Posted by Cherry Carver on June 2, 2009, at 15:00:39
In reply to long term benefit from single benzo, posted by linkadge on May 28, 2009, at 20:51:06
> Hey, I wanted to know if anybody else has had longer term improvement in their condition after taking a single benzodiazapine. This week for me has not been good - mood & anxiety. I took a single temazepam a few nights ago and got a good rest. The next day I felt much better. The night after that I slept fine without a benzo.
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> Has anyone had this happen to them - where a single benzodiazapine produced benefit that exceeded the duration of the drug's action?
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I have two stories about that, one as a consequence of the other.In 1994 I suffered a massive panic attack that had been slowly creeping up on me for literally months. My husband has a similar disorder for which he takes lorezepam (Ativan). After three days of agony, during which I couldn't eat, sleep, read, or watch TV without becoming even more terrified than I was, he gave me one dose of his lorazepam (two mgs). Twenty minutes later, I was sound asleep.
My doctor subsequently prescribed me my own lorazepam, two mgs/daily. Though the panic stayed away, I became increasingly depressed until I attempted suicide in 1995. After leaving the hospital I went off lorazepam cold-turkey, which sent me into terrible withdrawal and worse panic than before.
My shrink sent me to an addictionologist who told me that I was dying of the withdrawal from lorazepam. He immediately put me on Klonopin. Unlike lorazepam, the Klonopin made me feel completely normal again within an hour of taking it. It was given to me strictly as a take-down drug, but because it worked so well, I asked my doctor to put me on it permanently because the panic came back immediately after I discontinued the take-down dosage.
For me, Klonopin works. Thank God for it. I never want to feel that sickness again.
poster:Cherry Carver
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