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Nony
Junior Supporter
Posts: 14
Joined: Nov 2015
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11/16/15 3:35 PM
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Thank you.
I was taking it for a year on and off on low doses, .25, .5, only at night for sleeping. But was not consistent; tried falling asleep without it when i was able to (like when had no work the next day). 2 weeks before symptoms started the Xanax wasn't working so i went up to 1.12 mg. Started consistently too according to my therapist's advice (got this from my PCP). Started getting out of body sensation and extreme misery, cognitive impairment, so i went down immediately to .5. The next night before taking had waves of dizziness and shaking, so took .5 again. The next day .25, the next day again .25, and then went off completely.
Worst thing i ever went through.
Unpredictable waves of depersonalization and cognitive dysfunction. Also lower impulse control, no concentration, memory, extreme panic and depression attacks that were chemical because i never had that so bad before.
During that time i overcontacted my therapist, who promptly punished me - gave me a vacation of 2 weeks from therapy - when i needed support desperately. So this abandonment added to my distress.
it is now over 3 weeks since the beginning of this dysregulation. I am feeling much better but still have some times when i feel mindless and a bit depersonalized. Want to know if this is the meds still or me - bec of what I'm going through with my therapist.
Thank you!
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Nony
Junior Supporter
Posts: 14
Joined: Nov 2015
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12/16/15 3:58 PM
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Dr. Price, I am still experiencing severe symptoms - 8 weeks later - symptoms i never had before in my life and only appeared after going up in dose Xanax and then getting off it. My symptoms match all those i found online for Xanax side effects. Cognitive, emotional, and physical - things i never experienced before. Is there a rare possibility of a person's body expressing those symptoms after getting off Xanax, if I am incredibly sensitive? Is there someone who would know I could ask? I am suffering incredibly. I have started taking 300 mg L-Theanine daily and i see a huge improvement in symptoms - both cognitively and emotionally - but am afraid to make these experiments on my own especially because i see i am an unusual case and react to things differently than the norm (in the past I've had extreme reactions to any psychiatric or even sleeping med but never this long). But still having trouble and have no medical professional guiding me (2 doctors do not believe me this is from Xanax, but when i visited them was unable to express my symptoms properly due to withdrawal). Is the L-Theanine safe for me? Will it prolong my withdrawal? What will happen next? What can i expect over the next few months, years? I'm afraid.
Currently having different symptoms daily, sometimes hourly. Having trouble with identity and remembering who i was before withdrawal, trouble seeing past and future and how my actions affect the future, weight loss (had weight loss while on Xanax but now even more, sometimes less urinating than usual, thirstier than usual, less appetite, out of body. Before i started Theanine I had severe anxiety, panic for things that don't make sense and that i never used to panic about. Apathy. Alzheimer-like symptoms; not being able to express myself, trouble giving my location to a car service dispatcher, less inhibition than usual (saying things I'd never say, uncontrollable texting urges even at work where i never do this), physical weakness - hard for me to move, walk, talk. Trouble hearing (every day something else, or every few days something else, completely unpredictable).
What is happening to me? Is this safe? Who do i speak to? Will I get my mind back?
Thank you.
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