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advice for coping with my hellish benzo withdrawal

duneplanet

duneplanet

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First of all I have aspergers, meaning I am an extremely hypersensitive person. Hypersensitivity plus benzo withdrawal= hell couldnt be much worse. Heres my plan up my lyrica to 600 mg so I can sleep and take phenibut once a week to help me go to school. Would this help? Can I still recover right while doing this? will the lyrica last? I plan on tapering down on lyrica when my withdrawal subsides a little bit. SO is this agood idea? Cause i cant take much more. I have very little support and love to help me through this. been abandoned by my ex. I feel like im gonna throw up. I cant eat. help please. I see my doc today.
 
I don't know if it will impede withdrawal - no one knows for sure it is all just opinions.

If the lyrica and phenibut help you enjoy your life a bit more I'm sure it won't hurt much. just try to keep the phenibut to once a week, even if I use it a couple times a week it doesn't seem to work as well unless I updose a lot..

hope you get to feeling better soon man - this too will pass <3
 
I just developed the ears ringing thing. my doc said lyrica was fine but he doesnt know about phenibut
 
For me the only thing that REALLY helped was time and lots of it. I would never wish my worst enemy to go through that hell, if I had any enemies. Neurontin helped slightly for a short time frame and truthfully I think the majority of that help was psychological. Phenobarbital helps also but dont make a habit of it.

I had that ringing in my ears to. I was just a shell of a person, a real mess. My biggest issue was the tremors and shaking for months on end. I still think I tapered way to quickly for how long I was taking them. I am off all benzos now and it is sooo worth it. I started to despise those pills toward the end. All I knew was pills, pills, pills. I lost it completely mentally. Time, time, time.

How much were you taking and for how long? Hope you figure something out.

peace.
seedless
 
I know you've said it before china, but how long were you on benzos, which did you take, and for how long?

Thanks.
 
well see the thing is ive been addicted befopre. last time was 2 years. this was was 3 months. I was only taking 2 mg of ativan this time for amonth and then dropped down a valium taper for two months. guys I got scripted suboxone yesterday and it usually helps me sleep. i took 1 mg at 9 pm and i was up all night. its like i felt too high to sleep. is this normal with suboxone? on my bad days of the withdrawal i get 5 broken hours, now last night i got one hour of my mind kinda turning off but no REM. please help? why would the suboxone do this this time? uggg i need sleep but i cant. i took phenibut today so I can function but im so ill. im not gonna take sub tonight. is this no sleep caused by the sub? have any of you guys experienced this?
 
duneplanet said:
I just developed the ears ringing thing. my doc said lyrica was fine but he doesnt know about phenibut
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Someone asked this SAME exact question in the OD forum like 3 weeks ago.

My response was DO NOT take the phenibut. I can try to explain the reasons why but the main reason is that it won't do anything for benzo wds first. The second reason is that phen has its own nasty little phase of wds and for how disgustly fast tolerance happens to it (after the first day it seems even double my dose was half the strength) its not worth it. I remember after day 3 it felt NOTHING like day 1.
Then when I stopped the phen I was feeling that oversedated rolling/drunk feeling along with some weird sort of rebound anxiety. Its just not something I'd combine with benzo wds all though I do understand why you would look at it as a possible therapeutic med.
You can also try neurontin. A lot of people say lyrica is stronger which it is, but that still doesn't mean everyone reacts the same to it. I've seen plenty of responses where people favor neurontin for benzo wds, so I can't see it hurting to try.
 
but how long were you on benzos, which did you take, and for how long?
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Klonopin [started at 2mgs went up to 8mg a day, stayed at 6-8mg daily for 5'ish years. I forget] - 8 years

Ativan [2mg usually once a day sometimes more] - 5-6 years

Those were scripted but I also always had xanax, valium, etc. I tapered down to roughly 2mg klonopin/1mg ativan over the course of a few months. Checked into rehab and was switched to valium which I was tapered down over 10 days. My w/d symptoms started to get real bad at about 30 days. It was bad the 1rst 30 days but I think I was just so worn down dealing with them. It took me about a year to start feeling 75%.

peace.
seedless
 
Really good burnout. Things are pretty damn good. I have been waiting so long to feel like this. It has been since easter but I still do think about using. The worst case scenerio is I drink a couple beers on the weekend. So glad not to have to rely on pills. How about you?

peace.
seedless
 
bojangles I actually find phenibut quite helpful. I took it lst night and slep tfo r12 hours. much better compared to my one hour the previous night. i will admit i do feel alittle rebound tho.
 
im required to get off once medicine to stay on suboxone. I chose welbutrin. ihavent taken it in two days. i feel ill but im unsure if it is welbutrin withdrawal. i hopped off at 150 mg xr cause i cant get any lower than that
 
duneplanet - Benzodiazepine w/d is not something I would recommend doing on one's own. Open communication with your medical pros will enable you to withdraw from them safely if that is what you wish to do.

Wellbutrin was very effective in lifting my mood when SSRIs were not.

Phenibut is still being studied and I believe it has promise in some people in benzodiazepine w/d. I have taken it as a nutritional supplement. I can't say I noticed much; many others have found significant relief of benzo w/d symptoms. I personally would not go above 300 mg Lyrica in one day, though studies have ramped it up to double that. This is my source.

Since no one here is your own personal physician and I am not a doctor, I'd really recommend that you find a psychiatrist experienced in the treatment of benzodiazepine withdrawal - especially if you take Lyrica for fibromyalgia.

Your doctor/addiction specialist who prescribes the suboxone should know exactly what you are taking and why. I never experienced w/d from Wellbutrin personally. You may be different. Regardless, consult with your suboxone doctor or psych or addiction specialist. This is quite a cocktail for someone recovering from addiction.

There are a lot of horror stories and myths surrounding benzodiazepine w/d. There are also a lot of success stories. Yours is up to you and your professionals. I wish you the best, and please, don't let any of it ruin your life. You are in treatment and you have support here.
 
So, I am 5 days into no benzos. I have been on 6-10 MG of Klonapin, per day for over 13 years. Not sure of the exact time, being on pills for years will do that to you I guess. I weaned down to .25 2-3 times per day over the past two months. I am pretty driven because I have two young children and a wife who has had enough of me and the meds. So, today marks my fifth day benzo free for as klong as I can remember. I am feeling bait hazy and my head is pounding. everything feels like it is happening fro the first time. Like I am being re-born. I am also pretty anxious about random things that I have been anxious about for years. maybe that is a good thing in some ways, but I am finding that the hardest part of my day is when I get home to my family. I know that this sounds horrible, but I just can't seem to get a handle on how I feel at home. Can someone tell me how long this hollow part of the withdraw will last me?
 
plat said:
So, I am 5 days into no benzos. I have been on 6-10 MG of Klonapin, per day for over 13 years. Not sure of the exact time, being on pills for years will do that to you I guess. I weaned down to .25 2-3 times per day over the past two months. I am pretty driven because I have two young children and a wife who has had enough of me and the meds. So, today marks my fifth day benzo free for as klong as I can remember. I am feeling bait hazy and my head is pounding. everything feels like it is happening fro the first time. Like I am being re-born. I am also pretty anxious about random things that I have been anxious about for years. maybe that is a good thing in some ways, but I am finding that the hardest part of my day is when I get home to my family. I know that this sounds horrible, but I just can't seem to get a handle on how I feel at home. Can someone tell me how long this hollow part of the withdraw will last me?
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Why did you quit if i may ask?
 
A few months ago, I ran out of my Xanax and didn't bother refilling until after my next appointment, which was two weeks away. I had insomnia, which I thought would disappear after a few days... Nope, it lasted all two weeks. As soon as I took my Xanax when I got my new script, I slowly started to feel better even just five minutes after my dose. Within a half hour I was myself again.

I also get jittery and anxious like crazy. My mind was going in circles over silly things for those two weeks. They were manageable knowing I'd get it filled soon, but does anybody know how long benzos actually take for withdrawals to stop?

I can't even imagine not taking them, I also refuse to up my dose even though my anxiety still gets out of control almost on a weekly basis...
 
feedtheSoul said:
A few months ago, I ran out of my Xanax and didn't bother refilling until after my next appointment, which was two weeks away. I had insomnia, which I thought would disappear after a few days... Nope, it lasted all two weeks. As soon as I took my Xanax when I got my new script, I slowly started to feel better even just five minutes after my dose. Within a half hour I was myself again.

I also get jittery and anxious like crazy. My mind was going in circles over silly things for those two weeks. They were manageable knowing I'd get it filled soon, but does anybody know how long benzos actually take for withdrawals to stop?

I can't even imagine not taking them, I also refuse to up my dose even though my anxiety still gets out of control almost on a weekly basis...
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Depends.. usually my withdrawals are hard as hell for 2-5 days... by the 4th or 5th day i start feeling a lot better.. head tingles gone. Just a lot more anxiety than normal... but manageable.
I really recommend you try to taper off and stop them, they really hinder your thinking ability. And also make it as if life is just drifting by, it will suck in the beginning but i promise if you tough it out your life will become better.
 
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