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Benzos Benzo Withdrawal Brain Zap Question

SuperPump250

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I have been in benzo withdrawal for just over a year now (almost two years actually but had one enormous relapse over a year ago which likely reset my withdrawals). Just this last couple weeks my brain zaps have finally stopped, now I just have some other activity going on in my head (minor head pressure, pulling, and I can just feel some things/fluids being transferred around my brain.

I am curious for people who have been through benzo withdrawal, when the brain zaps finally stopped, how long did it take for the full recovery to happen? I feel like I am getting close, but your body does not tell you when that day will come.
 
It is basically an electrical shock inside your brain, and brain zaps are common from benzo and SSRI withdrawal. The zaps have always occurred at the exact same spot, and got weaker and weaker over time, before eventually going away. I do not think you can make a brazin zap comparison to anything else, if you have not experienced brain zaps it's awfully difficult to imagine because your brain has never been through anything like that before.

My zaps always occurred on the right side of my head (temple area), not inner brain. Almost the entire benzo withdrawal has been on this one part of my brain while the rest of my brain feels normal.
 
After i stopped cold turkey from a mild, but wildly out of control benzo addiction, the brain zaps lasted for about 2 weeks, I felt totally my self again about 4 months later. But I was more or less normal after a month or two , i just felt odd. And brain zaps are like brain freeze, minus the cold, only they are concentrated in a very particular place and are extremely intense. They make you wince and just totally take you by suprise, they are pretty nasty.

Good luck super pump
 
I have only experience brain zaps from SSRI withdrawal, never with benzo withdrawal. When I stopped taking Lexapro I would be walking around and randomly feel like my body was being electrocuted for a second, every hour or so, like sticking my finger in a socket.
 
I've been withdrawing for 10 months now (doing so much better but still not normal), only had brain zaps the first 2 days.
 
Lucky, so I guess there's no real comparison to make since we all have different withdrawal experiences. Good luck everybody currently in benzo withdrawal, man it sucks and seems like it will never end, but one day we will be normal.
 
Wow...reading this makes my heroin withdrawal seem like a walk in the park. GL to you all.
 
Yeah and get this, I never even took my benzo (Klonopin) daily. I took it 1-2 times PER WEEK, which according to everybody online, is NOT enough usage to become addicted and experience withdrawal.

So strange I get a year's worth of brain zaps, and others who took a benzo daily seem to have lesser withdrawal effects.

Any once a week benzo users out there, be careful. I think Xanax might be okay once a week, but the half life of Klonopin is so long that once a week does risk addiction. If it happened to me if can happen to you.
 
It's a shame benzo withdrawal causes such bad brain zaps. You'd think they'd be a non issue for drugs that aren't stictly SSRIs.
 
SuperPump250 said:
I have been in benzo withdrawal for just over a year now (almost two years actually but had one enormous relapse over a year ago which likely reset my withdrawals). Just this last couple weeks my brain zaps have finally stopped, now I just have some other activity going on in my head (minor head pressure, pulling, and I can just feel some things/fluids being transferred around my brain.

I am curious for people who have been through benzo withdrawal, when the brain zaps finally stopped, how long did it take for the full recovery to happen? I feel like I am getting close, but your body does not tell you when that day will come.
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I've had them. They were most frequent when I laid down to sleep - every 2 or 3 minutes it would feel like an electrical fuse had blown out inside my head, sending a huge shockwave right through my eardrums. Quite literally what I'd call 'head-splitting pain

I'd been eating benzos quite heavily for about 4 months, not strictly every day but on average maybe 4-5 days a week - 1-4mg clonazepam.

Had the zaps for about a month. Fuck that month.
 
Ive had this happen, but it was related to Cymbalta.
What a god awful feeling.
I remember when it was at its worst, I would get them for the entire day, every 30-60 seconds, was so terrifying because 10 years ago, not too many people knew about it.

Just feels like an electric pulse going from your brain through out your body. It's absolutely horrific.
 
I got this in the many months after quitting insane-high dose alprazolam, it was unbearable to the point where I would actually have to take low doses of temazepam or diazepam to get me through the night (due to its longer half life and metabolites).

It's kind of like that thing that happens to you when your trying to fall asleep, and all of a sudden, your whole body jolts, but imagine that times twenty five with PAIN.
 
tricomb said:
I got this in the many months after quitting insane-high dose alprazolam, it was unbearable to the point where I would actually have to take low doses of temazepam or diazepam to get me through the night (due to its longer half life and metabolites).

It's kind of like that thing that happens to you when your trying to fall asleep, and all of a sudden, your whole body jolts, but imagine that times twenty five with PAIN.
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Did you fully recover from w/d?
 
Shit I've been having them for a couple weeks and it's just horrible, do you mean to say this could still last much longer?! :(
As if seizures and panic attacks weren't enough haha
 
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