Meds how is alprazolam withdrawal supposed to feel like ?

[LucidSDreamr]

Ask yourself this , how the heck did you get through childhood without the pills?

I didn’t have chronic pain.

I’m close or may be mildly dependent on diazepam.

I got off methadone I was using for the pain but the diazepam also help this pain a lot (more than opioids even sometimes). Now that I chose not to rely on opiates for pain the diazepam intake has increased. I take 10 mg maybe 3 to 5 days a week. Sometimes I’ll go a whole week without it. Sleep is severely disrupted and I was always trying to get off methadone so I couldn’t tell which withdrawl was setting in benzos or methadone.

I can say that diazepam does very little to stop the withdrawal (when I was also taking methadone); so I trick myself into thinking it was only the methadone I was dependent on; but I’ve been told by trusted ppl in BL I’m lying to myself and I may be dependent and they may be right.

I would choose to be on methadone instead of diazepam; since the withdrawl is much easier, but opioids are so much harder to aquire from doctors vs benzos so I almost feel safer being dependent on a benzo vs opiates because it may one day be impossible to get scripted opioids again (America hates them more than anything and they are almost illegal basically even in medicine).

 

[crazyhairman]

I might be wrong but I would put addiction and chemical dependent as different definitions. They might effect you the same way psychologically. I'm not trying to sound preachy it's just been my experience.

You could be perfectly fine not addicted at all but still very much dependent on said substance.

It's a slippery slope honest to God. If I could go back and do things different I probably wouldn't because of the benefits that I received from taking the benzos. As bad as my side effects were as rough as recovery was I still think that they positively impacted my life at that point.

So your long-term risk analysis is up to you.

You asked about withdrawal, if I could name it I'd call it "The long psychosis" or "The long fuck you"
But once you go through it it's kinda therapeutic in it's own fucked up way. Like life's all downhill after that bs.

Idk I'm a very glass half full guy these days. The fact that you're self aware of some of the consequences is a good sign. But you know yourself better than anyone here. You're going to have to run your own experiments. You can try to taper off safely and just use them as needed, but those jidders may not be worth it to you.

Look coming off of anything after you're brain chemistry has adjusted is uncomfortable. It's up to you weather you want to play through the discomfort or not.

I hope y'all have a chill week. It was a pleasure talking with you.

 

[AlphaMethylPhenyl]

I might be wrong but I would put addiction and chemical dependent as different definitions. They might effect you the same way psychologically. I'm not trying to sound preachy it's just been my experience.

You could be perfectly fine not addicted at all but still very much dependent on said substance.

It's a slippery slope honest to God. If I could go back and do things different I probably wouldn't because of the benefits that I received from taking the benzos. As bad as my side effects were as rough as recovery was I still think that they positively impacted my life at that point.

So your long-term risk analysis is up to you.

You asked about withdrawal, if I could name it I'd call it "The long psychosis" or "The long fuck you"
But once you go through it it's kinda therapeutic in it's own fucked up way. Like life's all downhill after that bs.

Idk I'm a very glass half full guy these days. The fact that you're self aware of some of the consequences is a good sign. But you know yourself better than anyone here. You're going to have to run your own experiments. You can try to taper off safely and just use them as needed, but those jidders may not be worth it to you.

Look coming off of anything after you're brain chemistry has adjusted is uncomfortable. It's up to you weather you want to play through the discomfort or not.

I hope y'all have a chill week. It was a pleasure talking with you.

Great! Yes dependence and addiction are different. Dependence involves a steady dose, addiction an eveer-increasing amount.

Benzos might be a good at first sort of treatment, not too long though or your CNS gets heavily, heavily dependent on it. I do think they help some people who take them long-term, not me.

Fucking glass is half full for sure