Psycho-Babble Withdrawal Thread 793251

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XANAX withdrawal - Desperate to help my sister!

Posted by Heike on November 4, 2007, at 1:19:06

This is my first post here; I have read many of your posts and feel greatly for your struggles. This seems to be a positive environment to share and learn.

My sister has been on xanax for about 15 years. Though I know that she has always believed that it really helped her and surely it must have, it has been clear since early on that the effects and the dependency had greatly affected her coping skills and general ability to handle daily life--her personality changed at times. Over the years, there has also been quite a lot of challenge and cause for anxiety, especially during the last 4 years in which Connie was a caretaker for my mother until she died in April.

As far I knew, Connie had gotten off xanax a few years ago. Though we are close, this is something that she hid from the family to avoid the obvious efforts to help her with what for her was a definite problem. I think that her dosage ran so high that even on xanax, she was in some level of withdrawal. Very sad.

Today I began receiving emails from Connie that were nothing short of extremely confused, delusional, hypomanic and possibly psychotic. She is losing her grip with reality and talking about a message to give the world...repeating the date over and over. I am SCARED to death. She told me today that she has been out of xanax for two days. Later I found out that she cannot fill her prescription because it is not due to fill for a long time. She is in Iowa, I am in CA. Her roomate is trying to keep her safe. She has no insurance, no money and I do not know what to do in the immediate moment.

If I contact her doctor, he likely cannot help since she overused her prescription? Her room-mate will not do anything Connie does not want him to...and I am afraid this will worsen and she could have seizures, etc.

I would so APPRECIATE any advice for how to help her in the short term with anything that adds value in herbal form, etc? In the long term, I have to find a way to get her either back on xanax or switched to valium...that sounds like a possibility based on what I have read?

I am truly worried and appreciate any support or advise that you have.

Thank you very much!

Kind & warm regards,

Heike

Re: XANAX withdrawal - Desperate to help my sister!

Posted by bleauberry on November 9, 2007, at 22:11:10

In reply to XANAX withdrawal - Desperate to help my sister!, posted by Heike on November 4, 2007, at 1:19:06

There are powerful natural supplements that can definitely help, and even have the power to replace xanax.

Any of these can work beginning in a couple minutes or up to an hour, and work for a few hours before needing more...

Passionflower
Valerian
Gaba works for some, not for others
Glycine
And no matter which of the above you use, or a combination of them, a base of taurine is also very good. Also, a base of magnesium taurate or magnesium glycinate is good.

All of these things work similar to what xanax does in the brain.

Taurine and magnesium as a base, with any or all of the others added. With enough time, like perhaps 3 months, these things could actually totally replace xanax to where it is never needed again. And then the herbs could slowly be weaned off of, but keep the magnesium and taurine for life. They are essential for the braain and yet frequently very low in american foods and diseases. Many people don't realize it, and mainstream doctors are not trained on it, but a simple magnesium and/or taurine need by the patient is often the real cause of getting on xanax in the first place.

Xanax also has some effects on serotonin, which would make 5htp or tryptophan or both good for longterm healing, though not as rapid as the others mentioned above.

For immediate relief, give her passionflower and valerian at the same time. But definitely followup on the longterm supplements. They would likely make the need for high xanax doses much less.

15 years is a long time. It won't be undone in a flash. The above things are not as potent as xanax, but still quite powerful, enough to bring relief, sanity, and control back into the picture.

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