I've been a benzo user on and off since 2002.
2002-2005 = Mild usage ranging to idiotic.
2005-2009 = Little to no usage.
Late 2009+ = Mild usage ranging to idiotic.
In the periods of mild usage there were breaks, it wasn't like years straight or anything but here's the brass tacks.
I've been taking Etizolam for around the past year, 2-8mg a night (yeah I know 8mg is high but it's equipotent to 4mg xanax which is "only two bars") because it's so damn cheap.
Around 3 1/2 weeks ago I developed an eye lid twitch (blepharospasm) in my right eye. I had been exercising a lot so I blamed it on that and it never got better. Saw my GP two weeks ago and mentioned Etizolam in passing and he didn't think much of it. Wiki of course links blepharospasm as a direct cause of prolonged usage of Etizolam but here's the real question:
When I switched back to Klonopin from Etizolam the twitches only got "lighter" in intensity, they didn't go away completely until today. It's been around 48 hours since I had any Klonopin (0.25mg, seriously) and the twitches are completely gone.
The thing is I kinda need a daily benzo, at least at night -- I never take benzos in the day, but how the fuck can I go 11 years with no issues and then it all of a sudden comes up on me?
I'm in good health, slightly overwight (15lbs according to the BMI which isn't much, this is why I've been back in the gym) and as far as stress or other causes of blepharospasm I don't have those. Life is about a 7.5/10, could be better, could be A LOT worse.
I'm scared to take the benzos again because the blepharospasm was driving me fucking crazy. It was just a small flutter in my eyelid every few seconds and come to fucking think about it now that I'm typing this out, they seemed to subside towards the evening -- about when the halflife of the benzo was expiring.
I dunno. Thoughts?
2002-2005 = Mild usage ranging to idiotic.
2005-2009 = Little to no usage.
Late 2009+ = Mild usage ranging to idiotic.
In the periods of mild usage there were breaks, it wasn't like years straight or anything but here's the brass tacks.
I've been taking Etizolam for around the past year, 2-8mg a night (yeah I know 8mg is high but it's equipotent to 4mg xanax which is "only two bars") because it's so damn cheap.
Around 3 1/2 weeks ago I developed an eye lid twitch (blepharospasm) in my right eye. I had been exercising a lot so I blamed it on that and it never got better. Saw my GP two weeks ago and mentioned Etizolam in passing and he didn't think much of it. Wiki of course links blepharospasm as a direct cause of prolonged usage of Etizolam but here's the real question:
When I switched back to Klonopin from Etizolam the twitches only got "lighter" in intensity, they didn't go away completely until today. It's been around 48 hours since I had any Klonopin (0.25mg, seriously) and the twitches are completely gone.
The thing is I kinda need a daily benzo, at least at night -- I never take benzos in the day, but how the fuck can I go 11 years with no issues and then it all of a sudden comes up on me?
I'm in good health, slightly overwight (15lbs according to the BMI which isn't much, this is why I've been back in the gym) and as far as stress or other causes of blepharospasm I don't have those. Life is about a 7.5/10, could be better, could be A LOT worse.
I'm scared to take the benzos again because the blepharospasm was driving me fucking crazy. It was just a small flutter in my eyelid every few seconds and come to fucking think about it now that I'm typing this out, they seemed to subside towards the evening -- about when the halflife of the benzo was expiring.
I dunno. Thoughts?