but the question is to take it or not to take it, since I haven’t taken a benzo in more than 4 years. I am getting a panic attack, and avoiding taking it, considering it, but not sure. I don’t want to succumb to the benzo, but that is perhaps what nature has in store for me: All the goodies to include antipsychotics and now benzos.
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Did you discuss with your pDoc or he discuss with you how to take it why and when.
I think having that discussion and letting them know you are indeed worried about dependency. My pDoc and i discuss how i am managing with my benzos every visit.
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I’m not sure there’s any other treatments for panic attacks. I know someone who has to take a benzo for them too.
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Yea, during panic attacks.
I am worried about how my brain will respond to it, as well, not just dependency.
As when I took it once during a panic attack in the last 4 years (it wasn’t Valium but Xanax), my arms and legs went numb, I got strange sensations in the head, etc…
Has anyone experienced Valium specifically? Like how is it different from Klonopin which I used to take in the past?
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It’s mild. And reduces anxiety slowly
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I see. I am thinking about it. Maybe next time I get a panic attack I will take it, and ride out this one.
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If you can that is a good thing. It’s there when you can’t.
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Yeah, even the pdoc wasn’t sure what to try.
there is no guarantee it will work either. I personally had a hard time coming off them, and want to avoid going on them again.
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My rule is don’t take any more than prescribed.
It’s important to be cautious because it’s easy to want the anxiety to stop and take more but that leads to tolerance and it being ineffective down the road and just dependent for me
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Yeah, me too. It is supposed to be PRN. But, it is one of those situations where I don’t know what to do. Better avoid it if I can I am thinking. Maybe it will pass away on its own.
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This is what benzos were designed for.
I have avoided till now, even though my heart rate seems to be going high and low.
The reason I am not taking is because I think I am getting the panic attacks because of very rapid Klonopin taper, and getting back to benzos is going directly at the cause, perhaps the panic attacks increase in frequency.
Don’t take them. Ride the panic attack through.
I suffer from panic attacks and I avoid benzo’s at all cost.
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Yeah, more than anything it is the heart rate which lowers and then goes up. Then I get impulses which sound foreign. Sometimes, these impulses sound like mild voices. I am trying to distract myself.
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You are stressed, that’s why you are getting voices.
Have you considered beta blockers for your heart palpitations?
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Yeah, I have tried them. They haven’t worked for me, it is like the heart rate going up and down on replay.
I am stressed when all this happens.
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Ok, I understand.
I usually need to rest after a panic attack so I can collect my thoughts and feel calm again.
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Yeah, I get a really good feeling about life and a fresh perspective on how good things can be after them.
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May I ask you what exactly happens to you during a panic attack?
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