alcohol

[[ji...]]

i think i may have a answer to why after feeling so great for the last year i was hit out of nowhere last week.  i know alcohol should be completely avoided during taper.  with that being said, for the past year i have been having a glass of wine in the evening.  do you think its likely the glass of wine was masking small symptoms during the taper and then when i recently got down to .1,  i was hit hard because the symptoms have built up and the glass of wine no longer could mask them?~~~  thanks for any input.  im just trying to make sence of this ~~jill

[[Pa...]]

It sure would help if we had the answers but with no studies we can only use anecdotal experiences to try to make sense of our situation.

I don't know if the wine was masking your symptoms but you drinking alcohol seems like what I was doing with Ambien while recovering from my Klonopin cold turkey.  I stopped improving and started getting worse and didn't attribute it to the Ambien, until I stopped it cold turkey.  Within days I was fully recovered from both cold turkey cessations and I blame Ambien which effects GABA like alcohol.  It was keeping me sick, and I wonder if the wine is doing the same to you.

 

[[ji...]]

@[Pa...]  this is really the most insanity i have ever seen,   feel great one day....heart and pulse racing like crazy the next.   it is absolutly exhausting.  i want to be free of this so bad.

[[Pa...]]

I understand, my friend is going through the same thing, he's felt fine for 10 months after recovering from his Ambien usage then he used some cortisone cream on his ankle for 3 days and he's back in hell.  Watching a loved one go through this nightmare is almost as bad as going through it ourselves. 

I hope things settle down for you soon, its so discouraging.