Posted by dms777smd on November 20, 2003, at 19:44:03
In reply to Re: Xanax Withdrawal » maxx44, posted by dms777smd on November 20, 2003, at 19:35:52
> > benzos are a plague at this point. they have short term uses, but i and many others were put on them long-term with no adequate warning. you can't just stop. it's generally a long taper-down process, perhaps followed by what's termed 'protracted withdrawal syndrome'---i got myself off of years on librium, but 'out-of-the-blue' 4 months later was hit with full withdrawal again. i couldn't believe it. as an ex 'hippy', i've seen drugs---and easily quit---but benzos? long-term? check dr. heather ashton's site---there you'll find a way out, if any.
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> That is very strange how it hit you again 4 months later.I've never heard of such a thing.Are you sure it wasn't just all the years on and you just started having panic attacks?Or did it really feel like withdrawal.Also,were you getting off of, or doing any other drugs?Getting off of alcohol maybe?I kind of want to hear (in more detail)your story because it sounds strange to me.I've been through the worst alcohol withdrawals,but after I got through that they didn't come back.I just get panic attacks a lot.Wait a minute,,I just read something on this "protracted withdrawal" and I think I've been fooling myself.I think I have the same thing because there is this site and they have a chart with what normal anxiety should be like,then what protracted withdrawal can be like.I have a lot of these symtoms but maybe I just drank for so long,and had so many withdrawals,that I forgot what normal anxiety felt like.Check it out,here's the link. http://www.benzo.org.uk/pha-1.htm
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