urgent please help

[[La...]]

By the way, Advil and other OTC meds or supps can also harm us, check everything here before.

 

On the other hand, we shouldn´t "satanize" all the medical world. IN general, it´s more helpful than damaging. 

[[Sl...]]

Does anyone have suicidal inner akathesia? This is the worst thing i can explain to anyone i need to know whats causing it. It is a feeling of torment and the clocks crawl backwards the said it was from the gabapentin so i dropped 300mg and reinstated 6mg ativan and it helped for a few days and now its back

 

It still comes back every 2nd or 3rd day.

Sometimes a run of 2-3 days usually between 3PM-9PM.

I only get bursts of it now from 2-30 minutes.

The desire to be dead is still strong when its here.

Its almost impossible to describe.

Its like be stretched and hit by lightning at the same time.

Its the reason I can't and won't turn back after using benzo's off and for 40 years.

That is how bad it hurts.

[[...]]

I know my side effects are not as bad as yours, but yesterday I felt like I could jump out of my skin. I was hyper again which includes agitation, intolerance and a plethora of emotions. I cut K today and I'm just hoping I'm not going too fast. Hang in there...it WILL get better.

[[Hi...]]

If ive been taking it for 6days nw does that mean its too late to stop ct again? If i fo a quick taper will it send me int another ct withdrawl? I cant handle another one ive already done 5 ctwithdrawls?

[[La...]]

Downregulation can occur with one single dose.  :'(

[[La...]]

If rx are to be taken, there are other safer than reinstating benzos, if the problem was akathisia. Lyrica could have helped (and also as a replacement for gabapentin). Hydroxyzine, more propranolol, quetiapine, olanzapine, mirtazapine, doxepine, amitriptiline. There were options. If things were that bad the best was to go to ER and ask for any tranquiliser NOT through GABA system and there are many.

 

Please uptdate your signature so that we all can know exactly what happened and the present state in order to give you a better advice.

 

 

[[Hi...]]

So does that mean im stuck doing a slow microtaper from this point? I feel like im going crazy the akathesia is kicking in is this from the reinstatement or from the gaba dose drop. How long should i wait. To drop the rest of the gaba

[[Cr...]]

Don't quote me on this, but considering you are now on ativan, I don't think it matters how fast you drop the gaba....Still taper it I guess, but I'm pretty sure there is no seizure risk and there is little to no info on if ct or taper is helps with gabapentin healing since there is hardly even any info on the fact that it has wd.....Gotta love these drug companies....just keep pumpin out these toxic poisons.....I was better off on fucking street drugs.

[[Hi...]]

Sreiously wish i was still adicted to heroin instead of this. My brain feels like its turning further and further into mush everyday i will not make it out of this alive

[[Cr...]]

I miss heroin....and not cause I'm an addict....cause it was so much simpler than this. Get high, get sick...get better...move on.

[[Hi...]]

Exactly let me tell you though the opiates take away all my akathesia and clear my mind up and take the twisted thoughts away. I try to do it very sparingly. But two hours ago i felt like i needed to crawl outa my skin but i took a oxy 10mg and it knocked everything outa the park

[[Cr...]]

Exactly let me tell you though the opiates take away all my akathesia and clear my mind up and take the twisted thoughts away. I try to do it very sparingly. But two hours ago i felt like i needed to crawl outa my skin but i took a oxy 10mg and it knocked everything outa the park

Just be careful bro....Opiates and the dose of ativan you are on is pretty risky for respiratory failure. I have a few friends who died that way....

[[je...]]

Hip-- your scaring me.. Please be careful. Your on a HIGH dose of benzos.. Taking opiates on top of that can stop your breathing and heart rate will get too slow. Be very careful

[[Bl...]]

If things were that bad the best was to go to ER and ask for any tranquiliser NOT through GABA system and there are many.

 

 

What medications are there that are like this? I have never heard of any tranquilizer that was not benzo-related.

[[Bl...]]

Exactly let me tell you though the opiates take away all my akathesia and clear my mind up and take the twisted thoughts away. I try to do it very sparingly. But two hours ago i felt like i needed to crawl outa my skin but i took a oxy 10mg and it knocked everything outa the park

 

I don't think its a good idea to take both benzos and oxy. If the oxy is providing you relief then I would suggest dropping both the gaba and benzos and seeing how to do on the oxy, and maybe stay on it for a week or two?

[[Hi...]]

One dose of 10mg oxy wont kill me guys i promise thanx for your concern and i cant just drop the benzo now that would send me into another ct and im already kindled so much that another one will kill me i with i didnt reinstate it didntd help anything and i threw 6months healing time down the toilet. Now im looking at two more years of tapering before i can start to heal and i can't fo it ive already been doing this for a year and im in worse shape and taken 5 huge steps backwards im completely insane now and so depressed there is no hope

[[je...]]

Hip- How long have you been taking the Ativan now? A week? Thats not very long.. Maybe you could do a rapid taper? Wish I could be of more help... This is why Im am not a fan of reinstatements. Ive been on this sight for over a year and seen so many people reinstate, and it never ends well.

[[Br...]]

Hey Hiphop.  I'm getting dizzy.  I may not be following all the details but it seems you're taking 6mg Ativan to help you get off 900mg gabapentin.  There's something not healthy with the proportion of those doses.  And now you're taking 10mg oxycodone to help.  Ummm.

 

What happened to the meds you had for neuropathy like amitriptyline?

 

Help us to help you by explaining your main meds in your sig! 

 

 

 

 

 

[[Hi...]]

I dont know how to change my signature. I was six months out and my inner akathesia got so bad it was to the point of suicide. They tried everything and nothing helped. They thought it was a tardive thing from the gabapentin so they said i needed to come off of it i could not do a slow taper from the gabapentin as it was making the akathesia even worse so they reinststed me to 6mg ativan to come off the gaba. I am now down to 400mg from 900 but the akathesia is still bad and the fear and twisted thiughts are so bad i cant relax. The reinstatement did mellow out a lot of my physical symptoms. But i am so depressed and so sick. I dont know what to do. I have only taken an pxy a couple times as it seems to help clear up my depression and akathisia. But i dont know if i can do a quick taper off the ativan i am so kindled i did 5 ct detoxes and the last one almost killed me. I wish i didnt reinstate as i was six months benzo free and now im faced with a very long benzo taper. The reinstatement helped at firsrt but i dont know if what im going through right now is the gabapentin withdrawl as im. Ery sick and nauseous and severely depressed and filled with fear or if im hettingg tolerance with the ativan. Im very sleepy and im still having waves but they are very mild compared to my ct. Ive been back on a week. What should i do my cns is so fragile i cant handle any change im taking 1mg every 4 hours. My original dose was much higher than this but i have no moments of feeling good anymore it might be the rapid gaba taper but i need help ang guidance figuring out what to do next

[[je...]]

I think your problem all along has been the gabbapentin, and I think that's what your feeling right now from the cuts. I still worry about the benzos turning on you, its only been a week and a rapid taper might be the way to go... Not sure because your situation is very complicated but my gut feeling is that you need to get off the benzos too.

[[La...]]

Wow, this looks tough. The first thing is that this is a medical emergency so anything that could stabulize you is better than being like that or suicidal. Any advice we can give is relative and none of us can be responsible if it doesn´t come up well. However, we´be been for years reading about this and we really want to help you. My first idea would be to updose ativan to your original dose (or even more) and see what happens. I´m against reinstatements but now that you´ve done it, you risk very little by updosing it as much as needed to have calm and be able to think more clearly and plan from there what to do. Oxycodone can be dangerous, so be careful. You can also be experiencing a paradoxical reaction from Ativan. The first thing is that we need to have clear what´s going on. It can be the gabapentin but it´s not likely.

 

If updosing ativan doesn´t help, maybe Lyrica, another benzo or, better still, DOXEPINE could help. If you have amitriptyline (tryptanol) at home, please take half a pill, it won´t damage (setback) you and we can see if it helps. It could cause temporary braing fog, but braing fog is better than akathisia and sometimes they are opposite.

 

 

[[La...]]

Is there anybody there with you to help or are you alone?

 

 

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Hip Hop: For what it's worth...I just happen to be taking 300 mg/day of Gabapentin because my vocal cords are damaged from either a virus or from too many years of singing. The ENT specialist scoped my throat and we could see the damage to the ends of the vocal cords. My side effects from the damage is a chronic cough...it's called a neurogenic cough...and the easy and effective cure is the gabapentin/Neurontin. At my level (300 mg/day) of Gabapentin, the doctor said there is no need to worry about side effects or withdrawal. I tried c/t on the Gabapentin and the only thing that happened was my cough returned...nothing else.