Weird w/d sx - flu-like feeling

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I call it "the afternoon drop" - ie most afternoons between about 2 and 4 I get this shivery feeling like I'm coming down with the flu.  I also feel as though I have no energy, but only between these times.  Has anyone experienced anything like this?  I know it's weird but I can't imagine it's anything other than w/d.  I have been completely off zopiclone since last summer and this started in about December.

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yeah - I get this, too.  I thought it was part of my overall crummy immune system but I'm not so sure.  If you are concerned.  Next time you see your doc ask for an immune panel (IGG, IGM, IGG, IGE, etc).  Hopefully it's nothing and will just go away like most sxs.  My sweats returned with this fever thing but I have a low grade infection I'm treating.  Feel better.  WBB

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Yes, I had that as well, but I also was fighting an infection.

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Oh yes. Since around the beginning of December last year, fatigue, malaise and lethargy have taken first place as my WORST sxs and even caused me one rare psych symptom, depressing apathy towards the life I cannot live because my body has been broken and destroyed by WD. I feel like I am just about to come down with flu or am in the tail end of it, where the fever and main sxs have gone, but the virus has drained all your energy away. I feel 'drowsy' all the time, fall asleep through TV shows, can't do any kind of physical activity. I only feel ok if I am laying down. I feel utterly useless. I am 30 but feel more like 90-100.

 

I always get frustrated if I come down with a bug, but at least I can think to myself 'it's just a virus, once it's run it's course it'll be gone'. However with WD I know it could go on for years, and because I was rushed off the stuff, I am in the prime category second to the CT people for protracted WD too.

 

I worry about it being winter and flu season as well. I know a nasty episode with the flu or even a cold would probably put me in the hospital now because my body just doesn't have the resources to take on any more battles.

 

You're not alone with this. I am pretty much bedridden with it.

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Thx for your thoughts on this, wannebebetter, Existentiallyspeaking and DappleApple.  We soldier on! 

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Is zoplicone a benzo?

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Is zoplicone a benzo?

Yes it is a benzo -- slightly different than longer acting benzos but stay away.  More on thread: http://www.benzobuddies.org/forum/index.php?topic=97331.1690

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Is zoplicone a benzo?

 

It's a Z-drug, which basically means stay the fuck away from it when you're in withdrawal.

 

 

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I hate this feeling more than any other symptom I have had. The only thing worse was the paradoxical mental side effects I had while on Benzos. It's disabling, I am so listless and lethargic now I need help to get up the stairs in my own house. I am so angry today because I am feeling somewhat ok this morning. Still very, very weak and totally exhausted like I have full blown flu, yes, but my other sxs like my inner vibrations are a bit calmer. However I have to go out, and within 10 minutes of being out I feel like I am back in acute and it takes me a good 24 hours to return to 'baseline'. I am managing household tasks by doing them a bit at a time. For example I can only manage washing about five dishes at a time, so to avoid getting totally exhausted and not being able to do it at all, I will do five, come and sit back down, and in about 30 minutes, do another five, so on so forth. I am existing like this and for now it seems to be working, but each outing is a setback, it makes me so sick. I will be in bed for the rest of today and most of tomorrow, then Friday is shopping day and I'll be in bed/on the sofa for the rest of the weekend after that.

 

I sometimes wish I was injured or something just so people would leave me alone. I feel like I've broken every bone, sprained every joint and torn every single muscle in my body. If this was actually the case, I am pretty sure nobody would be asking me to go shopping!!!!.

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My sore throat thing prevents me from staying asleep which is the worst thing for a sore throat - sleep deprivation.  I wake up so anxious about this stupid sx that I can't get back to sleep.  If I take Advil - I feel poisoned now.  It just turned on me.  No relief.  In the old days I'd roll over and take a half a Z drug and get more sleep (and harm my brain).

I know what you mean by the endlessness of this, Dapple. WBB