Panic Attacks Support Group
A panic attack is a period of intense fear or discomfort, typically with an abrupt onset and usually lasting no more than thirty minutes. Symptoms include trembling, shortness of breath, heart palpitations, sweating, nausea, dizziness, hyperventilation, and sensations of choking or smothering. Panic attacks can be very sudden, appear to be unprovoked, and are often...
it astonishes me that so many members here suffer needless panic attacks for want of some valium type meds to take
valium is the magic cure for panic attacks, its first choice in hospitals, if an ambulacce brings in someone who is frozen solid in a severe panic attack, the standard treatment is an injection of valium
many panic attack sufferers always carry a few tablets when out and pop 1 under the tongue at the start of a panic attack, gets working quicker that way
makes me wonder if some here actually enjoy their panic attacks and look forward to having them
some docs are fanatically antibenzo but by asking around you will eventually find a doc who will prescribe them, you may need to show doc that you arent a drug addict who has run out of drugs
valium is the magic cure for panic attacks, its first choice in hospitals, if an ambulacce brings in someone who is frozen solid in a severe panic attack, the standard treatment is an injection of valium
many panic attack sufferers always carry a few tablets when out and pop 1 under the tongue at the start of a panic attack, gets working quicker that way
makes me wonder if some here actually enjoy their panic attacks and look forward to having them
some docs are fanatically antibenzo but by asking around you will eventually find a doc who will prescribe them, you may need to show doc that you arent a drug addict who has run out of drugs
Benzo is a short term med. And how dare you try and tell me my seizure was a panic attack. Accept you are wrong. My seizure was found via a CT scan my friend, it was not panic attack.
This was due to not tapering off the meds. I am not saying they can be helpful but they have destroyed lives and as I said I would bet money that at least 30% of the Panic and Anxiety community are hooked on one benzo or another.
Pills are not the answer to this disorder my friend we are. If you find your hope in a pill so be it, but this is a problem that only we ourselves can make the choice to fix.
Just so you can educate yourself a bit, read how addictive benzo's are.
I will be the first to say that I am addicted to xanax. Am I ashamed yes, does it help a tad, is it the cure all HELL NO.
Here do some reading my friend.
Long-term benzodiazepine usage, in general, leads to some form of tolerance and/or dependence with the appearance of a benzodiazepine withdrawal syndrome when the benzodiazepines are stopped or the dose is reduced. However, it is important to distinguish between addiction to and normal physical dependence on benzodiazepines. Intentional abusers of benzodiazepines usually have other substance abuse problems. Benzodiazepines are usually a secondary drug of abuse-used mainly to augment the high received from another drug or to offset the adverse effects of other drugs. F.[50]
Regular use of benzodiazepines at prescribed levels for six weeks was found to produce a significant risk of dependence, with resultant withdrawal symptoms appearing on abrupt discontinuation in a study assessing diazepam and buspirone. However, with abrupt withdrawal after six weeks of treatment with buspirone, no withdrawal symptoms developed.[51] Various studies have shown between 20100% of patients prescribed benzodiazepines at therapeutic dosages long term are physically dependent and will experience withdrawal symptoms.[52]
Benzodiazepine dependence is a frequent complication when they are prescribed for or taken for longer than four weeks, with physical dependence and withdrawal symptoms being the most common problem, but also occasionally drug-seeking behavior. Withdrawal symptoms include anxiety, perceptual disturbances, distortion of all the senses, dysphoria, and, in rare cases, psychosis, and epileptic seizures. The risk factors for benzodiazepine dependence are long-term use beyond four weeks, use of high doses, and use of potent short-acting benzodiazepines among those with certain pre-existing personality characteristics such as dependent personalities, and those prone to drug abuse.[53]
Previously, physical dependence on benzodiazepines was largely thought to occur only in people on high-therapeutic-dose ranges, and low- or normal-dose dependence was not suspected until the 1970s; and it wasn't until the early 1980s that it was confirmed.[54] However, low-dose dependence is now a recognized clinical disadvantage of benzodiazepines, and severe withdrawal syndromes can occur from these low doses of benzodiazepines even after gradual dose reduction.[55][56] Low dose dependence has now been clearly demonstrated in both animal studies and human studies.[57][58]
In an animal study of four baboons on low-dose benzodiazepine treatment, three out of the four baboons demonstrated physical dependence and developed flumazenil-precipitated withdrawal symptoms after only two weeks of low-dose benzodiazepine treatment. Furthermore, the baboons on low-dose therapy did not develop more severe flumazenil-precipitated withdrawal symptoms because low-dose benzodiazepine therapy was continued over a period of 610 months, suggesting rapid onset of dependence with benzodiazepines and suggesting that physical dependence was complete after two weeks of chronic, low-dose benzodiazepine treatment.[59] In another animal study, physical dependence was demonstrated with withdrawal signs appearing after only seven days of low-dose benzodiazepine treatment, and withdrawal signs appeared after only three days after high-dose treatment, which demonstrated the extremely rapid development of tolerance and dependence on benzodiazepines, at least in baboons. It was also found that previous exposure to benzodiazepines sensitized baboons to the development of physical dependence.[60]
In humans, chronic, low-therapeutic-dose dependence was clearly demonstrated using flumazenil to show physical dependence and withdrawal signs. Withdrawal symptoms experienced by the chronic therapeutic low-dose subjects included increased ratings of dizziness, blurred vision, heart pounding, feelings of unreality, pins and needles, nausea, sweatiness, noises louder than usual, jitteriness, things moving, sensitivity to touch.[61] In another study of 34 low-dose benzodiazepine users, physiological dependence was demonstrated by the appearance of withdrawal symptoms in 100% of those who received flumazenil whereas those receiving placebo experienced no withdrawal signs. It was also found that those dependent on low doses of benzodiazepines with a history of panic attacks were at an increased risk of suffering panic attacks due to flumazenil precipitated benzodiazepine withdrawal.[62] It has been estimated that 3045% of chronic low dose benzodiazepine users are dependent and it has been recommended that benzodiazepines even at low dosage be prescribed for a maximum of 714 days to avoid dependence.[63]
Some controversy remains, however, in the medical literature as to the exact nature of low-dose dependence and the difficulty in getting patients to discontinue their benzodiazepines, with some papers attributing the problem to predominantly drug-seeking behavior and drug craving, whereas other papers have found the opposite, attributing the problem to a problem of physical dependence with drug-seeking and craving not being typical of low-dose benzodiazepine users.[64][65]
I am not against them but to get peoples hopes up to call them a miracle cure, that is just plain wrong dude.
Do benzo's help calm you down, yes they can. Are they addictive. VERY MUCH SO!!!
Please just try to be mindful of other people.
"You dont need these and i would only prescribe them to you on a exteremly serious basis and said they are short-term only! a week max he said"
i thank him for warning me that those drugs are very harmful on your body and plus your body isnt built to live off of drugs not to mention if u continually pop big time drugs like valium it will cause serious liver problems in the long run . Sorry if i offended anyone with any of my comments but i needed to say what i said. Peace Yall
Please educate yourself before taking ANYTHING your medical provider gives you. It is good to trust them, but everyone makes mistakes.