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I fill like I'm going crazy  mild headache  head is ringing  vision is off  fills like I had a chemicals change and I felt it scary

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Hello raypach,

 

I saw your comment some head symptoms. I put together some information that may be helpful. I am the type of person who seeks to know what is happening and why, it brings comfort to me. I hope it does the same for you.

 

 

 

“The Accidental Addict” by Di Porritt & Di Russell, 2006

 

HEAD

 

“Almost all suffers describe some sort of head symptom: pain, pressure, strange sensations as well as ‘electrical activity’. These symptoms are particularly terrifying because they strike at the core of a person’s control.”

 

Headache and Pain

 

“This Pain is not like an ordinary headache. It is often much more severe and lasts longer. Some people report having continuous headaches for weeks, even months. There are blocks of pain which throb, making heads feel heavy, and constant dull aches as well as tight bands of pain. Sometimes there can be a burning sensation deep inside the head. Many people fear that they have developed a serious illness.”

 

Headache and pain and pressure

 

“This pain is not like an ordinary headache. It is often much more severe and lasts longer. There are blocks of pain which throb, making heads feel heavy, and constant dull aches as well as tight bands of pain. “

 

“There was so much pressure in my head I felt I needed a pressure valve to relieve it.” “As if someone had a balloon inside my head and was pumping it up, then letting it down.”

 

Weird Sensations

 

“Suffers have bizarre feelings inside their heads, as though something has shifted from one side to the other. Their scalp can seem stretched or have prickling sensations, and sometimes they feel there is hot water dribbling through their hair.”

 

“Floaty” Feeling

 

“Within their own homes people feel reasonably secure, but outside, sometimes even in their own gardens, a ‘floaty” head makes the world a very uncertain place.”

 

“Fireworks” in the Head

 

“Bursts of electrical activity in the head seem to come out of the blue. What you are doing does not seem to cause them – you can be reading, watching TV or peeling the potatoes – but tiredness and stress seem to aggravate them. Some people see flashes of light, others can actually feel a disturbance.”

 

 

 

“Benzo-Wise, A Recovery Companion” by Bliss Johns, 2010

 

Symptoms A to Z

 

Moving sensation: false perceptions of body moving

 

Electric shock sensations/Zaps: feeling as if shocked, shocks running through body (any part including ears)

 

Dizziness/Balance problems: unsteady of feet, feeling as if drunk, room ‘spinning’ even when sitting or lying

 

False sensations of moving (perception distortion): feel as if body is moving or chair or bed

 

Headaches/Tight band around head: feeling as if an imaginary band around head is constantly being tightened, throbbing pain in head, migraine-like headaches, pain in temples

 

 

 

"The Ashton Manual" by Heather Ashton, 2002

 

BENZODIAZEPINE WITHDRAWAL SYMPTOMS:

 

INDIVIDUAL SYMPTOMS, THEIR CAUSES AND HOW TO DEAL WITH THEM

 

Muscle symptoms. “Benzodiazepines are efficient muscle relaxants and are used clinically for spastic condition. It is therefore not surprising that their discontinuation after long – term use is associated with a rebound increase in muscle tension. This rebound accounts for many of the symptoms observed in benzodiazepine withdrawal. Muscle stiffness affecting the limbs, back, neck and jaw are commonly reported, and the constant muscle tension probably accounts for the muscle pains with have a similar distribution. Headaches are usually of the “tension headache” type, due to contraction of muscles at the back of the neck, scalp and forehead – often described as a “tight band around the head”. “

 

“None of these symptoms is harmful, and they need not be a cause of worry once they are understood.”

 

“There are many measures that will alleviate these symptoms, such as muscle stretching exercises as taught in most gyms, moderate exercise, hot baths, massage and general relaxation exercises. Such measures may give only temporary relief at first, but if practiced regularly can speed the recovery of normal muscle tone – which will eventually occur spontaneously.”

 

 

I hope this is helpful,

 

Summer

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Hello raypach,

 

 

I saw your comment about vision issues. I put together some information that may be helpful. I am the type of person who seeks to know what is happening and why, it brings comfort to me. I hope it does the same for you.

 

 

 

“The Ashton Manual” by Heather Ashton, 2002

 

“Mechanisms of withdrawal reactions.  Nearly all the excitatory mechanisms in the nervous system go into overdrive and, until new adaptations to the drug-free state develop, the brain and peripheral nervous system are in a hyper excitable state, and extremely vulnerable to stress.”

 

“These include hypersensitivity to sensory stimuli (sound, light, touch, taste and smell) and perceptual distortions (for example sensations of the floor undulation, feeing of motion, impressions of walls or floors tilting)”

 

 

 

 

“The Accidental Addict” by Di Porritt & Di Russell, 2006

 

Eyes and Vision

 

Blurred, foggy, or fading vision

 

“Episodes of blurred vision and difficulty in focusing bother most sufferers. People might visit an oculist (eye doctor) several times to have their eyes tested.”

 

Acute sensitivity to light

 

“People in withdrawal tend to dread the bright, sunny days that everyone else welcomes as ‘lovely weather’.  Some artificial light sources also cause discomfort, particularly flurorscent light which makes many people feel twitchy and uneasy. Computer screens can be difficult to cope with, as are oncoming headlights when driving at night.”

 

 

 

“Benzo-Wise, A Recovery Companion” by Bliss Johns, 2010

 

Symptoms from A to Z

 

Eyes: sore, dry, red, tired, blurred vision, double vision, floaters, glazed, glassy appearance

 

Blurred Vision: everything appears blurred, problems reading and seeing generally

 

Visual: seeing things e.g. flashing lights

 

Vision blurred or double: everything appears blurred, problems reading, seeing ‘double’

 

 

I hope this is helpful,

 

Summer