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Carbamazepine is also viciously addictive. What I went through to get off it I would not repeat in a million years. And I will never take another benzo for as long as I live.
and realised I'd mistaken carbamazepine for clonazapan. It's clonazapan that took me six weeks of hell to get off: As you said:They told me the opposite
benzo withdrawl is a nightmare from hell.
My neuro upped my lamictal from 200 mg 2xs a day last week to 300 mgs 2xs a day. No titration. He also upped my Topamax the same day by 200mg day. My seizures were starting to break thru. I'd never seen anyone on that high of lamictal before though. Have any of you? I might be wrong.
When you said this, I questioned myself:
and realised I'd mistaken carbamazepine for clonazapan. It's clonazapan that took me six weeks of hell to get off: As you said:
I know that some drugs have physical withdrawal symptoms but, I'm sure you'll agree, they are not nearly as psychologically and physically addictive as rivotril and other benzos. I find that, as long as I wean, I have absolutely no trouble going off meds that aren't known for their propensity for addiction, other than some general ich feelings and drowsiness, which I don't tend to link automatically to the withdrawal as I did with the rivotrol.