DrugBuyers.Com: Is this Xanax W/D??

I'm not sure about strokes, but I am certain in the knowledge that benzo w/d can cause seizures. I'm no doc, but i've been 'on' benzos for about 15 years so I have some experience in this area. I'll leave the specifics to the experts, but generally benzos (a drug family xanax is a member of) have anti-seizure properties in them, and if you take them long enough your body slacks off the production of it's own anti-seizure chemicals because you're doing such a fine job with the meds. When you quit, especially the fast-acting benzos like xanax & ativan, your body suddenly has a large lack of anti-seizure chemicals from the benzos, and your body's anti-seizure mechanisms are still on vacation because of your pill intake. This makes for a very dangerous situation. I know someone who came 'this close" to not only killing himself but who knows how many others because of a xanax w/d seizure he had while driving, about 3 days after quitting cold-turkey. It wasn't a low dose he was taking, but it wasn't a huge one either. He had been taking them for years though, probably ranging from 1-5 MG daily, which does have an affect on the severity of w/d too. He was lucky in that when he had his seizure his SUV careened across a major highway, across the street from a school, and slammed into the ice & soda machines at a gas station. Somehow he missed the gas pumps and anything else, but that's not the end. The impact was hard enough that the SUV jumped into reverse, shot back out of the parking lot (missing the pumps again) and ended up slamming into a car on the highway, flipping over the SUV and doing untold damage to the othe vehicle. Fortunately by the grace of whatever, nobody was seriously hurt which is a miracle in itself. To beat it all, the fellow called poison-control the night before, at about 48 hours of cold-turkey, and the fool on the other end of the phone told him that if he'd made it 2 days with no major problems, the danger was over. Fast foreward a day and the the above scene played out. I could tell more horror stories, but I think that will suffice. I know I fear benzo w/d like almost nothing else I know, because I have been through them more than once before the net & before I learned so much about how benzos affect the GABA in your brain and what a malfunction in that area can do. Please be careful folks, and if/when you decide to quit these mad meds, take it sloooooooooooly. I've been thru hydro & oxy w/d and i'll take a double-dose of those before trying to kick benzos cold-turkey.. And THAT is saying something IMO..

L

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