benzodiazapenes and panick attacks/insomnia
I have been on 10mg nightly of Ambien for the past 8 years for chronic insomnia which I stopped about one month ago and switched to lunesta 3mg nightly. For the past year I have been on a low 5mg nightly dose of buspar from my PCP Dr. Ryan at Carefree Family Medicine and Lorazepam 2mg as needed and Viagra 50mg as needed for anxiety/panick attacks and ED.
My panic/anxiety attacks for some reason became worse this past month which is the urgent need to have my medication checked. I took three trips to the ER with extreme panick attacks lasting hours.
At that point, two weeks ago, Dr. Ryan told me to see a psychiatrist ASAP and put me on Klonopin 1mg twice per day and raised my buspar from 5mg to 10mg three times per day.
So now I am on Klonopin 1mg twice per day, buspar 10mg three times per day, lunesta 3mg once per night, and lorazepam 1mg twice per day.
I’m not sure what went wrong I was doing so well weaning down off the medications until a month ago and then out of nowhere my panic attacks came back worse, extreme and daily.
Any help, advice, looking at my meds, making suggestions would be so greatly appreciated. I hate being on pills, I just want to wean off and live like normal again without insomnia and panic attacks. I have been doing a lot of research on my own for a solution and came across the Ashton Method online whereby a person can withdraw from benzodiazapenes substituting valium to curb the withdrawal symptoms.
What is your opinion and could you please help me. Doctor Ryan my PCP is a GP/FP doctor and I can tell by how he keeps telling me to see a psychiatrist that he really doesn’t want to or have the specialist knowledge to rehabilitate me.
Thank you
Greg Masley
719-785-3224
719-649-7451
2614 West Serendipity Circle #312
Colorado Springs, Colorado 80917
Customer (name blocked for privacy)@adelphia.net



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