A Pharmacy Student's Take on Benzodiazepines: Dejanee Neal

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Guest Bio:
Dejanee Neal is a fourth year pharmacy student at St. John Fisher University and her goal is to pursue a career in the pharmaceutical industry in clinical development; specifically in the areas of oncology and inflammatory and autoimmune diseases. She's worked as a community pharmacy intern and served as an extern with The Alliance for Benzodiazepine Best Practices (ABBP). She assisted The ABBP with a research project regarding the appropriate prescribing and deprescribing of benzodiazepines, and published a research article of her own about the cognitive consequences of long term benzodiazepine use.
RELEVANT LINKS:
Cognitive Consequences of Benzodiazepine Use: Is it Worth Losing Our Mind Over? www.pharmacytimes.com/view/co...
Data Show Cognitive Consequences of Benzodiazepine Use www.pharmacytimes.com/view/da... to Medicating Normal's TH-cam channel: buff.ly/39Tupxr
The Alliance for Benzodiazepine Best Practices: benzoreform.org
Benzodiazepine Information Coalition: www.benzoinfo.com

[@MedicatingNormal]

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[@incognito595]

Good to see you, Nicole and friends. Thank you all. Best wishes.

[@MedicatingNormal]

You too! :)

[@corinnagracepegasusspirit]

Thank you 🙏🏼 I feel from 3 years after a rapid taper, there is a direct relation between heighten symathic nervous system activity (amygdala maybe ) & impaired cognitive function for me the worse the terror feeling the more impaired my cognitive function seems to be. There was no knowledge in Australia from Doctors suggesting a long term taper to minimise these horrid symptoms. :(

[@Viper-jk2pf]

Thanks for another informative video..Keep the good work going...

[@adrian_galatic]

Hi! Where to seek out help to quit Olanzapine / Zyprexa ? Thank you!

[@MedicatingNormal]

Hi,
This is a good place to start: www.survivingantidepressants.org/topic/3743-tips-for-tapering-off-zyprexa-olanzapine/
And this: markhorowitz.org/academic-paper/tapering-antipsychotic-treatment/
Hope that helps!

[@user-lm7hl8zr8q]

God work Nicole 💜

[@Skoopyghost]

I quit benzos in 2018. I did other substances. The worst part is the alcohol and the other substances were out of me quickly, but my brain is still a little fried after the benzos, but I am the junkie so people blame other the substances. The withdrawl were Hellish too.

[@bb3b644]

@Skoopyghost. How much were you taking a day?

[@ellaMel4632]

Dr recommended detox from Ativan after 8 months, for insomnia. He said few weeks of phenobarbital and Gabapentin, is it safe ? I’m very scared , want to get off of Ativan because has bad side effects, causes inflammation,makes me week and much more. I still have insomnia and anxiety . Need help badly , also I lost lots of weight

[@user-vn7jy1cn1o]

Hi Nicole,
I know it can be very difficult to quantify, but how much would you say you've recovered in the 11 years you've been off meds? Did you notice improvements each year? Do you continue to notice improvements or did you eventually plateau?
I'm 3.5 years off all meds after a disastrous cold switch from Paxil (as advised by my doctor), and unfortunately I haven't experienced much improvement. I still have severe cognitive impairment, dizziness, vision problems, insomnia, fatigue/drowsiness, headaches and body pain. It feels like permanent damage to my brain and nervous system.
Thank you for making these videos, and for all you do within the iatrogenic injury community.

[@suzychocolate7]

December 29th I finished two years of me being off antidepressants which I cut off cold turkey, and I still suffer from most of the stuff you've mentioned. It pains me to see that there are no improvements whatsoever, and how there is nothing that can put us back on track. I can't tell you how many times I have contemplated going back on the meds again if they would offer me any sort of relief, but I am scared that they might not do anything and then I will have to come off of them again. I take supplements, they don't help much. 😔