Diazapam withdrawal help

Lexapro Withdrawal Symptoms?

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10 Aug 2006 by sfsyed

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lexapro, withdrawalDetails:I've been having severe withdrawal symptoms after my doctor made me ween off of Lexapro recently. These symptoms are severe restless leg syndrome all throughout the day, being jittery, uneasiness, and being overall restless. I'm also sleeping a lot less, waking up during the night, and I've been smoking a lot more, and I mean a lot. Has anyone else experienced these types of withdrawal symptoms from Lexapro?

There 1s an example -

when y0u have anx1ety y0u want a cause f0r that anx1ety.

The med1cat10n {d1azepam st0ps anx1ety} thats why when y0u st0p tak1ng 1t y0u get sympt0ms. 

Here 1s the reas0n benz0s are gettng such a bad press - they n0 l0nger make pr0ff1t-

Valium withdrawn as patent expires

The Independent · January 30, 2002

by Steve Connor · Science Editor

Valium, brand name of one of the world's best known tranquillisers, will no longer be sold in the UK. Its maker, Roche, took the decision after the expiry of the patent.

Although Roche has stopped marketing Valium, other firms will continue to sell their own versions of the drug under the generic name of diazepam.

Valium was introduced in 1963 and its enormous success catapulted Roche into the pharmaceutical super-league, where the Swiss-based company remains one of the world's key players. The drug belongs to the family of benzodiazepines which are widely prescribed for the treatment of anxiety and sleep disorders, and as muscle relaxants and anti-convulsants.

In the 1960s, millions of people took Valium to relieve stress and to overcome insomnia, although there was a controversy over claims that the drug could lead to dependency in some pateints.

Roche said its principal role was developing new medicines and it was not unusual for a firm to discontinue a medicine after the patent had expired. There were many other tranquillisers available, it said.

It is fair to say we all have different experience folks, we can all associate with each other symptoms, but only if we have had them too.

I think argue when we need to support each other is not good, and its probably the anxiety / depression. A balanced view that is legal and moral is always the best. Restep need support not to be in the middle of another argument people.

Come on folks lets help

Sounds like your having panic attacks. Id find it very hard to imagine your having withdrawal from such a small dose for such a short period of time!!

Only you nd your GP can crack this, Get yourself down the doctors and get a proper medical opinion and all the necessary precautionary test done. best to have a proper face to face with a professional

H1 keyb0ard st1ll n0t f1xed. {very s0rry}

Just wanted t0 say - 1 by n0 means wanted t0 s0und as th0ugh 1 was bel1ttl1ng any0nes exper1ences.

Anx1ety 1s hell and 1 Have n0th1ng but c0mpass10n f0r th0se exp1enc1ng 1t. M0st 0f my c0mments seem t0 have c0me 0n just after y0u guys resp0nded and may have un0tent10nally seemed unsc0mpass10nate. 1ts s0 hard t0 type l1ke th1s.

1m new t0 th1s s1te -1 th1nk y0u can read my 0ther c0mments t0 see why 1 fr1rst came 0n here and why 1 am prescr1bed d1azepam. F0r me persnally 1t 1s a l1fe saver - w1th0ut 1t 1 w0uldnt be here. 1ts funny h0w we are all s0 d1fferent. 

1 must say 1m bl00dy anx10us n0w after read1ng  h0rr0r st0r1es ab0ut th1s med1cat10n that has 0nly ever helped me s0 much. The p00r lady wh0 ended up 1n A c0ma....Thats ser1u0s.  What d0se were y0u tak1ng bef0re that because 1 am scared n0w :-(

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1 th1nk th1s m1ght make me m0re anx10us wh1ch 1s an 1nterest1ng th0ught.

1 genu1nely d0 w1sh y0u health and happ1nes 1n the new year, Bless1ngs. 

 

1 kn0w!!! its sudenly working again! its off and on, I want to take it to be repaired asap - but I need diazepam to go it because I am recovering agorophobic and have awful social anxiety. Thats why diazepam has helped me so much..I only use it when I need to socialise in situation that intimidate and I can go weeks without taking it. Anywyas it seems we are all different. I just remember my nan took diazepam in the 70's and had no problem coming off. However the first grand mal seizure I ever witnessed was someone on alchohol withdrawel - he had not drunk that much, it turns out due to a problem with his digestion he had not been getting any b12 for years and thats what triggered it. 

 

Hey there,

I did not mean to sound unconpassionate to your experience, I think what probably has happaned is you dont take it every day, and with Valium that's a game changer.  So totally understand how it did not effect you as it did me.  I was taking it almost every day and doc put me on 15mg, took away my panic, aggraphobia all those things and was great, only when i thought ill come off did all this happen to me so I researched and went to drug detox and learnt that when your dependant as i was I needed to come of slowly.  Tell you what the hallucinations i had in hospital were like the worst thing ive ever exerienced, like a dream or nightmare you can't really explain but I was IN the simpsons, audio visual hearing voices talking right at me out of a radio.  One Doc at the hospital said I actually started to believe that possesion could be possilble and he was a man of science, I was acting like a little girl they angry and i felt like i could see right through those nurses etc.  I could also at time see myself from above.  Very Very Scary.  BUT I do not want you to be scared, not only are we different but you are obviosly not addicted if you only take them here and there, you have had no unpleasant reactions believe me if you were you could not go a day with out feeling horrid so you my friend are using them wisely, even though doctors put me on them for years it was up to me in the end to research what i was taking and perhaps i could have been like you. I wish I had now. I really did not mean to sound nasty we all have so much info that can help each other so I appreciate your story.  Best wishes to you and I think you are going about things the right way, taken as needed and I understand you do need them.  Nicola

 

hi my names paul

first off all starting on 50mg of sertraline takes the body a bit of getting used to

This added with you taken youreself off valium at same time must of been a ruff ride , i hope youre still keeeping it up, it wont last long belive me you posted this four days ago, have you stoped valium now, what ever you do!!!!!!! do not stop taken the sertraline,you thought you felt bad at the start!!!! thats a walk in the park to what a dead stop on them will make you feel like,stick with the sertraline on the fifty you should be feeling benefits from that by now if youre not see youre GP,hope youre doing ok with the valium aswell because if you have came right off them and are still on the sertraline well done thats something pal,you should be proud

keep it real

paul