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  1. Hi I’ve come off Valium 5mg but every night my heart races and my breathing gets shallow for no reason and my throat feels tight feels like a pill in stuck in my throat or like my throat is closing. I’m concerned about this???

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  3. Wrong! NO WAY it’s only a week you’ve obviously never had to withdraw from benzos bud .. the withdrawal can take years and it’s because
    it’s literal brain damage caused by down regulation of GABA receptors .. I’m 6 years out and I don’t crave it for nothing .. just thinking of that hell I had to go through is enough to make me not even think about benzos .. there are no cravings it’s literal effing withdrawal symptoms dude

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  4. I've taken Xanax for 7 years straight prescribe by my doctor I quit cold turkey I notice fast heart rate and my brain won't shut down but other then that I actually feel way better , and have never craved xanax

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  6. Get help from a facility? Are you kidding? They don't know how to get people off the meds. They do a quick cold turkey in days. It should be a slow taper over a long period of time..

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  13. Trust me he’s bang on my first week was coke I was hallucinating I wanted sleep but couldn’t I kept thinking I am going to die and death and what’s after death non stop full grade panic attack weak I never ate full 7 days I w take methadoen that didn’t even toutch the sides!!!!

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  23. It's NOT CRAVING!!!!! The VAST majority are taking them as PRESCRIBED by a doctor…. IT IS NOT A WEEK OR LESS…. WTF is wrong with you???? It too me almost 3 years to recover from short term Ativan use.

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  26. What's he's talking about. I've been on kolinopin for 35 years, dropped from 12 milgrams, a day to 4 mils a day, then to 2 & 1/2 milgrams to 1 milgram in a month its not cold turkry but it's extremely fast & yes I'm at home. There are no cravings, what' so ever coming off painkillers, dope of methadone is hell if you want to talk about hell. This is a cakewalk 🚶‍♂️its mind of matter really if you come right off . With tampering you can die. Have a few drinks a day til you feel better. it's the same thing as being detoxed from booze jyst backwards! 😉

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  30. I CT'd 30mg Diazepam, 1mg Clonazepam, 7.5mg Zopiclone plus 80ml methadone 16 months ago and suffered bad wd of insomnia for 3 months with just 30 minutes sleep each night plus severe agitation and akathasia (restlessness). The insomnia drove me mad, almost literally and I had a psychotic episode and consequently was sectioned under the mental health act as a result – this was after 2 months since my last benzo or z drug.
    I was taking more than my prescribed dose of Diazepam, sometimes taking 200mg as I was purchasing msj blues plus Teva and Accord yellows and ksanalol Clonazepam 2mg tablets plus 2mg gg249 xanax and the 5mg xanax rugby ball ones also.
    I'm very fortunate not to have died as a result of my withdrawal and suffered one tonic clinic seizure since I stopped the benzos but I'm lucky not to have suffered more due to the amounts I was taking in conjunction with my prescribed tablets. I also stopped an anti depressant plus two BP medications cokd turkey at the same time.
    I was prescribed Benzodiazepines plus drugs daily for over 18 years, started on 2mg Lorazepam then crossed to Diazepam 20mg then was upped to 30mg to take alcohol wd into account plus was prescribed nitrazepam and Temazepam for insomnia along with the diazepam/Lorazepam then Zolpidem then Zopiclone at different times. All of this when I was on 80ml methadone.
    My withdrawal symptoms have now almost disappeared other than slight to moderate restlessness but my sleep has improved dramatically.

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  31. I take both benzo and ssri and have been for 8 years. I'm one of those people that can't function without them. And I don't mean from withdrawals, I mean the worst I've ever felt in my entire life before I started taking them. 0.5mg of clonazepam per day does me well. I'm prescribed 1mg but only take half that, because it's all I need.

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  35. I quit 20 yrs ago I STILL WONT THEM EVERYDAY! ! THIS IS NO EXCUSE?! 😢BUT FACTS! ITS CAUSE I HAVE PANIC DISORDER STRESS., PTSD, ANIEXTY, INSOMNIA, EATING DISORDER, AGORAPHOBIA! RACING MIND NEVER STOPS! I NEED THEM ! THATS WHY I AM THINKING OF THEM I KNOW THE PEACE THEY BRING INTO MY LIFE! 😊❤v

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  36. Taper under guidance of a doctor or addiction doctor. I just did it and I'm calm and free. This guy is a benzo patient's nightmare! Cravings?! This is misinformation.

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  37. He has no idea , withdrawal doesn’t even get bad until about a week or so. Then, after a couple months of de habilitation it slowly gets better. I’ve done it twice. Cold turkey off 2-4mg a day.

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  40. I don't have cravings. I'm terrified of the withdrawals.
    People have died.
    Don't tell people withdrawal is a week
    Our physicians gave it to us no warnings.
    Look up Precipitated withdrawals

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  41. Please I need help
    I take diazepam for 3 months
    I take the first month 2 pills everyday at once (20mg)
    And the second two months I take 30mg everyday at once

    I stopped it abruptly and after 3 days I got many symptoms (muscle severe pain and insomnia fatigue shaking paranoia anxiety and depression and angriness and I feel my brain is weird like brain zap or brain fog )

    Please tell me your opinion how much my symptoms will last ?

    Should I come back to take diazepam and then taper it slowly or I wait
    I didnt take it for 18 days but I still have the symptoms specially the brain zap

    Please any advice would be appreciated

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  42. Ummmmmmm…. Helllo klonopin?!??

    I think this is more for short acting benzos like Xanax and such… not for long acting ones:! Good luck to everyone and be careful!!

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  43. I had a seizure from Valium withdrawals. Just dropped at work and woke up in a ambulance being rushed to hospital. Didn’t know my name or where I was when I woke up. Taper off, don’t go cold turkey.

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  44. 33 years on lorazepam and was stopped much to quick ( 12 month's off now) . Now my legs and feet are shaking and cramping intense, since 26 month 's Reïnstating benzo' s did not work they simply do not work anymore .Intense pain, benzo belly, rapid c.n.s. overload, etcetera. Will this torture ever stop?

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  45. I saw my dead step dad lying on the chair,as the sun came up on my fourth day , I had no idea it was delerium. I was taking benzos and stopped suddenly. I didn't sleep for days,then it was hallucinations then smash,like being hit on the back of the head I went into seizure for 15minutes according to witnesses,they thought I was dead. I really saw that apparition fade as sunlight came up, I heard my name whispered,I was in torture couldn't sleep relax ever for months and my GP had no care until I arrived with two black eyes after the worst and first seizure I'd ever had. Terrifying.i hope this time this dr knows what he's doing. From a the first eight months where I was still I'll cold turkey but not as bad as the firstonth,she offerede 20mg diazepam reducing in a month to zero. Looking into other specialist Dr opinions, it was destined to fail. Just too painful. I ended up in the worst relapse ever after screaming for weeks for help. Bear in mind these things were prescribed then stopped or I'd never have been exposed and then through desperate measures illicit internet bought rubbish, obviously worse.if you're in agony I'd love to see these drs for one day go through it and then after months say no when someone offers you something toske it stop instantly for. Less than a cup of Costa coffee. I hated myself doing it. Thankfully my elderly mother came with me to the psychiatrist and was believed above me,I was noted as a drug addict,unfair,I was trying my best and I was dependenti never stole or spent all my money on it etc big difference between dependency and full blown heroin addict shooting up drugs everyday, I can be a responsible person but I'm found thrown in with true dishonest very sick people,liars,thieves and forget personal identity now. Horrible. Emotionally traumatising,physically like medieval torture and you don't want to be around anybody,not because you don't care but because it's too stressful,I deal with pain better alone. It's like a shamanic journey of the soul,deep within yourself and hope you survive.

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