Posted by Alan on November 7, 2002, at 18:16:54
In reply to Re: Benzodiazapines and drug life cycles » Alan, posted by Squiggles on November 7, 2002, at 15:08:33
> I don't *have* anxiety; I *never* had anxiety;
> i *got* anxiety by taking Xanax, and being
> given a too high dose of Synthroid. Anxiety
> is gone now *bye bye* because I got off the
> Xanax and the Synthroid was lowered (though
> the latter is hypothetical in its contribution);
> The medical vogue of prescribing benzos for
> everything under the sun screwed up a lot of
> people royally.
>
> I have not had ONE panic attack since getting
> off Xanax. I wouldn't doubt that if a specialist
> in pharmacology got me off all my drugs, i would
> not feel anything at all, except health.
>
> Squiggles
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Oh. How does that explain the "get real" comment?Synthroid in the wrong dosage is well documented in the literature as causing anxiety or hyperstimulation /hyperarousal of the autonomic nervous sysem while xanax does not. The misdiagnosis and mismanagement (short of just one of those that has a bad reaction in the first place to a drug in general) is the main reason why one hears about panic coming from a drug like xanax...mainly from withdrawal in an unsupervised or ill advised dosage regime....but then one can have a paradoxical reaction to any drug, not just bzds.
If you were prescribed xanax for something other than an anxiety disorder like to counteract the synthroid miscalculations then I can see how one would conclude that xanax was the culprit while one was just trying to counteract the synthoid hyperstimulation.
Yes, overprescription for everything for ANY drug (as in ssris) fits part of the drug life cycle of drugs in general, not just bzds. Bzds started over 30 years ago, ssri's, 10.
What makes you conclude that being off of all medication altogether would return you to feel anything but health?
Curious,
Alan
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