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Messed up my Taper!!! UGH!

by ladyboop, May 07, 2008 09:14AM
I can't believe this ****!!!! I was doing so well, and feeling better good, until about an hour ago.. You know the normal w/d's.. But I got up to check on my puppy Buster"T", make sure he was chewing his bone and not my bed..lol.. and got real dizzy! I never had that before! Is that normal?? or could something eles be going on.. So I got alittle scared, and took a pill!! I should never had done that!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  I know it is going to make thing harder. and I just spiked my blood levels... Why God Why?? I am concerned about the the dizzy things though! Anyone had that. never saw a post that said anything about being dizzy.
Thanks for all the help..

        Lady
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by desperate1111, May 07, 2008 09:20AM
To: Lady
I used to get dizzy at times too during w/d. Not sure if I got up too fast or what. I wonder if it has something to do with blood pressure. That taper stuff didn't work for me. I'm just too weak.

by ladyboop, May 07, 2008 09:26AM
To: Desperate,
        Thanks for the post.. I have never had high blood presure. I know tapering and w/d's can cause that.. I do take a little xanax. Not much.. 1/2 of .5mgs. About 2 x times aday..
Helps with the racing heart.. I get panic attacks.. So I am tring to be careful not to triger one. thats why the xanax. it also helps me sleep at night. Or in the day if I need to...

  Sorry the taper did not work for you. Did you go CT, or some other road??

                thanks,
        Lady

by s10sittnondubs, May 07, 2008 09:29AM
Tapering only made my w/d's worse and more prolonged ct was the only way for me, but there are plenty of succesful people who tapered.  I got real light headed and weak sometimes too, I always made sure I had something on my stomache after it happened and it usually helped by giving me some energy.

by rue10, May 07, 2008 09:33AM
To: ladyboop
Hi.  Try not to get too down on yourself.  You only took one pill over and above your taper.  Just try to get back to it.  

Regarding dizzy - I used to get dizzy while on percs and my first day of w/d I thought I was dizzy!  But I chalked it up to the w/ds.

I'm praying that you don't beat youself up too bad over this.  We can't bull sh*t ourselves, but we do need to be forgiving.

All the best.
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