Posted by Squiggles on August 4, 2002, at 11:47:58
In reply to Re: p.s. the relative virtues of clonazepam, posted by katekite on August 4, 2002, at 10:53:14
Hi Kate,
Thank you for your concern;
Yes, thank you.
I am ok now, especially after raising
the dose from the initial 1.0 to 1.50 mg
which is where i am now.The real trouble (seizure/stroke) happened at 0.125 going down.
In case it is of interest it was last summer -
the summer of extreme heat, maybe 95 degrees
Farenheit in the room, and had been hot for months.I was very sick after the head fire/stroke
feeling - i couldn;t walk, i kept falling asleep
standing up, and i had very bad headaches, as
if i had been in a car crash. The pain was
in the center back of the head where the
eels had taken place a year before. At that
time my skin had turned into a paper like
consistency. I had diarrhea all the time.I also had severe depression both mental and physical;
The weirdest thing was the temperature fluctuation - or blood,
which lasted a long time - even now i think my
temprerature regulation is off a bit.
I was bedridden for a month.I am curious what would have happened if my
husband had not intervened and asked me to
reinstate the whole dose at the time of
seizure and severe anxiety.I had many disagreements
on the Benzo group - my position being that when
people got sick they should be permitted to
reinstate, their general position being that
you should go through the fire.I really don;t know if i did the right thing,
but I am very happy to be stable now.thanks and i hope my experience is of some
benefit; my apologies for sounding a bit
overreactive about lamictal; i think i am just
apprehensive after all the adventures i had.Squiggles
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