that's a lot of downers with ethanol for a long time.
I know why I would feel that way after a similar length of time / abuse of similar substances::
I started getting bad AWS (alcohol withdrawal symptom) usually same day/ the night of the day. No more partying and waking up the next day feeling awful, i start feeling shaky/insane/anxious
and terrible about 6 hours after starting drinking no matter what.
best decision i made was getting myself off bzds and ethanol. It was, as stevie nicks describes, "Like walking through hell," but worth every step imo.
I hope you feel better. I'd have to know more about how much you drank / when / when the pills were timed, but yeah, ill bet you've just got a helluva glutamate rebound thing going on, especially if you
somehow are experiencing a plasma drop in the ativan (it doesn't have a super long half life) as well as the ethanol wearing off/being converted to acetaldehyde. what clues me in is the "i
was drinking quite a bit" meaning you had been drinking heavily throughout the day, taken pills, then stopped the ethanol and some time later felt a rush of anxiety/shakiness etc? if I am correct in the scenario I have laid out,
well, I would seriously look at tapering/quitting the GABA agents.
If you have that kind of damage, it does not get better as long as you are smashing the GABA receptors.
not only that, but it can progress (as it did with me) to serious seizure activity territory.
I will drop a link about kindling and GABA agents. Nothing has been more damaging to me / my mental functioning than the loooooong standing GABA abuse habit (phenibut, ghb, ethanol, gabapentin, baclofen, every benzo ever made, methaqualone, phenobarbital, pregabalin, and I'm sure there's probably a couple I'm forgetting.
I can't take any of that shit now or I experience immediate electrical repercussions. that last 4/5 days. absolutely not worth it i just leave em alone at this point.
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