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How long does valuim takes to come out of your body if taken for a month
Went to a party took an extasy got a panic attack calmed down then was feeling fine until I drank some cough syrup. I was on valium and was taken off also they over dosed me on it am light headed everyday heart racing frequently am paranoid every moment and also feeling fearful
Are these symptoms different than what you were suffering when you were put on Valium? How long were on it? How often did you take it? If you quit abruptly without a slow taper off and you were taking it regularly, it sounds like withdrawal from stopping it too quickly, assuming this isn't how you were feeling before being put on it.
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I guess its withdrawl from taking it for a month and I was overdosed also
I guess its withdrawl from taking it for a month and I was overdosed also
How long will the withdrawal symptoms last? The new gp I saw gave me bromazepam 1.5mg I took it and got light headed and hallucinating........... Should I continue using them or discontinue the use
Talk to your doc, but if you're going to continue to seek medication for mental problems, it's best to get a psychiatrist -- prescribing and monitoring those who take these meds is all they do all day while a general doc does everything all day. If you were on it for only a month, it might or might not be withdrawal -- that's not a long time. Again, are the symptoms the same or different? Putting you on a different benzo won't necessarily solve a withdrawal problem from Valium -- they don't work exactly the same, though they do target the same neurotransmitter. How long withdrawal lasts is different for everyone -- some don't get it at all, some get it for a couple weeks, some get it for a long time. If you were only on it for a short time as you were, it's not usually as big of a challenge, but again, we're all different and react differently. Some meds we metabolize really well, which makes them work better but which also can make them harder to quit and give more side effects. Some our livers just don't let us metabolize at all. Our brains also react differently. Some last longer than others and some take longer to work than others -- again, they are not the same just because they are in the same class of drugs. But again, if you're feeling the same way you were feeling that caused you to be put on the Valium in the first place, it's not withdrawal, it's just the same stuff still being there and you not being on the med anymore. The way to treat withdrawal if you have it and it isn't going away is to go back on the same med you were on at the last dose at which you felt fine and taper off as slowly as you need to. As for your new drug, side effects sometimes go away with use. Sometimes they don't. When they don't, it's not your drug. But you still have to taper off, not quit abruptly.
And as far as your original problem is concerned, I think therapy would be more effective for you in the long term than medication. While you might have gotten some bad reaction from the drug that is lasting, it's also very likely that the continuing problems are from you having feelings like the ones you got when you got the anxiety attack and they are triggering further anxiety. Learning to avoid this type of thinking, given this is a new problem from a known source, can often happen through therapy, while medication can be useful to tamp down symptoms but doesn't cure the problem.
Thank you so much paxiled the doctors here in Jamaica are crap taking all my money having me running around in circles ......... Couldn't even give me good answers
I learned the hard way after one dumb decision I can't wait for it to be over its mad annoying and haunting me like I can't find peace
What type of therapy do you think is best for me
I'm not sure, of course, it's often more a question of whether you click with the therapist or not, but in your case, I'm not sure the type of therapy matters all that much. You need to talk out how frightened this incident made you and how to make a plan to move on. Usually with anxiety most recommend CBT, but again, since you know the triggering incident, I don't think for you it matters a lot.
Am here trying to sleep and the attacks keep waking me up two times........... Am light headed. This is one scary experience am having running thoughts my mind is not clear from the moment am having these attacks I can't stay focus am here thinking when it will happen again
The only help we can offer because we don't really know what's going on is, there are two different problems going on here -- you had a bad experience with a substance and you've had some problems since then, and you have a lot of fear about it. These are two separate problems -- the original problem may or may not have caused some brain wiring to go haywire for awhile, and it might not have, who knows? No way to know, as far as I know. But you might be able to mitigate the lingering anxiety over it. Don't know about that either, but maybe it's a way to look at this and get some relief from at least a part of it.
Do you think I should see a psychiatrist?
Maybe then I can get the right answers
After taking the valium I became light headed has blurry vision and anxiety more extreme......
I doubt a psychiatrist, or any doctor, would really know what to tell you at least as far as what's going on -- whether something happened to you physiologically or not, it's impossible really to tell. I would probably suggest a psychologist for talk therapy before I'd go to a psychiatrist. While there are still a few psychiatrists who still do talk therapy, the vast majority of them now only dole out medication. For therapy, they don't do anything different than a psychologist, but charge more and have shorter appointments, so there's no advantage there, and psychologists study more psychology than any other professional so they usually have the best grounding in different techniques to help us. What worries me at the moment is that reactions from drugs aren't necessarily the best times to try to treat it with other drugs. Although researchers have a hard time looking at the brain and seeing what they're looking for at this point in history, they do suspect that the reason for withdrawal problems when you stop taking medication and the reason for side effects such as what you got from your drug experience probably result in a combination of the brain having a hard time going back to working normally again and a thinking process that possibly has a propensity to think the worst is going to happen. So if you need time for your brain to adapt back to working normally again, taking medication, which is what a psychiatrist can offer you, might just stop your healing in its tracks. On the other hand, if this continues and gets worse and you can't function and it goes on for a long time and you just can't talk your way out of it or meditate and exercise your way out of it or eat your way out of it by loading up on healing nutrients, then at some point medication might be your only option. This might explain why you got a weird reaction from taking the valium -- your brain is trying to regain equilibrium and maybe it can't but you do want to give it the chance to do so. I doubt there are "right" answers, though, and if there were, you'd find them with a neurologist, not a psychiatrist, but again, it's unlikely a neurologist will find anything by looking at your brain that will tell her anything because they don't know enough about the brain to know what to look for. It's possible, for example, that the ecstasy messed up your dopamine equilibrium but nobody knows how to tell if that's so. Drugs that affect the brain do so by affecting neurotransmitters that regulate things up there, and when it goes awry from a drug, that's the system that's gone awry. Time usually heals it. So again, if it doesn't, then you well might need medication, but I'm hoping some therapy and some positive thinking can rewire your brain. Only time will tell, and you do what you're senses tell you is the best thing to do.
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