Tell me how its possible to be hitten by Acute waves /tomorrow 17 OFF?/

[[Le...]]

How its possible this ? Next month I will be 18months off Protracted by Ashton! I am not Healed......even these days from stress events I am hitting by Acute waves.

It is so devastating. What to expect from now one.

I am so tired!

Anyone??

[[Ru...]]

I am sorry you are still suffering.  I am only8 months into this and have come to the realization that it may take a long, long time to heal.  I have come to terms with this (mostly)and I feel it has made things easier by not focusing on when I will be healed but that I am healing.  I try to notice the small glimmers of hope and healing and I hang onto those.  Hope you have a good day soon.

[[HI...]]

Sorry for your suffering.  In my experience it just got exponentially worse from month 16 on through present. (25 months).  I hope and pray for relief for us all.  Just don't be to upset if it gets a little rougher.  However maybe we could heal tomorrow.

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https://benzo.org.uk/manual/bzcha03.htm#24

 

Anxiety persisting after the acute phase of withdrawal may be partly due to the uncovering of a learning defect caused by the benzodiazepines. These drugs specifically impair the learning of new skills, including stress-coping strategies. Such skills are normally acquired continuously from childhood to middle age or later as experience of life accumulates. Their development may be blocked for a period of years during which benzodiazepines are taken. After withdrawal the ex-user is left in a vulnerable state with a decreased ability to deal with stressful situations. Full recovery may require many months of learning new stress-coping strategies to replace the years when this facility was blanketed by pills.

 

Secondly, benzodiazepine withdrawal may uncover life problems that have never been fully addressed. For example, the impairment of memory caused by benzodiazepines may prevent the normal resolution of personal stresses such as bereavement or a car crash. Such buried or half-forgotten experiences may have to be faced after withdrawal and may prolong both anxiety and depression. It is not uncommon for a widow or widower, first prescribed benzodiazepines on the death of the spouse, to go through the grieving process for the first time after withdrawal, even though the bereavement had occurred many years previously.

 

A third factor may operate in people who have had frightening experiences during withdrawal. This is not uncommon in those who have undergone rapid withdrawal without adequate explanation, often in hospital or detoxification centres but sometimes at home when their doctor has withdrawn prescriptions. Such people may develop symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in which their experiences are constantly repeated as flashbacks or nightmares and so prolong the anxiety.

 

In addition, many (though by no means all) long-term benzodiazepine users are constitutionally highly strung, sensitive people with relatively low self-esteem, whose anxiety problems have led to the prescription of benzodiazepines in the first place and whose continuing anxiety (possibly heightened by the benzodiazepines) has prompted the doctor to go on prescribing the drugs. It may take a long time for these people to regain, or attain, full confidence in themselves.

 

Despite these factors, protracted anxiety symptoms, including agoraphobia and panics, do tend to subside gradually and rarely last more than a year. The process may be hastened by good psychological support and by the measures described under acute anxiety symptoms. Believe it or not, people often feel more self-confident after withdrawal than they did before starting to take benzodiazepines.

 

Depression. Depression may be caused or aggravated by chronic benzodiazepine use, but is also a feature of the withdrawal syndrome. Depressive symptoms may appear for the first time after withdrawal, sometimes after a delay of a few weeks, and it can be severe and protracted for some months. It is not clear whether people who have had depression before, or have a family history of depression, are more prone to this complication, and its causes are not understood. As discussed in Chapters I and II, benzodiazepines disrupt the function of many neurotransmitters and hormones and depression could be the result, for example, of low serotonin activity combined with the stress of withdrawal. If severe enough to require definitive treatment, the depression in withdrawal responds to antidepressant drugs and/or cognitive therapy and usually diminishes gradually over 6-12 months.

 

Insomnia. Poor sleep is a common accompaniment of both anxiety and depression. In anxiety there is typically a difficulty in falling asleep, while depression is associated with early morning waking as well as frequent wakings during the night. Insomnia is also common as an acute withdrawal symptom along with nightmares and other sleep disturbances. Occasionally, however, insomnia (sometimes with "restless legs" and muscle jerks) persists as an isolated symptom after other symptoms have disappeared, and may last for many months. However, poor sleepers can be reassured that an adequate sleep pattern does return at last. There are powerful natural mechanisms in the body which ensure that the brain does not become severely sleep-deprived.

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How its possible this ? Next month I will be 18months off Protracted by Ashton! I am not Healed......even these days from stress events I am hitting by Acute waves.

It is so devastating. What to expect from now one.

I am so tired!

Anyone??

 

It's very possible when you're not off 17 mths.....and only 13!

 

You only came off lexapro March 2018. You need to acknowledge this. Sucks I know but, that is when you need to start counting time off. I know you won't because I've brought this to your attention before but atleast it will allow others to understand psych drug withdrawal and timeframes.

[[Le...]]

Hey I was on Lexapro for maybe maximum 2 months !

[[In...]]

I was so sensitized that I was only on Benadryl for 3 week and it was enough to send me into a 17 month spell. I don't think anymore that its the GABA receptors upregulating. I am starting to think that if you are kindled from benzos or just simply that the CNS is so overactive and sensitized that if you take a M&M, it could overstimulate the CNS and take months and months to settle down.

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Hey I was on Lexapro for maybe maximum 2 months !

 

More than enough time to be suffering from withdrawal symptoms. I was on Pristiq for 2 mths and benzos only a couple of weeks to combat the adverse reaction and symptoms from the pristiq. Just about to hit 19 mths off and still home bound with a myriad of physical and mental symptoms.

[[ea...]]

I think what you are feeling is very normal. Recent statistics seem to show that it takes many people about 2 years to heal, and some may take longer. But it will not always be this bad, as gradually your brain will heal from it. Please don't give up! Healing from benzos can take a while but it is truly worth the wait.

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Im at the 2 year mark. This is just my experience and everyone is different. It has been the most difficult, yet rewarding thing Ive ever undertaken. I started this as bad as most, bedridden and in more systemic pain than I ever thought possible. I was continually surprised at my bodys response.  But I continued to persevere. I researched and sought solutions that were of help to me. I did and do all the work my counselor has taught me. My diet and exercise is better than its ever been.  I continue to let go of things that are not good for me, spiritually, emotionally, and physicaIly. Ive never experienced so powerful a wake up call. It has demanded that I rewrite my "story". I'm in my 65th year, and have never, so honestly, addressed myself. I read what I was experiencing, at every level, in the first 18 months and it seems like a bad dream. It was keeping a record and referencing it throughout this journey that kept me aware of my progress. Whatever the final outcome, I'm more engaged in my life now than before. There is only forward for me. Keep moving forward in whatever capacity you can endure. It may prove to be a powerfully transformative decision.