Being so tired that you cannot think?WD?

[[Ma...]]

Just a short question. I am in last two days so tired that I cannot almost talk, thinking is hard and walking almost impossible. is suc tiredness WD or should I look in my iron levels that are sometimes low.

[[fe...]]

It's probably WD, but it wouldn't hurt to get iron levels checked, since it runs low anyway.

[[Ma...]]

My iron is ok. It is strange sometimes I can function all days without getting a bit tired but sometimes like today after 1 in afternoon and now is 5 I cannot get up from bad how tired I am. What is this? This come often with extreme confusion...

[[az...]]

I am this tired. My brain feels slow, too. For a while now.

[[Ce...]]

Just a short question. I am in last two days so tired that I cannot almost talk, thinking is hard and walking almost impossible. is suc tiredness WD or should I look in my iron levels that are sometimes low.

 

How are you sleeping?

[[Ch...]]

It is so very much the Benzo's..and is frequently one of the hardest to cope with. I am better but still suffering like you all.

I hope we all get better quickly.  It is difficult to look inside for an answer and solution and we in Discontinuation Syndrome, AKA withdrawal/recovery seem to suffer from Health Anxiety Disorder, AKA Hypochondria.....the newest name is so much more telling and doesn't "Blame the Victim" like the word hypochondria does!

Best wishes..

[[Ma...]]

I am sleeping very good. That is strange but I sleep good. Little bit toxic and with my dreaming,waking up but good.My brain feels tired too, but this i really physical tiredness. So hard that it is hard to lift the finger...I cannot explain...

Well Choco it is really hard to even think in this stage, but WD is not in heads but in our bodies that is for sure. 

[[az...]]

I agree that w/d is in our bodies, brains too... It's not an imagined happening, however.

 

I have a couple things that I actually need to go to the doctor for. Other people urge me to go. I really do not obsess about this whole thing, it's just happening. I don't even think I'm dying or have an extreme thoughts that are ungrounded that continuously repeat and are anxious thoughts about my health except that I know I'm going through w/d from benzos and that's what it is and likely all it is.

 

I don't have anything remotely resembling disordered health anxiety.

 

No one's posts here truly bother me all that much or make me anxious or worried, either; excluding one incredibly controversial thread that happened.

 

I wonder if I'm a little different in these regards. I'm sure there are others like me. In my mind it's pretty settled that w/d is a huge deal and has all kinds of sx's for us that wax and wane and interchange. It's that simple... Though I should probably go to the doctor for those issues everyone I know thinks I need to go for. I'm not really in denial, either, about those. It's just that I'm exhausted, etc. from all of this- the pills.

[[az...]]

I don't at all want to be prideful or stuck up about this, I understand that w/d is crazy making, by nature... For me too. I just really don't want or need to lose my mind over it: I've already lost my sanity before in my life, I got it back. I know it won't do myself or anyone else any good if I lose it again.

 

The reasons I "lost it" were and are solvable. I don't think I'm any better than anyone but I can safely say that I believe most people likely want to have their sanity in tact if it is at all possible or under their control to be able to do so. I am no different.

 

I have some built in principals and guidelines that I was fortunate enough to hold onto, develop and maintain that help me remain "all here" even when things get squirrely in w/d. Some of them I could name and try to describe and others just developed or are what I learned through experience or are what I call blessings. Gifts from the God of my faith. That's what I believe. I don't bring it up to be offensive or break the rules, it's just true for me. It doesn't need to be true for anyone else.

 

I hope to keep my sanity, I don't feel superior, I just want to keep my sanity and I realize it's not always a choice. I just think there is hope, in many cases, and choosing not to indulge in some thoughts or ways of thinking helps me with this. I'm thankful I have the choice and I really hope it remains the case.

[[Gi...]]

Totally, Masha. I've been in a deep brain fog since I jumped over a month ago. At one point I had to take few days off work because I really couldn't function and people were starting to notice. Memory is the worst - did I do that or not? Who knows. Also information processing issues and slowed reaction times, so have had to drive like a little old lady to compensate for the last one which causes problems w/ driving along with dizziness.

 

I have noticed that my brain fog is significantly reduced on nights when I've had adequate sleep if that helps you at all. Hang in there--it really does get better!!

 

Gina

[[az...]]

Sorry for going way off topic, Masha. The tiredness is really hard.

[[Ma...]]

No meter that you go off the topic azalea32 we are here to discuss.

Hmm I am not sure did you get me right my buddies. Sorry my english is not the best-

I said that I am getting physically so tired that I cannot think not other way around. First it start this toxic tiredness and then I cannot think or do nothing else.

[[az...]]

Yes, Masha. It was the worst for over a month... Maybe it *was* two months and even longer- it felt like forever and it hasn't gotten a lot better- but it helped to just jump off and stop my taper. Not saying this is the way to go! But it's been mostly that tired, the tired you are talking about. I have no idea how or why I was able to write all of that yesterday, but I have felt a little improvement since I stopped/jumped. But yes I do know what you are talking about, and have had a lot of it. It felt like it had to have even been more than two months of that. Still tired... Dunno how I wrote so much yesterday. Maybe it's a good sign ? So tired I can't think... Really can't- at all, yes.