success ☼ cakesgimmecakes: Couple Qs for you warriors out there

[Pinkslippers]

Cakes, on the potassium/salt topic, I've been finding recently that I can't eat much salt, like my body's rejecting it,which is quite weird for me coz I usually eat a lot of salt.

[Tootsieroll]

Toots -  you can, yes, eat bananas and avocados or salt them with something called NuSalt. Avoid salt for a bit. Your symptoms will ease up. Also, a question: what was your benzo dose, how long did you take them, and what are your withdrawal symptoms from them?

Oh man that night was horrendous.  I had a pounding chest and headache into the wee hours of the night.  Thankfully I stuffed a banana into my mouth but I suppose it wasn't enough.  I may have needed 5 bananas.  I think gatorade would have helped too.  So I looked up quick ways to lower blood pressure and they said to soak feet in hot water.  Well half an hour after soaking and doing relaxation breathing I was able to sleep.  The soak turned my feet beet red and helped my blood rush from my heart to my feet.  I don't know how I would have survived if I didn't bring it back down.  Never testing new solutions before bed ever again!

 

Also to your other question, I only took benzos for 2-3 months at anywhere between 0.5 to 2mg but usually stuck around 0.5mg.  Withdrawal from them was pure torture.  I thought SSRI withdrawal was bad but that was even worse.  It made my body and mind fall apart in a way that was unimaginable.  I became so sick(in a span of 2 years after last pill) that doctors thought I had aids or cancer.  I was close to having a cancer scare but that cleared up with a procedure.  Its a condition that most women experience in their 40-50's and I'm only 33 and never had children.  My doc's never seen anyone in their 30s have it except me and another woman.  That's extremely rare.  You can imagine if it did that to my body then how bad was the brain organ affected??  I never experienced anything like it during my SSRI taper so it is in a league of its own.  Tests done at my doc showed I have three areas of my brain that aren't receiving signals very well.  It explains why I feel like I have dementia and cognitive issues.  March coming up will be 3 years off it.  I've improved alot but not enough to have me out in the world.  I still have issues with paying attention to conversations and memory.  I hope you are not thinking of a benzo route

 

PS. To give you an idea of how bad it was..if you have ever seen the movie Twilight where Bella dies after giving birth.  She died sickly,skinny and frail but she transforms into a beautiful vampire after death.  That was me.  Just pasty and deathly and now at almost 3 years off my outer shell looks better than ever.  Just the insides need to catch up.  So healing is miraculous and does happen.

[Tootsieroll]

I just realized that me eating too full gives me the same effects as that salt mishap. Heart palpitations galore. Have you experienced this symptom before?

[cakesgimmecakes]

Pink - I'm so sorry you're ignored at the doctor. In this forum, you're not alone! Seems your father was terrific.

 

Toots - my palps started a year ago, after another thyroid meds attemp. I'm sure it's adrenal/stress related, and they get better but then return when im struggling with sleep or very stressed (well, insomnia feeds stress). As for benzodiazepines, were you taking them daily for that 2-3 months?

[ChessieCat]

Hi there,

 

The staff at SA are wondering how you are.  We'd love to hear how you are doing now.   Would you mind dropping by and giving an update?

 

Thanks.

CC

[ChessieCat]

cakesgimmecakes' has written a success story:  prozac-wd-update-3-years-out-cakesgimmecakes

 

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Now, as is our tradition, I will close this topic. Please congratulate cakes in the Success Stories forum.

Edited January 17, 2019 by Altostrata
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