Posted by Phillipa on December 4, 2010, at 21:17:32
In reply to Re: Not the greatest advert for benzos » sigismund, posted by ed_uk2010 on December 4, 2010, at 13:51:58
First thanks for the support. But now my life as it unraveled. Age 24 major panic all the time with two little kids at the time living in Florida. Husband at time drove me back to CT where we had kept our house. See a pdoc who prescribes valium open prescription at the time as was 1971. Said take 5mg three times a day with the miltown common med then. I took both and drank then three beers a night. Fast forward two maybe less years later felt great and had for a long time so said I don't need this miltown stopped it no side effects at all. Continued with the open end RX for valium as not deemed as a bad med then. As I went through Nursing took valium as needed. Stopped drinking as needed to study. By that time I had a third child who was conceived while on the meds and alchohol. Went into false labor and the ob-gyn knew what meds on and was fine with it. In the hospital false labor the ob-gyn gave me two seconals as he felt it was false labor. Three weeks later had a healthy girl. Decided since breast feeding would just not take any meds and didn't. No one of the docs cared. I guess had some sort of withdrawal as couldnt breast feed as baby awake screaming 24 hours a day. In and out of the hospital the baby. They gave her sedatives never told me so thought I was a bad Mom. As my first two never cried. I wasn't taking meds then. So I lay on the couch during one of the babies hospitalizations for two weeks and didn't take any meds. Then she was ready to come home the nurses hadn't been able to put any weight on her as she had what they called hyperkinetic legs always moving, sensitive had to be changed if even urinated, and bassinett had to be covered as light bothered her and "not one person alone could care for her". I did though and added back 5mg of valium and she gained three pounds in a month. And til she was 18months old she had a variety of problems infections and such. Then she was fine. Has two degrees. Manages a store. Has her own child now. She's super smart. As are my older two. Then at menopause time thyroid, lymes found and first ad given to me. And Obital my diagnosis is Gad. And never abused any of the meds. So do I want to add another med? As some have said life isn't perfect. Sometimes you do the best you can and that's all you can do. I could stop all the meds now again. But now all this talk about withdrawal. A problem I've never personally experience. So is too much or not enough knowledge dangerous? For all other threads that say in the future medications as known now will be archaic it's very possible. As in the past benzos were deemed safe even when pregnant. So as the pharmacist said about my Hrt question the jury is out. Will SSRI's and all the antidepressants be said to cause brain damage some day. I feel the jury is out on that also. Phillipa ps thinking out loud
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