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<blockquote data-quote="Steely" data-source="post: 407095" data-attributes="member: 3301"><p>Yea, I am like Janet, I have never ever felt high on the benzos - ever. I just felt like I could cope. I took them for awhile after Heidi died even when I was working, that is until matt stole them and swallowed the whole bottle, but that is another story. (That is how HE ended up in the Residential Treatment Center (RTC).)</p><p></p><p>I went off of them, cold turkey, and my body did the full withdrawal. I actually did not know that you can die from going off benzos cold turkey - but my Dr scolded me, harshly, and I did feel like I was dying. I could not function for 3 days. I never, ever wanted to go back on them.</p><p></p><p>So, like you said Star, I have been trying to deep breath, and all the other things I mentioned that are natural, but something is happening at night that I cannot control with these body twitches. It is so bad, that it leads to hyperventilation, etc. So I don't know. At this point I have been on Xanax for 2 months, so to go off of it will create the body withdrawal - but I have to be able to sleep. Actually it is not a matter of not being able to sleep, but more the body somatic issues that do not allow me to sleep.</p><p></p><p>I have tried Benadryl - OMG - talk about an anxiety attack. It is supposed to produce agitation in certain people, I guess I am one of them. Matt on the other hand has taken it for sleep forever. medications are such a cr@p shoot for us all.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Steely, post: 407095, member: 3301"] Yea, I am like Janet, I have never ever felt high on the benzos - ever. I just felt like I could cope. I took them for awhile after Heidi died even when I was working, that is until matt stole them and swallowed the whole bottle, but that is another story. (That is how HE ended up in the Residential Treatment Center (RTC).) I went off of them, cold turkey, and my body did the full withdrawal. I actually did not know that you can die from going off benzos cold turkey - but my Dr scolded me, harshly, and I did feel like I was dying. I could not function for 3 days. I never, ever wanted to go back on them. So, like you said Star, I have been trying to deep breath, and all the other things I mentioned that are natural, but something is happening at night that I cannot control with these body twitches. It is so bad, that it leads to hyperventilation, etc. So I don't know. At this point I have been on Xanax for 2 months, so to go off of it will create the body withdrawal - but I have to be able to sleep. Actually it is not a matter of not being able to sleep, but more the body somatic issues that do not allow me to sleep. I have tried Benadryl - OMG - talk about an anxiety attack. It is supposed to produce agitation in certain people, I guess I am one of them. Matt on the other hand has taken it for sleep forever. medications are such a cr@p shoot for us all. [/QUOTE]
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