Re: Re: Could this be withdrawal??

October 3, 2003

,

Guess I'm probably addicted to Xanax then. I have been taking 1/2 to 1

mg a night for several years. Only because I'm so afraid an attack will

come in the middle of the night, that I don't want to sleep. Taking this

little pill makes me feel better, almost like one can't come as long as

I take one. I don't take them at any other time, except right before

bed. And they don't make me sleepy anymore, like they did in the

beginning. I guess it's more for my own piece of mind more than

anything else.

There are times I forget to take it and then wake up about an hour after

falling alseep and take it, all in fear of an attack. I have tried not

taking it for 3 nights in a row a few times. But I never slept well

those nights and the pain was much worse. Oh well, I suppose. If thats

the hardest thing I get " hooked " on in my lifetime because of this

dreaded disease, then so be it. The percocet they gave me for taking at

home to control pain makes me very VERY wired so I don't take that

hardly at all. And it doesn't always control all the pain. It's hard

being in pain and being wired at the same time. Wish there was a drug

that really worked for everyone the same way. I'm allergic to most of

the harder drugs available out there, so I have to stick to what works

for my body.

Thanks for the info.

Sandy

Fairifield, California

dcward108 wrote:

> Sandy,

>

> I was given a prescription of Xanax to relax my muscles, due to the

> restlessness I was experiencing from some medications..sort of like

> restless leg syndrome, except it was in my entire body, and she did

> warn me that Xanax is very addictive and not much is needed to

> develop an addiction. I tried one the night I got them, but

> unfortunately, it made the restlessness even worse. Seems I am

> developing a reaction to whatever is in medications that makes one

> drowsy or relaxants...

>

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