Louisa1965
26-01-10, 10:20
Hi All - I am familiar to forums like this,however I have chosen this one for a reason.
I have suffered with anxiety for as long as I can remember and also insomnia. In my early 20's (I'm 45 now!!) I started to use alcohol to help me sleep. Cut a long story short, worse thing I could do and I had to detox which was utter hell.
Then I discovered zopliclone - my GP prescribed it as I was having surgery and guess what - not sleeping! Every month for over 2 years she gave me these tablets telling me they were not addictive -so wrong.
To cut a long story short I ended up taking too much and I am now coming off diazepam (they swapped the zopiclone for diazepam as the latter stays that much longer in the body).
However this is the hardest thing I've had to do. I've joined benzo sites but the people there were just pretty harsh on me to be honest and I read some really miserable stories.
I am hear to try to address my underlying anxiety without the need of medication (and definitely NOT alcohol).
I'm not going to ramble on about my withdrawal otherwise I find I can get consumed with it. Basically I've lost 10 years of my life to anxiety/drugs and I want to be well!! Having read some positive stories on this site I feel this is the best place for me to start.
I'm really glad I found this site. I lost my partner through all this, but for some reason I've managed to keep working all through this which has been hell at times but I'm not giving into this anxiety and I need structure and distraction in my life - as hard as it it. It's made me realise what a strong person I am and hopefully we can share positive ideas and thoughts amongst each other.
Thanks so much for reading my profile.
I have suffered with anxiety for as long as I can remember and also insomnia. In my early 20's (I'm 45 now!!) I started to use alcohol to help me sleep. Cut a long story short, worse thing I could do and I had to detox which was utter hell.
Then I discovered zopliclone - my GP prescribed it as I was having surgery and guess what - not sleeping! Every month for over 2 years she gave me these tablets telling me they were not addictive -so wrong.
To cut a long story short I ended up taking too much and I am now coming off diazepam (they swapped the zopiclone for diazepam as the latter stays that much longer in the body).
However this is the hardest thing I've had to do. I've joined benzo sites but the people there were just pretty harsh on me to be honest and I read some really miserable stories.
I am hear to try to address my underlying anxiety without the need of medication (and definitely NOT alcohol).
I'm not going to ramble on about my withdrawal otherwise I find I can get consumed with it. Basically I've lost 10 years of my life to anxiety/drugs and I want to be well!! Having read some positive stories on this site I feel this is the best place for me to start.
I'm really glad I found this site. I lost my partner through all this, but for some reason I've managed to keep working all through this which has been hell at times but I'm not giving into this anxiety and I need structure and distraction in my life - as hard as it it. It's made me realise what a strong person I am and hopefully we can share positive ideas and thoughts amongst each other.
Thanks so much for reading my profile.