Posted by moongoo on October 11, 2010, at 6:29:19
In reply to Re: Can this combination work? » Phillipa, posted by Maxime on October 11, 2010, at 2:08:48
I have been on 1mg Ativan 3 times a day for 12 years. How is this worse than other meds people take for their conditions over a long period of time?
What is so terrible with this med that it makes you apparently die early or something as everyone is hyped up about it, oh my gawd, benzo, horrible horrible, but I am severe bipolar/FAD/PD---and this helps.
So am I going to drop dead or something. You guys have me seriously seriously terrified. Is it cancer? Do benzos cause cancer?
Is it like being an alcoholic who dies young of liver cancer or breast cancer or some other cancer?
Am I destined to an early grave because I have taken Seroquel 25-50 mg for 12 years too, and Lithium for a time, and then Lamictal for a time, and Amisulpride 200 mg. (sometimes 100 mg.--top dose of that is 12000, for active psychosis only, maintenance 300-600 mg., for depression--my reason, and it saved me from a terrible IP depression---50-200 mg.)
SO this is it, is it? Organs forever damaged, DNA messed up, I guess. I do have a very healthy diet---6-9 fruit and veg a day, low meat, beans , lots of water---daily exercise of 1-2 hrs---on disability to cut down on stress and its cotisol/adrenal problems---meditate, use mindfulness, journals, art, dancing---am now 54 as of last week and that age is making me feel like I have no chance---trying to be positive, trying to use my training in CBT to contradict negative, distorted thinking----
These anti-benzo posts are scaring me.
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