ibizan/jacker

[TJack]

Hi you two.  i read your post and notes.  I know you are right on the ambien.  She is limiting me on it.  I was so anxious and just a mess most of yesterday starting in afternoon and all night.  I went to urgent care this morning and the doc there after i filled her in, said you on in dt's.  You need to go straight to the emergency room for a banana bag>whish contains
vitamins and electrolytes etc.  They also gave me a shot that melowed me way down and brought my blood pressure down.  My bottom number was in the upper 90s.  I feel so much better.  That doctor sent me home with a script for 14 valium.  Maybe that will be enough to get me through this anxiety deal.  I am determined not to drink.  I just can't cave again.  Thank you both for your concern.  If i am not drinking then the zolpedem (ambien, not the cr) should be okay, just one.  right?  i know i need to give them up too, but need a crutch right now.  We have postponed our trip to our daughters till tomorrow.  Thanks again.  

[TJack]

Thank you for your input.  I hope i won't have to go in any place.  the dr. at hospital asked me if i was halucinating, shaking, checked my eyes.  When i looked dt's up it doesn't sound like what i was suffering with.   No doubt my body is wanting alcohol and anxious over it.  Plus the raised blood pressure. I feel so good right now.  I just hope it continues.  I knwo you and ibizan are right about the sleep meds.  I will honestly do my best not to take any. You have sure been through it.  Glad you are here and helping those of us who are trying.  How long have you been sober?  Thanks, tj

[itsmylife1222]

any benzo will aid you in detoxing but librium is longer acting.  unfortunately, detox is made up of anxiety and depression--just part of the deal.  i have a history of seizures and dt's but the last time i just went straight to an aa detox--no meds-- and asked that they watch me. i was also detoxing off the benzos as well. may seem crazy but you see i was already dying and i was willing to do anything to get into recovery. i made it through. it is a detox i won't forget anytime soon--probably and hopefully never--but i am  so very glad that for the first time in my life i wasn't searching for an easier, softer way to solve the drink problem. the clonodine is good for lowering blood pressure but the ambien is just for sleep. there really is no reason for it and you must be careful not to substitute another mood altering chemical into the mix. sleep will come. i promise you that. i congratulate you. welcome to your new life. devon  

[TJack]

My dr. and this dr. at the hospital both know the truth. I was very honest.  I asked for valium or something to help me.  Wish i had known to ask for librium instead.  But, i have to say i took a valium a little while ago as the anxiety was returning and it has stopped it.   I have made a promise to myself>>only one ambien a night.  Maybe i won't even need it.  I should sleep like a baby after last night.
On your comment Jacker, maybe i had better ask my dr. for bp med, like clonidine.
I know that helped me when i was coming off the suboxone.  Some anyway.
I will get in to see her next week.  Oh and ibizan, i cannot get my dr. to write the script for the campral, but i will bring it up again my next appt.  She didn't know about it and I took her the info that i printed off the internet.   grrrrrrrrrrrr   every step seems to be a struggle but i am so thankful to be feeling like a human being again. You two are so great.  thank you for caring and giving me things to think about and pass on to my doc.
Hugs to you 2.  tj

[Jacker]

Everyone has so many variables working within their bodies that I can't begin to pretend that I know the best treatment- I'll give you one bit of insight though- My blood pressure was high at the time I was quitting too.  It actually started to go high at the end of my nightly drinking career, and spiked last spring.  I was miserable, anxious, and thought I would die.  It wasn't completly DT related, because it happend when I was still drinking.
So, the one thing I do know, is that you'll feel better with lower (stablized) blood pressure.  You do know that drinking raises your blood pressure right? In fact, I think the effect on blood pressure gets progressivly worse as you get older.  I started feeling better about 2 months after I quit the daily drinking, and feel a lot better since deciding to lay off of it period.  Beyond that, follow your doctor's advice and be honest with him (and careful of the real coffee until your BP goes down and stays down).  

[TJack]

roserem doesn't work for me. trazadone gives me nightmares.  I just looked up dt's and i don't think that is at all what was wrong with me.   I didn't have any of those symtoms except anxiety.  But, i do feel better so guess it was worth the time spent. thanks. t

[ibizan]

wished he'd woulda given u Librium vs.the Valium......Librium appears to do a better job aiding ppl thru withdrawal.....no the Ambien is NOT ok....we know the i'll just do one....right......does ur doc know the full scoop on ur drinking?u should give Campral a try...cuts the craving for alcohol and kicks the mood swings in conjunction with a anti-pressant.