Is this Benzo WD after 10 months out?

[[Ma...]]

Current symptoms are still increasing and this is the worst wave I have experienced since Detox back last October!

 

The severe head pressure burning numbness tightness and physical pain pain in my brain is the worst it's ever been and it's all in my forehead above and behind my eyes in my temples on the sides of my head the top of my head feels like it's burning and so much pressure there any time I move or raise my forehead sends a loud buzzing noise in my ears and it's like someone is taking my forehead and hitting it with a brick and pulling down on it with extreme pain my left ear is clogged all the time now and the pain and pressure runs down into the right side of my head into my neck.

 

As far as the other physical symptoms it's extreme nausea light headed dizzy restlessness and fatigue extreme anxiety and literally feeling like I'm crawling out of my own skin and can't set still and I even noticed muscle twitches here lately that I've never had before!

 

 

The emotional symptoms are quite severe and the worst it's ever been severe confusion completely detached form self Brian fog and cognitive issues severe DP/DR the worst it's ever been and extreme intrusive thoughts including SU/HM ideation just constantly there now I literally feel like I'm completely losing my mind and having a psychological breakdown on top of all the physical symptoms just feel really on edge and scared I might lash out at someone it's crazy all this has hit over the last week and has become so severe I'm really starting to question my own sanity or if I will survive this nightmare?

[[Ma...]]

Current symptoms are still increasing and this is the worst wave I have experienced since Detox back last October!

 

The severe head pressure burning numbness tightness and physical pain pain in my brain is the worst it's ever been and it's all in my forehead above and behind my eyes in my temples on the sides of my head the top of my head feels like it's burning and so much pressure there any time I move or raise my forehead sends a loud buzzing noise in my ears and it's like someone is taking my forehead and hitting it with a brick and pulling down on it with extreme pain my left ear is clogged all the time now and the pain and pressure runs down into the right side of my head into my neck.

 

As far as the other physical symptoms it's extreme nausea light headed dizzy restlessness and fatigue extreme anxiety and literally feeling like I'm crawling out of my own skin and can't set still and I even noticed muscle twitches here lately that I've never had before!

 

 

The emotional symptoms are quite severe and the worst it's ever been severe confusion completely detached form self Brian fog and cognitive issues severe DP/DR the worst it's ever been and extreme intrusive thoughts including SU/HM ideation just constantly there now I literally feel like I'm completely losing my mind and having a psychological breakdown on top of all the physical symptoms just feel really on edge and scared I might lash out at someone it's crazy all this has hit over the last week and has become so severe I'm really starting to question my own sanity or if I will survive this nightmare?

[[rc...]]

Hey Maize,

 

Wishing you some relief today. Unfortunately, these are all symptoms that sound relates to benzo wd. It sounds like you are in a pretty bad wave at the moment. I'm only two months out and am feeling a lot of these same symptoms at the moment. 10 months is a long time and you have done a good bit of healing, but it sounds like you still have a little ways to go. Keep pushing forward, things WILL get better. You have made it this far, so you can make even further with perseverance! Wishing you well. Let me know if you need anything.

[[He...]]

ive been 6 months with your symptoms. Now I just have one or two.

 

what helped me with the head pressure was deep massage and hot water everyday.

 

When your pain go away, most of the mental symptoms go away also.

[[Ma...]]

Well I'm 10 months off and these symptoms continue to get worse both the head pressure and physical symptoms in my brain and the severe emotional symptoms including SU/HM ideation severe DP/DR and just feeling like I'm completely losing my mind and having a psychological breakdown it's crazy it just keeps getting worse and I don't know how much of this is the Benzo WD or what the Zoloft is adding to it but I'm so scared it's so bad that I feel like I'm not gonna survive this and end up back in the hospital it's crazy and it just keeps getting worse

[[Ig...]]

At this point you might as well try a small reduction in the Zoloft just in case it's that, your posts suggest that you continue to get worse and worse each week for the past four months.

 

Reducing the Zoloft might make you worse, but it might make you feel better, there's only one way to find out...I understand the suffering, and I would do anything to escape this hell.

 

No one can tell you which way it will go with reducing the Zoloft, but as your wave continues to get worse and you are not seeing any better times at all, maybe a reduction might help?

 

But I am not saying you should as it's equally possible that it will make you worse, you have to make that desicion.

[Guest [Le...]]

At this point you might as well try a small reduction in the Zoloft just in case it's that, your posts suggest that you continue to get worse and worse each week for the past four months.

 

Hello Iggy,

 

Clearly you are trying to help Maize, but telling him that he might as well try reducing Zoloft is prescriptive, and not permitted on the forum.

 

He might simply be in a wave - I certainly got much worse at ten months - but that is not your determination to make, one way or the other.

 

Also, you still have not created a signature, so other members may not realize that your issues are not benzo-related.

 

The nonlinear path of benzo withdrawal is not in your own range of experience, therefore you cannot legitimately advise other members who are actually going through it.

 

Thank you.

 

Please adopt a nonprescriptive style when offering

your opinions: Guidlines on Offering Medical Advice

[[Ma...]]

Ok well I don't know what is going on whether this is Benzo WD related and I'm in a major wave and just now peaking out with my symptoms after 10 months or if the Zoloft is adding too my troubles but this is the worst I have felt by far since coming out of the hospital and it could be some combination of both Severe Benzo WD related symptoms and whatever the Zoloft is doing to me but most people I talk to say that it sound like a major Benzo wave and to hold on th Zoloft for now until it passes then I have others you say yes the Zoloft could be making it worse someone today even just brought up serotonin syndrome and that scares me to death so I don't know what to do this is horrible!

[Guest [Le...]]

Ok well I don't know what is going on whether this is Benzo WD related and I'm in a major wave and just now peaking out with my symptoms after 10 months or if the Zoloft is adding too my troubles but this is the worst I have felt by far since coming out of the hospital and it could be some combination of both Severe Benzo WD related symptoms and whatever the Zoloft is doing to me but most people I talk to say that it sound like a major Benzo wave and to hold on th Zoloft for now until it passes then I have others you say yes the Zoloft could be making it worse someone today even just brought up serotonin syndrome and that scares me to death so I don't know what to do this is horrible!

 

Hi Maize,

 

I'm not a doctor, but serotonin syndrome is probably not likely on only 100mg of Zoloft - that's a determination that would have to be made by a medical professional.

 

I can say that I was in the midst of a wave that last for months during my tenth month - I did not think I would even survive it - but it has eased up a great deal recently, with the added bonus of suddenly being able to sleep again, almost normally, for the first time in a couple of years.

 

Everything you are describing is consistent with benzo recovery at this stage, IMO. 

 

Hoping you catch a break soon - I'm sure you will.

Leslie 

[[Ma...]]

That's what most everyone I talk too say that it all sounds like or the majority of my symptoms are Benzo related and I'm in a major wave of WD now at 10 months but it's just getting worse everyday!

 

The severe head pressure burning numbness tightness and physical pain in my head is worse and more severe than it's ever been extreme fatigue nausea so bad I literally cannot breath stand up or hardly function at all and the emotional symptoms are so much worse as well severe DP/DR confusion brain fog short term memory loss horrific evil intrusive thoughts including SU/HM ideation my CNS has just been destroyed by these drugs setting here shaking can't do anything but lay in my bed and hold on for dear life it's horrific and all these symptoms have gradually gotten worse since the beginning of month 7 was hit again in month 8 and now over the last week or so it's gotten to the point I don't know if I will survive this it's so bad I feel like I've literally went back a year in recovery to where I was before the hospital in severe tolerance WD while I was still on that evil drug and no I don't know what the Zoloft is adding to this but I'm being told to hold on it and I'm at 87.5mg of that and have been for 4-5 months so I don't understand and I'm really losing hope!

 

The doctors are no help don't even believe I'm still in Benzo WD after 10 months and they are the crazy people who put me on the Zoloft when I tried to tell them my symptoms were drug induced and from Benzo related symptoms this is a nightmare and I don't know what to do? 3 months I've been getting worse and in this nightmare and it just keeps getting worse!

[[To...]]

Ok well I don't know what is going on whether this is Benzo WD related and I'm in a major wave and just now peaking out with my symptoms after 10 months or if the Zoloft is adding too my troubles but this is the worst I have felt by far since coming out of the hospital and it could be some combination of both Severe Benzo WD related symptoms and whatever the Zoloft is doing to me but most people I talk to say that it sound like a major Benzo wave and to hold on th Zoloft for now until it passes then I have others you say yes the Zoloft could be making it worse someone today even just brought up serotonin syndrome and that scares me to death so I don't know what to do this is horrible!

 

Wowowow ! Easy bro ... Before you would get Serotonin syndrome you would have to mix many different drugs like xtc, speed or cocaine and what have you on top of a 500 mg of Zoloft and maybe another SSRI drug involved like Prozac or what have you. I did plenty of research on the so called "Serotonin syndrome" and it seems it's so uncommon that it's almost has become a myth. Like it really doesn't exist and if you would get it you don't even really have to go to the hospital. It's just not that dangerous. All you would have to do is stop taking the drugs that are causing it. Nobody ever died from it it seems ... It's like it's an invention or something.   

 

Either way you simply can not get it from 100 mg of Zoloft ! And you don't take L-tryptophan so ... even if you did you wouldn't get it. It's just a myth.   

 

 

 

[[...]]

You will survive.  Focus on what's gotten better.  Even just a little better. 

[[Vi...]]

You not alone. I have all your symptoms. When is going to end?.... God knows, but is hard very hard to leave with this pain. Sorry I can't be more positive, encouraging, but we have to push forward. Eat very healthy and exercise abit if we can and hope one day our brain will cool down.

Love and healing

Vica

[[...]]

I had to come off all drugs.  I was very sensitive to ADs & ended up on an anti-psychotic.  I've never been more sick in my life.  I feel like crap at ten months off but it's WAY better than on those drugs & much better than acute wd. I'm sorry you're suffering.