Posted by Chairman_MAO on May 12, 2005, at 13:38:36
In reply to Re: Withdrawal is AWFUL! » Chairman_MAO, posted by Hlar on May 9, 2005, at 9:59:22
Trazodone has plenty of side effects, most notably FEELING DRUGGED DURING MOST OF THE DAY. It has an alpha-1 adrenergic blockade, which can induce feelings of fatigue, etc. When I used trazodone to sleep, I felt horrible until 4PM the next day. It was 8+ months of utter hell that I went through because I did not have access to a competent doctor, and my parents were dead set against helping me get one.
Get off that crap, you will feel much better! Even seroquel to sleep is much more tolerable than trazodone in my experience. As you might be realizing, if you were placed on morphine + amphetamine, you would likely have none of these problems. (not advocating that necessarily, just illustrating the behavioral and neurophysiological toxicity of the newer drugs) If you used GHB for a sleep aid, you'd be rested and refreshed every night.
In the former soviet union, they used galantamine + extremely high doses of clonazepam (15-20mg/day) to treat schizophrenia, psychosis, etc. with EXCELLENT results (remission in many cases). The galantamine eliminated the sedation and cognitive impairment that otherwise would result from such a large dose of clonazepam. This treatment has virtually no untoward side effects, and certainly is devoid of all of the toxic effects of antipsychotics, even the "modern" ones. I have spoken to schizophrenics who've told me that heroin completely eliminates their symptoms. The efficacy of opioids in psychotic states is another deep, dark secret that psychiatry doesn't want you to know about.
Make no mistake: In the US, unless you are lucky enough to find a doctor for whom compassion is a primary motivator, no one cares about your actual well-being. People are simply captive customers for the pharmaceutical companies to unleash their latest creations on at inflated prices.
Given the choice, I always opt for the OLDEST compound on the market that does what I want it to do, simply because the most is known abuot their long-term effects on human tissue. Ironically, it seems that ONLY the old drugs do what I want them to do, anyway.
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