Today I feel like I am constantly getting poked and prodded

[[dj...]]

I think I was abducted by aliens.  There are so many sensations going on inside my body today that I don’t even know how to describe.  Very uncomfortable and accompanied by intense anxiety. 
 

My body absolutely feels broken but I can get up and move just fine.  What gives?

 

[[WU...]]

Benzos are aliens to the body. I get the prodding and poking too and overall peculiar sensations, just horrible. I am trying to visualize the millions of tiny neuronal wires flailing about trying to find their partners so they can all dance together to a beautiful tune instead of the random freestyle interpretation to a cacophony that they are doing now.

We're not broken, we're fixing!

 

[[Ma...]]

When I was in acute my body was shaking, morphing just who knows what was going on. I sat on the couch thinking I was going to literal be propelled out of the living room window!

A small dose of Propronolol did the trick almost immediately to calm it all down.

Worth a try…

[[dj...]]

2 hours ago, [[M...] said:

When I was in acute my body was shaking, morphing just who knows what was going on. I sat on the couch thinking I was going to literal be propelled out of the living room window!

A small dose of Propronolol did the trick almost immediately to calm it all down.

Worth a try…

I have some propranolol but it depresses the crap out of me 50% of the time.  I feel so dull after taking it.  Not even worth it.  

[[dj...]]

2 hours ago, [[W...] said:

Benzos are aliens to the body. I get the prodding and poking too and overall peculiar sensations, just horrible. I am trying to visualize the millions of tiny neuronal wires flailing about trying to find their partners so they can all dance together to a beautiful tune instead of the random freestyle interpretation to a cacophony that they are doing now.

We're not broken, we're fixing!

I think this is what Luke Skywalker felt like when the Emperor was blasting him with electricity.  

[[Wi...]]

Today for me it’s itching, burning, zapping and prickling all over my skin. Iatrogenic crap is the worst. 

[[Ka...]]

55 minutes ago, [[d...] said:

I have some propranolol but it depresses the crap out of me 50% of the time.  I feel so dull after taking it.  Not even worth it.  

Was given propranolol for anxiety & doctor was very surprised not been offered if before rather than cocktail of other meds. Told take it PRN on a good day to see the effect. Suffice to say didn’t notice a good day - so didn’t ever take it, & from your experience pretty glad I didn’t! 

Edited February 15 by [Ka...]

[[dj...]]

56 minutes ago, [[K...] said:

Was given propranolol for anxiety & doctor was very surprised not been offered if before rather than cocktail of other meds. Told take it PRN on a good day to see the effect. Suffice to say didn’t notice a good day - so didn’t ever take it, & from your experience pretty glad I didn’t! 

It can be helpful sometimes, especially if your heart is racing and you can’t get it to slow down.  That’s just my reaction.  A lot of people take it to treat blood pressure.  
 

It’s a well-studied drug and mostly harmless drug.  But it can make some people feel depressed and dull.  I’m sure my jacked up neurotransmitter situation with BIND made me more vulnerable. 

[[Ka...]]

Yes @[dj...] I probably would have tried it had I not been on a benzo as well as other meds. I got impression doctor thought it should have been first line approach. 

I think it then becomes hard to know what is working/not working - so I resisted. 
Sorry about BIND. Crazy position we find ourselves in. 

 

 

[[Gi...]]

On 15/02/2024 at 16:53, [[d...] said:

I think I was abducted by aliens.  There are so many sensations going on inside my body today that I don’t even know how to describe.  Very uncomfortable and accompanied by intense anxiety. 
 

My body absolutely feels broken but I can get up and move just fine.  What gives?

@[dj...] yes I have the same as you sensations that are hard to describe. Constant discomfort, muscle tightness, tension but it is often difficult to pinpoint where it origins from. Sometimes it is a form of irritating discomfort, achy, stingy, prickly with locked up muscle feeling.