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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
I already wrote you a long reply. I didn’t see that you’ve only been off antidepressants for a month so you could still have some lingering symptoms like not being able to stand up and your hands trembling. I had that on the Lorazepam. Like I said all these feel good medicines might help you for a short time.
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I was taking Ativan, too. It’s interesting how quickly it stops working. When it was working, one .5 mg pill only gave me a few hours of relief from my anxiety. It would help me sleep if I took another pill right before bedtime but only for about 3 hours. It’s almost 9:30 here in Arizona and my anxiety is starting to build as I know I won’t get any sleep tonight. No one believes me, except my husband, when I tell them I get zero hours of sleep. Even the psychiatrist I see, when I am able to leave the house, contradicted me and said it was impossible. I think I told you I went to detox to stop using the Ativan. No insurance was accepted and the 7 day stay was $13,000. I know the process worked for the alcoholics who were there to stop drinking but I think I was too naive and got duped into going. From your account of what you went through to get off the pills and others who have a similar story to yours, there is no way the program was meant for me. So, maybe some of what I am going through is withdrawal. I want to thank you for being so open in discussing what you went through. Stay well.