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<blockquote data-quote="GoingNorth" data-source="post: 722094" data-attributes="member: 1963"><p>I would have to say that both alcoholism and the tendency toward AODA dependency run in my family. I'm dependent on benzos, have increased the dose 2x in 13 years. I take one for sleeping and one for anxiety. I was put on them in 2004 by a psychiatrist who disregarded prescribing recommendations and kept me on them long term. I don't get high off of them, but at my age, and with as long as I've been on them, psychiatrists after that doctor have all felt it better to keep me on the benzos, as opposed to put me through the high medical risks of withdrawing me. The difference between me with a dependency on benzos and someone addicted to benzos is that I don't seek out the high. I don't blackout, I don't take more than prescribed, etc. But, I am definitely physically dependent. When I was rushed into emergency surgery in 2005, the hospitalist in charge of my care didn't "believe in benzos" so wouldn't allow me to have them. I had 2 days of horrific hallucinations and paranoia, and then a grand mal seizure. They sent in a neurologist. When he found out I'd been on benzos for over a year, he had a cow...and ordered the medications for me, starting off with an IV of Valium to prevent any other seizures, until they could get the correct medications in iv form.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="GoingNorth, post: 722094, member: 1963"] I would have to say that both alcoholism and the tendency toward AODA dependency run in my family. I'm dependent on benzos, have increased the dose 2x in 13 years. I take one for sleeping and one for anxiety. I was put on them in 2004 by a psychiatrist who disregarded prescribing recommendations and kept me on them long term. I don't get high off of them, but at my age, and with as long as I've been on them, psychiatrists after that doctor have all felt it better to keep me on the benzos, as opposed to put me through the high medical risks of withdrawing me. The difference between me with a dependency on benzos and someone addicted to benzos is that I don't seek out the high. I don't blackout, I don't take more than prescribed, etc. But, I am definitely physically dependent. When I was rushed into emergency surgery in 2005, the hospitalist in charge of my care didn't "believe in benzos" so wouldn't allow me to have them. I had 2 days of horrific hallucinations and paranoia, and then a grand mal seizure. They sent in a neurologist. When he found out I'd been on benzos for over a year, he had a cow...and ordered the medications for me, starting off with an IV of Valium to prevent any other seizures, until they could get the correct medications in iv form. [/QUOTE]
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