ATIVAN 2MG, SOMA 350MG HYDROCODONE 10MG/325 COLD TURKEY SEIZURE???? PLEASE HELP

[derrickinvegas]

Hello everyone i know this is kinda of a old post, but anyways i recently ran out of my Soma 350mg, Ativan 2mg and Hydrocodone 10/325mg.... I ran out of all 3 medications on the same day on 5-18-2010.  I have been taking Ativan 3 times ED, Soma 3 times ED and Hydrocodone 4 times ED for 3 months 120days..... So on 5-21-2010  around 9:30am i was talking to my friend on the phone long distance and all i remember was i had paramedics all around me and they said i had a seizure or i over dosed on my medication because the bottles were empty... BUT I DID NOT OVERDOSE.... Now i am at the hospital waiting to get seen, the doctor finally sees me about 7 hours later well she did not take me serious and just sent me home tells me to get some rest. So i go outside and well I'm waiting for my brother to pick me up i called him and all i remember is he told me he was 5 minutes away. "THAT IS ALL I REMEMBER" So i woke back up in a Hospital Bed again i fell flat on the pavement i had another seizure that's what the DR. said. so Anyways well i was sound asleep i guess my brother asked nicely for the DR. to give me Ativan because that is what i needed the most so the DR. gave me Ativan. I was in the hospital for 3 days and well on Ativan i did not have another Seizure. I am at home now the DR. wrote me a script for Ativan to take every 8 hours 1mg.  I am talking i had 2 serious seizure i don't remember nothing when i fall to the pavement or when i had one laying on my couch. Another thing that is similar to other people on here. I had a EEG that came back Abnormal and i had an MRI with Contrast that came back Normal and the CT scans of my head and chest. was normal. I am just curious are these Seizures i have to live with do you think or will they go away totally after withdrawal????

Please let me know what you think?? Thanks.

[derrickinvegas]

Hi ggreg, Thanks for the reply.

My Dr. Took me off all my Meds and so the only Meds i am currently on is the Ativan 1mg and there tapering me off of that also... ever since i was placed in the hospital the day i had (2) Grand Mal Seizures the Dr. put me back on Ativan and i had no Seizures again since. But when the Nuro. saw my Abnormal EEG (HE SAID IT HAD A ABNORMAL SPIKE IN MY TEMPORAL LOBE) he then put me on Brain Meds the day i was released from the Hospital and i don't want to take this crap, It's called Trileptal 300mg a total of 1200mg Every day.... I'm personally thinking when this Ativan gets out of my system i want to taper off of this Trileptal, I don't have a history of Seizures my mom and dad are both healthy never had a seizure in there life. I tired to tell the the Nuro. that these seizures were exactly 3 days after having none of my meds and he didn't want to hear it.... In his mind he was correct and said i would not of had 2 seizures in 1 day and i would not of had an abnormal spike. Anyways i want off all this i rather get clean and drink beer or whiskey every now and then. ??

[ggreg]

Oh, yeah, stopping either the ativan or hydrocodone will give you withdrawals, and stopping the ativan will specifically give you seizures.  As long as you got your medicines, you won't hae another seizure.  Anytime a person goes off either medicine, they have to taper slowly.  Your EEG was abnormal because withdrawals include a wild heartrate.  Try to create a stash of your meds, so if you come up short when refill time is near, you won't run out.