Just wanted to share my story here in case anyone is recovering from or knows anyone recovering from Benzo damage. Almost 3 years out and I still have issues from taking Valium and X**** as prescribed. I suspect that after the pandemic, and benzos being prescribed at an alarming rate we are in for something that will make the opoid crisis look like a walk in the park.

feel like this thread deserves a bump even tho i have no input on this

Benzos are evil

Benzo addiction has really messed up the prescription process for people who actually use as needed.

Appreciate it man. Yea if I had no relative experience with this it would be difficult for me to understand what's brewing under the surface. The reality is by and large modern medicine is treating this like its addiction and withdrawal when that's not what it is at all. It's more akin nervous system injuries on par with strokes and conditions like MS. People in all spectrums of society are having their lives completely ruined by the harm these medications cause. A lot of times it's someone going in for something simple like a sleep issue and then after using as prescribed for 2 months they have 5 years of extensive nervous damage.

@Googootz

Thanks fam. Check dm's

very sorry to hear you went thru this, no doctor should EVER be prescribing benzos to someone with alcohol problems

i took klonopin for a few months in like 2016, i was younger and not a fan of pills which is a blessing, had friends literally die taking d**** like this, i personally wasnt interested i was more into psychs (a sign of wisdom for a kid like me who could easily have slipped into opiate or benzo addiction)

benzos are a trap. theyre a f***ing dark dark trap. so lucky my doctor was nice enough to tell me straight up "you cant take these forever, i need to take u off these cus they will do u wrong in the future"

best wishes to u fam

part of the problem here is that medical science ignores and is ignorant to many real aspects of human health

these d**** cause physiological and anatomical changes that certain humans arent ready for. They take no blame for the horrific problems these d**** cause because they have plausible deniability, they can just say "oh we didnt know that would happen" or worse "its not our fault" or the worst of all "theyre making it up its not real"

This is where society fails us and we must trust our own judgement. this is why people dont trust vaccines or even take chemo. Doctors have to be more transparent about what they can and cant address instead of just lying saying everything will be fine. They need to also have some stake in our health getting better, because if a doctor f***s u up u cant do s*** but find a different one, some financial bonus for actually treating the root illness might be in order, idk

you got people who uncontrollably twitch for the rest of their lifes just tryna treat depression, people like OP who cant live normal lives because they took a prescribed medication, s*** even people like me who just never rly got good results from taking 12 different pills, someone should be paying for this human experimentation because thats what this is

struggled through this very difficult and I still have side effects 6 years later. i was deep into addiction of X**** i withdrawaled for a whole year and that’s with tapering. fainted a few times and s***. happy you’re out that hell hole tho but I will till you it will take quite a while if you’re even able to recover back

RC Benzo's are crazy

Clonazolam literally is an instant blackout machine at 0.25 mg

medical academia dances to the rhythm of big pharma

Yes it's ridiculous tbh

Man I bought a 100 tabs of a rc benzo just because I liked klonopin and I took like 4 tabs before throwing the rest out. Every time I took it I blacked out completely

@Lystra Thanks for taking the time to respond. I think one of the more interesting things about how people find their way into Benzo damage is the different paths people take getting there. Most of the time it's people thinking that it's people with addictions that end up in this predicament. That's not the case at all from what I've seen. By and large most people I've spoken to across the web were regular people looking for relief from anxiety, sleep issues, and minor issues that could have been resolved with mindfulness, meditation, and proper sleep hygiene.

My situation is somewhat peculiar. I truly do think this was the medicine my soul needed. Even though I was never into abusing benzos, I did abuse alcohol, Molly, and coke over the course of 10 years. Even though I had been sober before I decided to reintroduce benzos to try and help with sleep, I think there was still a part of me in the back of my mind that may have went back to using recreational d****. This experience has completely flushed that out of my system. So badly do I yearn just to wake up after a normal night of sleep and feel regular. People don't understand what it does to the mind and spirit when you don't sleep well for 3 years and there's nothing you can really do about it but wait it out.

On the positive side, this experience has turned me into practically a monk. I'm vegan, meditate, do yoga daily, and have very much submitted to a lifestyle of health and wellness. Although it may take some time, and unfortunately more than I want, I know I will completely heal one day.

Everything you said about big medicine was right any exact. I haven't been to to the doctor once since I got off the meds and everything I've learned has come on my own accord. I could barely read when this first started and I was struggling to put sentences together to make sense of what I was going through. I would often have to read things over and over so I could comprehend basic concepts.

Sorry to hear you had to go through this as well. Wishing you healing and we'll both be good one day.

Also gonna do a shameless plug. I made a song documenting my experience regarding this.

There’s also doctors that just don’t know s*** about them too. I was prescribed them at 19 after other non narcotic d**** wouldn’t work for me. My doctor told me he has patients that take 6mg of alprazolam a day and function just fine. No mention of the withdrawals or anything if you quit cold Turkey. I went thru a bad phase with them but luckily never had seizures or anything like that.

Np man, yea I think it's just absurd that these companies get away with these things, it's like so in our face but most people don't want to blame the people in command. It's almost like we are brainwashed to thinking that everything is the individuals fault and corporations can do no wrong. And the lack of culpability is just wrong. The international world community has yet to find even decent solutions to corporate corruption. Maybe as the world slowly drifts from d***riding America religiously things will change(China ain't finna help tho)

I fortunately had a doctor who was aware of the dangers of benzos and had me at a reasonable regiment. Also was lucky to just instinctively avoid pills because I knew they were trouble.

Benzo's are the devil

Had friends that took years to recover from the addiction. Used to be prescribed easy as hell too

Yeah its a tricky needle to thread, hard to tell when helping me turns into hurting me. And I’m on the lowest dose possible

yeah went thru this a few years ago with X****, the withdrawal was no f***ing joke

Yeah. It's poor education overall surrounding this d***.

Thankfully haven’t experienced this but s/o this thread for opening the discussion

congrats on getting off them

i really struggle with benzo abuse at times, and when i don't i feel i inevitabaly fall back in the pattern

but im getting better

how fast did you taper down and from what dose @op

They went from one extreme of giving anyone a prescription to now the extreme of this yeat that literally no one gets it even if youre suggested and with a specialist I hate the medical fda