It’s crazy how I was on herion so I went to get treatment they gave me Suboxone but they told me they could prescribe me xans to help me sleep. Shits crazy how they even recommended that in the first place
I have opioid withdraws it’s hell but it last a week of hell than goes away but paws makes u depressed than u relapse I recommend ibuprofen workout when u can walk outside and drink lots of orange juice and hit showers will help it won’t go away but it helps
Hi Dr B, when you say some folk will need a low dose of benzos even after withdrawal, do you mean a low daily dose or to take an occasional low dose in emergencies? Thanks for this great video.
Was on 30 mg Valium for 15 years I have been in withdrawal for 12 years and I am almost cripple, whatever you do folks do not take benzos💉😭 the withdrawal is pure hell there's not a doctor that will help you they will look at you like you're crazy and tell you it will only last about a month and after the month goes by and you're a hundred times worse and ask the doctor for some kind of medication ,you then we'll be labeled a drug addict doctors in the ER will yell at you lecture you and completely degrade you until you feel like it is all your fault and that you really are insane they try to convince you it's not really happening and for the life of me I cannot and will not ever understand why a medical professional would treat a person with such hate and distain 😒
Dr can you please let me know if benzodiazepines can make dissociation worse because ever since taking them and even being off of them for a year now I still am suffering with very severe dissociation symptoms I believe. Please let me know
I'm 20 yrs on 30mg of valium 30mg of Flurazepam & 100mls of methadone I'm 47 I've got a new Dr and she wants me off benzos in 6 weeks followed by a 3 mth methadone reduction to 40ml and has assured me it's all in my head but experience tells me I can't even do my shopping when I've run out of valium in the past it's been sheer terror i live on my own..would beta blockers help Dr?
Going through it my self right now after only 2 months of using diazepam. Had a seizure after a day of withdrawal then peaked with flue like sickness, anxiety, psychosis and nausea for the next six days too today. Only just starting to taper slowly now and can function a little. Looks like another week before I will probably start to feel somewhat slightly normal. I hope…
Why would anyone want to taper off benzos if what you got is living in hell and you dont know if it ever ends and is most likely like that for the rest of your life. You will lose your job, girl/boy friend, friends and you will live like in a horror movie. That just doesnt make any sense. Also the anxiety and dysphoria is so taxing and stressful (long time stress causing cardiovascular changes is one of the biggest killers) that it will kill you much faster than if you would just continue using benzos rest of your life.
People just need to admitt that you or your doctor made a mistake and that cant be repaired. Even if you have used doctor prescribed fairly low doses for years and years you will never ever feel good/normal, ever. Thats basically what this doctor told, the mistake has already been made, just live with it and dont make your life hell by trying something impossible.
This is good information but it amuses me about the word ADDICTION because not all of us abuse the meds, took as prescribed by a doctor thay we trusted then this happened to us being Cold turkeyed off the drug and the suffering is horrendous for some of us and their is a difference with addiction and dependence!!!
Please, I've been on Benso in 8-9 years now… And its All that you say, tremor, gad and panicatttacks since I was about 6 years old… I live in Sweden, so here's no Benso Amy longer, unfortunatly.. Sorry for poor English🙄 In 2 years I'm gonna die, theres no doubt about it🙋♂️ You know Sweden has imlpented a law, that makes postofficers goin' thru your mail (an act of violence against the Swedish people!) oh my…. So, goodbye Europa❤️
This is day 14 for me off lorazepam which I started 2 years ago during a cancer journey. I had cut down to a quarter and then after receiving prayer just stopped. I am still taking zopiclone, and had gone from 3.75 to 7.5 mg again. I'm going to try a slow taper down once I reach a month off Lorazepam. I try and exercise a lot, journaling, prayer and meditation. About a year ago doctors were trying to get me to taper completely within about 3 to 4 weeks. I almost managed to do this in May last year but then fell off the wagon coming up to my 2-year biopsy. Now that I stop taking lorazepam its much harder to sleep. But slowly getting better. I don't know how to taper zopiclone. The thought of stopping it gives me panic attacks. I know it's possible though
50 days free today. I still feel horrible but my mind is clearer and i don’t have panic attacks anymore!!! which is huge. however i just feel so restless and irritable. also i was taking between 2-4 bars everyday for 2 years! if you’re going through hell, you’re not alone you got this!!!!
I stopped benzo's September 24th. I weaned down with the advice of my cousin who is an RN. I feel overall that I am better than what I was. My main symptoms seem to be joint aches, struggle to focus and I guess depressive symptoms..I am also suffering anhedonia. I hope this lifts soon. I started taking them after grieving a loss. I never abused them, but I never imagined that I could get physically addicted to them. It seems stupid now in hindsight but I just thought they were helping me.:(
I was prescribed at 18 to take clonazepam daily. 12 years later, and I find out these "Drs"… have no idea what they are talking about, nor do they care enough. – I went through hell.
Things you must do to make it through the withdrawals:
Drink lots of water Stretch Breathe Eat
Intense stretching + deep constant breathing
If you don't believe me, then I promise you, you'll suffer longer.
If I could 1 on 1 heal you all, I would. These "drs"… don't care.
One of the most cruel thing about Benzo withdrawals is the lack of intel about it in society, when you talk about heroine to people they get a pretty clear image, Xanax, Kloneopin, Bromazepam being kinda new aren't portrayed that much in culture and average people's mind, so having to explain multiple times what it's about to friends n family, seeing people's ignorance while you live threw hell, them assuming you are unwilling to make efforts in life while you literally fight against your psyche for months and years on end is a torture.
thank you Doc for the explanations you a real one ☝
Oh wow… a doctor who actually acknowledges that tapering should have different time frames depending on how long and dosage the person used? Also, openly admits that “we need to realize that some people will be on it for long term or life but at a safer dose.” Need more docs like you.
thank u this video actually made me feel a lot better. i’m on week 3 of sobriety off xanax i quit cold turkey not by choice i have been on them for 5 years and the withdrawals will not go away i have panic disorder and insomnia as well as ocd so this shit it wack asf but it’s comforting hearing that some doctors might prescribe a low dose long term. i think that would make a hell of a difference. but it would take A LOT of self control.
I'm 73 and have been prescribed Klonopin(clonazepam) for 20 years and Suboxone(pain from botched surgery). Initially I was prescribed, by medical doctors, 1100(eleven hundred) 10mg Morphine tables/month. I went into CAMH(centre for addiction and mental health) in Toronto to get off Morphine. I was told by doctors that BENZOS were a "benign" drug and getting off them would not be a problem. NOT SO! These drugs(i refuse to call them "meds") are killing me and my GP is completely useless in devising a proper taper. I need help. This was incompetence or medical malpractice. I have read the Ashton Manual and have tried many times to get off these pernicious drugs. If you have read this to the end I thank you.
I have been using it since 2006. Earlier I used it @ 2mg daily and one day I decided to cut it down with a little difficulty I coped with the symptoms. I am planning to quit it as I am now @ 0.75 mg per. Day.
I've been prescribed Xanax for over three years. I'm going through withdrawals on day two and yesterday feels like it was the worst day of my life. The thing is I have been here so many times and I'm always positive I won't be back here. I don't abuse them and really take my prescribed dose. In my phase now, My body and brain never quit with pain mentally and physically. I can't sleep for sometimes for a week straight. I want to feel happy, or normal without the addiction. Someone please help. Someone who has taken them everyday for years I need someone who understands this feeling. I want to know I'll be happier once this pain leaves. Everywhere I look no one has gone through it got off it and truly feel better?
I've been taking diazepam and alprazolam daily for about 7-8 years (illicitly manufactured) more likely to be etizolam flualprazolam etc very high doses, 3 or 4 xanax bars per day and around 6 diazepam 10mg tablets per day. Im now on a prescribed taper 2mg reduction every 2 weeks currently on 14mg per day. I have a bad feeling that the damage is already done, if bad symptoms persist after 6-7 months off I think you may aswell just carry on honestly. UK here. Anyone have similar experiences
I was on valium 10 years ago and was only on them for 3 months, but I took them every 4 to 6 hrs for that time and as I took these drugs I got very worse, but at first they were like a miracle drug but it turned pure evil on me, and as I said I'm 10 years off of benzos and went through a very severe protracted withdrawal and I'm still not healed, I am thinking that this may be permanent, and all this was a mis diagnosis and so valium was prescribed, and that drug has absolutely ruined the last 10 years off my life and I'm still not where I want to be, benzos are pure evil
I am three weeks off and I can handle it. I would never go to detox because they would try to put me on other pills which I don't want. I had seizures and feel suicidal and had pain in the abdomen and vaginal pain during the medication and finally the pain has gone down there so I am so relieved. The mental torment is really hard. Some days are better than others. I think I can make it clonodine helps when I feel really bad, I feel so upset and tv radio seems so stressful and loud. I tapered down to forth of a pill and quit and I am so glad I just quit quickly.
Here you can find more videos on Benzodiazepines: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLvvylY4ajkHo9vn8bg-bb5T0OoeLFZFp3
It’s crazy how I was on herion so I went to get treatment they gave me Suboxone but they told me they could prescribe me xans to help me sleep. Shits crazy how they even recommended that in the first place
I have opioid withdraws it’s hell but it last a week of hell than goes away but paws makes u depressed than u relapse I recommend ibuprofen workout when u can walk outside and drink lots of orange juice and hit showers will help it won’t go away but it helps
Hey do you guys feel frozen when you start to withdrawal like does it freeze you up and gives you zero ability to concentrate and start to cry easily?
Hi Dr B, when you say some folk will need a low dose of benzos even after withdrawal, do you mean a low daily dose or to take an occasional low dose in emergencies? Thanks for this great video.
Was on 30 mg Valium for 15 years I have been in withdrawal for 12 years and I am almost cripple, whatever you do folks do not take benzos💉😭 the withdrawal is pure hell there's not a doctor that will help you they will look at you like you're crazy and tell you it will only last about a month and after the month goes by and you're a hundred times worse and ask the doctor for some kind of medication ,you then we'll be labeled a drug addict doctors in the ER will yell at you lecture you and completely degrade you until you feel like it is all your fault and that you really are insane they try to convince you it's not really happening and for the life of me I cannot and will not ever understand why a medical professional would treat a person with such hate and distain 😒
I stopped instant and got seizures but took me months to get myself back.
Can anybody faint due to withdrawal??
When I went to the ER for benzodiazepine withdrawal they didn't do anything! When I went for alcohol withdrawal they kept me for 3 days
Great information Dr. B
Wish there were more HONEST Dr's such as yourself!
Best video I've seen on this topic.
Dr can you please let me know if benzodiazepines can make dissociation worse because ever since taking them and even being off of them for a year now I still am suffering with very severe dissociation symptoms I believe. Please let me know
I'm 20 yrs on 30mg of valium 30mg of Flurazepam & 100mls of methadone I'm 47 I've got a new Dr and she wants me off benzos in 6 weeks followed by a 3 mth methadone reduction to 40ml and has assured me it's all in my head but experience tells me I can't even do my shopping when I've run out of valium in the past it's been sheer terror i live on my own..would beta blockers help Dr?
Going through it my self right now after only 2 months of using diazepam. Had a seizure after a day of withdrawal then peaked with flue like sickness, anxiety, psychosis and nausea for the next six days too today. Only just starting to taper slowly now and can function a little. Looks like another week before I will probably start to feel somewhat slightly normal. I hope…
Why would anyone want to taper off benzos if what you got is living in hell and you dont know if it ever ends and is most likely like that for the rest of your life. You will lose your job, girl/boy friend, friends and you will live like in a horror movie. That just doesnt make any sense. Also the anxiety and dysphoria is so taxing and stressful (long time stress causing cardiovascular changes is one of the biggest killers) that it will kill you much faster than if you would just continue using benzos rest of your life.
People just need to admitt that you or your doctor made a mistake and that cant be repaired. Even if you have used doctor prescribed fairly low doses for years and years you will never ever feel good/normal, ever. Thats basically what this doctor told, the mistake has already been made, just live with it and dont make your life hell by trying something impossible.
This is good information but it amuses me about the word ADDICTION because not all of us abuse the meds, took as prescribed by a doctor thay we trusted then this happened to us being Cold turkeyed off the drug and the suffering is horrendous for some of us and their is a difference with addiction and dependence!!!
Hidden epidemic is exactly correct.
Thanks, I tought I may have some manor injury because this wont stop. nine months straight pain and couple of relapses five months ago.
I overdosed on this – 😬 I feel horrible
All the dangers are if abuse it; e.g., mix with opioids, or on withdrawal. By itself the medication is safe and effective to use.
Please, I've been on Benso in 8-9 years now… And its All that you say, tremor, gad and panicatttacks since I was about 6 years old… I live in Sweden, so here's no Benso Amy longer, unfortunatly.. Sorry for poor English🙄
In 2 years I'm gonna die, theres no doubt about it🙋♂️ You know Sweden has imlpented a law, that makes postofficers goin' thru your mail (an act of violence against the Swedish people!) oh my…. So, goodbye Europa❤️
This is day 14 for me off lorazepam which I started 2 years ago during a cancer journey.
I had cut down to a quarter and then after receiving prayer just stopped.
I am still taking zopiclone, and had gone from 3.75 to 7.5 mg again.
I'm going to try a slow taper down once I reach a month off Lorazepam.
I try and exercise a lot, journaling, prayer and meditation.
About a year ago doctors were trying to get me to taper completely within about 3 to 4 weeks.
I almost managed to do this in May last year but then fell off the wagon coming up to my 2-year biopsy.
Now that I stop taking lorazepam its much harder to sleep. But slowly getting better.
I don't know how to taper zopiclone.
The thought of stopping it gives me panic attacks.
I know it's possible though
50 days free today. I still feel horrible but my mind is clearer and i don’t have panic attacks anymore!!! which is huge. however i just feel so restless and irritable. also i was taking between 2-4 bars everyday for 2 years! if you’re going through hell, you’re not alone you got this!!!!
I stopped benzo's September 24th. I weaned down with the advice of my cousin who is an RN. I feel overall that I am better than what I was. My main symptoms seem to be joint aches, struggle to focus and I guess depressive symptoms..I am also suffering anhedonia. I hope this lifts soon. I started taking them after grieving a loss. I never abused them, but I never imagined that I could get physically addicted to them. It seems stupid now in hindsight but I just thought they were helping me.:(
I was prescribed at 18 to take clonazepam daily. 12 years later, and I find out these "Drs"… have no idea what they are talking about, nor do they care enough. – I went through hell.
Things you must do to make it through the withdrawals:
Drink lots of water
Stretch
Breathe
Eat
Intense stretching + deep constant breathing
If you don't believe me, then I promise you, you'll suffer longer.
If I could 1 on 1 heal you all, I would. These "drs"… don't care.
One of the most cruel thing about Benzo withdrawals is the lack of intel about it in society,
when you talk about heroine to people they get a pretty clear image, Xanax, Kloneopin, Bromazepam being kinda new aren't portrayed that much in culture and average people's mind, so having to explain multiple times what it's about to friends n family, seeing people's ignorance while you live threw hell, them assuming you are unwilling to make efforts in life while you literally fight against your psyche for months and years on end is a torture.
thank you Doc for the explanations you a real one ☝
Oh wow… a doctor who actually acknowledges that tapering should have different time frames depending on how long and dosage the person used? Also, openly admits that “we need to realize that some people will be on it for long term or life but at a safer dose.” Need more docs like you.
thank u this video actually made me feel a lot better. i’m on week 3 of sobriety off xanax i quit cold turkey not by choice i have been on them for 5 years and the withdrawals will not go away i have panic disorder and insomnia as well as ocd so this shit it wack asf but it’s comforting hearing that some doctors might prescribe a low dose long term. i think that would make a hell of a difference. but it would take A LOT of self control.
I'm 73 and have been prescribed Klonopin(clonazepam) for 20 years and Suboxone(pain from botched surgery).
Initially I was prescribed, by medical doctors, 1100(eleven hundred) 10mg Morphine tables/month.
I went into CAMH(centre for addiction and mental health) in Toronto to get off Morphine. I was told by doctors that BENZOS
were a "benign" drug and getting off them would not be a problem. NOT SO! These drugs(i refuse to call them "meds") are
killing me and my GP is completely useless in devising a proper taper. I need help. This was incompetence or medical
malpractice. I have read the Ashton Manual and have tried many times to get off these pernicious drugs. If you have read this to
the end I thank you.
Bs
I have been using it since 2006.
Earlier I used it @ 2mg daily and one day I decided to cut it down with a little difficulty I coped with the symptoms. I am planning to quit it as I am now @ 0.75 mg per. Day.
I've been prescribed Xanax for over three years. I'm going through withdrawals on day two and yesterday feels like it was the worst day of my life. The thing is I have been here so many times and I'm always positive I won't be back here. I don't abuse them and really take my prescribed dose. In my phase now, My body and brain never quit with pain mentally and physically. I can't sleep for sometimes for a week straight.
I want to feel happy, or normal without the addiction. Someone please help. Someone who has taken them everyday for years
I need someone who understands this feeling. I want to know I'll be happier once this pain leaves. Everywhere I look no one has gone through it got off it and truly feel better?
I've been taking diazepam and alprazolam daily for about 7-8 years (illicitly manufactured) more likely to be etizolam flualprazolam etc very high doses, 3 or 4 xanax bars per day and around 6 diazepam 10mg tablets per day. Im now on a prescribed taper 2mg reduction every 2 weeks currently on 14mg per day. I have a bad feeling that the damage is already done, if bad symptoms persist after 6-7 months off I think you may aswell just carry on honestly. UK here. Anyone have similar experiences
I was on valium 10 years ago and was only on them for 3 months, but I took them every 4 to 6 hrs for that time and as I took these drugs I got very worse, but at first they were like a miracle drug but it turned pure evil on me, and as I said I'm 10 years off of benzos and went through a very severe protracted withdrawal and I'm still not healed, I am thinking that this may be permanent, and all this was a mis diagnosis and so valium was prescribed, and that drug has absolutely ruined the last 10 years off my life and I'm still not where I want to be, benzos are pure evil
I am three weeks off and I can handle it. I would never go to detox because they would try to put me on other pills which I don't want. I had seizures and feel suicidal and had pain in the abdomen and vaginal pain during the medication and finally the pain has gone down there so I am so relieved. The mental torment is really hard. Some days are better than others. I think I can make it clonodine helps when I feel really bad, I feel so upset and tv radio seems so stressful and loud. I tapered down to forth of a pill and quit and I am so glad I just quit quickly.
It is NOT withdrawal … It is BRAIN and CNS damage.