Posted by brynb on January 7, 2014, at 20:22:20
In reply to Re: LDN (low dose naltrexone)? (Hugh?) » brynb, posted by Hugh on January 7, 2014, at 16:51:07
Thanks, Hugh. I will say that benzo withdrawal is pure hell. Awful, awful, awful. At the same time, after trying literally everything for anxiety, benzos are (in my opinion) the best anxiolytics out there.
I'm trying not to beat myself up. My intentions with opiates were to try to feel normal and lift the depressive fog. I'm not entirely defeated as I've had luck with Suboxone in the past.
I know an addiction pdoc (who no longer practices as he is now a full-time musician and a physician's advocate for prescribing opiates) who believes that opiates, when used by those in true psychic and physical pain, don't necessarily get patients "high" the way they would with ordinary people. His philosophy is that opiates make those in real pain feel normal, and sees them as a decent treatment for TRD as long as patients are properly monitored.
Thanks again =).
-b
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