Posted by Squiggles on August 10, 2007, at 9:47:03
In reply to Re: Tolerance to Benzo Anxiety Effects, posted by sometimesblue on August 10, 2007, at 9:24:39
> I find that I build up a tolerance to benzos very quickly and was constantly self medicating and increasing my doses. The first time a took a break from it the withdrawal was non-existant. However the second time was hell! I had all the book-marked symtoms of a benzo withdrawal...it was completely awful...i thought i was going to have seizures. But strangely, I had been on the medication longer the second time around, but not at such high doses like the first time. Go figure.
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> -SB
Which benzo were you on?I had a strange experience too, with the early
stages of taking clonazepam-- say the first year or so. I was taking a min. dose of 0.5 and i stopped. I experienced an electric shock down my arm and numbness on the left side of my head. I decided to better get back on. And it took about a month for these slight withdrawal effects to go away.Much later, when I tried on the same dose, the effects were far worse, and later than than that, say 7 yrs. unbearable. Still, the 30-day mark of recovery seemed to be consistent, with the exception of the last try, where they would not stop without reinstatement after about 18 mos. And then, to recover again it took about 30-60 days. But the withdrawals on this try were severe and i was bed-ridden for the time, as if after a stroke.
It seems that with clonazepam at least, it just got worse and worse every time i tried to withdraw, even though the range for about 15 yrs was 0.5-1.0mg (.5 added later to stop the w/d's.).
Don't know what's going there. Those articles by Lader et al look good, if you can understand them.
Squiggles
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