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Depression & Anxiety | Last Active: Jun 20 9:57pm | Replies (332)Comment receiving replies
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.
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Buspar IS NOT Wellbutrin my friend. Please know and understand what you are taking, especially in a cocktail of drugs like that. If you told a hospital you are on Wellbutrin that’s what they would give you and you would be in a world of trouble.
Buspar is NOT an antidepressant, Wellbutrin is.
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I truly sympathize with you, I don’t know how this happened to you but on a positive note, you’re aware of this and it’s a start. A good doctor who listens to you and realizes that you’re on a number of drugs where one doesn’t do enough and another is making you sleepy all day..I was on Paxil which is a Prozac and it helped me for a while but then it turned on me. It’s one of the biggest challenges for us to find the right treatment and the journey to finding it is a very tough thing to go through, please don’t give up trying because you will find what’s right for you, as you say you want a psychiatrist but perhaps a therapist would be better, my experience with psychiatrist is that they also use meds more than active therapy. In the seventies I went to my first psychiatrist and he put me on Valium and I was hooked in no time, back then it was a very popular drug and a nightmare to get off it. It’s my belief that some of us are predisposed to being very vulnerable to this type of drug, once you have had experience with them it never leaves you just like any addiction, once you’ve stopped them you can’t ever take them again. I know that I don’t have it inside me anymore to go through another withdrawal and live to talk about it.