Posted by Vincent_QC on July 5, 2013, at 10:55:50
In reply to Re: Luvox users here? » Vincent_QC, posted by Phillipa on July 4, 2013, at 22:58:50
> Seriously I found the Ativan the most calming of all the benzos. Lexapro is much more activating for me. Night. Phillipa
Everyone is different I guess... I did try a switch to the Ativan at the end of 2009, from 8 mg of clonazepam to 14 mg of Ativan and it was a disaster... The Ativan make me feel dumb and stupid and can't remember words I want to say and things like that... Also make my heart rate increase and I don't know why...
For me the best benzo in the world is the midazolam... Call versed I think... Anyway in 2010 I had 2 IV injections for a gastroscopy medical test and felt sooooo good on it... The effect don't last long enough and in the Canada they don't have it in pills, only IV injection... I had a long colonoscopy last year and they give to me 3 IV injections of versed with fentanyl and it didn't stop the pain at all or the anxiety... The nurses was in shock to see that I was still wide awake and in pain, she told me that most of the people's fall asleep wih 1 IV injection of versed and don't remember the medic exam at all, most of the people so sleep 1 h after... Me I was ready to get out of the hospital 5 minute after the colonoscopy, but they didn't want that I leave and had to wait 1 hour sit on the hospit bed before having the ok from the nurse to leave... I think my tolerance level to the hypnotic effect of the benzo is very high on me...
My family Doc goes to the San-fransisco annual meeting for the American psychiatric association last may, he told me a bunch of stuff he see there, conferences about newer AD who will launch soon by lundbeck, who by the way don't look promising at all, my Doc said that they call the newer AD dirty drugs... Cause they hit many receptors in the brain and some of the are not well studied... So they don't know really what kind of long term effect the new drugs can have.... He also assist to a conference about cocaine addiction and they will have a vaccine soon for that... Also a conference about benzodiazepine addiction, where he learn that in some people's like me who develop a strong tolerance to the effect of the benzo meds, the GABA - a receptor tend to mutate and change form often so the benzo can't bind to the receptor... Some people's will not develop tolerance at all and the GABA receptor will not change... Apparently it's genetic... They don't know if the receptors can return to the normal state after someone who have mutation at th GABA receptors, stop the benzo meds... I think overall that the psychiatric medical field don't evoluate at all in the last 60 years... And the new DSM-5 is somewhat a messy book; it's not evolution for sure!!!
Anyway, dentist today, 3 hours appointment, 6 cavities to repair... Have to be there 30 minutes earlier cause I need a lot of injections before not feeling pain... Last time, my dentist use 12 cartridge of mevipacaine without epinephrine and she had to stop her work cause she reach the maximum allowed dose of 400 mg... She said anxiety often lead to less anaesthesic effect and sometimes she have to refer a patient to the hospital where they will put him asleep to be able to repair the teeth... General anaesthesia... I don't like the injections, even if they don't have epinephrine, they make me feel dizzy, fainting, also heart rate is irregular, all side effects from high dose of local anaesthesic... Even if she don't inject in a vein and use an aspiration siringue to be sure she don't inject in a vein, a little dose of the anaesthesia to into the blood stream and its affect the central nervous system...
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