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You need to check with your doctor right away. You appear to be still having significant withdrawal symptoms. You can have seizures and hallucinations from benzo withdrawal just like the DT's from alcohol withdrawal!
That sounds about right, some places don't have much space for detox patients. And many insurance companies such as the one I use don't pay for in-patient detox or rehab either. Here on Guam we cannot just walk in and say we need detox and get it, they will turn us away at the door! And even the court ordered alcoholics or drug addicts have a three month waiting list for the rehab center. If I chose the hospital for in-patient detox here it would cost a fortune. I'll keep trying to detox myself on an out-patient basis even though it is much more of a struggle and dangerous.
If it is a dire emergency such as generalized seizure, then the hospital will take ER patients but release them as soon as possible. They don't perform detox, only stabilization in a life or death situation.
To Alex,
I forgot to add that Xanax is not a heart medication it is a strong tranquilizer used to reduce anxiety. It is similar to Klonopin, Valium, and Librium.
It makes NO SENSE to use a non-benzodiazepine to detox someone from a benzo and in fact it can be life-threatening to simply stop a benzo without tapering.
Your right about that.
mike wrote;..;They detoxed you from Xanax by using a drug from the same family? That's like weaning someone off whiskey with Scotch. Find a different doctor soon!
No they use benzo's like xanax to help get people off Alcohol,
Yes, it appears some doctors like to prescribe too many drugs, however some are very needed and some doctors don't know much about addiction!
NON-ADDICTION doctors do not prescribe the needed drugs for certain addictions which lead to life threatening withdrawals such as seizures or DT's.
If you went through three months of VERY PAINFUL partial convulsive seizures (OVER 60 OF THEM) for alcohol withdrawal and DT's, you may look at the idea of taking Klonopin to stop the (SHAKEDOWNS) as a relief from the pain and the mental distress of thinking you may die at any time!!!!!!!
My regular HMO PRESCRIBED-MD and Nutritionist finally sent me to an addiction psychiatrist after I complained over and over in thorough written description of the seizures. They thought I was exaggerating and that it was only shaking from DT's.
I went through three months of out-patient treatment by this vitamin nutritionist who even had the gall to suggest the seizures were a needed thing to get past the withdrawal, HE SAID IT WAS LIKE THE BRAIN RESETTING ITSELF, LIKE REBOOTING A COMPUTER, and not to worry about it because all the vitamins he prescribed were fortifying my system against the catacolamine hyperactivity. I finally screamed at him and demanded to see a real addiction doctor!
Now I am on a heavy dose of Klonopin and I must say I would rather deal with a slow taper later than more SHAKEDOWNS!
I must question the wisdom of having you get addicted to Xanax, a chemical cousin to Valium. Do you plan on staying addicted to them for life? If not, at some point you will have to bite the bullet and deal with the withdrawal.
thats stupid, you just taper off of it and you wont have any withdraws,
Thanks Gina
I am a registered nurse and the board of registration of nurses or the american nurses association are suppose to help professionals but i haven't had any luck. My email is ***@****. Appreciate any help
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JBRO
Watch out for the (clonazapam)Klonopin, it's just like the xanax!!!!!Highly addictive and stronger than xanax.
I am 23 and am suffering very painful withdrawl symptoms such as rebound anxiety and insomnia and typical headache. I do not like socialising and even keep totally immobile throughout the day. So I am compelled to again go for .25mg, my daily dose. This gives me discomfort of diffrent type. I have come down from 1.5mg per day a couple of months back to .25mg per day now. Unfortunatly in India most of psychiatrists just advise me to go off Alprax(trade name of xanax in india) suddenly. Only one advised for tappering off. But my goodness how difficult! Please advise, any youngperson who has gone through this ordial. I had been on Alprax during my college for an year or so in 1997, but was able to come out of it by means of some homeopathic medicines. But due to repeat advise of a psychiatrist I am again got hooked on to it since March last. My productive years for career planning and computer studies have come to standstill. My friends have joined software companies with huge salaries and here I am fighting a loosing battle. Will someone please help me?
Kapil Mehta, E-mail:***@****
I am 23 and am suffering very painful withdrawl symptoms such as rebound anxiety and insomnia and typical headache. I do not like socialising and even keep totally immobile throughout the day. So I am compelled to again go for .25mg, my daily dose. This gives me discomfort of diffrent type. I have come down from 1.5mg per day a couple of months back to .25mg per day now. Unfortunatly in India most of psychiatrists just advise me to go off Alprax(trade name of xanax in india) suddenly. Only one advised for tappering off. But my goodness how difficult! Please advise, any youngperson who has gone through this ordial. I had been on Alprax during my college for an year or so in 1997, but was able to come out of it by means of some homeopathic medicines. But due to repeat advise of a psychiatrist I am again got hooked on to it since March last. My productive years for career planning and computer studies have come to standstill. My friends have joined software companies with huge salaries and here I am fighting a loosing battle. Will someone please help me?
Kapil Mehta, E-mail:***@****