These meds are more dangerous than you think

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[sunboklee]

When in the depths of depression, these drugs really take the edge off. I, at one lovely moment of depression wished I'd had a Xanax intravenous drip. The problem here is depression is a burning Hell. These drugs give you a small moment of calm. I get it they're sketchy. But the feeling of depression for me was like being boiled alive. It's damned if you do damned if you don't.

[Chelleme]

Mom was on Valium, until the doctor was arrested, and they closed his office. The next doctor changed her to Xanax. She was in Xanax for 40 years! But because she couldn't sleep, he prescribed her a sleeping pill, but then she couldn't wake up. So he prescribed her a pill for waking up. But that gave her anxiety, so he prescribed amatryptaline. And another antipsychoctic. 6 weeks before her death, she was on 21 different prescriptions. All she ever wanted was pain relief.

[naelyneurkopfen]

I had horrific, chronic insomnia for the better part of two decades. I was dying.
I'd been to multiple doctors with no result. Either they told me that they didn't know what to do or mocked me. One Dr that I went to for a bit would actually chuckle when I'd tell him how bad I felt, (I looked like death warmed over) and told me that I needed a psychiatrist.
I went to the last Dr I intended to. I genuinely knew that I was dying and I decided that if he couldn't help me, I was just going to go home, lay down and die.
He put me on 40mg Temazepam and literally saved my life.
It allowed me restorative sleep. I was back!
I came off of them with no problem after taking them nightly for 3 or 4 years and nearly 10 yrs later, I can still sleep.
We're not all the same.

[brendabowers]

What is so sad, when the gov started regulating pain meds and stopped doctors from prescribing them to their patients and forcing those of us who live in extreme pain daily due to diseases we were born with to just quit taking the only medication we could find that helped minimize the pain. Instead they sent us to pain clinics which only offered us depression or anxiety medication. None of those even help with the disease I was born with. So thanks to our gov I am now living life in a 8 pain level with no end in sight. I’m 66years old and because my pain level is so high it causes undue physical stress on my body. I took the same medication for over ten years and lowered the dosage myself to where I could function daily.

[iWillTakeTheSword]

I would be in the psych ward for the rest of my life without them. Its not a buzz. It takes me out of a panic attack state where I can't eat or drink or function at all. 4 hours sleep is a whole lot better than a panic attack keeping me up for days.

[katherinelalli]

It's almost like we've been expecting our health care providers to provide informed consent about the risks of the drugs that they prescribe all of this time. I'll never make the mistake of trusting another Dr.

[Systemlord]

I was on clonazepam for 30 years to treat Tourette’s syndrome, coming off was the hardest thing I’ve even done. The recovery stole 8 years of my life.

[stephanieradford]

You can't just stop them either. I have 11 years sobriety from alcohol.
Benzos twice a day for 6 yrs. I have never had anybody say I sounded drunk or could even tell that I took one.

I had panic attacks since I was a child

[TenaciousSLG]

Benzos out, LSD and psilocybin in…the circle keeps spinning. My psych and I chose benzos instead of suicide. Some people need these meds.

[Camille_Anderson]

Insomnia is unbearable. To live off 2 or 3 hours a day destroys you and increases your risk of cancer, diabetes, heart attacks, strokes and ageing prematurely. Your quality of life is zilch & you lose your career, relationships and finances Take any help you can get!!!

[deeetherton]

As a former Sleep Tech, I can honestly say that I have never known of a Sleep Lab that had a MD overnight. Secondly, this blanket statement is not the same results for everyone. Klonopin has been proven to decrease the chances of Parkinson's Disease in patients with REM Behavior Disorder. I would prefer to see her source for her statement instead of just being a MD and expecting to just believe her.

[NotLast]

After a serious traumatic event, I had to take a Valium once in a while to sleep. I was unable to sleep more than 3 hours a night and that was compounding the trauma. The Valium would knock me out and I would sleep for 8-10 hours. It sure was restorative compared to no sleep. It saved me. When I realized that I was having to increase the dose, I went to acupuncture to deal with the inability to sleep. Needles and Chinese herbal medicine kept me from getting addicted.

[summerflower]

People get really sick just stopping pharmaceuticals and not everyone has used them to get high. Healthcare is such a hurtful business.

[rosieaustin]

Comment section so interesting here! Telling both sides of the story! Benzos helped me tremendously but if I could go back in time I would try something different be now after 20 years I can’t get off. I’m trying to reduce very slowly and it’s the hardest thing I’ve ever done. I hope I make it. I don’t even know what it feels like to sleep without sleeping pills or benzos for over 20 years. I would love to see what it would be like to actually have restorative good good sleep.

[Thomas-td]

That is absolutely untrue concerning myself.

While it may be different for others, what I like is that I feel absolutely normal, productive and alert. Dangerous rhetoric here concerning a medication.

[mvann]

If you have been on them decades and decades, think twice before getting off. Even if you taper, the getting off can cause serious neurological damage which may be with you for a long, long time. I don't believe everyone should come off them.

[patricianoel]

I have multiple sclerosis and osteoporosis. It that’s a damned act of Congress to get meds prescribed for the pain and anxiety meds I NEED. Please, put a caveat in you lecture for those of us who need them to survive this miserable life I’m trying to live through pain and fractures!!!!

[makennadavidson]

NOPE! I’ve NEVER EVER gotten a “buzz” or slurred speech or any issues whatsoever from Valium. It saved my life!!!!

[sweetbeep]

"get off them!"? What??? No, you tell your colleagues how to slowly and SAFELY taper their patients off them, and to stop inappropriately prescribing them..

[zombiasnow]

My Father died from Dementia complications. In his lifetime, he Never took pills not even for headaches. He was a trained tailor from Milan. And he worked two jobs when he immigrated to Canada, the other being, crane operator for Canadian Pacific.