Posted by qbsbrown on July 27, 2009, at 22:25:48
In reply to Well, doc approved Tegretol now, posted by qbsbrown on July 27, 2009, at 21:09:58
This probably feels worse than my cold turkey 3 years ago. It's hard to see the point of going extremely slow to me.
With you theory of "kindling", which seems to be accurate, doesn't there have to be some type of intervention?
This reminds me of cold turkey that i tried 3 years ago, but worse. I
went cold turkey for 3 weeks, just psychotic. I couldn't tell you my
name or address. I can't tell you my new roomies address to save my life
lol. Sometimes I forget her name and who i'm living with. Same with cold turkey, my girlfriend would walk into the store that i was working at, and one time i honestly remember it take me a couple of minutes to register who she was. Then i couldnt sleep and was going crazy, and was sprinting around the streets of portland in the middle of the night. Somehow in that state, i was able to drive with her, and even
drive a little, for 12 hours once. I can barely go for a car ride now.Hard for me to envision doing this for a long time, w/o doing/trying a rapid detox, which seem to be tegretol, or phenobarbitol.
But I understand the risk of seizures, which the anitseizure would/could prevent, and the risk of psychosis, which i feel very close to. So that's the main fear.
And i know that they say that benzo cold turkey and rapid detox can be similar to PTSD, which I have done 2 times, and that even regular going through benzo wd can be similar to PTSD.
So it's tough to gauge what and how to wager
Regards,
Brian
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