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Hi everyone,
@parus mentioned a discussion on Spirituality that @hopeful33250 started. It is a wonderful discussion that I all those invite who wish to continue to explore spirituality and health to participate in:
- How Spirituality Can Help Stress https://connect.mayoclinic.org/discussion/how-spirituality-can-help-stress/
I'd like to bring the topic of this discussion back into focus about benzodiazepines and protracted withdrawal.
@creatineboy you mentioned the drug flumazenil (trademarked as Romazicon and Anexate), which is a benzodiazepine antagonist, a type of drug that counteracts the effects of benzodiazepines. Have you used flumazenil? What was your experience?
@num1boxer1919 @beckysn and @elsa1000, you talk about sleep quality since tapering off a benzo. Sleep is so fundamentally important to our health overall. What do you do help promote good sleep?
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I've been trying to practice good "sleep hygiene". (such an odd phrase!) This includes going to bed at the same time and going to bed only to sleep. This goes against a long habit of mine to always fall asleep to the background of the T.V. Also, no coffee after noon. I thought insomnia would be the biggest obstacle in d/c'ing the benzo. Turns out, I'm getting better sleep than I've gotten for too many years to count. I wish I'd known the medication was messing with my restorative sleep as much as it was. I don't know whether the a.m. supplements I started taking during the titration have helped with sleep but just in case: 2000mg fish oil and 2000mg Vitamin D3. And a decent multi-vitamin.
Regarding my titration, I am down to .5mg Valium (diazepam) once a day for another week and a half, then done. I was going to jump off at 1mg but had enough medication to do .5mg for two weeks. So what the heck. I haven't had to deal with much withdrawal (if at all) so I'm erring on the side of caution. Happy Valentine's Day to us all!