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Depression & Anxiety | Last Active: Jun 20 9:57pm | Replies (332)Comment receiving replies
I’ve taken Ativan for years and I know that I am addicted to this drug..my doctor warned me for years about them and how difficult it is to get off them, all the while it was already too long. I tried many times to wean myself off them and I succeeded twice but somehow with my doctor’s help I went back to them. I don’t think that I can do it anymore, I have even bigger fish to fry as they say, having to deal with cancer and all the insanity of today’s world..my point is that I just want to be able to cope with my life and if they could find a better drug for anxiety that works as well I would definitely be on it. The worst thing a doctor can do to us is prescribe meds that cause so much trouble and then later when all the negative publicity comes out, they don’t want to be associated with it anymore.. they the callously make you feel like the bad guy and they DO NOT take any responsibility for your addiction, they would rather try a bunch of other drugs to replace the benzodiazepine. I tried doing the same and I don’t advise anyone to do this because it truly messed me up. The fact remains that drugs are a mixed bag of tricks and they can be your best ally or your worst enemy
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Agree! But if the ativan helped you, why stop! When you take an anti depressant, its taken daily, probably 2x, so than we are addicted to anti depressants too! So how can anybody label a person an addict when most medication is taken daily!? I was on a large dose of effexor for years. My pcp suggested a different one. So my other dr dropped me off 300 mg of effexor in 6 days to start a lower dose similar drug. What happened was tremors, no sleep, dizziness, nausea, and a few more side effects coming off so fast. Well- im done! Had it! 6 weeks of that to feel good enough to drive! So dont beat yourself up over taking something that may help. Sticks and stones.
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Adavan, klonopin, Xanax, and a slew of other types of benzodiazepines I am aware that I’m addicted and weaning off them is a horrible thing. Terrible withdrawal symptoms.
I have become afraid to even try weaning off them.
Adavan was given to me in the 2 months I was inpatient for something else.
I was told by the doctor that I could only be on it for 14 days (and I’m 98% sure that the same rule applies to klonopin).
What do I do now? I’m still anxious so I either need a higher dose god forbid or a weaning off of it and using another drug to replace it. I didn’t know it was from the 70’s. An old drug. I may have become immune to it to a certain extent. But the craving it is still there, even if it’s no longer working.
The best medication I’ve ever been on was Prozac. I have to research what it’s for and how come it was stopped 30 years ago.
Right now I’m on Buspar (Wellbutrin) and I’m on seroquel, klonopin, and a little dose of lamictal (I dont even know what it is for).
All those medications working together has turned me into a zombie. An irritable zombie. I fall asleep everywhere. I no longer know witch medication has turned me into an anti-social irrational monster.
If I go to a hospital all they do is hold you on a gurney or wheelchair for 4-5 hours and then they send you home. You’re lucky if you even see a psychiatrist witch I desperately need.
I’m in a catch-22. Damned if I do and dammed if I don’t. I’m between a rock and a hard place. Scary.