can range from downright uncomfortable (at the lower end) to life threatening.
All ive done here is describe the basics behind physical pharmaceutical tolerance and dependence - i know its probably equal to grannys sucking eggs Jungo but your question seems quite naive considering you seem to have experience with benzodiazepines in general.
All ive tried to do is to get you thinking again about how these drugs work and the consequences of their long term use. Benzodiazepines always have the best efficacy when used PRN (as required), and if a doctor prescribes a course of benzodiazepines for insomnia then it should be as short as possible. Tolerance to the hypnotic effects of these drugs have developed in some patients within days, and although tolerance to the anxiolitic effects tends to develop more slowly, they will still occour within 3 months or less.
For patients using these drugs to sleep, they will probably be unaware that the drugs are not actually sedating them if they have been taking them for 14 consecutive days or more. In most cases, patients suffering from insomnia will find good efficacy when they first start using hypnotics, but all this does is give the person a chance to improve their sleep hygiene and establish a regular sleeping pattern. Once this is achieved, the hypnotic should be withdrawn as quickly as possible. Rebound insomnia may occur in some cases but if the course of hypnotic has been short then this shoud not be a lasting issue. If one has been using hypnotics for 14 days or more, in most cases the drugs will be providing no sedation, but it will be likely that any amount of sleep will be impossible unless the drug is taken.
Ok Jungo - enough sermonising from me lets try some HR. Ive never taken flubromazolam, but i use flubromazepam regularly and while its not as potent as f-lam by weight, the effect profiles appear very similar, with both drugs accumulating in the body quickly due to their ridiculously long half lives - this is probably why you feel oversedated during the day time and in the cases of both drugs this will lead to an extremely rapid increase in tolerance to all thienodiazepines, benzodiazepines and non - benzodiazepine (z-drugs). You say you find flubromazolam extemely potent at a quarter of a milligram yet you insist on taking 3 times as much as this for sleep. Im sorry if my reply has come across as preachy and condescending but your op describes nothing more than the obvious warning signs of the overuse of an under-researched, super potent benzodiazepine derivative.
If you give us some more information on your current drug use, experiences and drug history then the knowledgeable folk at Bluelights EADD will be able to offer some advice which may allow you some self management of your flubromazolam use before you end up presenting with benzodiazepine dependence at your local drug service provider
Stee