TrialbyLyme- Thanks for the sympathy. Yes, it's a living nightmare. I just don't see any way out of this. She tells us everyday that she can't take it anymore....
Thanks Girlie. Well, if we actually survive long enough to where we are about to run out of pills, we'll have to figure that out. But, honestly, right now, I just don't see us even getting that far....
Trav-thanks for the suggestions. we'll look into Ashwagandha too Girlie- We're at 1/16 of the.5 pill, so we're really close to getting her off. We just can't taper any further until things settle...
Trav- Thanks for the support. Honestly, at this point, my sister is no longer cooperative with anything (she was completely compliant and cooperative until the psychotropic poisons), so there's no...
Hi- Wish I had something positive to say, but unfortunately things are absolutely horrible. We tried the split dose for a week and it did absolutely nothing to change the extreme emotional upset from...
Ugh, well, we managed to get it in, finally. Thanks for the support. We're just trying to take this day by day. Honestly, a number of people on the benzo forum developed agoraphobia, which is easy to...
Ugh, just need to vent. After months and month of getting a set amount of food and water in, my sister is back to food/water refusal/resistance. Pretty sure this is all b/c of a bathroom phobia...
thank you so much Girlie. I've been watching lots of YTs this morning--its helped to hear from others going through this. And everyone seems to have the same take--stay away from the doctors, they...
Jenny-thanks for the suggestion, we'll see what's around. Girlie- Was just on the BB forum, water titration section, and apparently Ativan is not water soluble (I swear, every step of the way, things...
Girlie --thanks so much for the titration info. just found a post on it over at BB forum, will read up tomorrow and see it we can do it that way well, for months and months we were getting...
yes Girlie, that's what we've concluded as well. this is clearly too much for her Thanks for mentioning the water titration. I'm nervous about that, but will look into it more. We've been trying to...
She doesn't understand at all. We have tried to tell her about the bad drug the doctor gave her, how it affected her brain, causes the depression, scared feelings, angry feelings. But we don't hint...
Well, manage to get two sets of split doses, so one for tonight into tomorrow, then one for the next night and day. If this doesn't help, I don't know what else to do, I honestly don't know what...
Girlie- thanks, yes aware of that, but there's no doctor working with us. LLMD abandoned us. everyone else we called said go back to prescribing doctor. Called benzo wise doctor up in north NJ and...
Thank you all. I honestly don't know what to do anymore. I guess I'll check on benzobuddies more--we are terrified to take her off--she's already unmanageable now. We were thinking that if we keep...
Girlie-- You father's story is all anyone needs to know, as far as how completely incompetent and dangerous these doctors are. They claim to be experts on withdrawal, but they know nothing (other...
Huddie--thanks so much for the support. I hope you are right that it's still possible for her to recover and heal from this. I just hope we can get her through. Also, just got a response at...
hi Summer Thanks so much for your response. Yeah, I haven't gotten as much support from that site, not sure why, perhaps just b/c there's not much a person can do other than suffer through. We don't...
Thanks so much for the help. Ordered the alcohol free motherwort. Does anyone know if passion flower is the same is Pasque flower? Rough night last night, but we survived. At this point, we are just...
okay, thanks. we'll get on that asap...
jenny -thank so much, we actually have motherwort on hand, but the problem is that the tinctures are in alcohol and that can disrupt the withdrawal process (even if it's a tiny bit, I'm scared b/c we...
yeah, marijuana would be great but not legal here, I have no way of getting it. I'll look into Kava kava-forgot about that one and we actually have some on hand. well, first step is to divide doses,...
Also, years ago, my sister was diagnosed w/a seizure disorder (just a couple of small ones), we later figured out that it was possibly due to nutritional deficiency (Down syndrome has weird...
Girlie- Yes, my father took Gabapentin for neuropathy, now just for sleep, takes it hit or miss, never seems to have an effect when he stops, so it doesn't seem to have the addictive quality of some...
Thanks to all for your support. She's really amped up right now, so I'll just respond as I have time. Girlie- yes, I also heard Ativan is one of the worst to get off of from the social worker at the...
Dave- I think someone here (deejavu?) did their at home protocol. Maybe Heathersdad said Heather went there and got good results Right now my sister is sort of doing their program at home. We just...
Well, benedryl isn't working to calm her, vistaril didn't work last night. I'm starting to think we are going to have to do what we didn't want to do, which is add more psychotropic drugs to the mix...
Traveler- Honestly, we've tried to tell her that she can get better and back to her life, but she no longer believes us. Thanks for all your thoughts on titration--we appreciate all suggestions and...
Jenny-- Thanks so much for all of the suggestions. We are honestly scrambling to come up with other options-we are desperate to avoid the hospital and more psychotropic drugs (she has absolutely no...
Hey Jenny - Thanks so much for your support and suggestions. I have to run--rough night, I'll finish responding tomorrow. And thanks again to all here. This has been the most terrifying experience of...
Girlie- yes, we are at 1/16 of the .5 pill That's only an approximation- we had to do the cuts ourselves. It's the best we could do w/out anyone helping us. And as we have been going forward in time,...
Girlie- OMG, I'm so sorry, amidst all that I have been going through w/my sister, it suddenly hit me this morning, that although you posted on how your dad went through this, I didn't know the...
Tick--Thank you so much for support! Sorry to hear you had a family member go through this too. I pray my sister can make it. But when I read the horror stories over at benzobuddies, I get really...
Tick- Withdrawal is from Ativan--my sister is having a terrible time with it. It was prescribed to her after she became severely depressed on Trazodone (wanted to die, resisted food/drink) and had to...
Thank you so much Traveler. Honestly, throughout this nightmare, the only help we have gotten has been from these forums--people we have never met. I'm eternally grateful to everyone here. I've never...
fwiw, I think high dose inositol is supposed to help with panic...
Thanks so much Traveler. I'm so sorry for all of the posts...
Girlie and Persiankitty- thanks so much for the support. Our last hope is getting Vistaril--the withdrawal has created physical and emotional symptoms that are simply no longer bearable for my...
Please keep praying for us. Things have not settled down. My sister's depression and anxiety from the withdrawal have reached unbearable levels. She's in so much pain, she's absolutely desperate,...
Also, I'm writing up a sequence of events- everything we've been through--so that it's clear that my sister was coping remarkably well w/Lyme until we got involved with the drugs. Also, I was really...
trav- yes, I agree--I got that feeling when dealing w/the people on the psych unit (I've never been treated with such hostility in my life). Thankfully, we do have the tests to prove the Lyme. I'm...
Peteza- THANK YOU so much for you info on the legal side of things. We will look into that. Also, I've been printing out tons of info to support our case that the Ativan has done this to her. Looks...
Okay, little back-tracking, turns out that wonderful guy my mother talked with was NOT a psychiatrist (makes sense now), but he did give her a phone number, so we'll still contact him and see if he...
Jenny- thank you so much. I hold onto that story to give us hope. Your sister made it out, so hopefully we can too--but it's terrifying. And I can relate to you when you say the stress gave you PTSD....
THANK YOU so much to everyone here. Honestly, you are the only ones who have helped us throughout this nightmare. Believe it or not, I actually have GOOD news!! Maybe all those prayers helped! This...
Girlie--Thanks again for your support. It helps to hear from someone who has been through this. I'm beyond disgusted with psychiatry and the way we were treated--talk about turn everything into a...
Jenny- yes, we're just having to go so slow b/c she just doesn't adjust--I really think the DS has something to do w/it. We can tell it's the w/drawal b/c each dose down, her emotionality increases,...
Thank you all so much for the support. I posted also over at benzobuddies, but didn't really hear back, and I'm absolutely desperate to figure out what to do about them keeping her there and not...
Thank you Traveler. Please pray for us. I'm probably going to be up all night printing out info on the horrors of these drugs. I think my main points will be that 1. my sister is genetically...
I think our only hope is this special needs/DDD evaluation--we have to make our case that there is NO DOUBT this is from the drug. Ugh!! I'm so freaking outraged!! Also, we let my sister bring her CD...