Posted by floatingbridge on June 8, 2011, at 13:35:50
In reply to public health+benzos, posted by Christ_empowered on June 8, 2011, at 12:33:55
CE, your knowledge on this would be greater than my own. That said, the biggest drawback to chronic benzo use is memory loss which suggests brain damage/loss.
Then again, the effects of some AP use, I think, is just beginning to hit mainstream. Aren't some implicated in endocrine disruption in addition to
negative brain changes?Then again, I've read of an/some AP's helping preserve brain function. I can imagine someone laughing their head off (in a rather cynical way) over that last
statement. But my knowledge goes about deep as Readers' Digest.In benzos favor, they've been around longer, their effects are more known.
The regime I'm on (the Valium & norco part) and was on (dex, xanax, pristiq, & norco) made some well-intentioned
and caring folks shudder. But in the final shake down, other than escalation (in
both benzo & opiate), and, geez, not rebound affect, but more like how a med will create it's own need in the body, like norco making more opiate receptors, thus creating increased sensitivity to pain), I don't know how it could be worse, an AP or a benzo. And I was certainly was put through some paces to get me off norco.Not that I'm closed to other options.
At least my body feels much less agitated. It accepts these medications.
My only hospital stay. Some of the women were just crying and in terrible shape, not simply because of why they landed there, but, (imo), because some were sedated with seroquel at high doses & other meds I don't know. (I was very busy paying attention to myself there.)
I remember one lovely, lovely woman who had a very good reason to be in the hospital. She showed me how her beautiful face was doing this downward pull at the mouth. Look she said what the meds are doing she said, but they keep increasing it and I can't stop crying. God bless her.
I suppose they grandfathered me through. I did try the seroquel with great hope. I really didn't care what I took, you know, it was, yes, yes, make it go away. Well whew. Seroquel was not sedating. I've posted before that I wish AP's would work for me. And I haven't
dismissed them as a class though my pdoc seems to have.I think abuse potential factors highly into public medicine. Sadly, for a legitimate reason. But shutting off all access isn't the best solution, just maybe the easiest.
But as one babbler wrote, benzos are a humane medication.
Sigh. Yeah. I don't know how I would manage my anxiety w/o benzo use. AD's didn't put a dent in it.
It's not big for you, is it?
Unchecked anxiety itself will ravage the brain.
Maybe you could consider public health CE. That's a place to make a real difference, too. Besides, you get so fired up about it. That's good :-)
* and whoever gazes at the stars will never again be quite alone...
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