confusion + balance backwards

[titonev]

My boyfriend is 46 and since september had trouble with recent memory only, now he is totally confused, has difficulties to walk and stay in Romberg as he tends to stay only on the heels and loses balance backwards. He did 4 MRI , 2 CT , spinal liquid and thiroid test all normal.
All started in november 2014 with depression, taking benzodiazepine and paroxetin it was all fine till he quit cold turkey in may

[tschock]

It could be anxiety causing this. It could also be the "going cold turkey" as well.
Once you start on medications like those you need to be weaned off of them slowly...or you have things like this happen to you.
It took me 4 years to return to "normal" after I quit Paxil, Xanax, and whatever else I was on "cold turkey".

Have his ears been checked? I know it sounds ridiculous, but your ears are a big part of balance.
I once suffered for many years ( until I told the doctor that I was going to do the unthinkable ) before they finally did a thorough  exam and figured out that my ears were my problem. I couldn't do anything except sit and watch the world spin by, vomit, and cry.
They had already ran tests prior to that...same ones your hubby had done...and they said that it was probably MS. MS is diagnosed by ruling out everything else. Turned out that I have Menniere's Disease. It's an inner ear thing. And the MRI and CTscans didn't pick it up...the doctor looking inside my ears did.

Anyway...he should really see a doctor about this. Perhaps he still needs the medications, or new ones.

[titonev]

Thank you so much for your answer,
He did some exams for the ears after few months of taking benzodiazepnes it was all fine.
The thing is that all the doctors say that he was taking a small amount of the drug (2mg) for only 6 months. We have excluded MS plus all other dementia things...
Did you have a confusion between film on Tv and real life?
And how long did you take the pail and xanax(if it's not too personal)

Thank you again for your answer

[tschock]

When I was depressed, I had a hard time distinguishing between reality and video games/movies/etc at times. I had become addicted to an online game...and I started dragging the game into real life, and real life into the game. It was all very confusing. Once I started taking the meds it only made it worse. I had quit playing the game, but I also quit living. I was a zombie. I did nothing. Sat on the couch all day and drooled and twitched. The pills ( xanax mainly) has a bad habit of causing tics and yawning.
I was on low doses of paxil and xanax ( baby doses the doctor called them ) and was on each of them for a total of about 8 months.
My body is apparently very sensitive to medications though, so even on the lowest dosage of xanax I looked like I was on drugs and drinking. My speech was slurred, I couldn't walk, couldn't focus, couldn't think. My mom took my ( then ) 2, 5, and 9 year old sons away from me because of the way I was acting. Instead of taking me to a doctor and saying " Look at this. Why is she acting this way?"...nope...took the kids away. That's what made me go off of them cold turkey...I couldn't live without my babies!
They are now in their 20's...and my oldest one barely remembers my depression.
The worst side effect that I experienced was the start of panic attacks. They were horrible! I was at the hospital every single night thinking that I was going to die at any moment.
Hope that helps a bit. If you need anything else, don't be afraid to ask. If you don't ask...you won't know. lol!