DrugBuyers.Com: Long-Term vs Short-Term Benzos

I don't know if my two cents will matter Jazee, but this is my experience.

About three years ago, I was taking Klonopin and abusing every pharmaceutical I could get my hands on. I was a mess! But the benzo abuse was wicked...Klonopin is very long acting. To come off that was awful. I had withdrawl symptoms for at least three months (night sweats, shaking, body tremors) and couldn't stand it any longer and went back to self medicating with short acting Xanax. I had no further problems with benzos until just recently, in October. I had been using Xanax for my anxiety and in higher doses when trying to get off Hydro. I didn't realize I had increased my dose to physical addiction status until I stopped taking it one day just because I was tired of being a slave to my pills. WOW!! I thought I was going to die! The grips of Xanax on my soul were EVIL! I felt like was couldn't get out of my skin quick enough but there was nowhere to go. My insides were trembling but my outside was calm. My brain was racing. There is no good way to describe this. Benzo withdrawal sent me very quickly the hospital for detox...medical detox. I felt like I would go into a seizure at any moment my brain cells just felt that raw. It was scary!!

At any rate, I will NEVER take benzo's again...over my dead body will I ever let that kind of w/d happen to me.

To stop the insanity of this, I had to be on IV meds for three days (buprenex and phenobarbital) and then tapering pills by mouth of phenobarb to shake it. Xanax took only ten day but it was ten days too long for me!!

I don't know if this answers anything for you. I was on both long and short acting benzo's and still had a very similar w/d from both although I remember not being able to tolerate the quick, short and hard sx of Xanax (short) w/d....

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