Posted by Quintal on December 28, 2006, at 22:40:31
In reply to Re: Ativan and Alcohol » Quintal, posted by yxibow on December 28, 2006, at 20:13:17
>I was going to say you had to be a fast metabolizer -- 20mg of clonazepam is not normally taken except in epileptic settings.
Yes, I assume that's why I aslo have trouble gaining weight and easily 'overheat'. I'm the only person my pdoc has seen lose 3lb on Zyprexa (partly due to an aggressive counter attack on my part with a diet of fruit and vegetables plus glucophage tablets).
>But I understand, I am too -- I don't like some levels of medications I have to take but that is one explanation for it. Although I don't have OCD particularly (well technically I do slightly at the moment, you do for life), it can fall in "the spectrum" and people with OCD can apparently also be fast metabolizers with medication.
There's also psychological tolerance to consider - you'll probably have heard of heroin addicts overdosing on their normal hit simply because they've taken it in a different setting. The dose that's just enough to get high in their apartment bathroom is enough to cause respiratory arrest if taken in the park. I guess an extremely anxious person often has a higher tolerance to sedatives/anxiolytics than an easygoing character of the same bodyweight?
>Please be careful :( -- respiratory depression with benzodiazepines and most definitely with barbiturates can be fatal and requires things like flumazenil and heroic efforts in the ER.
I'm now off all benzos etc., but I do often take some OTC codeine products - not enough to cause any respiratory depression. I'd never mix barbs and alcohol, or barbs and GHB. I did mix Phenobarbital with Klonopin because I had developed tolerance to that dose. Oddly Phenobarbital had a stronger effect during benzo withdrawal - it was like being extremely drunk but I didn't find that when I took it with benzos.
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