Guest guest Posted August 15, 2003 Report Share Posted August 15, 2003 Hello all This is the first time Ive writen to this group, but have been member of various groups, including this one, for 4 years. Irll try to make this short. Am considering putting myself into a clinique specializing in medication related problems. In essance I started with a benzo problem, and to get off that was put on many ad's. The ad,s then became the problem, and to try to stop these I took various substances advised by various groups. Unfortunatly some of these substances damaged me as badly as the drugs I took them to stop. Found myself back in a nut house april of this year. Was there 3 months, and back on ADs, but they hurt me all over again, and still suffing from the alternatives that were taken last december. The deppression/ weakness/sickness are so bad can hardly talk/eat/function at all. Have been advised to go to the only clinique in france that specializes in medication withdrawal. What do you surgest/think? Stopped benzos 2 years ago, and ads a few days ago, but am so ill that cant just do nothing as am loosing weight fast (57kg for 1m76). Thanks for any advise. Want to chat instantly with your online friends? Get the FREE Messenger Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted August 16, 2003 Report Share Posted August 16, 2003 Hello Jason, The inpatient drug treatment programs are almost always a very short taper which with benzos and antidepressants is about equal to a cold turkey solution. The inpatient treatment programs hardly ever go beyond thirty days and the withdrawal is just building a head of steam at that point for these drugs. The withdrawal from benzos can be a year or more. As for the Antideps, it can take a few years for some to right their brain chemicals again. These programs are not designed to get you off safely. They are designed to be very profitable for the hospital or whatever they call their facility. Your welfare is way down on their list of priorities. The only treatment they offer is usually another chemical to help cover the horrible symptoms of withdrawal that these drugs cause. The problem is that the person has just swithched chemicals and is just covering up the damage by suppressing the symptoms, but it does not heal and will reoccur when the person tries to get off that which was used to cover them up. The only real healing takes place when the body is fortified with libral amounts of what it needs to heal. Amino acids to make nuerotransmitters, vitamins to heal, omega lll fatty acids to rebuild myelin, lots of vitamin C to carry away all the stored toxic byproducts of taking this crap, vitamin E to heal, niacin to detox the toxins, and many others not listed. Will these nutrients stop the pain and cover the symptoms of withdrawal or toxic damage? Unfortunately No they will not. Some will lessen the symptoms considerably if taken in large amounts. That is not the answer most people want, so they move from one drug to another, at their doctors urging, hoping to avoid the inevitable symptoms and just get further and further into being sucked into a drug whirlwind nightmare. The doctors will keep prescribing and telling you that they are experts. Maybe experts at bullshitting, but most of them don't have a clue what these drugs do or how to get you off of them. They damage the hell out of people almost at every turn. Basically most are nothing more than licensed drug dealers, whether they are pushing a heart pill or this type of dope. Almost all do nothing more than cover up the symptom and cause further damage. I am sure that you are somewhat familiar with the Ashton manual for tapering off of benzos. Well the same principle holds true for the antideps. It usually has to be a long slow taper to allow the brain to rebalance gradually as it is able to. Read all of the links and read as many of the messages in the archives about these drugs as you can stand and you will be in better shape, knowledge wise, than 99% of the people who try and come off these drugs and probably almost the same amount of doctors. Good luck, Frank , jason adams <jadamsfr2> wrote: > > Hello all > > This is the first time Ive writen to this group, but have been member of various groups, including this one, for 4 years. > > Irll try to make this short. Am considering putting myself into a clinique specializing in medication related problems. In essance I started with a benzo problem, and to get off that was put on many ad's. The ad,s then became the problem, and to try to stop these I took various substances advised by various groups. Unfortunatly some of these substances damaged me as badly as the drugs I took them to stop. Found myself back in a nut house april of this year. Was there 3 months, and back on ADs, but they hurt me all over again, and still suffing from the alternatives that were taken last december. The deppression/ weakness/sickness are so bad can hardly talk/eat/function at all. Have been advised to go to the only clinique in france that specializes in medication withdrawal. What do you surgest/think? > > Stopped benzos 2 years ago, and ads a few days ago, but am so ill that cant just do nothing as am loosing weight fast (57kg for 1m76). > > Thanks for any advise. > > > > > > Want to chat instantly with your online friends? Get the FREE Messenger > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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