Sedative (Depressant) and Antidepressant Dependence

Sedatives (depressants) are drugs that that suppress the central nervous system, causing the body to slow down and relax, relieving anxiety and producing sleep. The most commonly used/abused are barbiturates (Amytal, Nembutal, Seconal, phenobarbital) and benzodiazepines (Ativan, Halcion, Librium, Valium, Xanax, Rohypnol) but also chloral hydrate, glutethimide (Doriden), methaqualone and meprobamate. Talk about sedative dependence on this forum.

Going it alone from klonopin

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I talked with my doctor and told him my symptoms. Instead of helping me get off Klonopin,, he wants to increase the dose. After four years of .25 mg x three a day, I don't think so. I used to have panic attacks maybe twice a month. He told me to take .50 mg twice a day to prevent them. Four years...

by Wannabewell over a year ago

Soboxone oxy

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I TOOK 32mg of suboxone on Friday and saturday 24mg of suboxone Sunday at 5pm, it is now Monday @ 8pm and was unable to pay for my suboxone subscription, i have 300mg of roxycodone I would like to snort (the usual amount I intake). Will I fill the affects or should I wait?

by Bball2treasure over a year ago

Sertraline and Zyprexa withdrawel effects

Hi I would like to know if after three years of taking low doses of sertraline 25 mg and 2.5 mg of Zyprexa the nausea, gagging reflex with NO throw up and dizziness I feel that my brain is shaking I do not see things moving around and headaches I feel can be due to the discontinuation of...

by Guest over a year ago

I was on 450 mgs (zoloft) for 16 yrs. can't shake the spine pain.

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I was on 450 mgs for about 16 years but couldn't always aford the pills. I have recently been hospitalized for anxiety attacks and was just drugged up again. I went into mania and decided to quit cold turkey. It has been 2 months and I still feel this incredibly hard shooting pain down my spine...

by renzagliarobb over a year ago

Tapering off of Ambien.

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I would like to get off of Ambien. I have been taking 10 mg nightly for years. I have had some depression and anxiety and would like to stop this medication. After reading about the withdrawal problems, I'm so scared. I was thinking to taper off by cutting to 3/4 tablet for several weeks, and...

by Guest over a year ago

I am struggling with getting off Seroquel

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Hello. I have been taking Seroquel for 9 months now. In December last year I experienced a trauma of extreme proportions. I could not sleep, so on the 4th night of not sleeping, we phoned my Psychiatrist for something to make me sleep and take the horrible dreams away. She prescribed 50mg of...

by Badlywired160653 over a year ago

side effects of coming off citalopram

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I suffer from mild OCD, and have been on citalopram for a while now. I finally consented to the medication because I really felt that I needed the help, as the OCD was starting to affect my life too much. Now it has been six months, and if possible, I would like to come off the citalopram again....

by torry1975160818 over a year ago

Addiction to ambien

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Hi, Im posting to older folks here who are currently addicted to ambien. Im a 21 yr old who had trouble sleeping, so I decided to go doctor visit. My doctor perscribe me ambien! It help me sleep like a baby every night. However, bad side of it I had no idea it was incredibly addictive! I too took...

by proskater over a year ago

suboxone opiates oxy oxycontin roxicodone heroin morphine do

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if you go to a pain management clinic and get 240 blues and 90 fifteens and 90 xanax, where all they do is prescrib opiates. than you go to a rehab clinic where they will try to help you off, and get suboxone.. is that considered doctor shopping. state of florida is getting a onitoring program...

by Guest over a year ago

coming of seroquel

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Yes- I am going thru the same thing I slowly thought I was weaning myself off and stop taking last week. I feel terrible and again never felt like this prior to taking this terrible drug. I have taken it for 3 years and cannot wait until I start to feel normal again. Sleep "WHAT SLEEP"!!! I have...

by Guest over a year ago