Benzodiazepine rebound anxiety

[neversickanymore]

Is benzodiazepine rebound anxiety incredibly hit and miss or just purely psychological ( in a persons head). Having been through periods of heavy use and experienced withdrawal I know it can be hell but now it seems I can use for one or two days and feel no rebound anxiety/I’ll effects after. On the other hand I’ve read of people who take one Xanax and get rebound anxiety the next day.

My take is it comes down to an equation. The major variables in the equation are length of use, degree of use and subjective genetic differences.

I’m presenting based of an over 20 year continuous benzo script run on alprazolam an also in a 1/4 or less time frame clonazepam period. Followed by a year and a quarter of acute benzo withdrawals. Followed by over a decade of benzo abstinence.


The way our minds work and physiology of our systems is amazing. Just the idea of a half life is both amazing and striking.

When we continually pump some of our systems with chemical treatments they adjust to the addition of the chemical treatment. Two great examples are opiates and pain and anxiety and benzos.

It’s rare to see a person in more pain than a pain patient chronically treated with opiates for pain. It’s the same with benzos and anxiety. You almost never see a more anxious person than one chronically treated with benzos for anxiety.

The system adjusts for the treatment.. Tolerance and this results is some medications having the exact opposite effect with chronic use .

The issue though is they still seem to work for the user as after taking the substance the symptoms are clearly reduced. The problem is with chronic use the levels of the symptoms they are being taken to treat are significantly increased by the treatment.

With what you’re referring to, if i interpreted it correctly, a very short course of non dependent benzo use resulting in a short rebound spike in anxiety seems like what your referring to. Alcohol is not a mirror comparison, but similar non the less.

The people your reading posts from that are having strong rebound anxiety may be developing an active dependence?

5x the half life and add three days in between short uses and its going to be very difficult to develop a physical dependence imho.

 

[kiely]

Lol redbull or any high caffeine drink shouldnt calm benzos effect unless u drink enormous amounts of it. I had to drink strong black coffee(2 tabelspoons or ) when I was using benzos more and for sure it stimulates u but will not stop the sedative effect of the benzos

Thank you for easing the intentions for me. Thank you. I think my anxiety was actually causing me to be more anxious because I was worried so much about mixing an energy drink right on the spot with the xanax itself. I was having shortness of breath attacks from it so that got me wondering. Alot.

When I was taking gabapentin I would literally get a stabbing pain in my heart that now I think might have been the cramping from it. It didn't matter how much I would try to lessen the dose. It was horrible. So I don't take them anymore.

But xanax. It is strong and hits instantly and this time I drank the energy drink hours later. They do mix together so well for me and no stabbing cramps in my heart whatsoever. .
Just functioning normal. I was so worried though because I had much anxiety over it. And I actually thought it was an oxymoron to mix them. I guess the proper statement then would be more
like proper synergy. But I will sleep good now and not have to worry. The caffeine helps me not have to worry about having a headache and helps my head feel better too.

So thank you for easing my anxiety about the xanax. Those are one strong medication. Thank you for helping me not have to worry and easing that tension. For real.

Monster drink and xan is up there on the level of severe strength. lol. But it is. I don't really think I could have done all the xan's without it. And your realistic explanation
of that and that I am still staying safe. lol.

But I appreciated that so much !!!

The gabapentins did hurt me too much. But yes, that would be another thread but I am taking the xanax route this time.

Your post was totally perfect. A blessing for the holidays. You're awesome. Or extremely helpful. I was worried.

Can I post a heart !! And not the one that was a stabbing pain from the gabapentin. I think the doctor knows I smoke weed. aka medical flower.

thanxx. bye.

Lol redbull or any high caffeine drink shouldnt calm benzos effect unless u drink enormous amounts of it. I had to drink strong black coffee(2 tabelspoons or ) when I was using benzos more and for sure it stimulates u but will not stop the sedative effect of the benzos