Posted by Lou Pilder on April 29, 2012, at 10:20:23
In reply to Lou's response-leighcvphyur » MelanieG, posted by Lou Pilder on April 28, 2012, at 21:26:44
> > Hi - I wanted to provide an update on me. You might recall I posted about a month ago with my symptoms of anxiety and possible post traumatic stress from a very traumatic experience in my life. I began experiencing dizziness on an almost daily basis last June. And I believe that caused panic attacks.
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> > Well - I stopped taking Ambien, which I've been on for about 3 years now. It was a very low dose - half a pill per night. I tapered myself off by taking one half of a half for a few nights and then stopped completely. I now take one Melatonin a night but I probably do not even need that.
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> > I have NO problems sleeping at all. Not falling asleep - nor staying asleep. Sometimes I wake up but then go right back to sleep. I have MUCH MUCH better sleep quality and now I dream again whereas on Ambien I did not. I wake up feeling refreshed and well rested and do not require as much sleep. Best of all - my dizziness is gone! No more feeling edgy, jumpy, sensitivity to noise, panicky etc.
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> > It is my belief that I was going through some sort of physical withdrawal each day from the Ambien. My body is very very sensitive to any kind of drug. I react VERY strongly to even the smallest dose of most medications and only require a small dose of most. you might recall I was taking one half of a .25 Xanax which gave me relief from the dizziness. I have not needed to take a Xanax in weeks!
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> > I just wanted to pass this information along in case it might help someone else. It is very possible that I was having a longterm side effect to years of Ambien. I am still seeing a therapist every other week and she helps me immensely - but I am feeling better than I have in a long time. I still believe I have a tendency to anxiety in general but I think the ambien or reaction to it the next day might have possibly had something to do with how I was feeling.
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> > All the best to everyone on here! :)
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> MelanieG,
> You wrote,[...tramatic experiance in my life...anxiety...dizzynesss..panic attacks...stopped taking Ambien...not needed to take Xanax...possible that I was having a longterm side effect to years of Ambien...still seeing a therapist...].
> There are things in what you have posted here that fit into a situation that could be unbeknownst to you and your therapist that I could help here with. You see, you are describing a situaation that could have unexpected happenings going forward. This has to do with delayed reactions, triggers, consequences from taking benzodiazepines, and things that could be beyond psychiatry and psychology that I know.
> What I am getting at here is that you could run into a catastrophic situation that I know how you could overcome and you and your therapist may not be able to understand what is happening and you might not know what to do. If that happens, feel free for your therpist to contact me, for it could save your life or prevent you from gettinmg a life-ruining condition or addiction IMHHO. This is based on my deep study into the situation that you describe here and what I know about benzodiazepines and what I know about what you wrote here. In particular, but not limited to the taking of Ambien and your tramatic experiance. There are connections involved that I am prohibited from posting here due to prohibitions made to me by Mr. Hsiung. But your therapist could contact me if going forward you run into an unknown situation and can not explain it. But I see ahead here by what you wrote a possibility of coming to an impossible chasm to cross. If you get there,and do not know what to do, you and your therapist could contact me if you like.
> LouFriends,
There is an ongoing prohibition to me here to prohibit me from posting educational facts that IMHO could mark the difference between life and death, between living a life free of addiction or not, and to live a life free from having a life-ruining condition. This policy now prevents me from posting a lot of education concerning the drug called Ambien. but let me post some things here that iMHO could save lives or prevent addiction or a life-ruining condition from taking Ambien and/or a benzodiazepine.
There are things that could be unbeknownst to some here concerning what could happen to someone that {stops} taking Ambien and/or a benzodiazepine. This situation I have learned from a deep study of {nerve agents} and the study of {sorcery}. Let me try to tell you what I can here while abiding by the prohibitions to me here from Mr. Hsiung which could lead to some confusion as I have to leave out a lot of educational information.
First, in relation to Ambien, is this a new drug or a new name for a modification, chemically, of an old drug? The drug has constituants that were discovered by a German pharmaceutical chemist in the 1800s. I am prohibited from posting here the full development going forward from that time up to now. But let us look at what the chemists did from the 1800s.
The drug, Ambien, has chemical constituants that are found in the {histamine} system and also used as antifungals. The hystamine aspect is related to the sleep system in the brain. There is also {pyridine} which is chemically in the structure of modified {benzene}.
These chemicals, coming from coal tar, were used in the 1800s. I started to do an exposition on {benzene} here.
Now {pyridine} is a chemical constituant of {belladonna} and can cause hallucinations. The plant was used by sorcerers to assasinate and execute people. The constituants can be reduced to a {piperidine}.
I started to do an exposition here in relation to these chemicals and their use in {nerve agents}. I was also wanting to show the chemical properties of {cyclohexanol}and {dibenzoxepino pyrrole} and what drug uses the chemical constituants found in a riot control agent that could cause death and cancer and other chemicals used in nerve agents and then to go into the formulation of mind-altering drugs, such as the psychotropic drugs that many are taking here.
Now the case at hand here is about Ambien and a benzodiazepine that is stopped. But what could happen after that is something that could be unbeknownst to even the people that prescribe the drugs. I will attempt to post here what that could be unless the prohibitions to me here by Mr. Hsiung prevent me from posting these facts that I think could educate some to have a better understanding of what these mind-alltering drugs can do to the one taking them and then give them a better understnding of that so they could have more information as to make a decision as to take the drugs or not. And also what they could do if they find themselves in a worse situation after stopping the drugs and their provider does not know what to do or wants to prescribe more drugs to that person and with this information one could IMHO make a more -informed decision as to take more drugs or not or do something else.
Lou
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