Anyone have an increase in symptoms with slight increase of medication

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I am doing a liquid taper of K and I measured the last week a slightly  higher dosage.  I have felt really horrible all week can that be associated with the  increase of medication? 

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Yes! I have been wondering if this happens to anyone else. I have had trouble doing a "smooth" withdrawal -- and after a few nights of intolerable insomnia (and then the panic attacks about the insomnia come!) -- I cry "uncle" and take a higher dose of the benzodiazepine (in my case, Ativan) for, hopefully, just a night. The sleep is such a relief, but my symptoms (headache, oversedation, intestinal problems, anxiety) come back with a vengeance when I wake up. This is hard for me to understand -- but in my experience the symptoms are definitely correlated with having taken the higher dose of Ativan and not the withdrawal. Does anyone else have a similar experience -- or advice to people who really need a "rescue" night? --Leesie

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I am doing a liquid taper of K and I measured the last week a slightly  higher dosage.  I have felt really horrible all week can that be associated with the  increase of medication?

 

Yes it happens to me. Once I withdraw, I can't go back up to a higher dose or else I experience extreme anxiety or feelings like I want to run around in circles for days, ha....It's horribly uncomfortable. It actually makes my insomnia worse. I believe your body builds a resistance to the medicine during withdrawal and rejects it when you attempt to increase again. It's basically your body saying, "I dont want it!".

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Skye & Clara it has been a couple days and I have work myself back to the lower dose and I am starting to feel much better. It is very interesting how this medication works I also am curious if there more people who have experienced this