Withdrawal or setback?

[[Lu...]]

I really want to know what you guys think about this, even when it doesn´t change anything, Here´s my story:

It's been ten and a half months since I took my last Diazepam, three months after my jump I felt quite normal, I did not go through acute during that time either, so I was pretty sure it was going to heal in a fairly reasonable period of time.

I wanted to improve the quality of my sleep by taking Magnesium and two weeks later I started to feel anxiety during day and really bad fatigue, that went off after I quite the magnesium. Then I had a very stressful event on a trip I did outside of the country, so when I came back began to experience symptoms that I had not had before, probably a wave caused by magnesium or stress or simply the normal course of withdrawal. However, I didn't know much about the symptoms and I got scared, I thought that the pressure in the head and the dizziness along with the sensitivity to light were caused by something serious like sinusitis, which seemed logical to me because I had a nose job done in December (just before my jump), Even with these symptoms I was able to sleep, work and have a normal life (I could eat whatever I wanted, drink coffee and exercise) but the symptoms that I mentioned before did not go away so I decided to consult with my doctors who found nothing wrong, but still decided to give me antibiotics and steroids "just for precaution" I very much wish I had researched in BB before taking amoxicillin and steroids, but I didn´t, and on the third day I was sent directly to the acute that I never had.

 

Panic attacks, insomnia without end, depression, dr dp and more and I haven't been able to recover since then,

Although my symptoms have decreased in intensity, my worst symptom is still insomnia which I never had before the setback.

 

So my question is:

 

1. Having taken these medications hurt my receptors worse than the benzodiazepines themselves ?

 

2. having taken these medications was like having made a cold turkey?

 

3. Although I made a year of tapper before jump, due to taking medications that damaged my receptors in the same way that a cold turkey does,  should I wait for the same course in the recovery of those who never did tapering.

 

4. Should I count that I've been off for six months (since my setback) instead of ten?

 

5. a setback damages all your recovery?

 

6. I have read that some people have some mild symptoms during the first months only to find themselves in ute at the third month. Could It be that the severity of my current symptoms (which I did not have before my setback) are only part of the normal course of withdrawal and are not because of the setback it self (Maybe the setback has already passed)

 

I know that asking myself this again and again will not change anything, but to be very honest I still don't forgive myself for taking these antibiotics and steroids, thinking that the history of my recovery could have been different. I have lost almost everything I had since then, and it has taken me a long time to make peace with this setback, so I guess I just need to talk about it with people who may understand what I´m going through and help me think differently.

I thank you in advance for reading and for any response you can give me.

Steph.. 

[[jr...]]

I know full well how awful setbacks can be. I had one 3 months ago that I still haven’t recovered from. Insomnia has been my worst symptom this whole time. It was getting much better, but I drank a little bit in early July and the floodgates opened after that. Some of us are very sensitive to certain things while in withdrawal, unfortunately. With the way that your symptoms got really bad pretty much immediately after taking antibiotics and steroids, both of which I’ve seen others post about being set back by, I would say you’re dealing with a bad setback. I’m really sorry that you’re going through this. Not being able to sleep is terrible.

[[Ka...]]

Sorry your not feeling any better sweet, l was then l reduced my AD and then increased it again and back in it again, don’t worry keep going you will get there. Love Kat

[[Fi...]]

It was definitely the combination of amox and steroids. I had a gnarly setback from clarithromycin the first time I came off months later. Turns out many antibiotics hit gaba receptors, usually as an antagonist, which can be just as awful in our state.

 

Steroids can also release the beast and have caused setbacks in many across the board.

 

It took me a good few months to stop the acute setback from antibiotics, but it did stop. You'll  get better too.

 

 

[Guest [so...]]

I've had a few setbacks from various other meds that i was ok with before wd and all have sent me back to acute for a few months. I'm having horrific sxs atm due to being prescribed aspirin for the past 6 weeks, i had no idea it was a gaba inhibitor. For me, i believe my setbacks were due to a reinjuring of my receptors but i don't believe they damaged them worse than benzos, the longest time one of my setbacks lasted was 6 months but it wasn't like acute sxs all the time. I can't believe I'm still getting setbacks at almost 22 months off, clearly my cns has barely healed although in between setbacks I've felt almost normal. I'm just so over this horrific process. So sorry you're experiencing this, x

[[wa...]]

Amoxicillin got me very badly too about a year ago. But what started everything is that I was cold turkeyed off of an antidepressant back in 2015...  I was like you and  didn’t have an acute  either... but slowly subtle symptoms came on and I too went to the doctor. (I was also sleeping, working and keeping up with life just fine)  After they couldn’t find anything, but diagnosed me with vertigo, 18 months later I was told to try to get back on the antidepressant. The same pill I took before with no problems instantly threw me into acute. Bad! Then my story continues from there and got worse and worse... but what I’m trying to say is I think once the CNS is sensitized, it doesn’t take much to set it off. But it does calm back down again  given time and space away from anything neuroactive.  I hope you feel better soon!