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Old Nov 22, 2008, 04:44 PM
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Originally Posted by madisgram View Post
i guess you and i both fortunate we didn't die. i was on zanex some years ago (and prozac) and was drinking. i had done this often enough that i'd disregarded the warning on the zanex (prozac) bottle. i had two drinks that i remember and then went into a black out. at some point in the night i must have fallen cause i was bleeding all over the house...fell, and my glasses cut into the top of my nose. later in the night i laid down on the bed with pillows propped behind me. (that might have saved my life). i have no recollection of any events for 12 hours. i have no idea how much i drank. i never once wiped off the blood..i'm basing this on the fact that the house looked like helter skelter the next morning. a friend insisted i go the ER for stitches. he said i argued with him about this and i said all i needed was a band aid. (!) it took 15 stitches to close up the gash on my nose. i decided to leave the scar there to remind me where mixing drinking and zanex took me. the doctor told me that the zanex magnifies the alcohol and the alcohol magnifies the zanex.
so i realized that all along my drinking history i was doing russian roullette because i was on meds for anxiety disorder and bipolar. i learned they don't mix the hard way. i should have known previous to this that the zanex and alcohol didn't mix cause a friend said sometimes i seemed liked another person and i had long lapses (up to 2 weeks) of memory.
so very glad you're going to be ok and there were people to help you get medical help.
in my case i had to take a serious look at my drinking and decided i had a serious drinking problem too. that was the last time i ever had a drink of alcohol and sobriety for me has been the best thing i ever did for myself....and i have the battle scar to prove it...i see it every day when i look in the mirror.
i think i took one while i was drinking i know had at least 3 that day. i had a therapy session that day before work and was a total mess after(im switching therapist) ive cut my dose down of xanax but have not stopped drinking, cut down but i know i should stop completely if im taking these meds. easier said than done