Octavius

[Octavius]

Hello friends, I have as of late or should I say it started 7 years ago after my use of ksalol brand Xanax and don’t get me wrong as I don’t wish this on anyone and am very unhappy it occurred to me but, after heavy usage of these I started having mild seizures at first after a week or two after stopping cold turkey and then severe ones but stopped after taking lacosimide prescribed by my neurologist. I completely stopped for several years then decided to try again and after only taking for 2 or 3 days I had a not quite a full blown seizure but what they call an aurora of having one and the start of a full blown one , but did not go all the way into one, as this was a little more scary as these small ones kept coming back to back for 8 episodes. I quickly started back on the lacosimide that I had refilled before trying this again and it took 9 hours to fully take effect. I really enjoy my Xanax but this has scared the life out of me and I suppose it’s because they are fast acting and you withdraw quickly also. Valium never did this to me and I have taken those since junior high. I’m 62 and scared to try Xanax again until I find out the real reason. Has this happened to anyone before? Please if so message me in my inbox as I am willing to learn all I can on this subject.

[LeeAnn]

Xanax can be a dangerous habit, no matter what the brand it is. Many years ago I was taking eight 1mg brand name xanax a day, all prescribed by my Harvard Educated psychiatrist. When she got pregnant, she dropped me as a patient which really upset me at the time but in the end was a good thing. The psychiatrist I switched to had a lot more sense than the Harvard one This was so long ago that xanax was a fairly new med. When I started with him, he said well we are going to stop the xanax cause it is just not good for you.

He was really a decent doctor. He immediately switched me to an equivalent amount of klonopin and I really didn't feel the difference, Every 2 weeks we decreased the amount of klonopin I was taking each day. and although it took almost a year of titrating amounts, I finally stopped the benzos with without discomfort.

If would hard to find a doctor like that these days, their compassion about things like this has disappeared. And that lovely compassionate doctor I had who helped me so much was diabetic and went in for some minor surgery and just died.

I take valium or klonopin now if I need it. With my psychiatric history, klonopin is the only med they will prescribe for me.

You know, xanax was supposedly developed to replace valium since so many people were getting addicted and dependent on their "nerve pills". My father had a jar of valium and passed them out to anyone. There was a movie at the time about valium addiction called ""I AM DANCING AS FAST AS I CAN" so the geniuses at Big Parma invented xanax. And then watched the money roll in.

I have been fooling around with benzos for 35 years. Going cold turkey on any of them almost always causes seizures which can lead to death or brain damage. If I have to take them now, I take klonopin.

Speaking of seizures, the first FDA approved use of klonopin was was as medication to be used to control seizures. If one has to be subjected to ECT (Which are medically controlled induced seizures) for depression, one must not be taking any klonopin for at least 2 weeks before the treatments since they prevent them.

You will never again experience the euphoric feeling again that you had when you began to use xanax no matter how much you take. Klonopon will prevent seizures so keep them around. If you continue heavy usage, you should also have your liver enzymes checked periodically.


One more thing..physical habituation to xanax occurs more quicklly, each time it is started.