Re: another drug down, one to go

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Congratulations, Janelle!

Great job on getting off the meds! Have you tried Calc-Tea before bed to help you sleep... Click on files...herbal formulas...then calcium formula. I usually drink mine as tea before bed time and I find it helps, although I haven't had any serious sleep problems. I'm sure others on list will have some more ideas for you as well.ITake care.

Love,

Ronijanellewitter <janellewitter@...> wrote:

I stopped taking my trazedone, after 11 years of taking it to helpme sleep (which it never has done all that well anyway) because when Iran out Monday night and didn't get around to going to the pharmacy Iwent into withdrawals Wed. Which for some reason offended the heckout of me, and damn it! if I'm physically addicted to this it isdefinitely time to stop taking it. Using bits and pieces of your good advice from here (and your wellwishes, if you'd known about it) it has gone pretty well. Rathershaky and all, and still quite offended that my body got that attachedto this little drug I've only been taking for how long? (Sometimes Iam awfully naive) Which leaves the big problem of how to sleep, but that's a lifelongproblem and what would life be like it I slept more than 2 or 3 hoursat a

time anyway, even with the trazedone (unless I was so druggedthat people managed to break into my house and wrapped me up in ducttape without me actually waking up. True story). Without being here, and what I have learned from you all, I wouldhave had the prescription filled and taken a pill without a 3rd thought. Janelle

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Janelle,

Sorry been gone all day and catching up on email... Roni is right calc tea is very good..

also try hot baths before bed with lavendar oil... even a cup of camomile tea is good.

Some nites I may only get a few hours sleep... and it seems like I shuld be tired the next day ... but I'm not... most often I get about 5 hours. I find the older I get the less sleep I seem to need. You can also look at the nerve sedation formula..

SuziRoni Slye <roni_slye@...> wrote:

Congratulations, Janelle!

Great job on getting off the meds! Have you tried Calc-Tea before bed to help you sleep... Click on files...herbal formulas...then calcium formula. I usually drink mine as tea before bed time and I find it helps, although I haven't had any serious sleep problems. I'm sure others on list will have some more ideas for you as well.ITake care.

Love,

Ronijanellewitter <janellewitter@...> wrote:

I stopped taking my trazedone, after 11 years of taking it to helpme sleep (which it never has done all that well anyway) because when Iran out Monday night and didn't get around to going to the pharmacy Iwent into withdrawals Wed. Which for some reason offended the heckout of me, and damn it! if I'm physically addicted to this it isdefinitely time to stop taking it. Using bits and pieces of your good advice from here (and your wellwishes, if you'd known about it) it has gone pretty well. Rathershaky and all, and still quite offended that my body got that attachedto this little drug I've only been taking for how long? (Sometimes Iam awfully naive) Which leaves the big problem of how to sleep, but that's a lifelongproblem and what would life be like it I slept more than 2 or 3 hoursat a

time anyway, even with the trazedone (unless I was so druggedthat people managed to break into my house and wrapped me up in ducttape without me actually waking up. True story). Without being here, and what I have learned from you all, I wouldhave had the prescription filled and taken a pill without a 3rd thought. Janelle

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janellewitter wrote:

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>

> I stopped taking my trazedone, after 11 years of taking it to help

> me sleep (which it never has done all that well anyway) because when I

> ran out Monday night and didn't get around to going to the pharmacy I

> went into withdrawals Wed. Which for some reason offended the heck

> out of me, and damn it! if I'm physically addicted to this it is

> definitely time to stop taking it.

> Using bits and pieces of your good advice from here (and your well

> wishes, if you'd known about it) it has gone pretty well. Rather

> shaky and all, and still quite offended that my body got that attached

> to this little drug I've only been taking for how long? (Sometimes I

> am awfully naive)

> Which leaves the big problem of how to sleep, but that's a lifelong

> problem and what would life be like it I slept more than 2 or 3 hours

> at a time anyway, even with the trazedone (unless I was so drugged

> that people managed to break into my house and wrapped me up in duct

> tape without me actually waking up. True story).

> Without being here, and what I have learned from you all, I would

> have had the prescription filled and taken a pill without a 3rd thought.

>

> Janelle

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Hi Janelle,

Your not naive any longer. So there is always some good in everything.

It is good to hear you are off of it though. Nasty stuff. Right up there

with Paxil and Prozac. Sorry you have to go through the withdrawals though.

How to sleep. Well, my guess is that you have been given lots of good

advice on this one now. The only advice I can possibly give to you is to

start fasting, cleansing, etc to clean up the inside of your body.

Switch the diet and juice, juice, juice. Cleaning out the body will do

more good for you now that you are off all the meds and changing your

diet will keep it that way.

Sleep will come much easier when your body isn't being flooded with the

toxins, etc.

I am really glad you didn't refill your script. Your health is all yours

now and you can fight a winning battle that you will win big time in as

your body becomes cleansed of the lifelong mucus and toxins from wrong

eating, drugs, and meds.

Peace be with you Janelle.

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Don Quai

" Spirit sleeps in the mineral, breathes in the vegetable, dreams in the animal

and wakes in man. "

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[Guest guest]

good for you!

i have come off 2 drugs this year, lorazepam and inderal. it took me

half a year for the lorazepam and 4 months for the indral to come

off. it was very difficlut, but i am so glad that i did it this

time (O: i did it very slowly, 1/4th of a pill per 2 weeks. this

was the fastest that my body could stand. after i was done i managed

to stop my drinking addiction and also my smoking addiction (20+

years)so 4 bad ones in a year, not a bad year i'd say!! my doctor

smiled at me and said: it is good to be healthy hey! he knows i am

into naturals ways and he told me to keep doing what i am doing, and

i am. keep strong and you will get better. email me if you need to

have some online help, groups for addictions, pills, alcohol,

smoking.......... ya know. good luck and stay positive (O: don't

feed on the bad moments, the past, stay with the good stuff and look

forward, you will win!! toodles, rik

> Thanks, all of you, as I sniffle. The past few days

> have been a tad hard, or else I have the flu and one

> of the worst migraines I've ever had... at least I

> did start taking the trazedone somewhat knowingly. I

> just recently discovered that an MS injectible drug I

> took for 3 months 5 years ago is actually a polymer,

> like injecting myself with a plastic each day, without

> realizing it. No wonder the MS symptoms got worse so

> fast, no wonder I got those weird nasty headaches from

> it. Okay, you look at the MRI and see this lesion in

> your spinal cord and think " paralysis " , maybe you are

> in a weak moment. I wonder if the neurologist even

> knew what Copaxone actually is, glatiramir acetate. I

> have feeling rather a lot of anger about that one --

> how much of the MS getting better is simply me getting

> this crap out of my body and the residual effects of

> it?

> And what bothers me anymore about my last drug, the

> wellbutrin (but I am alive and I truly wouldn't be

> without it), is that it comes out of me as it went in.

> They give us drugs that aren't even metabolized. How

> on earth do they work?

> The wellbutrin is one I am going to taper off of,

> slowly, and fearfully. Make that cautiously. Though

> I do have to wonder about my dependence on an

> anti-depressant when depression isn't the real issue.

>

> I am really babblying on here. Sorry, end of a long

> week. Thanks, Beverly, and thanks to you all

>

> Janelle

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> --- defonz3 <defonz3@y...> wrote:

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> >

> > Janelle

> > Congrats on stopping the trazodone. I was on it for

> > several years and in fact it

> > was the Traz that gave me a final bought of horrors

> > in my withdrawals. Ive

> > gotten off Paxil, traz, benzos in the last 2 years

> > and it has been a rough road.

> >

> > But this place is wonderful!! so much info. so many

> > helpful, kind people.

> > hang in there, girl. they, we...will get you thru

> > it.

> >

> > peace

> > beverly

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