Posted by johnnyj on February 24, 2006, at 23:17:25 [reposted on February 25, 2006, at 13:52:05 | original URL]
In reply to Re: TO LARRY HOOVER - TRANXENE » Jeroen, posted by Larry Hoover on February 21, 2006, at 13:06:10
Hi Larry and Jereon:
My benzo story...Tranzene.
I was very irritable when I withdrew from tranzene. It was making me more depressed. I was on 22.5-mg and cut the 7.5 tabs in half to drop. It was tough but it is definately DOABLE.
The hardest for me was the last 7.5-mg. I cut it in half and was very depressed for two weeks. I did sleep a lot which was strange. I didn't really feel anxiety per se just very down. After two weeks it broke and I felt better.
I cut that in half and got very depressed again. and then I stopped it all together. I was feeling bad, but sleeping well for 1 month and then it broke and I felt better.
Some of my withdrawal symptoms were:
1. sensitive to light and especially sensitive to smells. My appetite was very bad after each drop. I could smell things so strongly it was weird. I had to eat more bland things and drink juices, etc. Not much nausea, just an overactive sense of smell that made things unappealing to me. I stuck it out each time and slowly came out of it.One good thing is that my ability to have complex thoughts and think more clear really improved.
I was on this drug for over ten years and instead of weaning off a doctor upped my dose and that eventually led to some bad depression. Going off was a sleep doctors idea and he said it probably was causing sleep disturbance and causing problems with REM. Sure enough weaning off improved my sleep. But, now I am on remeron and getting off is harder than benzo's in my opinion.
Hope this helps some. Any questions? I would be glad to answer about tranzene. Also, drink a lot of WATER while weaning off. It helped me a ton.
johnny
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