Posted by Alan on February 21, 2002, at 13:50:33
In reply to Re: B E N Z O SquigglesSquiggles, posted by Squiggles on February 21, 2002, at 12:51:36
> Alan,
>
> It is true that i am not providing statistical
> or medical evidence that X is more addictive than
> K. Yes - what i say is andecdotal - my anecdote,
> and therefore being solitary as far as I know,
> is also statistically insignificant.
>
> However, it could be true.
>
> I would have to do search for you; it is not
> after all is if you are providing any evidence
> to the contrary.
>
> My anecdote? After 7 yrs or so on 0.25-1.0 X
> I started getting panic attacks between gulping
> the stuff down quick before another panic attack
> came.
>
> In the case of K whereupon my doctor decided it
> was time to raise (double) the dose, something
> completely different happnened - I would get
> bouts of Dyspnea and double up on the bed to
> get a breath; also the co-ingestion of K with
> Lithium brought this on.
>
> The picture is not complete as I had thyroid
> problems as well - what can I say - I am glad to
> not be a doctor!
>
> But I could search around for the X and K dif.
> in withdrawal if you like?
>
> Squiggles
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It's just that I didn't want observers that are considering or are on xanax to be mislead that it was anything other than anecdotal...no disrespect intended. It sounds like something was different in your case, possibly a complicating issue..The research that I've seen and that my pdoc is up on shows no general trend in that direction for any particular BZD....that one BZD is more apt to build tolerance as you put it. It's usually the medication that gets blamed rather than medical issues that are patient related that predispose the patient to increased "addiction" risk. That's my understanding anyway.
Best,
Alan
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