tolerance withdrawals

[[lo...]]

I had never even heard that term until I found this site and I realize the past year of my life has been more suffering from tolerance withdrawal then panic attacks, all day long I am shaky and sick to my stomach. Light and sound cause me physical pain. I feel constant surreal and detracted, I start my taper today me next dose will be my first cut I am scared and exited to one day be benzo free. Will my withdraw symptoms get worse with the taper?

[[ea...]]

Yes, they might......  but then again, they might not. Its nothing you cannot live with, lostdaydreaming, especially if you start now learning ways to cope with symptoms. Everyone here is learning, hopefully, how to manage symptoms as they crop up. Its nothing very hard to learn...easy stuff like deep breathing for anxiety and fear.

I, too, wasn't familiar with tolerance withdrawal before I came here. To my shock I realized I had been in it for many years! It is something not well known about in the medical community, that I do know.

east

[[th...]]

I have stayed pretty much the same from when I was in tol wd and in my taper. Syx are about the same. Awful but the same. Some are better some are new but all in all it was so bad in tol wd that tapering wd isn't much different. My tol wd was all mostly physical syx and in my taper I have added mental syx that weren't their before. Panic, anxiety. I was really sick before I started tapering and I remained as sick. So it wasn't worse.

 

Grinch

[[Ch...]]

Withdrawal is withdrawal, whether it be from tolerance or tapering.  If you've been having these symptoms already, as long as you taper slowly they shouldn't get much worse unless you cut too much at one time.

 

Chal 

[[bk...]]

Hope you use this site. Everyone is so nice and so much support. Good luck!!!  Kay

[[Cl...]]

I have stayed pretty much the same from when I was in tol wd and in my taper. Syx are about the same. Awful but the same. Some are better some are new but all in all it was so bad in tol wd that tapering wd isn't much different. My tol wd was all mostly physical syx and in my taper I have added mental syx that weren't their before. Panic, anxiety. I was really sick before I started tapering and I remained as sick. So it wasn't worse.

 

Grinch

I completely agree with Grinch, i had also tolerance w/d for many Years without knowing it, till i found BBs...

[[be...]]

I had never even heard that term until I found this site and I realize the past year of my life has been more suffering from tolerance withdrawal then panic attacks, all day long I am shaky and sick to my stomach. Light and sound cause me physical pain. I feel constant surreal and detracted, I start my taper today me next dose will be my first cut I am scared and exited to one day be benzo free. Will my withdraw symptoms get worse with the taper?

 

Congrats on the first day of your taper. You are one day closer to being benzo free. Several years ago I was in a tolerance withdrawal, but had no idea at the time what was wrong. It was just awful. I think that if you do a careful taper that you can help minimize unwanted symptoms. Unfortunately there is no crystal ball that can predict what symptoms we will have or how long we will have them. We are all unique in our healing. I am hoping you have few problems.

[[Ja...]]

I also had tolerance withdraw symptoms. Kept going to the doctors with all different physical symptoms, had all kinds of test run only to come back negative. Thought it Wes from BP meds had that changed, still had symptoms. Changed a lot of other stuff, still had symptoms, the only thing I didn't change was the Klonopin, BINGO! Was in tolerance.

 

It hasn't been easy, different symptoms come and go, but if the drugs are causing them, which I am sure they are, I don't have any choice but to get off them. Everyone is different with what they go though, so it's a wait and see game. Here is wishing you an easy taper. Hang in there you'll make it!

Jaddy

[[lo...]]

Finding this site was what finally opened my eyes to what is really going on with my mind and body, and given me the strength and hope I need to get off my xanax. When I was first cut all I could think was find another doctor and stay on the xanax. I feel like Smigal from lord of the rings with these xanax. When I first started having xanax it was a few months after my first son was born and they were so quick to put me on xanax I wonder now if I had never taken them, if things might not have gone back to normal after my hormones adjusted. I know a panic attack it comes and then goes, what I feel anymore never goes. I still have panic attacks I had one last night and was able to get through it and after it passed and I settled down from it I realized that the other symptoms were withdraws. So far mine are mental in I feel like I'm in a dream about to wake up that's the most terrifying feeling I think I get. Physical racing heart,feeling sick, having to run to the bathroom over and over again, and until I found this site I had no idea we had GABA receptors in our GI and that explains SO much. I get pins and needles, joint cramping. I am scared I'm having a stroke or heart attack and not like a panic where I think this then it goes away I'll have pins and needles all day or my chest hurts all day, I've gone to the ER a few times in the past few months and they say it's my panic.

 

I am so scared of the withdraws and whats to come, but my body is telling me these xanax need to go! I am so happy to have everyone here and know I'm not alone, and soon I'll be benzo free and healing.

 

For my panic and anxiety I have found a app on my phone called mindful, it's been a great help it teaches mindfulness. Has you pause through out the day to take 2 deep breaths and enter your mood and things going on around.

 

Getting ready to take my 1st 1.75mg dose my hearts racing, this is my first step to getting my mind back.

[[th...]]

I also had tolerance withdraw symptoms. Kept going to the doctors with all different physical symptoms, had all kinds of test run only to come back negative. Thought it Wes from BP meds had that changed, still had symptoms. Changed a lot of other stuff, still had symptoms, the only thing I didn't change was the Klonopin, BINGO! Was in tolerance.

 

It hasn't been easy, different symptoms come and go, but if the drugs are causing them, which I am sure they are, I don't have any choice but to get off them. Everyone is different with what they go though, so it's a wait and see game. Here is wishing you an easy taper. Hang in there you'll make it!

Jaddy

 

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