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Just went through 4 days of the worst benzo WDs

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molly897

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I've been living off Theanine calm caps the last few days to cope with it as well as a muscle relaxant like soma. If I didn't take these I would have been back in the detox center at the hospitals ER. What an excruciating past days. Anyone going through benzo WD I highly recommend these theanine pills.. I was taking 300mg every two hours to avoid the horrible body tremors I'd get and the muscle relaxant to make me sleep. The worst WD is the one you don't have plans for. Almost lost one of my jobs cause of this. My eyes have never hurt so much and my lungs never felt like they were caving in on me like that before.

I got my prescription in the mail today though thank god so those effects hgave been subsiding
 
damn glad youre through the worst of it - are you tryin to kick it for good ? Or whats your goal ?
 
thx dude. i'm dependent on it, i was up to 8mg because my tolerance built so much but i wasn't on any SSRIs or anything. so when 8mgs stopped working i was like what the fuck i can't keep doing this. that's when i first when through WDS, i flushed like 80mg down the toilet of klonopin cause i was so mad. but i ended up in the ER four times during that stint and once i finally gave anti depressants a shot (zoloft for example), i only needed 6mg, then 4, then 3, then eventually only .5-1 but i never told anyone that cause i never wanted to run out just in case. i always let people keep thinking i can't go without 3mg a day atleast when in reality i usually only take one. i got a dr up here in NY and one in FL, so i average out like 180 pills a month. i guess in the end i am a junkie, cause i would never give out my pills or sell them i just want them there so i don't have added stress

so i'm not trying to kick it together just yet i mean when i feel i can go a day without any then maybe start taking just .5 again but for now i can't function without the shit still lol
 
I misread OP post as getting better so assumed he was thru his worst cuz it can be fast. 10 days for me personally worst did subside around day 4-5. But ya very true point benzo esp long term use wd's can be serious business , the most with death and duration being pretty damn serious!

molly897 said:
thx dude. i'm dependent on it, i was up to 8mg because my tolerance built so much but i wasn't on any SSRIs or anything. so when 8mgs stopped working i was like what the fuck i can't keep doing this. that's when i first when through WDS, i flushed like 80mg down the toilet of klonopin cause i was so mad. but i ended up in the ER four times during that stint and once i finally gave anti depressants a shot (zoloft for example), i only needed 6mg, then 4, then 3, then eventually only .5-1 but i never told anyone that cause i never wanted to run out just in case. i always let people keep thinking i can't go without 3mg a day atleast when in reality i usually only take one. i got a dr up here in NY and one in FL, so i average out like 180 pills a month. i guess in the end i am a junkie, cause i would never give out my pills or sell them i just want them there so i don't have added stress

so i'm not trying to kick it together just yet i mean when i feel i can go a day without any then maybe start taking just .5 again but for now i can't function without the shit still lol
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I feel you , after living one way for so long going without totally is such a headtrip, im doin it w opies and i feel you. .5 is so little but its that head game.
 
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L-theanine ? No offense but that shouldn't do crap for benzo wds.
You said you were also taking soma, and soma hits the GABA receptors like benzos do so that would help 1000xs more than L-theanine ever will.

I use to do a lot of experimenting back in the day with l-theanine and although its good, by itself its pretty weak. The strongest L-theanine complex on the market goes by the name "psychotropin", so if you like l-theanine you'll like psychotropin 10 times better. And you get a tolerance to it in a matter of weeks then wind up raising the dose and the l-theanine turns your shit into gas. So the more you take it, the more you will fart. L-theanine is pretty brutal actually when it comes to gas lol.

But yeh, soma should help. Glad you at least had that.
I also agree with nervous one I've never heard of benzo wds being over or even getting better in 4 days. Unless you took more then that would explain it but otherwise I'm wondering if maybe you were wding from the soma? I have no idea. But 4 days is weird.

Glad to hear you're doing better. Although I fuck around with opiates benzos are one thing I never touch no matter what. Not worth the absurdly long and intense wds for the little bit of relaxation they give you. Opiates however are much more worth it imo lol.
 
I don't know if were talking about the same thing haha I didn't have any bad gas and it was really the only thing that would stop my body from pulsating. I would wake up at like four thirty and seven cause my body was so hyperactive. I experienced alot of rem sleep too and would wake up laughing thinking my husband just said something he didn't. It was fucked.

Also it wasn't soma, just did the same thing, flexeril. Its a non opiate muscle relxant. That helped put me to sleep but the tablets I took helped way more with the physical WDS. I only took the flexeril for three days and it doesn't have a recreational use or addiction/withdrawal risk

Thanks though yeah I couldn't have gone much longer without ending up at the ER again which I wanted to do by day 3. I never thought I'd have to go through WDS again cause I always have a supply.. But I gave my husband some cause he can't afford a NY doctor without insurance and it was helping him so my stash got smaller cause his tolerance built like mine did

I was def wding from benzos cause that's all I've taken in the last yr.. I've never been able to go a day without taking it despite cutting down 7mgs. I was taking some Xanax when I ran out but only four .25 a day and that really was not enough.. Prolly cause I used to eat two bars at once..eek

I'm glad it's over though I do not want to go through this again and I won't, that is for sure. Its like I'm back into my old habits.. My skin gets dry, I don't shower, do nothin all day but lay in bed etc.. Ugh thanks though again and haha you're probably right but opiates are way harsher on your brain.. So while benzos WD is said to be worse than opiate WD.. The brain damage it causes just from use as opposed to benzos affect on your brain is minimal IMO. I wish I was getting a relaxing feeling from benzos! They just make me able to leave the house, like agoraphobia or something. I'm trapped in a box without em
 
Seeing as though you addressed the farting issue first I'm that much more eligible to think you are lying. Its no big deal if you got a ton of gas but theres no reason to hide it. I use to think for the large majority of my life that women lacked the ability to fart but I now realize its normal so don't be embarassed haha.

Ok enough of pushing mollys buttons (its really just my way of flirting with her lol).
Seriously though for w/e reason in the world both l-theanine and pure ascorbic acid give me gas to the point where my intensines feel like they're going to explode. Although I use to take high doses of each so thats prob had something to do with it. I still take ascorbic acid for my skin (high dose vitamin c is the best thing in the world for collagen synthesis/good skin/tendons/ligaments/etc) although I dropped the dose to 5000mg a day.

Also, you said soma and flexeril do the same thing and in a way they do as far as both being muscle relaxants, but only soma effects your GABA receptors, not flex. So if you're ever in benzo wds, soma would definitely be the med of preference (aside from lyrica/neurontin). Just for anyone reading this thread who might be curious.

I'm glad everything worked out though I assume you are one of those people who takes their benzos as prescribed because I never abused my klonopin when I was on it, was on it for 9 months and never got a single wd coming off. The people taking ridiculous doses like 8mg + I think are the ones who are in for a ride through hell. As long as you somewhat moderate your intake hopefully you'll be alright in the future. Good luck!!

-Bo
 
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