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Endless withdrawal from benzos and pregabalin
Addiction & Recovery | Last Active: Jun 20 2:04pm | Replies (168)Comment receiving replies
I'm going cold turkey off Benjos--was cut off abruptly, but for some reason, my doctor oferred to write me a prescription for Zolpidan/Ambien. I wanted to accept the prescription, but declined because my goal it to live without Benjos or other tranquilizers, which were giving me a difficult enough problem. What is wrong with doctors these days? I'm beginning to mistrust all of them. I thought they had stopped getting kick-backs from pharmaceutical sales persons. My goal is to live out my days drug-free and face my problems head on without masking my emotions and feelings with drugs--prescription or otherwise. I'd appreciate how others feel about this.
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Cold turkey isn't a good idea unless you take them occasionally. You can die going cold turkey on two drugs - Benzos and alcohol. I had convulsions and was in the hospital. Be careful. Best of luck.
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Even though benzodiazepine wasn’t listed in my 3 year old chart. He could have called the nurse where I live to fax him my latest medication chart which listed klonopin.
Instead he prescribed adavan. Another benzo. I admit that I am hooked on klonopin and can’t withdraw from it. By cutting me off abruptly I could have died from his cutting me off which is listed as one of the reasons why you are told not to quit abruptly.
If the brain chemicals respond favorably to klonopin there is hell to pay for abruptly cutting it off cold turkey. I am happy for you surviving the cold turkey approach but as for me, it doesn’t matter how I feel the brain will still need it. It’s a medical condition not based on emotions. I can’t do what you did unless I’m given another dangerous drug (Adavan). Was the doctor getting kickbacks from the maker of Adavan? Who knows.