Posted by maxx44 on November 21, 2003, at 21:36:49
In reply to Re: Xanax Withdrawal, posted by AmigoMarko on November 14, 2003, at 0:02:44
a major error i made in the 70's, when drs. were still terming cocaine a 'pot-like' recreational drug, was not understanding how different each person is. i tried it for a month and just quit. no problems. my ex tried a line just once---the next day she seemed to have the flu. she asked if there was any of 'that stuff' left. there was residue on the paper it came in. she sniffed it and Bam! 'flu cured'. i'd never seen such. but i knew what it meant. we were very different, something i had never considered. or seen. i'm not you, but in the 80's klonopin was the darling of shrinks using benzos on bipolars, mostly due to drug co. hype and its longer half-life vs. xanax. i've been on 4 benzos and my experience is a benzo is a benzo---when you run out. which is to be avoided---they all require a long taper in long-term daily users. the half-life of xanax is hours vs. days for klonopin. so it's easy to see one may consider klonopin less addictive, as with librium or valium, which also have long half-lives, unlike xanax. you don't get whacked for days, during which time you feel fine---then look out. withdrawal onset is swift and intense. this is not erudite data from someone who's never been there, nor is it relevant to only me---i've seen many klonopin users, as my second wife, go thru this. it depressed her, as me, and every time she just quit i had to take her to the nearest er, where i heard the drs. tell her the same thing--'see there, you're bipolar and need this as a diabetic needs insulin.' bulldung. this woman was the secretary of the screen writer's guild in west LA, and a screenwriter, brilliant. when she had one of her scripts go into production the stress was high, and she was scripted klonopin.
that finished her. klonopin is known to precipitate depression in some. your other meds may be masking this, or you're lucky. for you klonopin may be less addictive---but now, it's generally seen as perhaps the most addictive for the average benzo user. we're all different, but i'd talk this over with my dr. best wishes
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