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Benzos Benzodiazepine Withdrawal Syndrome

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Hey all,

I am currently going through Benzo Withdrawal and while feeling shit agitated with everything and just craving benzo's, He wounders why?
why do most downer drugs ( alcohol, barbiturites, benzo'z, opiates and a few others ) actually give your body an after effects?
Stimulant abuse seems to my knowledge just brings massive comedowns, nothing physical - and if so very minor and could most likely be down to lack of food consumed during a binge.
Why does the body need these drugs after prolonged use?

I really hope someone can shed some light on this

J
 
It's neurochemistry. Opiates affect many body functions because it acts on neurochemical systems that necessitate this. Stims tend to affect the dopamine and norepinephrine centers, the reward neurochems. This simply means that there's less room for stims to cause physical withdrawal, because the neurochemical functions it alters are less active in, for instance, the intestinal tract, the respiratory and cardiovascular systems, and the control of your endogenous opiate-based pain management systems.

Using benzos or opiates alters the brain's natural response to environmental and internal stimuli, and the brain compensates for this accordingly by adapting it's neurochemistry to function with more foreign alteration of the systems affected. When you no longer have foreign alterations to deal with (meaning you ran out), your brain and body have a hard time reverting to former functionality, as in order to preserve your life (otherwise the chemical changes of benzos or opiates could kill you or cause you to get killed), they have developed the ability to deal with higher levels of these psychoactive chemicals.

It's all in how neurons function, and the systems that indiv. Groups of neurons control, and therefore the groups/types of neurons that a drug affects.
 
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(((Shivers))) benzo wiothdrawal is fucking horrible.

Its something having to do with GABA someting or another lol.
 
Yeah, tis GABA, that is the culprit neurotransmitter system.

Btw, I've gone through it, not much helps. That said, try pot and alcohol, as alcohol works similarly, and will help for a time, while pot just helps you stay calm and relatively insane. OTC codeine helps briefly by distracting you a little. Even loperamide helped me some, in high doses. Opiates help, but they do not fix the problem and make you feel better. Lower level rec. doses of dextromethorphan also help a little.

Tough it out, otherwise, and if worried about seizing or such, head to the ER. You're GABA system is no joke.
 
If you don't feel right, do not hesitate to seek medical attention. Alcohol and benzo withdrawals can kill, as you probably know.
 
Yeah definitely.. I hear about people seizuring like 3 days into withdrawals and shit like grand mal seriuos shit your pants seizures. Shits scary.. I almost went to the er last time and it wasnt even a long binge on alprazolam.. that shit is just 20x worse than the worst dop[e wtithdrawal of my life.
 
Well I'm now on 40mg diazepam. But cuts withdrawal for a couple of hours.
I have ordered 30mg etizolam pellets. My aim is to do 20mg wait an hour 1mg etizolam
2 hours later 1mg etizolam and before bed the other 20mg diazepam.
I have to go for urine test at my clinic every week to make sure I'm behaving.
When tested before for benzo it showed negative for benzo....
Will me taking etizolam show up next time they check?
In 2 weeks I'm being an inpatient, when I leave I'm clean :-) but am worried the etizolam will show up and me be kicked off before I go to the inpatient clinic.
I'm UK based.
Any ideas?
 
Also I understand about using codeine and other compounds. But I'd rather just leave it to one family of chemicals.
Thanks for the advice though :-)
J
 
I pissed clean for benzos my whole time on probation. I was scripted xanax and was taking at least 1mg a day, but for whatever I never pissed dirty for them. I actually ended up getting kicked out of the outpatient place and court mandated to go inpatient, since they claimed I must have been using someones piss to get by since they were scripting me the xanax and I was negative for it. Even for my intake at the inpatient place I pissed negative for benzos, and believe me, I went hard the night before I went in. After that I never trusted a piss test for benzos. The next outpatient place didn't care that I was negative for it, as long as I wasn't positive for other things.
 
Just worried invade they now will look for etizolam.....
If I'm just on benzo watch do they search for other things?
 
I mean etizolam is a benzo theres a good chance you can fail the benzo panel.,,but if they gs/mc to confirm it will likely not show up or whatever. I am not sure what the metabolite is from etizolam but if it doesnt overlap with another benzo then you are straihgt. if it does overlap then you are anally fucked

no drug testing questions here though.

so you gotto research it on your own
 
ok, so if it piss in a bottle now, and keep it in a dark place, will it keep till thursday? or will they know its old? the bottle will be airtight of course.....
 
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