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First Benzo Prescribed to you for an anxiety disorder?

lorazepam for anxiety associated with my fear of needles/doctors. I had a blood clot so I had to get shots and my blood taken, so the lorazepam was def necessary so I didn't pass out every damn time a needle pricked me.

I was prescribed first clonazepam then alprazolam for PLMS (a sleep related neurological disorder), but it helped with anxiety as well.
 
Clonazepam at .5mgs 2/day, and got bumped up to 1mg 2/day about a month after that. I've tried 8 or 9 other benzos since then but I always find clonazepam to be the best.
 
@longhauler: i can see where you are coming from, whenever i am off benzos I am like, "they are the worst drugs on earth to manage anxiety long term and are overprescribed" however when i am on them, i'm like "fuck that, they work and nothing else does". So there are two sides to the coin. Studies have shown that benzos can maintain the efficacy of their anxiolytic effects long term and i can attest to that. Even if i'm on a high dose, and i get no fun effects, i still get anxiety relief. To the point where i can actually go to school/work/live my life like a normal person. Without them i do not function whatsoever. For some people, benzos are effective and worthwhile medications.

to answer the OP: lorazepam .5mg lol i'd need about 20 of those to feel anything now but back then they made a huge difference in calming me down.
 
I wouldn't say that, Alprazolam is an excellent benzo, don't get me wrong, but it's duration and half life are way too short leaving people with terrible rebound anxiety.

I think thats pretty damn good that doctors in Italy prescribe Bromazepam so easy. Up here in Canada, Bromazepam is very hard to get written. Bromazepam is actually a very useful anxiolytic benzo. I would love to live in Italy! Damn...

It depends on what you need. If you have to be under the effect of a benzo all day long, surely it's a little pointless to have alprazolam, and bromazepam would be a choice as other mid-long acting benzos. But i particularly like alprazolam exactly for it's combination of short haf-life and very fast onset, that enables me to take it only when really needed, when i feel that i'm really panicking. I just need a 0,25 or 0,5 max so far and it's really versatile. I wouldn't want to take benzos on a daily basis, they scare me much more than any opiate ever will in terms of withdrawals.

I never had something like rebound anxiety...maybe my doses have always been too low?

Also, if you are into pharmaceutical opiates or, even worse, amphetamines, and you want to come to Italy just for an exotic benzo, please rethink your decision :) : you would be impressed by our mix of very poor opiate choice and unwillingness to prescribe even those few. And yeah, ZERO amphetamines. Take a plane and fly to the nearby big country.
 
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I only had a prescription for bromazepam once (little pink pills if I remember correctly) and I agree with Abhaya about the fact that alprazolam may be better for accute panic attacks cuz the come up is a little faster, but I did enjoy my bromazepam a lot while it lasted... It still is a strong benzo, more effective than clonazepam imo if you really need a strong benzo that works longer than alprazolam... Fuck! Look at me, talking as if I still enjoyed that shit LOL! 8o

FYI I don't live in the States, but in Canada.
 
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@longhauler: i can see where you are coming from, whenever i am off benzos I am like, "they are the worst drugs on earth to manage anxiety long term and are overprescribed" however when i am on them, i'm like "fuck that, they work and nothing else does". So there are two sides to the coin. Studies have shown that benzos can maintain the efficacy of their anxiolytic effects long term and i can attest to that. Even if i'm on a high dose, and i get no fun effects, i still get anxiety relief. To the point where i can actually go to school/work/live my life like a normal person. Without them i do not function whatsoever. For some people, benzos are effective and worthwhile medications.

to answer the OP: lorazepam .5mg lol i'd need about 20 of those to feel anything now but back then they made a huge difference in calming me down.

Yeah, that's what I meant.. back then when I was first prescribed a benzo (lorazepam) 9 years ago.. I would need about 4 or 5 of those .5 Sublingual Lorazepam. Now I would need probably like 20 or 25 like you said.
 
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I only had a prescription for bromazepam once (little pink pills if I remember correctly) and I agree with Abhaya about the fact that alprazolam may be better for accute panic attacks cuz the come up is a little faster, but I did enjoy my bromazepam a lot while it lasted... It still is a strong benzo, more effective than clonazepam imo if you really need a strong benzo that works longer than alprazolam... Fuck! Look at me, talking as if I still enjoyed that shit LOL! 8o

FYI I don't live in the States, but in Canada.

Yeah I thought you were in Canada, because Bromazepam is not available in the US. ;)
 
started with .5mg lorazepam PRN. it worked great. is currently my favorite. but it does not last long enough. these days i'm scripted diazepam 10mg BID and lorazepam 1mg PRN. i was on klonopin (2.5mg/day) for a while before switching to the valium. i've never had a xanax script, but when i went on the klonopin i was given the choice between xanax XR and it.

poll?
 
Xanax 1mg 2x a day for GAD when I was 17. Recently switched to Klonopin 1mg 3x daily although I usually only take 2 a day.
 
valium. short stint on oxazepam after a break then back to valium. it's my benzo of choice. yes, i've IV'd/IM'd midazolam ampoules and it didn't live up to the hype.
 
it's not that i didn't like it, i just thought my experiences were lacklustre to what i had read. i was dependent on valium at the time with quite a tolerance so that probably explains a bit. also using some meth and mdpv the previous night.

i thought the IM come up was more impressive than IVing. the longer drawn out euphoric stage until it peaked was nice and then it just felt like a valium high for me after that.
 
I was prescribed benzos for sleep long before i was prescribed them for GAD and panic disorder. I think the first benzo i was ever prescribed was Temazepam and needless to say it was love at first site. As for the first one prescribed to me for anxiety i think it was either clonazepam or Valium i'm not sure.

When i was first officially diagnosed with GAD and panic disorder i was offered lorazepam but since it doesn't work for me very well at all i turned it down and opted for clonazepam instead. I have been on clonazepam for about 7-8 years and have been prescribed 6mg's a day for about 5 years. I usually only take 4mg's unless i am really stressed out or whatever. I haven't had any trouble with it and it still works great for my anxiety. If i had it back again though i may have went with 40mg's of Valium a day since it would be alot easier to get off then 4-6mg's of clonazepam a day. I have only gone through benzo withdrawal once and this was when i was unable to get a doctor to refill my prescription as i was far away from my regular doctor. So i had to make 10 2mg pills last me about 2 weeks which is not good if your taking 4-6mg's of clonazepam everyday for years. This was on top of opiate withdrawal (i was coming off morphine and dilaudid as i couldn't get those refilled either) and i had pneumonia so bad every breathe felt like i was being stabbed in the lungs so i couldn't breathe properly. Fun times 8(
 
Back in the mid-eighties, I went to see a counselor for some lingering anxiety following a horrible bout with postpartum depression. I was pretty anti-drug back then, so I was surprised when, after a few sessions, she brought me across the hall to speak with a psychiatrist with whom she practiced. He wound up prescribing me Buspar, which was OK, but I seldom ever took them, as at the time, I was trying to workout my issues in non-pharmaceutical ways.

When I returned to see him a couple of months later, he asked me how it was working for me, and I told him I didn't take them very often. He evidently mistook this to mean that it wasn't very effective, because I left his office that day with a prescription for Xanax. I only ever occasionally took those for sleep, and I think the thirty he prescribed me lasted me two years.

Then, in the nineties or early 2000s, my family doctor prescribed me ativan. Once again, I seldom took them, and allowed the refill to expire without ever filling it.

These days, I wish I could get some sort of benzo script, as I would definitely use them. In the intervening years, I have discovered that taking a small amount of a benzo is the means to combat the insomnia I have had all my life; I sleep like a normal person when I have them. However, I have not really pursued this,and maybe it's for the best, as it would be a bitch to become addicted to them. I mean, opiate withdrawal sucks majorly, but it isn't going to kill you. I'd be afraid of becoming physically dependent, and then finding myself unable to obtain any, and having a grand mal seizure. So, I just use benzos when they happen to fall into my hands. Sparingly and rarely.
 
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