Re: Re: 's update

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, did you know that in all the literature about withdrawal from

benzodiazepines, that it is not the amt of drug that has been taken

regularly, it is the regularity and length of time that it was taken? I was

on Xanax on and off, just 1/4 mg, I think the tiniest dose available, for

about 2 or 3 yrs. I wasn't even taking it every day or night, just a few

times a week, but I soon learned what the " little and often " phenomenon was,

when it comes to these innocent looking, so-called mild tranquilizers. I

KNOW that I was addicted to them, as I had every single muscle ache and pain

known to mankind for MONTHS after I completely quit taking them. And those

weird palps. Except for sleep problems, I was feeling very well at that

time, but I think that my metabolism was just beginning to slow down some

because the reason I quit them was that I noticed that it felt like my heart

was beating too slow when I woke from sleep. Even after that, for another

few months, I still tossed and turned, but still seemed basically healthy to

myself, anyway. I used to be very obsessive, and I don't mean in a small

way, in very big ways, but I had to learn to let things go OR maybe there

have been enough changes in my brain chemistry that I may be more able to

let go of many things. I KNOW that bipolar disorder is strongly connected

to thyroid disease, and I also suspect it's very connected to other brain

chemistry problems like OCD and even paranoia, in some cases. There's just

too much documentation and experiences with thousands of people that do a

dance all around these very related issues. I STILL have trouble, at

times, being in both crowded and more intimately crowded places, and I'm

very sure that it has been the adrenal and thyroid issues causing this, as I

used to be very outgoing and never knew a stranger that I couldn't strike up

a conversation with. Up until several months ago, I would literally freeze

up and almost hyperventilate, when I would visit the little cafe that I had

been visiting with friends for 10 yrs before all this fun stuff started with

the thyroid. Of couse, some of it was the fact that I didn't even feel like

sitting up and only felt like laying down all the time, but a lot of it is

just flat brain chemistry changes that are sort of " don't get too close to

me, or I may pass out " sort of thing. My middle daughter was like that from

birth and always felt like everyone was " in her face " , if they were standing

just 5 ft away from her. Even as a baby, she did NOT like to be swaddled

and cuddled in the arms of ANYone, including me. She's still that way

today, but it's better since she started on-------guess what-------thyroid

meds-------a few yrs ago. That's another story with her, but there are so

many thyroidians who have many of these same characteristics, or related

ones, hands down.

Re: 's update

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> Hi ,

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> I don't work around any poison, but I did go thru a MAJOR problem of

> withdrawal from Ativan *similar to Valium* that took many months to

> do last year. The people on the benzo yahoo group were suprised that

> I had such a horrible withdrawal from being on the lowest dose of

> anyone in the group. So you see I am very sensitive to everything.

> And having OCD does not help either.

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