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I've been on Xanax since age 15 I'm 54 :( help
Depression & Anxiety | Last Active: Mar 4 11:45am | Replies (121)Comment receiving replies
Benzos only work for several weeks after that, your body builds up a tolerance to them. I’m sure you have a lot of symptoms that you think are caused by something else but they’re all caused by this poison. Why they have issued a blackbox warning on these and many doctors have stopped prescribing them. There are millions of people that have had their lives ruined from taking these for so long and all doctors do is keep poly drugging them for every symptom they have when it’s caused by the benzo itself.
I was only on them for four months because I was unaware of the toxic effects on these. I lost a lot of my hair I lost 40 pounds I could not even function. I had to get off of them. Majority of doctors. Don’t know how to treat or try to get you off way too fast. I finally found a benzo website website on Facebook and I was instructed to do a water taper where only pull out 5 to 10% a month. It took me a year, but I’m so glad I did this. This was done a few months ago, I feel like myself again by the way I’m 73 years old.
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I’m not sure if your post is old or not but I am responding to it. I lost a lot of my hair and wound up being anorexic from being on Effexor, Celexa, Lexipro, (I was on each one of these at different times — stopping one due to side effects and feeling worse, and then immediately going on the next one). I was also prescribed Ativan and Xanax. I wound up going to a detox facility to get off the Ativan. My primary care physician prescribed all of these meds and she wrote prescriptions for large quantities of the benzos. The prescription bottle said take .5 Ativan every 4 to 6 hours and I did. The Ativan stopped working after a short while so I switched to the Xanax. My doctor never told me anything about tapering off as I don’t think she even had a clue what the word tapering means. I think the Effexor did the most damage to me as I truly was unable to eat or drink. I lost more than 45 pounds in a short period of time. I was described on a medical report as being malnourished. I had no idea that any of these meds could cause anorexia but they all can. My body is forever ruined and I can’t bear looking in the mirror. Plastic surgery can’t undo the harm that these meds caused. I congratulate you on your success.