Posted by myname20098002 on January 22, 2009, at 2:02:42
Hello,
I am an alcoholic with one year sobriety. Unfortunately, occassionally I have anxiety issues that come up. They can become intense and lead to anxiety attacks. They do not happen often; however, maybe a few times a year only. But I need something to get me out of them when they occur. The last one my doctor gave me a .5 mg ativan tablet and it knocked out the anxiety attack. Unfortunately, it excited the alcoholic part of my brain and after a year of being free from alcohol.. I almost succumbed. Fortunately, I was able to contact my sponsor and go to meetings and pray and I got over it.
All of which led me to realize I can never take another benzo or any drug that would cause me to want to drink again for the rest of my life.
Now I'll be talking this over with my doc and handing him back his bottle of benzos and explaining why I can never take one of those again for the rest of my life but I wanted to see if anyone of you had heard of a possible anti-anxiety drug that could be taken by an alcoholic that would not excite that part of their brain thereby causing them to fall back into alcoholism.
I'm just looking for intelligent suggestions that I can take to my doctor for his opinion. Thank you.
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