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I've never had seizures so unsure of what warning signs, if any you would get. Someone here was talking about it but I can't recall who.

You know what's kind of fucked is if you went to the hospital for alcohol withdrawal, they would give you Librium and keep you for observation. Seems like the medical community either doesn't know or just discounts the seriousness of benzo withdrawal. I hope you get something today!
 
I got my bars!!! Yes!!! Obviously this situation is not ideal, I started abusing the benzos I was using for panic attacks when I was withdrawing from H last spring and didn't want to quit yet just get through the sickness. Now that I'm not using opiates, I don't need to abuse them anymore but I am finding myself addictive as fuck. The withdrawal is unpleasant.

I agree completely, and there is so much support for people in opiate recovery. There should be for people in benzo withdrawal too, legit slow tapers and anti-seizure meds and therapy and stuff should be the norm. It isn't. I had a mental breakdown earlier last year and I was very close to being put into a week long forced detox. They knew I am prescribed valium and were not going to allow me to take it. I was freaking out, I just know I wouldn't get a damn pill and they don't know how dangerous that is once you are good and hooked on high doses of benzos.

I might talk to my GP but like there's so much stigma it's insane. It is like I am coming clean about something naughty. I had anxiety and I was suicidal in heroin withdrawal, had like 10 grams of etizolam laying around and alpraz powder too and didn't give a fuck if I was going to live or die anyway. I want to get healthy now. I'm really considering talking to my GP because she's hot, blond, actually compassionate (very rare in doctors I find, I feel like she genuinely cares about me) - so I think I might talk to the medical professional I am most comfortable with regarding this.

Doctors know nothing. My doctor told me I got valium because it has the longest half life (not her, the dumb fuck who kept giving me oxy's when I saw in his eyes he knew I was nodding out every appointment)... yeah, cause it accumulates in fat. The effects in my experience are short lived even with daily use, and tolerance rises fast with that one. I prefer clonazepam and lorazepam but having xanax bars is more than good enough.

My entire life would have fallen apart if I didn't get them today. I was about to snap and this is yet another secret hard drug habit that is catching up with me.

Man the health care system is just stupid in this country. I literally could have died today and they have fucked me over so bad I'm too nervous to go in and talk about a very serious health problem. I should be prescribed the dose I'm stable on and start tapering off. I think the only person who might be compassionate enough to help is my GP. Telling her the dose I take daily might give her a heart attack though. It's nice when someone like that actually cares, you know? Not like a 5 minute here's your oxy refill next in line.

It is also crazy how I have not required help to endure opiate withdrawal so far. I am 44 days clean which isn't much, but I did it cold turkey with the support of friends from this site and a very few select people I told in my personal life to keep an eye on me. I knew it wasn't life threatening and that was comforting. Today was a real wakeup call, but I need a special doctor to work with me on this. I can't do it on me own and I'm not doing it without a slow taper because I've put my body through so much stress already, I just don't think I'd live very long. I'm really thinking my GP. She's chill, hot, blond, compassionate, and she might faint and hit the floor if I told her how much I've been taking. I'm nervous that shit would be on my record then though, not that I ever want opiates ever again but for the time being I want to taper to a lower dose as I have daily flight or flight responses.
 
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I wish I could find Tranxene on the streets (not trying to source), that's the godsend they give me in detox along sith clonidine, pheobarb, etc. It's apparently a benzo really only used for alcohol and sometimes opioid withdrawal, and apparently has a rather high chance of causing seizures in those prone to them. I prefer it to methadone or subs any day.
 
I have never heard of that before. It seems like an interesting benzo, looks like a more complex lorazepam and I like ativan.
I'm not taking methadone or subs, that would be if I continue to relapse. I'm at a month and a half and feeling good though.
I recover from opiates physically fast, I am still rather young and healthy, but my anxiety issues are getting ridiculous it turns into a vicious cycle of abuse with benzos and opiates, sometimes coke.
Heading to a yin yoga meditation class tonight. Haven't smoked all afternoon to get nice and lit. After that benzo ordeal, I need to relax by some candlelight in quiet meditation. Got a nice fluffy hybrid to rip some bong just before leaving. I'm cutting back on the weed too... I've completely fucked up my life at this point. To the extent that my entire world nearly fell apart today and there was a very real chance of death / uncomfortable medical intervention before I got my stuff.
 
My claim to fame? I was thanked in the liner notes to a guy I only knew via the Internet's first (and I believe final) musical release. His name was Joey, the project was called Tyrannosaurusex. Album was called Cities of the Red Night (Burroughs fan). Yup. Basically he thanked me for putting him in touch with a guy running the label that subsequently released his tape, was called Prairie Fire.

*Diamond Dallas Paige BLAM w/fireworks*
 
Well we can marry our first cousin so long as we sign paperwork saying we won't have kids... It's fucked up but I'm serious, might drive that 6 miles lol.

My claim to fame is rather local, I'm the crazy ass former dope dealer.
 
So where the fuck is everyone, especially our lovely od mods, all but scrof are MIA

I have the house to myself for three weeks simultaneous to seasonal employment with bizarre hours, doing production that doesn't require you to say a word to anyone for an entire 10 hour day, and an unexpected cash flow, plus after the last week the employers rolled back and I suddenly have two days off, which is good because I don't even know what time it is. Plus for complex reasons there are massive projects underway that require heavy cleaning and reorganization.

All of that, plus propane torch on a newly perfected meth bong means I can vaporize a quarter gram in ten seconds. It is not a good thing, probably. But there is so much garbage flying, my brain will forgive me later.


OOoooh, and then, see seasonal employment, means that last weekend was my one-year anniversary of the crystalization portion of my life, and lurking Bluelight for how to smoke with a Bic outside (you cannot).

Also, so far, still (not openly) counting, my last drunk. I may be bugeyed with half the kitchen dismantled at 1am, but yesterday I got to work at 6am with clean clothes and shaved. One year plus like a month ago, in this situation, I would be blacked out, or if I made it to work, have to go out to the car every hour to get anti-WD swigs, too shaky to do the work right, so half-assing it and cheating while staring at the clock till I could get a load on, until I'm fired after two days.

Then, triggering an epic ambulatory days-long blackout with two arrests and two hospitalizations. The recovery from that takes a good month of vomiting. Not exaggeration, that was how it went three years ago. And so far, back to over a gram a day for this work-vacation, I can be up for 108 hours eating little but garbage, hallucinating, and remember everything, I've broken nothing, started no fights, scared no neighbors, fed all the animals, and fucking cleaned anything up better than it was.

When I've stopped at this level before, I get sleepy and depressed. Boo fucking hoo. I can use a spoon, goddammit, you can't do that in alcohol WD. For fuck's sake, it's absolutely ming-boggling to me, to wake up to have no morning meth, and just put your shoes on like normal and go about your day, eating a lot and nodding a bit. NOT A SINGLE TWINGE OF NAUSEA, no desperate search for some substitute, clawing at your self, vibrating in place, unable to stand up straight and needing a bucket next to the bed for any fluids I bring up. And then seizing, which is actually good cause it means hospitals and IV benzos, and my other favorite drug in the universe, ondansetron.

SO let's all celebrate reduced harm, in switching from alcohol to absolutely anything.

PS., TC, there are no warning signs of impending seizure. You feel fine, then mid-sentence suddenly you're waking up from a vivid dream. They don't hurt, you don't feel a thing, don't experience any time loss, don't experience anything.
 
PS., TC, there are no warning signs of impending seizure. You feel fine, then mid-sentence suddenly you're waking up from a vivid dream. They don't hurt, you don't feel a thing, don't experience any time loss, don't experience anything.
this.
i woke up in an ambulance. no memory of anything untoward, and absolutely no warning signs.
be careful man - it really is essential to taper as best you can.
 
Yip, you suddenly have a bunch of strange people in odd suits (paramamedics) trying to convince you you had a seizure. Very disconcerting.

The only warning signs for me are twitches and brain zaps, but they won't tell you one is imminent - just that you may be on the verge of a nasty surprise in the next day or two.

IME seizures happen about 72 hours after last dose, sometimes a bit later. Obviously that's different for everyone though.
 
Hey y'all ...just sittin here pissed cause I just finished off a bun of Iron Man 2s...pretty much the only halfway decent dope I can get a hold of atm. Feel good but I expect to be in the Land of Nod...my tolerance is all fuckd up and it's hard to keep $$$ in my pocket instead of the dealers...

Anyways hope you all have a great day...And to all the SSI and SSDI peeps getting ready for tomorrow...Be strong not to spend all your (Hard earned) money in one day...=D
 
Make sure you're not doing deny as that will shoot your tolerance up so high dope won't work and you'll only be able to get hours of relief at best with fent
 
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