Posted by Quintal on July 30, 2008, at 10:17:25
In reply to Paradoxical reactions, posted by Quintal on July 29, 2008, at 19:59:33
Goodness! Over ten hours and no more posts on the meds board?! This place is hitting rock bottom. Where's the sense of community gone?
Anyway, I took a zopiclone in the hope of falling asleep, but all it did was give me tinnitus. Also, no bitter metallic taste when taken with temazepam, and the same thing happened when I took it with Lyrica. Curious. So, another night with nearly complete insomnia despite taking two sleeping meds. Today I felt crappy. By dinner time I felt I couldn't go on, so I took another temazepam. Had no effect on anxiety at all, in fact I came close to panic. So I took a carisoprodol. Two hours later I feel slightly better for that, but this is getting ridiculous.
Tonight I'm cracking open a bottle of wine, respiritory collapse or not, I'm going to get some sleep. I'm not really bothered. I don't know what I'm going to say to the pdoc. I might hand him the temazepam back so he knows I'm not just trying to hoard it. What next? Chloral hydrate? Something's wrong here. I shouldn't be this resistant to sedatives, but this is exactly what happened to me with clonazepam - I went through periods where the prescribed dose just didn't work, so I 'had' to take huge doses just to get a therapeutic effect. Hence my history of benzo addiction. Sometimes I think that's all it is - some people just lose the therapeutic effect very quickly and have to raise the dose just to get any effect. This is what predisposes me to benzo addiction. It's not some attempt at getting a cheap party buzz, although it may look like that to some people from a distance. Just wanted to get that off my chest.
Q
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