words of hope

[[ne...]]

I just wanted to send a line of hope for those of you who are still tapering and who are still in the pits of hell. I was floxed in 2016, and placed on K to try to control the reaction. I did an absolutely grueling, horrific microtaper that lasted into January 2019. I was sick the whole way, but certainly, my symptoms became more humane in the last 6 months of my taper. I am 3 months off and I am really starting to see profound healing. I am not completely done yet, but I function now...I socialize, work, and travel. A life worth living is back. Keep going. I will send a success story in the near future, when I am further down the road. 

[[Ta...]]

Newgrl, Oh thank  you for this hope!  I feels like it is in short supply these days. It's so nice to have people remember to come back to share their success stories on the other side! I pray continued healing over you as you move forward into this new life!!

 

I hope you don't mind my asking, but I am very curious: Do you still feel like your sympathetic nervous system is on edge all the time? Or do you feel your body is slowly calming down? It's hard to imagine ever feeling normal again, but I suppose our bodies adjust to normal the same way they adjusted to these drugs... slowly, but surely.

[[Pu...]]

Hi there

 

I seen your posts from a while back and wanted to ask you about the "sickly" feeling you used to have in your head/brain, you were chatting to someone else who was experiencing it. I get this too, I am 6 weeks off Diazepam and have been getting this sickly brain feeling on and off for about 8 weeks, its always when I wake up then it gradually goes but leaves me with a thick spaced out head  did you find anything that helped it or did it just pass in time.

Great that you are now free and enjoying life again it gives hope, some of my trillion symptoms are getting better so that's positive already at 6 weeks, the nausea gets me down though.

 

Well done and thank you if you reply.

 

PO

[[Ma...]]

Great post newgirl, we need all the encouragement we can get.  Thanks for writing it and looking forward to your success story  . Mary 🙏💜☮️🙏💜☮️

[[Sa...]]

Congratulations!

 

SaraSue 

[[Ma...]]

Tweed, pushing when you are unstable scares me.  I believe that how you feel when you reach the end, effects how you feel post taper.  I hold for a week or so.  Just my opinion though

[[Ma...]]

Tweed, pushing when you are unstable scares me.  I believe that how you feel when you reach the end, effects how you feel post taper.  I hold for a week or so.  Just my opinion though

 

Hi Mary,

 

I was just wondering what the original poster did that's all. I don't stabilise and have waves even when I hold therefore I have no choice but to taper. Thank you for your advice though <3

 

. Good luck Tweed! 

[[ne...]]

Newgrl, Oh thank  you for this hope!  I feels like it is in short supply these days. It's so nice to have people remember to come back to share their success stories on the other side! I pray continued healing over you as you move forward into this new life!!

 

I hope you don't mind my asking, but I am very curious: Do you still feel like your sympathetic nervous system is on edge all the time? Or do you feel your body is slowly calming down? It's hard to imagine ever feeling normal again, but I suppose our bodies adjust to normal the same way they adjusted to these drugs... slowly, but surely.

 

Hi Taking,

 

My CNS has calmed down A LOT. It's kind of unreal, actually. I lived in a state of alarm/fright/hypersensitivity for a looooong time. Now i have occasional anxiety in the normal range. Since stopping tapering, I would say I've had a few times that my CNS got a little overloaded, but honestly, Im starting to feel less anxious than my old baseline. Nothing is worse that what I just survived. Normal things don't rattle me so much right now.

[[ne...]]

Hi there

 

I seen your posts from a while back and wanted to ask you about the "sickly" feeling you used to have in your head/brain, you were chatting to someone else who was experiencing it. I get this too, I am 6 weeks off Diazepam and have been getting this sickly brain feeling on and off for about 8 weeks, its always when I wake up then it gradually goes but leaves me with a thick spaced out head  did you find anything that helped it or did it just pass in time.

Great that you are now free and enjoying life again it gives hope, some of my trillion symptoms are getting better so that's positive already at 6 weeks, the nausea gets me down though.

 

Well done and thank you if you reply.

 

Hey PO,

 

The sickly feeling is gone, and I can't even remember what it feels like, though I have words that I remember using to describe it. My head is more clear too. I didn't do anything. It just gradually left. Even the most persistent symptoms are starting to leave. At this point I would say my only remaining symptoms are: mild insomnia, light sensitivity, very intermittent and mild tinnitus, and some mild anxiety (also intermittent). I think that's it. Unbelievable.

 

PO

[[ne...]]

Great post newgirl, we need all the encouragement we can get.  Thanks for writing it and looking forward to your success story  . Mary 🙏💜☮️🙏💜☮️

 

Glad to help out!! I remember how desperately I searched this site for words of hope.

[[ne...]]

Congratulations!

 

SaraSue 

 

Thanks!!

[[ne...]]

Thank you so much for this! I am also having a horrific micro taper (I do get some semi windows though) and these stories really bring me hope. Did you push through the whole taper or did you hold along the way?

 

<3

 

For me (and I know we are all different), I just went steady and sllloow. I was in and out of waves the whole way down, and i decided that holding didn't do anything dramatic enough to make it worth it for me. I tapered at a rate of .002 k per day.

[[Pu...]]

Hi Newgrl

 

Thank you for replying, I can't wait for the nausea to go and the sickly head feeling, this is all just so awful I never could have imagined how harsh this process would be.

 

So glad to read you are making so much progress its so positive to read..

 

PO

[[Fr...]]

I came here looking for hope today and this is exactly what I needed to read. Thanks you!

[[...]]

Yay! Congrats Newgrl and thanks so much for the positive report of healing! Hoping to follow in your footsteps.

[[An...]]

Can anyone tell me what does "floxed" mean?

[[...]]

Can anyone tell me what does "floxed" mean?

Injured from taking a fluoroquinolone antibiotic.

[[Co...]]

Thank you SO MUCH for your post!! Your words of encouragement could not  have come at a better time.

 

So glad to hear you are healing so well!! 

[[An...]]

Can anyone tell me what does "floxed" mean?

Injured from taking a fluoroquinolone antibiotic.

Thanks libr.