Anxiety Support Group
Anxiety is a physical condition marked by intense and persistent feelings of distress, fear, angst or dread. General anxiety caused by routine day-to-day stresses usually passes quickly and is experienced by almost everyone at one time or another. However, such feelings that linger over time and are very difficult to cope with, and which lack a clear cause, may indicate...
I'm one terrified of being addicted to anything
I went through hell stopping cymbalta 3 years ago.
Stupid me ok'd a prescription of low dose Klonipin 2 years ago. I may have taken half to a whole of 0.5mg every 2 or three days.
This is for 2 years.
1 month ago I was prescribed levaquin for sinusitis. Sinus infection got better but suddenly is was in complete fatigue and anxiety through the roof to where I felt I needed the Klonipin a little more.
I went through so many tests on my thyroid (I'm hypothyroid). and adrenals that were basically ok. Then I read that the class of meds levaquin is in can completely displace the benzos on the receptors to put me in automatic withdraw
I THINK that is what is happening to me. I'm mad. I didn't know taking. It so infrequently can still make you dependent. I want off completely. I took my last quarter pill 2 days ago.
I have asked to switch to gabapentin to reduce the symptoms along with low dose propranolol. I am HAVING to take a benedryl if I want to eat. I have lost 20 lbs!! I'm in leave from work but due to go back in 2 weeks!
I am shaky, nauseated, irritable and scared.
Help
I went through hell stopping cymbalta 3 years ago.
Stupid me ok'd a prescription of low dose Klonipin 2 years ago. I may have taken half to a whole of 0.5mg every 2 or three days.
This is for 2 years.
1 month ago I was prescribed levaquin for sinusitis. Sinus infection got better but suddenly is was in complete fatigue and anxiety through the roof to where I felt I needed the Klonipin a little more.
I went through so many tests on my thyroid (I'm hypothyroid). and adrenals that were basically ok. Then I read that the class of meds levaquin is in can completely displace the benzos on the receptors to put me in automatic withdraw
I THINK that is what is happening to me. I'm mad. I didn't know taking. It so infrequently can still make you dependent. I want off completely. I took my last quarter pill 2 days ago.
I have asked to switch to gabapentin to reduce the symptoms along with low dose propranolol. I am HAVING to take a benedryl if I want to eat. I have lost 20 lbs!! I'm in leave from work but due to go back in 2 weeks!
I am shaky, nauseated, irritable and scared.
Help
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It's National Doughnut Day!Which three would you like? (never mind the calories, fat, or sugar content; just go with what you would pick if none of that mattered and whatever health issues you might have that would keep you from eating one in real life can be cast aside for this exercise as well... have at it!)
It took me 6 or 8 weeks to lower my daily dose from 0.75mg to 0.50mg.
My doc says some people need to go even slower.
Towards the end I went to a compounding pharmacy and had it made in liquid form so I could decrease in very small increments. It is difficult to split the pill accurately . Not cheap nut it was better than the torturous
withdrawls of reducing too fast.