withdrawal
Posted By: RXd on 2007-03-02
In Reply to: Has anyone here ever gone through - sm.
I have been in the process of withdrawing from prescription medications for about a year now - I was doing pretty well - down to 1 10 mg pill once a day and then experienced an injury - now am having to take 2 pills a day - Yes - the withdrawal is almost unbearable at times. The anxiety is horrible - to the point of panic and wanting to committ hary-cary - but it can be done. After reducing my intake my pain was still there, but my mind cleared immensely. I am working to stop the RX drugs because I want to - it was no one else's decision. If someone else wanted me to stop and I didn't want to - then it would not work. Yes, there are more bad days than good - but at least on the good days I can partially enjoy being on less medication.
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Withdrawal
Never heard of withdrawal symptoms from pot.
If you think pot is harmless, you need to educate yourself. They call it "dope" for a reason.
Sounds like you two deserve each other. The fact that you said "nor did I take his addiction seriously," is mind boggling.
What have your learned during your time as an MT????
withdrawal.......see what happens? just the thought! NM
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I know...I've been in withdrawal!! Can't wait either! : ) nm
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absolutely no physical withdrawal from quitting pot
There is absolutely no physical withdrawal from stopping smoking pot, it is a psychological dependency (as all habits begin that way). Perhaps he indulges in other things that you are not recognizing..other drugs.....which would produce symptoms of withdrawal from them such as you describe.
lots have been there, done that - no symptoms whatsoever except perhaps a little agitated because they wanted it....I have witnessed many who stopped/quit......from 15 to 65......
Or withdrawal from other drugs, wouldn't doubt it.
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Klonopin is a wonderful drug but a benzodiazepam. Be aware of withdrawal.
I was placed on Klonopin during a stressful year when sleep was elusive, leaving me dragging all day.
It worked amazingly. But, there came a time I had to get off of it. I thought I could just stop taking it. Not so. The drug leaving my system placed me in a state that was far worse than the anxiety I took it for. For three months, I had ringing in my ears, was in an agitated state that I likened to listening to fingernails being scraped across a chaulkboard and then having that sound magnified a thousand times.
I watched a show that featured drug addicts in a methadone clinic and one person interviewed said that the worst drug to get off of was "bennies." Worse than heroin and methadone, and I believe him. I also came to realize there are many people hooked on these powerful drugs simply because the withdrawal is so very unpleasant to go through.
I suggest taking it periodically, never more than two weeks in a row. I only wish my doctor would have said that I would become physically addicted to it to the point that medical supervision would be required to stop taking it. Instead, they appeared to think I had developed "drug-seeking behavior" because of my anxious calls to the office when I was experiencing the symptoms.
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