Posted by floatingbridge on July 19, 2011, at 7:15:47
In reply to Re: ammending severe xanax withdrawal » floatingbridge, posted by jedi on July 19, 2011, at 1:00:31
Jedi, thanks. I had no idea. The stuttering came on with a panic attack and stayed. I assumed Xanax. Jeez. Two potential agents. This was not my idea at all. I would never have discontinued either, frankly, especially abruptly and simultaneously.
>Good Luck FB,
> I would be really careful about stopping the Xanax at the same time you are coming off Emsam. I just raised my clonazepam back up to 1mg from .5mg because of anxiety from a, hopefully short term, financial crisis. I'll take it back down to ZERO soon, but now is not the time for me. My guess would be the stuttering is more likely be related to the selegiline than the Xanax. Stuttering is thought to be related, at least in part, to dopamine hyperactivity in the brain. (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15212606)
> Good Luck and be Well - Things will be better soon,
> Jedi
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> > Thanks for the practical advice. Anxiety was breaking through the Xanax. Last year I had trimmed it back to almost 0.25mg per day. So the escalation has been steady :-/
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> > I guess I would take Valium and just slowly work down. I don't know. I don't get to write scripts. Not sure gabapentin would be okay after all because of a bad reaction to Lyrica.
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> > I see a new shrink tomorrow. Just want to cover my bases. I have no idea what might get trotted out....
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> > Thanks.
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