Posted by laima on February 7, 2007, at 9:56:52
In reply to Re: Benzo Confidential -)Squiggles, posted by Squiggles on February 7, 2007, at 9:31:43
I guess I dont want to go through years of daily withdrawals or rebound anxiety- whatever one wishes to call it, to find out.You're brave :)
I'm confident, based on what I've read and been told though, that after a good break, if I use clonazepam or another benzo again, it will have regained some if not all efficacy. Whatever receptors slow or shut down from the effects of the clonazepam, I understand, are capable of rebound. (Whatever specifically it is that they do- sorry I am not so technical.) I've been doing much better now anxiety than I have in eons with the way things played out, for whatever reason, so I'll opt to not use benzos for the time being, so that they will be effective for me when I, should I, ever desperately need one again.
Like I said- I'm a huge fan of clonazapam and most benzos- just pretty bummed over the tolerance problems that are possible with chronic use- the possibility that benzo won't be effective for a dire episode, as well as withdrawal issues. I do not wish to in any way offend anyone using benzos of any sort, hope I haven't come across that way.
> It can produce tolerance but the tolerance seems to stop after many yrs. of taking the same dose. I can only conclude from this that withdrawal may have taken place, and you no longer have the action of the drug's activity-- just its shadow,
> in the form of changes in the brain perhaps-- which you feel if you withdraw-- much like losing disturbing a receptor state-- it never comes back if it's asleep, but it hurts when you wake it up.
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> Squiggles
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