Dr. John Thackery
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is benzo withdrawl a thing that just smacks you instantly like a train weeks after your last dose described as a never ending panic attack that was triggered by some kind of traumatic incident?
there is no physical symptoms like sweating or GI issues. just panic, shaking almost, terror. feel like a battered scared dog or something.
opioid withdrawal is very predictable and independent of something “triggering” it and it comes on at the expected time point a few days after the last dose and very gradually rather than all at once.
that describes what has happened to me for a second time now.
i’m two weeks since my last diazepam dose where i would typically use very irregularly, like 20 mg 1 or 2 X per week…sometimes more and sometimes less , but never really going more than two weeks without at least a single 10 to 30 mg dose.
there is no physical symptoms like sweating or GI issues. just panic, shaking almost, terror. feel like a battered scared dog or something.
opioid withdrawal is very predictable and independent of something “triggering” it and it comes on at the expected time point a few days after the last dose and very gradually rather than all at once.
that describes what has happened to me for a second time now.
i’m two weeks since my last diazepam dose where i would typically use very irregularly, like 20 mg 1 or 2 X per week…sometimes more and sometimes less , but never really going more than two weeks without at least a single 10 to 30 mg dose.
