How do you know if you have tolerance withdrawal ?

[[mi...]]

How do you know if you have tolerance withdrawal, and how many people get this ?

[[Je...]]

In my case, I take Xanax and it calms me for only a couple hours....then I feel all hyper and manic and supersensitive to stimuli of any type.  I get a hellacious rebound 3 hours after taking my last Xanax.  I take it 4x per day, so you can do the math and understand how many times I deal with this shit per day...

[[th...]]

One can get two types of "while taking benzo wd":

 

1. Tolerance wd is when you begin to experience wd syx even though you are not tapering or cutting. It means the dose you are at has stopped working for you. People increase the dose to fight this but it doesn't always help or it only helps a short time before it happens again...starting a rollercoaster of updosing over and over just to ward off the syx. You basically become tolerant to the dose you are at and go into wd.

 

2. Interdose wd is something the short-acting benzos may cause. Xanax is terrible with this problem because it is so short acting. This is when you take your dose and a few hours later you have wd syx. The reason why xanax users dose multiple times in 24 hrs. To ward off the interdose wd.

 

A person can have both of these problems at the same time...I did/do. It sucks!

 

Grinch

[[be...]]

Tolerance withdrawal is where the dose that once worked no longer has the same effect and the body needs more and more. This is how so many of us got on such high doses. Our doctors kept increasing our dose. Remaining in tolerance without increasing your dose can cause some pretty horrible symptoms. Two years ago I was bedridden for 79 days. I suffered from extreme depression and vertigo. It was so awful I could not even walk. It was only when I joined bb that I realized just why that went on....I had reached tolerance. For others it can cause a multitude of symptoms, often ones seen once the drug is stopped.

[[gr...]]

Its already been explained so i wont do it again, but tolerance withdrawl is the reason i started looking on the web to figure out why i was so sick. I learned it was twd from looking and reading on this site. It took me years to hit tolerance.

[[bu...]]

No offense to anyone, but some of the info posted above is NOT correct.

Tolerance is the condition where your benzo has no therapeutic effect.  It no longer relieves the symptom that it was originally prescribed for.  Tolerance does NOT cause any direct symptoms, but the symptoms of the original disorder may re-appear.  Tolerance is one of the fundamental characteristics of benzos, and most benzo users will eventually develop tolerance to the drug.

 

Tolerance withdrawal is the condition where a benzo user begins to develop withdrawal symptoms, while continuing to take a steady dose of the drug.  Most benzo users do NOT develop tolerance withdrawal.  (Colin calls this relative withdrawal)

[[be...]]

No offense to anyone, but some of the info posted above is NOT correct.

Tolerance is the condition where your benzo has no therapeutic effect.  It no longer relieves the symptom that it was originally prescribed for.  Tolerance does NOT cause any direct symptoms, but the symptoms of the original disorder may re-appear.  Tolerance is one of the fundamental characteristics of benzos, and most benzo users will eventually develop tolerance to the drug.

 

Tolerance withdrawal is the condition where a benzo user begins to develop withdrawal symptoms, while continuing to take a steady dose of the drug.  Most benzo users do NOT develop tolerance withdrawal.  (Colin calls this relative withdrawal)

 

I've been on a high dose of K for over a decade and still have not reached tolerance.

[[bu...]]

No offense to anyone, but some of the info posted above is NOT correct.

Tolerance is the condition where your benzo has no therapeutic effect.  It no longer relieves the symptom that it was originally prescribed for.  Tolerance does NOT cause any direct symptoms, but the symptoms of the original disorder may re-appear.  Tolerance is one of the fundamental characteristics of benzos, and most benzo users will eventually develop tolerance to the drug.

 

Tolerance withdrawal is the condition where a benzo user begins to develop withdrawal symptoms, while continuing to take a steady dose of the drug.  Most benzo users do NOT develop tolerance withdrawal.  (Colin calls this relative withdrawal)

 

I've been on a high dose of K for over a decade and still have not reached tolerance.

 

 

 

What was it originally prescribed for?  Is it still controlling/relieving that condition?

[[th...]]

No offense but I was in tolerance wd for sure!

 

Grinch

[[mi...]]

How many people get tolerance withdrawal. Are there any statistics on this ?

[[bu...]]

How many people get tolerance withdrawal. Are there any statistics on this ?

 

Here are some of Colin's comments on the BB homepage:

 

"'Tolerance' occurs when your GABA (benzo) receptors have down-regulated in response to the regular use of benzodiazepines. Put simply, your benzos will no longer deliver the therapeutic effects they did before you become tolerant.

 

The longer you take benzodiazepines, the greater the chance that you will develop tolerance. Most people develop tolerance,...

 

Relative Withdrawal refers to withdrawal effects that some people experience once they have become tolerant to their benzodiazepines. Although they are not reducing their dose, they nevertheless experience withdrawal-type symptoms.

 

We should point out that only a small number of people develop Relative Withdrawal symptoms'

 

(emphasis added)

 

http://www.benzobuddies.org/benzodiazepine-information/tolerance-and-dependency/