Posted by yxibow on October 28, 2008, at 23:49:15
In reply to Re: ideas for regenerating GABA receptors? » Extreme, posted by cactus on October 26, 2008, at 16:46:19
> Thanks for your input extreme but xanax is the only benzo that I can't touch. It doesn't like me and makes my anxiety sky rocket. I have a paradoxical reaction to it and it also gives me mild akathisia. No other benzo I have tried has ever done that to me and I have tried quite a few.
Its not surprising. Xanax is slightly activating hence its fast response so you had a paradoxical reaction.
Nothing really will "heal" GABA receptors but time. I don't know where I'm going with my Valium taper, its complicated because I don't know if I can actually go below the amount I have now without seriously raising every aspect of my disorder (and there are a fair number).
I'm getting much more fear now which I could do without, sort of rushing panic attacks that go out of control at times, situational based.
I'm surprised you can just go from 6 to 5, or was there taper in between? That's even more Klonopin/Valium conversion over than I ever took, but then I saw someone on here mention they took 30mg of Klonopin which sounds like instant respiratory depression for those not used to it. I hope that was a typo.
No, I don't think being on IV flumazenil for weeks would do anything either except cause cardiac arrest -- sorry, sounds a bit flippant.
Maybe low dose Librium? But that's just getting back into the benzo area anyhow.
Neurontin/Lyrica as a substitute temporarily, possibly, but that also has a potential of flooding the receptor too.
And I'm on both (Neurontin). And Lamictal, which doesn't function that way.
So I'm in the same boat I'm afraid... the Valium is doing what it still is doing after 4 years but I feel no "zing" from any benzo or benzo related product. My doctor and I know its still doing something, because its not just pure withdrawal, my rare symptoms have spiked. You could say its revealing anxiety again, I'm not sure.
Anyhow, that's just my story.
Time, I'd say, ultimately, and replacement with another anxiolytic class, an AED or a sleepy SSRI like Paxil. Or I hate to suggest it because I'm also on it too and need it for off label reasons and wish I could get rid of it, Seroquel, but at a lower dose.
-- best wishes
Jay
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