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Old Sep 18, 2010, 05:54 PM
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Originally Posted by madisgram View Post
whhhhooooaaa, your post sure got my attention!!!! ... benzo's do have a place of use for some of us as long as we're being reponsible. ...well i've got to go and read those studies but it's a known medical fact that some benzos should not be prescribed for more than 6 months...xanex being one. it's written right in the PDR,physician's desk reference, yet docs prescribe xanex like candy to way too many ppl for way too long . it has an incredible half life. so YES many docs of all specialities are over prescribing this family of drugs.
i for one know the dangers of coming off these meds. i was in a medical facility. told them i had been on xanex for one and a half years, it was prescribed to me while i was caretaking my terminally ill mother to help me get back to sleep. i advised them the length of time i was on this drug and the doseage. i had never abused this med. they abruptly took me off-'you don't need this anymore'...3 days later GRAND MAL SEIZURE....should have sued the hospital. it took me one and a half years to be weaned off xanex the correct way and under a responsible physician's care. i do not ever recommend anyone trying to wean themselves off without medical guidance, imho. the ramifications are too dangerous. that's jmho but i lived thank goodness to share this tale. i will always be susceptible to seizures now since i had 2 before they got control if the situation. so a word of caution, ygrec!!!!!ps in support of docs not being responsible, i had asked my doc who prescribed the xanex to not put me on a barbiturate, etc. so READ the rx info or ask your pharmacist before filling a new med. i trusted my doc and he was not being responsible. i don't ever ASSUME any more. ppsssss...many of these drugs are what they call opiate derivatives. so what does that tell you?
Hey, Madisgram!

I've read your post carefully several times. I don't see anything in it that I'd disagree with. Understand now, all I know is what was in the two sources I cited in my post. The lorazepam has been prescribed by my P-doc for three or four years, if not more. And he knows about my desire to get off it. It wasn't his idea, though. It was mine. But he's supervising. So far, the results aren't really bad. Only enough to make me want to taper next month by going to .5mg rather than zero. Unfortunately, I have no idea what my P-doc knows and doesn't know. So I have to lead the way. I haven't undergone anything even close to the seizures you had, so up til now I've been pretty comfortable tapering and reducing the dosage. If you take Ashton at her word, I'm coming down too fast. But so far, so good. If it gets anywhere NEAR serious, I'll go back up to the last step. Do you mean to say, in your last comment, that benzodiazepines, all of them, are opiate derivatives? I haven't run across that information before. Take care!
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