True, there are too many who get really bad. Myself included. It makes me so upset that people have their lives ruined due to misinformation about this, SSRI's included.
Same here! Only in the US. The UK is way ahead of us here. The US even has the Deprescribing book that the UK uses...we got it in Feb 2024, but we, the patients, would need to buy it for them, stupidly. They have such egos, they probably wouldn’t read them anyway! Though it’s true, that they don’t have a lot of time to read it, but they really should. The only time theyre interested, is when they find they can’t get off it. Though we had sent public statements to ASAM about what is needed-now we are waiting to see what they do. Pharma must be making trillions, if not quadrillions from people‘s suffering! There is a law suit against another drug company recently. It is a class action law suit. I just heard about it 6 hrs ago.
Yeah but so quick to prescribe benzos to you left and right, but they don’t know 💩 about withdrawal. I met ONE doctor back in 2013 when I was going through withdrawal (I wish I could track her down all these years later and ask her for advice). She knew exactly about klonopin and the dangers of it and how hard it was to come off it. At the time I was in the ER crying my eyes out because I had ran out of my klonopin three weeks early and the pharmacy and my doctor accused me of either taking it or giving it away to ppl ( come to find out my brother went rummaging through my things while I was at work just started my new position at Allstate (with the grace of God I made it through training those three weeks even though I was back and forth to the ER and in and out of the bathroom vomiting and diarrhea)and took ALL my klonopin. My doctor dismissed me as a patient because she accused me of being an addict.😡) Thst doctor told me I would have a hard time coming off of klonopin and it was harder than heroin to come off of. I wasn’t really listening to her because I was crying. She wanted to know what doctor would have put me on klonopin in the first place. I told her the doctor’s office is actually in this hospital and I gave her her name. I thought she was gonna do something like report her for prescribing me a benzo. But yeah most doctors (except that one doctor I met that time) are clueless about benzo withdrawal. My psychiatrist continues to be combative with me and tells me it is possible to wean off klonopin in one day if you do it under a care of a doctor and a team of nurses. I told her it’s not and I was weaned off in 5 days in June 2022 and I’m still dealing with daily side effects of it non stop since June 18, 2022. She says I’m lying and then asks me what other medication I wanna try.
Some know and care... Most don't because here in the USA, it seems, most are in it for the money or were "educated" by the pharmaceutical reps. When something is being sold as a business... The downsides are understated lest they make the sell...
This is me too. The akathisia alone is enough to make anyone put a g*n to their head, believe me this is too real and the pain is unbearable. I send you all the love from my tiny, shriveled heart and I pray that our brains and bodies heal themselves as quickly and painlessly as possible ♡
😢 dear sister, Jesus died for you, be his bride...kjv WORD OF GOD, HOLY SPIRIT 🙏 ❤️ ♥️ 💙LOVE IS WAITING..YOU HAVE NOT SUFFERED IN VAIN DEAR WOMAN..CALL UPON JESUS, ASK TO KNOW HIM ..HOLY SPIRIT PLEASE REVEAL YOUR LOVE AND GOODNESS THAT MIRACLES FALL UPON HER MIND,BODY AND SOUL, THAT SHE MAY SERVE YOU AND REJOICE IN YOU ALL OF HER DAYS 🕊 🕯 🐑 ❤GLORY TO THE MOST HIGH GOD! HEAVENLY FATHER YOUR GLORY IS PROCLAIMED! 🎶 🎵 SING WEEP REST IN HIS ❤️
It sounds like you have a HUGE ❤ . In spite of all your pain and struggle, you took the time to write this loving comment. Sending you 💓 ❤️ ♥️ across the digital sphere. May you have days of increasing peace, resilience and strength to pull you through!
@@juleslund1515 I won’t say how long it took (and the length of time may have been extended due to cannabis use), but my akithisia is finally gone. I have lingering neuralgia that can be managed with a Tylenol 3 when it comes on, but I never thought it would go away. Everyone kept telling me I’d heal, and I’d tell them I think they’re living in a fantasy world. Whether I’ll heal to the degree I can work again remains to be seen, but that one damn symptom to end all symptoms is finally gone. Apparently it really does go away. Hang in there.
This is true, this stuff happens in varied forms. Many lose jobs money health because you can become so ill that it is a question of survival. Horrendous.
This story alone should put a halt to all benzodiazipines. Today I read one manufacturer of Clonazepam was on backorder due to high demand😲🤔😳 Next epidemic? Much worse than the opioid?
In my opinion we’ve been in a covert epidemic for decades. Problem is no one recognizes it which makes the work Dr. Josef, BIC, and others are doing to fight for awareness all the more important.
😢 a most heartbreaking reality in this world right now. I thank God that prayer is powerful and effective. It avails much. God is mighty to save. I believe the next thing to come will be miracles one after the other. Deliverance from all epidemics and a complete and total healing. My God, thank you and deliver us from evil! For yours is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever. In Jesus name I pray ❤and stand in agreement with all others. Keep going!! You’re only 15 feet from land. Dont give up, just before the win! God knows. God cares. Be healed🖐️ in Jesus name amen and amen.
We need to stop calling psych drugs 'medications'. They don't cure a "chemical imbalance"; they don't treat a physical illness (it's not "like taking insulin if you have diabetes" - that was another lie). These are drugs, and dangerous ones at that.
@@kimberc813 I’m sorry you are going through all these symptoms. Do you mind if I ask if you were taking it everyday? That might be why I’m not going through the same symptoms. I use mine once a week and only get 30 1mg tabs every 3 months
Part of my story, before setback and two other surgeries, post of 31 July 2024: I remember feeling as though I was being burned alive inside and out for months. I remember feeling like fire ants were stinging me all over my body. I remember my mouth and teeth burning . I remember bugs and worms crawling on and under my skin. I remember losing the ability to talk to walk. I remember not being able to drive anymore . I remember having psychosis . I remember being terrified to go anywhere. I remember crashing anxiety . I remember when I could non stop shaking for 6 months 12/14 h a day. I remember hugging my self crying out all night long begging someone to help me . I remember my kid crying to see me in so much pain. I remember always saying please help me and no one could. I remember being in a different dimension than the rest of the world. I remember laying in a bed for months . I remember than my legs huts so much that I wanted to be amputated. I remember losing my job. I remember losing my wife for someone else , lying to me all day long for months.i remember pushing my self to the shower to stop burning . I remember that I didn’t sleep for 8 weeks in a row. I remember wanted to die asking to die everyday. I remember losing body fonctions . I remember being in hospital almost four days a week asking for help in panic attacks for months . I remember crying on the phone with all my friends. I remember not be able to leave my room and being agoraphobic. I remember working with sides effets that I don’t wish to my worst ennemi. I remember tapering for four years. I remember being alone in the dark on the 31.12 shaking crying with body spasms thinking that I will die alone ... I’m now 7 months off that shit prescribed by my doctor just for an heart pain . I still have a lot of issues, head pressure mainly. I slowly recover all my functions . Soon I will have my life back an be stronger than ever... l hope
Your doctor is a retard and needs to re-do his doctorate,benzodiazepines are typically prescribed for anxiety&panic disorders and usually for a short period 2-4 weeks,unless your doctor and yourself have found benzo's to be beneficial to you they can and most times are prescribed for longer periods only after all other treatment options have failed
It cost me and my father in the neighborhood of $300,000 thus far. And that's just THE BEGINNING! AND THE SUFFERING IS UNSPEAKABLE AND SHOCKING. AND THE MAIMING!
@@louisgeen765 It started from tolerance to Xanax. This is an assumption and the same thing that happened to me. I switched to Valium because it’s easier to taper and has a much longer half life.
@@louisgeen765I’m curious as well. I was on etizolam for a several years, then I found an amazing psychiatrist who would work with me to do a gradual diazepam taper-a university professor and the director of his department in a good hospital. The first two psychiatrists I spoke to at two other hospitals offered an inpatient rapid taper with a high dose phenobarbital drip. I thought they were nuts, as I clearly described my situation-I was juggling three paid positions and a volunteer role while my partner was healing from a fractured spine and his mental health disorders spiralled in to completely unpredictable psychosis, rapidly changing from crippling depression to mania, paranoia, and aggression at any moment. I had just lost my home and best friend, after losing my one secure, part-time staff position due to the effects of my home life, I had a terrible tremor and my nerves were shot. I knew there was no way I’d leave a rapid detox without self medicating, and I wasn’t even aware of how severe the post-acute withdrawal syndrome could be. I knew I required therapy to learn how to live without that anxiolytic, and maybe required other medication to manage my life-long anxiety and major depressive disorders. I was doing alright during/after two diazepam tapers at -1mg/week, 80mg at the start of the first one, with weekly appointments, then biweekly, and eventually monthly when stable. It was quite successful with a great therapist/doctor to help reframe my thoughts and monitor an SSRI & pregabalin. Life went on.
THIS MAN IS TELLING THE STORY OF MILLIONS OF PATIENTS WORLDWIDE, FOR THE PAST 65 YEARS! THIS IS THE UNADULTERATED TRUTH. THE REASON THIS HAS GONE ON FOR SO LONG IS THAT THEY NEEDED MONEY, AND PATIENTS' LIVES, HEALTH, AND FUTURE WERE NOT IMPORTANT TO THESE "PSYCHIATRISTS."
I’m so sad that in America if you get sick you can lose everything, it’s so crazy. But I keep hearing the best country in the world I highly doubt that theory. Also where I live if I were homeless and were found in the gutter needing open heart surgery I would have it done straight away and have to pay zero dollars even for the rehabilitation as well. It’s the same for everyone here. You can choose to have health insurance if can or you can just go through the public system. Good luck to you man I wish you the best.
I almost died in 2018 because of this drug. Now have a destroyed trust with any medical professional ...Extreme PTSD. they know NOTHING about this drug nor do they care. Can relate HEAVILY with this man. I live near the border and the docs here are not good. 😑
I had a similar experience. I will never take a xanny again. When I told the doctor that I was going into withdrawals in between doses , he cut me off. I had to be hospitalized and I could not function. I didn’t sleep and I just wanted it to stop. It took months to recover from that nightmare. Thank you for sharing your story. It helps me to know that I am not alone in the experience. Best advice I got was “ you have to lower your expectations “ .
Those drugs are a nightmare. My rebound anxiety was far worse than the initial anxiety I took them for. Finding a good naturopath or Functional MD is a far more useful, comprehensive approach. Anxiety and mood disorders are a manifestation of something being wrong in the body. You need a Dr that knows how to test for root causes like mold, chemical toxicity, chronic infections, parasites, etc. Psych drugs are just a bandaid to mask symptoms.
Switch to long term benzo if you are tapering Idk enough about valium but I know how to taper Kpin. Do this once a month: Above 1mg - Taper 0.5mg each month until you get to 1mg. 1 to .75 .75 to .5 .5 to .375 .375 to .25 .25 to .125 .125 and then jump I did this with minimal withdrawals that lasted only a couple weeks tops. No w/d today, and I ran out of xanax bars back in 2016 after a 3 bar/day habit was absolute hell so I've been through the ringer and ya, it's bad.
It’s a living hell. What dose were you on, if you don’t mind sharing. Dr Joseph on UA-cam and Ashton manual is what helped. Doctors & pharmacists should be in jail for prescribing benzodiazepines while having no knowledge on how to properly taper. Benzos should only be used for surgeries or diagnostics like mri for claustrophobia. They prescribe them to teenagers for panic attacks, instead of trying talk therapy. All the best in your fight
Psychiatry is a money hungry monster, a system that need lives of all ages to live off of. How sad most of us found out too late the costs of trusting doctors and this system.
Oh my dear....I'm saying a prayer for you right now. In 2018 I almost died coming off that. I'm 61 now & still suffering ...hoping to see a neurologist out of town. Pretty sure it's done significant damage to my brain, all muscles and now have severe vertigo, can't drive anymore, super sensitive to noises, lights, and constant feeling that I'm falling off the earth. Took better part of 2.5 YEARS to feel just semi human. Docs here suck. Lots of gaslighting. If there's a WILL you'll be ok. I have lots of grandkids & my dog & cat. That's what I live for . Weed helped me get thru the worst parts. Now it's my main medicine. REALLY hope you get better. 😢🙏🙌✊️
I’m sorry were you taking them everyday and if so what was your dose? I get 30 1mg tabs every 3 months and I take mine usually once a week in extreme social situations
(CONT.)LUCKY TO BE ABLE TO WALK, WALK DOWN THE STAIRS, OR NOT BE BEDRIDDEN! DON'T EVEN THINK ABOUT DRIVING WHEN YOU CAN'T SEE CLEARLY OR HAVE ANY DEPTH PERCEPTION. BUT YOU HAVE TO EAT SOMETHING, SO YOU DRIVE ANYWAY, OR TRY TO!
while mushrooms and DMT is much safer. I've known many find it much easier to use something like that to reform their thinking into a better more positive outlook and refrain from bad drugs like benzos. It may also make the WD symptoms much more bareable * this message is based on personal recollections from my past (I took them for over 20 years)
I was on ativan, for almost 6 yrs, after my daughter was murdered, I wanted to come off of it, sure I detoxed from ativan, but I was put on a Valium taper that will take over a yr.
Having been there...Xanax is not the answer to any question. Sadly, after getting off it I'm still on another benzo but at least? it doesn't have the short half life that makes Xanax particularly problematic....but I'm still in trouble if I come off the Clonazepam.
AND, ALL OF THIS SUFFERING GOES ON FOR A VERY LONG TIME, AND AFTER A DECADE, YOU THINK, IT MUST BE SOMETHING ELSE GOING ON , SO YOU END UP BEING GIVEN THOSE HORRIBLE, DANGEROUS, CONTROLLED DRUGS AGAIN, AND THEN AFTER A DECADE OF SUFFERING IT STARTS ALL OVER AGAIN. THAT ENCOMPASSES YOUR ENTIRE LIFE.
Valium is the oldest benzodiazepines still being made. The sad thing is is the pharmaceutical industry has known exactly what benzodiazepines can do and still do. Then lack of information is not lacking with the doctors, but the lack of information they shared with the patients about the terrible side effects. That benzodiazepines are only supposed to be taken 4 to 6 weeks MAX while waiting for a longer-term medication to start working. Benzodiazepines on the body are a completely different Monster than any other medication. There is plenty of information out now that you can literally get brain damage just from trying to come off benzodiazepines. But if you stay on them your risk of dementia skyrockets by 80%. So it's a good reason to try to get off of them if possible. It's so terribly sad and distressing.
i was prescribed Xanas by a GP. I was on a HMO insurance and I need his referral to get to a therapist. And he insisted I take anti-depressant and xanax. I told him I was not interested and I wanted the referral...long story short, I ended up in my GP office again, not sure why, and again he insisted I be on antidepressant and xanax. never told me any possible side effects ... it's criminal. I just wanted a therapist to help talk through my life problem... i did not need to be addicted on some drugs...
@@davecat6661 comment- vas tu Dave ? J'ai fait un sale sevrage du Valium en 2023 qui s'est finit en divorce. J'en prenait pourtant à petit dose depuis quelques années et quelques fois par semaines. Je fais du microdosing de champignon depuis un petit moment, avec parfois une grosse dose. Ça remet bien les cases en place. Je te souhaites force et courage. En sachant déjà que tu en as énormément 💪
@@davecat6661 comment vas tu depuis ? J'ai vu un min doc au tu étais dedans pendant mon sale sevrage du Valium. Ça s'est terminé par un divorce car apparement tout était dans ma tête. Pendant un mois je n'avais presque pas dormi. Je te conseille les champignons hallucinogènes. Ça m'a bien remit les cases en places. Je te souhaites force et courage. Même si je sais que tu en as déjá émormément 💪
@@maximebertand-xt5gh salut, écoute je me suis taper un setback monstrueux après le reportage du à une prise de magnésium. 10 mois atomisé tout est revenu. Me suis fais opérer en février car durant mon hospitalisation les mélanges qu’ils m’ont obligé à prendre mon amener à faire deux avc et on m’a dit aussi que c’était dans ma tête… résultat hydrocéphalie et opération , la troisième. Je ne suis pas dans la possibilité de prendre quoi que se soit malheureusement et je survi et me bas de toute mes forces pour obtenir justice
Iv'e been there this year - The doctors do not understand the ramifications of the medicines they provide and the damage they do! they think a taper and coming off is easy and so casual. like you lost absolute everything! 8 months of benzodiazepines, switching tones of other medicines on a mental ward. was a completly normal guy. lost everyone and everything and my mind and my body but it's coming back. I went cold turkey and it was impossible but survived it. you will get there x
*Psychedelic definitely have undeniable benefits to deal with PTSTD,ADDICTION,TRAUMA AND DEPRESSION ETC.The experience gave mw freedom.I was Able to get shrooms,dmt,edibles,lsd etc from this licensed mycologist who ships to my location without hassel*
Some know and care... Most don't because here in the USA, it seems, most are in it for the money or were "educated" by the pharmaceutical reps. When something is being sold as a business... The downsides are understated lest they make the sell...
Did the Xanax do this or did an accident while under the influence cause this? Two very different things. I’ve never known Xanax to break someone’s spine and cause insomnia… in fact xanax is great for sleep. What’s the actual story here, was it a motorcycle accident by any chance? I’m confused.
Hang in there brother. It takes time but you will get better. I thought I had the record for not sleeping straight days. I went 14 days. It was horrible. But the thing is with me I went through it 3 or 4 times. But I'm done now for sure. Jesus Christ helped me through it.
I can no longer function unless I have a bar and when I'm out I honestly don't want to live my entire life is chained to that drug.thanks all to doctors that pushed this on me then takes me off along with others who go to him people crying in his office withdrawing
Not a criticism of your choices, but your stressful job obviously paid you well based on your self report. I learned the hard way that no job is worth my health and sense of wellbeing. If you have to take large doses of medication to survive a job, look for something less stressful.
I have a hard time believing he didn't sleep for 48 days straight, but I am willing to believe he had very low quality or broken sleep during that time frame which is still pretty awful to experience. I am a bit confused because Xanax is often prescribed to help with extreme anxiety issues and I think Valium is also prescribed for similar reasons. I suppose it could have had the opposite effect on him, but if I were in his position, I probably would have notified the doctors immediately. Usually, if it is causing that many issues, doctors tend to pull you off the meds immediately or swap them for something else. It is possible that he experienced these things once they pulled him off of the medication as well though depending on how long he was prescribed it along with how quickly he was pulled off of it. I'm curious to know more about what happened and how it happened.
This is awful I was on Xanax then my doctor changed me over to Valium and we lowered the dose over a few years to 15 mg Valium a day. This poor guys story could be my story and I guess still could be these meds are so dangerous
There are 10% of benzo users that have to go through extremely painful wd like him. And another 10% of that 10% will experience a protracted wd. It's been studied by professor Heather Ashton from UK. She passed away few years ago.
I have not been sleeping for over 2 years from 2 weeks of Clonazepam use because I went to a freaking audiologist to talk about tinnitus therapy and stress and I was in cortisone withdrawal with 30 symptoms and a doctor that refused to give me sick leave for a concussion
If you couldn't sleep at all,you wouldn't even make it to 48 days before your organs shut down,followed by a coma and then most certainly death,all of that would happen by day 30 of zero sleep,best case scenario,you would survive but be completely brain dead for the rest of your life,which in a sense neither outcome is good
I'm sorry but you can't just blame all this on benzos that's not how it works, your still responsible for your actions regardless of what YOU put in your body.
It is the literal only med in my case I did not read the pamflet of before taking. I had a concussion and my parents and doctor made decisions for me. It ruined my life. I went to therapy. Not to a psychiatrist.
They add me 12 other medication in clinic and CT me of everything… one thing I never lie and if you don’t believe me ask my kid that was there. He was 13 years old at the time. If you don’t have any good things to say I’m sorry but keep your mouth shut
I think he meant that going that long would result in death, so he understand what you mean. I suppose you mean that you slept a little bit, just almost an insignificant amount
Crétin, tu rigoles de la souffrance d'un autre être humain ! Et par la même occasion de millions d'êtres humains, j'en fais partie. Si tu craches en l'air tu sais ou ça retombe !
Need to find a way to hold big pharma accountable for this.
@@michaeljlink pretty crazy that there still isn’t a way.. this has been going on for to long! Enough is enough
✔️@@louisgeen765
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True, there are too many who get really bad. Myself included. It makes me so upset that people have their lives ruined due to misinformation about this, SSRI's included.
I’m tapering off Ativan now for 8 months and I’m reducing my dose every 7 Days and it’s hard and the withdrawals that comes from tapering is brutal.
It blows my mind how doctors are so uneducated about withdrawls symptoms from a taper.
Same here! Only in the US. The UK is way ahead of us here. The US even has the Deprescribing book that the UK uses...we got it in Feb 2024, but we, the patients, would need to buy it for them, stupidly. They have such egos, they probably wouldn’t read them anyway! Though it’s true, that they don’t have a lot of time to read it, but they really should. The only time theyre interested, is when they find they can’t get off it. Though we had sent public statements to ASAM about what is needed-now we are waiting to see what they do. Pharma must be making trillions, if not quadrillions from people‘s suffering! There is a law suit against another drug company recently. It is a class action law suit. I just heard about it 6 hrs ago.
Yeah but so quick to prescribe benzos to you left and right, but they don’t know 💩 about withdrawal. I met ONE doctor back in 2013 when I was going through withdrawal (I wish I could track her down all these years later and ask her for advice). She knew exactly about klonopin and the dangers of it and how hard it was to come off it. At the time I was in the ER crying my eyes out because I had ran out of my klonopin three weeks early and the pharmacy and my doctor accused me of either taking it or giving it away to ppl ( come to find out my brother went rummaging through my things while I was at work just started my new position at Allstate (with the grace of God I made it through training those three weeks even though I was back and forth to the ER and in and out of the bathroom vomiting and diarrhea)and took ALL my klonopin. My doctor dismissed me as a patient because she accused me of being an addict.😡) Thst doctor told me I would have a hard time coming off of klonopin and it was harder than heroin to come off of. I wasn’t really listening to her because I was crying. She wanted to know what doctor would have put me on klonopin in the first place. I told her the doctor’s office is actually in this hospital and I gave her her name. I thought she was gonna do something like report her for prescribing me a benzo. But yeah most doctors (except that one doctor I met that time) are clueless about benzo withdrawal. My psychiatrist continues to be combative with me and tells me it is possible to wean off klonopin in one day if you do it under a care of a doctor and a team of nurses. I told her it’s not and I was weaned off in 5 days in June 2022 and I’m still dealing with daily side effects of it non stop since June 18, 2022. She says I’m lying and then asks me what other medication I wanna try.
@@shirleypeterson-rp3tq they are uneducated about health in general. That's why we have a sick society
They have caused it all.
THEY KNOW, AND HAVE KNOWN FOR 65 YEARS.
Some know and care... Most don't because here in the USA, it seems, most are in it for the money or were "educated" by the pharmaceutical reps. When something is being sold as a business... The downsides are understated lest they make the sell...
This is me too. The akathisia alone is enough to make anyone put a g*n to their head, believe me this is too real and the pain is unbearable. I send you all the love from my tiny, shriveled heart and I pray that our brains and bodies heal themselves as quickly and painlessly as possible ♡
😢 dear sister, Jesus died for you, be his bride...kjv WORD OF GOD, HOLY SPIRIT 🙏 ❤️ ♥️ 💙LOVE IS WAITING..YOU HAVE NOT SUFFERED IN VAIN DEAR WOMAN..CALL UPON JESUS, ASK TO KNOW HIM ..HOLY SPIRIT PLEASE REVEAL YOUR LOVE AND GOODNESS THAT MIRACLES FALL UPON HER MIND,BODY AND SOUL, THAT SHE MAY SERVE YOU AND REJOICE IN YOU ALL OF HER DAYS 🕊 🕯 🐑 ❤GLORY TO THE MOST HIGH GOD! HEAVENLY FATHER YOUR GLORY IS PROCLAIMED! 🎶 🎵 SING WEEP REST IN HIS ❤️
It sounds like you have a HUGE ❤ . In spite of all your pain and struggle, you took the time to write this loving comment. Sending you 💓 ❤️ ♥️ across the digital sphere. May you have days of increasing peace, resilience and strength to pull you through!
Much love and support you dear. Hold on
@@Emis_Dad doesn't exist
@@juleslund1515 I won’t say how long it took (and the length of time may have been extended due to cannabis use), but my akithisia is finally gone. I have lingering neuralgia that can be managed with a Tylenol 3 when it comes on, but I never thought it would go away. Everyone kept telling me I’d heal, and I’d tell them I think they’re living in a fantasy world. Whether I’ll heal to the degree I can work again remains to be seen, but that one damn symptom to end all symptoms is finally gone. Apparently it really does go away. Hang in there.
:( So sad. I hope we all heal
Why he got 3 surgeries?
@@San-Vittore-nerazzurraHe had a broken spine because everything got weak when he couldn't move for so long, wasn't able to walk.
This is TRAGIC!!! Personally, the material things are neither nor there, to some degree, but losing your family TOO!!! That's the very worst aspect!!
@@bianchaesson1441 spine surgeries is another medical business............
A lot of people don't require it!
@@bianchaesson1441 "spine surgeries" is another business......
I'm so sorry for your struggles, I hope you can heal 🙏. I understand. Klonopin with me. Stay strong 💪 Thank you Dr.J!
This is true, this stuff happens in varied forms. Many lose jobs money health because you can become so ill that it is a question of survival. Horrendous.
This story alone should put a halt to all benzodiazipines.
Today I read one manufacturer of Clonazepam was on backorder due to high demand😲🤔😳
Next epidemic?
Much worse than the opioid?
In my opinion we’ve been in a covert epidemic for decades. Problem is no one recognizes it which makes the work Dr. Josef, BIC, and others are doing to fight for awareness all the more important.
I dont know aboit worse then the opuod epedsmic. More people dies from opiods. But more pepple are suffering from bemzos tho.
😢 a most heartbreaking reality in this world right now. I thank God that prayer is powerful and effective. It avails much. God is mighty to save. I believe the next thing to come will be miracles one after the other. Deliverance from all epidemics and a complete and total healing. My God, thank you and deliver us from evil! For yours is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever. In Jesus name I pray ❤and stand in agreement with all others. Keep going!! You’re only 15 feet from land. Dont give up, just before the win! God knows. God cares. Be healed🖐️ in Jesus name amen and amen.
@@alisonderrick1067amen
Benzos have been out since the early 80’s
You can build up a tolerance to the medication and it doesn’t work anymore or causes symptoms to be worse or he may have been tapering or cold turkey
We need to stop calling psych drugs 'medications'. They don't cure a "chemical imbalance"; they don't treat a physical illness (it's not "like taking insulin if you have diabetes" - that was another lie). These are drugs, and dangerous ones at that.
It’s me . Thank you so much for sharing my story
That’s my mannn !!!! Thanks to speak 🗣️ for us
Merci pour ton message mon amie 😘
There's so much that he needs to explain bc just based on my experiences I know he's being honest. I'm curious to know the details.
Thank you for your message
I’ve been on klonopin for over 10 years and I don’t have any of these symptoms.
@fonzarellyplay370 I would say you are lucky. Very, very lucky. Or maybe have a body chemistry very different from his or mine.
@davecat6661 You're welcome. Best wishes to you .
@@kimberc813 I’m sorry you are going through all these symptoms. Do you mind if I ask if you were taking it everyday? That might be why I’m not going through the same symptoms. I use mine once a week and only get 30 1mg tabs every 3 months
I am so sorry you’ve gone through this. I talked to so many other people going through the same thing.
Thank you
I do believe him about not sleeping
I never lie
yup ! 9 flipping months! an hr here and there 😢
@@ingridhoadley6857 2 years no sleep after 2 weeks of clonazepam for absolutely no reason whatsoever
@@Jewell55737must've been hell
For 7 years I was in protracted withdrawal/BIND. Hell on earth 🔥🔥
@@AlanMCcormicI'm 4 months and I feel a little better. Just want my brain back
Part of my story, before setback and two other surgeries, post of 31 July 2024:
I remember feeling as though I was being burned alive inside and out for months. I remember feeling like fire ants were stinging me all over my body. I remember my mouth and teeth burning . I remember bugs and worms crawling on and under my skin. I remember losing the ability to talk to walk. I remember not being able to drive anymore . I remember having psychosis . I remember being terrified to go anywhere. I remember crashing anxiety . I remember when I could non stop shaking for 6 months 12/14 h a day. I remember hugging my self crying out all night long begging someone to help me . I remember my kid crying to see me in so much pain. I remember always saying please help me and no one could. I remember being in a different dimension than the rest of the world. I remember laying in a bed for months . I remember than my legs huts so much that I wanted to be amputated. I remember losing my job. I remember losing my wife for someone else , lying to me all day long for months.i remember pushing my self to the shower to stop burning . I remember that I didn’t sleep for 8 weeks in a row. I remember wanted to die asking to die everyday. I remember losing body fonctions . I remember being in hospital almost four days a week asking for help in panic attacks for months . I remember crying on the phone with all my friends. I remember not be able to leave my room and being agoraphobic. I remember working with sides effets that I don’t wish to my worst ennemi. I remember tapering for four years. I remember being alone in the dark on the 31.12 shaking crying with body spasms thinking that I will die alone ...
I’m now 7 months off that shit prescribed by my doctor just for an heart pain . I still have a lot of issues, head pressure mainly. I slowly recover all my functions . Soon I will have my life back an be stronger than ever... l hope
I'm suffering the same thing. Scared out my mind. I'm on month 4 today and it's improving we got this stay strong
@@adamlee2310 yeah sure . 4years off here and 1year and half post setback keep going mate
Your doctor is a retard and needs to re-do his doctorate,benzodiazepines are typically prescribed for anxiety&panic disorders and usually for a short period 2-4 weeks,unless your doctor and yourself have found benzo's to be beneficial to you they can and most times are prescribed for longer periods only after all other treatment options have failed
@@davecat6661do you have non stop visual hallucinations
Benzo withdrawal is the worst hell i ever went through..indescribable
💯 agree
Not in my experience. I don’t think everyone should suffer for the chemistry of some people. We are not all the same.
@@michelles5439 talking about my own experience
It cost me and my father in the neighborhood of $300,000 thus far. And that's just THE BEGINNING! AND THE SUFFERING IS UNSPEAKABLE AND SHOCKING. AND THE MAIMING!
WHAT??? This is so CRIMINAL!!!
Of what? Why
Did the swap to Valium did that? Or was it a rapid taper? I want the full story. Did he cold turkey Xanax first before getting on Valium?
He said he was on Xanax long-term and switched to valium with the help of forums .
@@sierra734 I get that part but where did the crazy symptoms start from?
@@louisgeen765 It started from tolerance to Xanax. This is an assumption and the same thing that happened to me. I switched to Valium because it’s easier to taper and has a much longer half life.
@@louisgeen765I’m curious as well. I was on etizolam for a several years, then I found an amazing psychiatrist who would work with me to do a gradual diazepam taper-a university professor and the director of his department in a good hospital. The first two psychiatrists I spoke to at two other hospitals offered an inpatient rapid taper with a high dose phenobarbital drip. I thought they were nuts, as I clearly described my situation-I was juggling three paid positions and a volunteer role while my partner was healing from a fractured spine and his mental health disorders spiralled in to completely unpredictable psychosis, rapidly changing from crippling depression to mania, paranoia, and aggression at any moment. I had just lost my home and best friend, after losing my one secure, part-time staff position due to the effects of my home life, I had a terrible tremor and my nerves were shot. I knew there was no way I’d leave a rapid detox without self medicating, and I wasn’t even aware of how severe the post-acute withdrawal syndrome could be. I knew I required therapy to learn how to live without that anxiolytic, and maybe required other medication to manage my life-long anxiety and major depressive disorders. I was doing alright during/after two diazepam tapers at -1mg/week, 80mg at the start of the first one, with weekly appointments, then biweekly, and eventually monthly when stable. It was quite successful with a great therapist/doctor to help reframe my thoughts and monitor an SSRI & pregabalin. Life went on.
Thank you. I’ll do my best to make it
too true
I am so, so sorry 😢😢😢
THIS MAN IS TELLING THE STORY OF MILLIONS OF PATIENTS WORLDWIDE, FOR THE PAST 65 YEARS! THIS IS THE UNADULTERATED TRUTH. THE REASON THIS HAS GONE ON FOR SO LONG IS THAT THEY NEEDED MONEY, AND PATIENTS' LIVES, HEALTH, AND FUTURE WERE NOT IMPORTANT TO THESE "PSYCHIATRISTS."
Thank you
AND DOCTORS!!!
I’m so sad that in America if you get sick you can lose everything, it’s so crazy. But I keep hearing the best country in the world I highly doubt that theory. Also where I live if I were homeless and were found in the gutter needing open heart surgery I would have it done straight away and have to pay zero dollars even for the rehabilitation as well. It’s the same for everyone here. You can choose to have health insurance if can or you can just go through the public system. Good luck to you man I wish you the best.
I'm so sorry.
It’s ok but thank you
God bless you man
I almost died in 2018 because of this drug. Now have a destroyed trust with any medical professional ...Extreme PTSD. they know NOTHING about this drug nor do they care. Can relate HEAVILY with this man. I live near the border and the docs here are not good. 😑
@chifreak6 I, too, have PTSD at the hands of uncaring drs! I have no trust in them!
I had a similar experience. I will never take a xanny again. When I told the doctor that I was going into withdrawals in between doses , he cut me off. I had to be hospitalized and I could not function. I didn’t sleep and I just wanted it to stop. It took months to recover from that nightmare. Thank you for sharing your story. It helps me to know that I am not alone in the experience. Best advice I got was “ you have to lower your expectations “ .
Those drugs are a nightmare. My rebound anxiety was far worse than the initial anxiety I took them for. Finding a good naturopath or Functional MD is a far more useful, comprehensive approach. Anxiety and mood disorders are a manifestation of something being wrong in the body. You need a Dr that knows how to test for root causes like mold, chemical toxicity, chronic infections, parasites, etc. Psych drugs are just a bandaid to mask symptoms.
Switch to long term benzo if you are tapering Idk enough about valium but I know how to taper Kpin. Do this once a month:
Above 1mg - Taper 0.5mg each month until you get to 1mg.
1 to .75
.75 to .5
.5 to .375
.375 to .25
.25 to .125
.125 and then jump
I did this with minimal withdrawals that lasted only a couple weeks tops. No w/d today, and I ran out of xanax bars back in 2016 after a 3 bar/day habit was absolute hell so I've been through the ringer and ya, it's bad.
The Drs who prescribe them will be the last to figure out how harmful these drugs are.
THEY KNOW. THEY HAVE KNOWN FOR 60 YEARS. THEY KNOW ALL OF THIS.
I am so sorry. I am praying for you 🙏🏽🤍
Hero!!!
It’s a living hell. What dose were you on, if you don’t mind sharing. Dr Joseph on UA-cam and Ashton manual is what helped. Doctors & pharmacists should be in jail for prescribing benzodiazepines while having no knowledge on how to properly taper. Benzos should only be used for surgeries or diagnostics like mri for claustrophobia. They prescribe them to teenagers for panic attacks, instead of trying talk therapy. All the best in your fight
Psychiatry is a money hungry monster, a system that need lives of all ages to live off of. How sad most of us found out too late the costs of trusting doctors and this system.
Im in Klonopin WD my entire upper respiratory and gastro system is in turmoil
Oh my dear....I'm saying a prayer for you right now. In 2018 I almost died coming off that. I'm 61 now & still suffering ...hoping to see a neurologist out of town. Pretty sure it's done significant damage to my brain, all muscles and now have severe vertigo, can't drive anymore, super sensitive to noises, lights, and constant feeling that I'm falling off the earth. Took better part of 2.5 YEARS to feel just semi human. Docs here suck. Lots of gaslighting. If there's a WILL you'll be ok. I have lots of grandkids & my dog & cat. That's what I live for . Weed helped me get thru the worst parts. Now it's my main medicine. REALLY hope you get better. 😢🙏🙌✊️
@@chifreak6 thank you
I'm pretty sure I'm injured by this
@@lissa756 hang in there 🫂✊️🙏
I’m sorry were you taking them everyday and if so what was your dose? I get 30 1mg tabs every 3 months and I take mine usually once a week in extreme social situations
@@fonzarellyplay370 34 years Started at 1 mg and they kept increasing the dose ... ended up at 5 mgs a day for 10 years and tapering the last 8 years
(CONT.)LUCKY TO BE ABLE TO WALK, WALK DOWN THE STAIRS, OR NOT BE BEDRIDDEN! DON'T EVEN THINK ABOUT DRIVING WHEN YOU CAN'T SEE CLEARLY OR HAVE ANY DEPTH PERCEPTION. BUT YOU HAVE TO EAT SOMETHING, SO YOU DRIVE ANYWAY, OR TRY TO!
What a nightmare!!!
while mushrooms and DMT is much safer. I've known many find it much easier to use something like that to reform their thinking into a better more positive outlook and refrain from bad drugs like benzos. It may also make the WD symptoms much more bareable
* this message is based on personal recollections from my past (I took them for over 20 years)
May god bless 🙌 you and heal you and your life again.
Doctors gavenit to my mother also for chronic pain. Big mistake.
I was on ativan, for almost 6 yrs, after my daughter was murdered, I wanted to come off of it, sure I detoxed from ativan, but I was put on a Valium taper that will take over a yr.
Having been there...Xanax is not the answer to any question. Sadly, after getting off it I'm still on another benzo but at least? it doesn't have the short half life that makes Xanax particularly problematic....but I'm still in trouble if I come off the Clonazepam.
AND, ALL OF THIS SUFFERING GOES ON FOR A VERY LONG TIME, AND AFTER A DECADE, YOU THINK, IT MUST BE SOMETHING ELSE GOING ON , SO YOU END UP BEING GIVEN THOSE HORRIBLE, DANGEROUS, CONTROLLED DRUGS AGAIN, AND THEN AFTER A DECADE OF SUFFERING IT STARTS ALL OVER AGAIN. THAT ENCOMPASSES YOUR ENTIRE LIFE.
Why did they perscribe them to you again?
Valium is the oldest benzodiazepines still being made. The sad thing is is the pharmaceutical industry has known exactly what benzodiazepines can do and still do. Then lack of information is not lacking with the doctors, but the lack of information they shared with the patients about the terrible side effects. That benzodiazepines are only supposed to be taken 4 to 6 weeks MAX while waiting for a longer-term medication to start working. Benzodiazepines on the body are a completely different Monster than any other medication. There is plenty of information out now that you can literally get brain damage just from trying to come off benzodiazepines. But if you stay on them your risk of dementia skyrockets by 80%. So it's a good reason to try to get off of them if possible. It's so terribly sad and distressing.
i was prescribed Xanas by a GP. I was on a HMO insurance and I need his referral to get to a therapist. And he insisted I take anti-depressant and xanax. I told him I was not interested and I wanted the referral...long story short, I ended up in my GP office again, not sure why, and again he insisted I be on antidepressant and xanax. never told me any possible side effects ... it's criminal. I just wanted a therapist to help talk through my life problem... i did not need to be addicted on some drugs...
Perscribing xanax for work related stress is insane. That means you work too much. Thats like perscribing sleeping pills for drinking too much coffey.
I know the story of that guy. It's horrible. Will you do an Interview?
I hope I’ll make it. This is me in the video
Merci
@@davecat6661 comment- vas tu Dave ? J'ai fait un sale sevrage du Valium en 2023 qui s'est finit en divorce. J'en prenait pourtant à petit dose depuis quelques années et quelques fois par semaines. Je fais du microdosing de champignon depuis un petit moment, avec parfois une grosse dose. Ça remet bien les cases en place. Je te souhaites force et courage. En sachant déjà que tu en as énormément 💪
@@davecat6661 comment vas tu depuis ? J'ai vu un min doc au tu étais dedans pendant mon sale sevrage du Valium. Ça s'est terminé par un divorce car apparement tout était dans ma tête. Pendant un mois je n'avais presque pas dormi. Je te conseille les champignons hallucinogènes. Ça m'a bien remit les cases en places. Je te souhaites force et courage. Même si je sais que tu en as déjá émormément 💪
@@maximebertand-xt5gh salut, écoute je me suis taper un setback monstrueux après le reportage du à une prise de magnésium. 10 mois atomisé tout est revenu. Me suis fais opérer en février car durant mon hospitalisation les mélanges qu’ils m’ont obligé à prendre mon amener à faire deux avc et on m’a dit aussi que c’était dans ma tête… résultat hydrocéphalie et opération , la troisième. Je ne suis pas dans la possibilité de prendre quoi que se soit malheureusement et je survi et me bas de toute mes forces pour obtenir justice
I wonder if alcohol worsens the side effects of these medications.
Thapa, u can discuss with me. What do u mean by side effects? Can you elaborate a bit? I take 2 mg Clonazepam daily. Alcohol, sometimes.
Sounds exactly like my story.
Iv'e been there this year - The doctors do not understand the ramifications of the medicines they provide and the damage they do! they think a taper and coming off is easy and so casual. like you lost absolute everything! 8 months of benzodiazepines, switching tones of other medicines on a mental ward. was a completly normal guy. lost everyone and everything and my mind and my body but it's coming back. I went cold turkey and it was impossible but survived it. you will get there x
*Psychedelic definitely have undeniable benefits to deal with PTSTD,ADDICTION,TRAUMA AND DEPRESSION ETC.The experience gave mw freedom.I was Able to get shrooms,dmt,edibles,lsd etc from this licensed mycologist who ships to my location without hassel*
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@Fawlshroom ¿¿¿
Xanax is so dangerous.
Some know and care... Most don't because here in the USA, it seems, most are in it for the money or were "educated" by the pharmaceutical reps. When something is being sold as a business... The downsides are understated lest they make the sell...
Did the Xanax do this or did an accident while under the influence cause this? Two very different things. I’ve never known Xanax to break someone’s spine and cause insomnia… in fact xanax is great for sleep. What’s the actual story here, was it a motorcycle accident by any chance? I’m confused.
How much were you taking??? 😮
Hang in there brother. It takes time but you will get better. I thought I had the record for not sleeping straight days. I went 14 days. It was horrible. But the thing is with me I went through it 3 or 4 times. But I'm done now for sure. Jesus Christ helped me through it.
I can no longer function unless I have a bar and when I'm out I honestly don't want to live my entire life is chained to that drug.thanks all to doctors that pushed this on me then takes me off along with others who go to him people crying in his office withdrawing
I was on the highest dose of Klonopin and Xanax and I literally thought something was wrong with me
Yes WE ALL DESERVE MAL PRACTICE 💰💰💰💰💰💰I LOST EVERYTHING TOO!!!!!
Is there a lengthy vid on him?
Not a criticism of your choices, but your stressful job obviously paid you well based on your self report. I learned the hard way that no job is worth my health and sense of wellbeing. If you have to take large doses of medication to survive a job, look for something less stressful.
I asked for a psychologist and sick leave. My doctor and therapists all pushed me meds anyway to numb me down
You’re absolutely right. But we are always more intelligent afterwards. This is me in the post
@@davecat6661 true, true. Like I said, I learned the HARD way.
@@xy-qy2yg happened to me as well. Your story will help others so thank you!
@@jeffkoe310sure man, unfortunately
I have a hard time believing he didn't sleep for 48 days straight, but I am willing to believe he had very low quality or broken sleep during that time frame which is still pretty awful to experience.
I am a bit confused because Xanax is often prescribed to help with extreme anxiety issues and I think Valium is also prescribed for similar reasons. I suppose it could have had the opposite effect on him, but if I were in his position, I probably would have notified the doctors immediately. Usually, if it is causing that many issues, doctors tend to pull you off the meds immediately or swap them for something else. It is possible that he experienced these things once they pulled him off of the medication as well though depending on how long he was prescribed it along with how quickly he was pulled off of it.
I'm curious to know more about what happened and how it happened.
This is awful I was on Xanax then my doctor changed me over to Valium and we lowered the dose over a few years to 15 mg Valium a day. This poor guys story could be my story and I guess still could be these meds are so dangerous
There are 10% of benzo users that have to go through extremely painful wd like him. And another 10% of that 10% will experience a protracted wd. It's been studied by professor Heather Ashton from UK. She passed away few years ago.
I have not been sleeping for over 2 years from 2 weeks of Clonazepam use because I went to a freaking audiologist to talk about tinnitus therapy and stress and I was in cortisone withdrawal with 30 symptoms and a doctor that refused to give me sick leave for a concussion
@@xy-qy2ygno sleep for over 2 years. Omg
Yeah and I slept fine before these poisons. Just dumb audiologist telling me to take it.@@fonzarellyplay370
Anti deppresants and Anti Psychotics much worse than Benzos.
Akathisia is hell regardless of which drug caused it
So sad. So sorry for you. Look for a holistic doctor.
I spend 5 weeks at detox but since that benzo not sticking to me anymore
I was up for 8 days bc of Xanax
So I'm not alone tent life now .
So sorry.
💯😭🙏🏼
Xanax destroyed me too a horrible drug😢
Holy fuck
If you couldn't sleep at all,you wouldn't even make it to 48 days before your organs shut down,followed by a coma and then most certainly death,all of that would happen by day 30 of zero sleep,best case scenario,you would survive but be completely brain dead for the rest of your life,which in a sense neither outcome is good
That's what I'm going through now
I have been taking Xanax for 9 years 4mg..I have to go one day without tonight I'm scared
Was it Xanax or Valium that destroyed his life? Full story not disclosed in these shorts!
❤ so sorry idk what to say but its a crime and people are paying with their lives .
How long were you in xanax ?
@@davecat6661 ive been on it 27 now its an issue i cant get off it 😢
@@davecat6661im praying for us both ❤
Im still on it - 27 years im 55 .
4 years in total
Wow. Poor guy
and here I am still using Xanax recreationally..
Doctors should know better. But you have to ween yourself off it very slow. It can take 2 years or more to get back to normal.
Come on man , you can build it back up again.
Im into it 💪🏻
But I have a brain damage doing my best
@@davecat6661 is this you in the video ?
Yes
@@GabbiPhoebe yes
Y’all abuse it pop 10
sounds like you should have just kept taking them dawg
Should have stayed home.
I'm sorry but you can't just blame all this on benzos that's not how it works, your still responsible for your actions regardless of what YOU put in your body.
Smoke Marijuana, no side effects
Maybe it's a lesson to educate yourself about medications before you consume them.
It is the literal only med in my case I did not read the pamflet of before taking. I had a concussion and my parents and doctor made decisions for me. It ruined my life. I went to therapy. Not to a psychiatrist.
No sleep for 48 days straight? 😅 If you're going to tell lies at least make them a tiny bit credible.
They add me 12 other medication in clinic and CT me of everything… one thing I never lie and if you don’t believe me ask my kid that was there. He was 13 years old at the time. If you don’t have any good things to say I’m sorry but keep your mouth shut
I think he meant that going that long would result in death, so he understand what you mean.
I suppose you mean that you slept a little bit, just almost an insignificant amount
@@davecat6661im.also bedridden..u lie in your bed for 3 years straight? do u have visual and auditory hallucinations?
Crétin, tu rigoles de la souffrance d'un autre être humain ! Et par la même occasion de millions d'êtres humains, j'en fais partie.
Si tu craches en l'air tu sais ou ça retombe !
I'm so sorry.