thanx avis! I sometimes jump out of my skin when I see the comments about benzo...
Maybe I'm the lucky one, and I will admit that while I would be talking to my dr., he would already be writing a script for me, then out the door. I suffer awful anxiety and after exhausting all anti-depressants for anxiety, my dr. put me on Xanax,( I actually argued w/him that he already had me on this before,( it really was Zantac 75 for the Celebrex I was on, I just had never heard of Xanax before. This was 12 yrs ago.))Anyways, my final dose was 1 1/2mg, 4x's/day, or 6mg, daily, and I was on this for 2 1/2yrs. Once he found out I was using H, he took me off the xanax, but it didn't take too long. I went from 1 1/2 mg, 4x's/day to 1mg, 4x's/day for a week then 1/2mg, 4x's/day for a week then break the 1/2's into 1/4's and take those 4x's/day for a week and at the end I felt fine. Believe me, I know how awful the w/drawals are from bz's. Second only to opiates IMO.
Everyone here is right, tho, drs. help is needed and you need to taper fairly slow. I have a friend who had 3 seizures stoping CT, and the last time his head ended up under a cars tire, just as this person was backing out. Thank god his friends were there or he wouldn't be here today. I think that is the biggest scare a dr. has w/giving out benzos, having a seizure. Then dying, so read up before accepting the prescription, and if you feel uncomfortable, there are new benzo-TYPE drugs, ie.Buspar and Effexor. I hear those work fairly well, and are non-addictive.
I just wanted to add that with the benzo's its important to have a doctor involved... the taper requires a couple of months of slowly reducing your dose and will require a lot of different strengths of meds along the way...I did this under a doctors supervision and it was still difficult to do under the best of circumstances...please seek professional help with this.. this is not a do it your self project.........Gnarly
These are just the main ones. ANY benzo needs to be tapered.
there are a few more benzos the ones i name are the most used
Thanks for putting this up avis.....We always need to be careful with these meds.
benzodiazepines are xanax ,ativan,klonopin ,valium. Valium is the safest of of the benzos but is still addictive and needs to be tapered .
the most used barubate Chemical Name
Butalbital is the gerinic name
Fiorinal, Fioricet now there are many many more but this is the one that we see here the most and we have seen the most abuse of on this forum
avisg could you please explain the more common names of these meds as alot of people wont know what your refering to thanks Free...