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| | Notices | Welcome to PTSD Forum. Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) is a life threatening, debilitating disorder that can break down a sufferer’s body through anxiety and stress. Further it poses a significant suicide risk resulting from the brains neurological imbalance and chemical depression. Sufferers often live in denial, thus this community is aimed at helping PTSD sufferers help themselves through others experiences, guidance and education. We are here for the sufferer, spouse and families surrounding PTSD. Spouses and family are too often forgotten in this equation, and often they receive all the worst that PTSD has to offer. If you're involved in any way with PTSD, get registered and help yourself now. Non-active members will eventually be deleted. If you are not a sufferer, carer or someone within the mental health industry, and active, then there is little reason for you to be a member of this forum. Non-active members with zero posts are deleted periodically during the year. |  | | 
07-02-2007, 08:58 PM
|  | Administrative Editor PTSD | | Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: Melbourne, Australia
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| | Rob, I would seriously get off those medications mate, because that is the issue if your taking pills to sleep, and these issues are occurring when asleep. I would kick them into touch, get something else. These are adverse side effects that could kill you, or jods even... lets look at facts here. You could end up burning the house down, with you all inside it, without knowing it. The cons here far outweight continueing on this particular medication mate.... | 
07-02-2007, 09:01 PM
|  | | | Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: ADELAIDE
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| | Thanks again mate consider them flushed down the shitter | 
07-02-2007, 09:17 PM
|  | Administrative Editor PTSD | | Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: Melbourne, Australia
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| | I remember a mate of mine many moons ago, he nearly burnt down his house, with him in it, because he took a sleeping pill which did something similar, in which he did things during the night, but didn't know what he did, and being a smoker, he lit smokes and left them throughout the house doing whatever he was doing. The rug caught on fire and it was only pure coincidence that his sister happened to come home at that time, as she wasn't due, but saw the flames, got the hose and put them out, then hosed him actually, as he would not wakeup. He never took those again. | 
09-02-2007, 02:05 PM
|  | | | Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Memphis, TN
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| | Alcohol + meds = Blackouts here. Every now and then (last night at supper) I have only 2. No more. Do forget alot of stuff though. esp. Names of people I've known a long time. | 
09-02-2007, 02:48 PM
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| | Ah alcohol my friend i love you so, i dont drink anymore i just cant get it passed the lips. As far as forgetting peoples names im really bad at times and our poor dog dosent know if hes Max or Bob but comes anyway when he is called. The other night i had another episode of wandering around the house i hadent taken any sleeping meds didnt do anything to the house this time just woke up sitting at the kitchen table. Last night i just couldnt shake the effects of a panic attack i had earlier that day i was totally knackerd so i slipped two valium and slept like a log best sleep i have had in weeks. | 
09-02-2007, 03:53 PM
|  | Administrative Editor PTSD | | Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: Melbourne, Australia
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| | It will always take some time for any medication to withdraw from your system Rob, so don't not expect to maybe have a few more issues... depending on how often and how much you used them. | | Thread Tools | | | | Display Modes | Linear Mode |
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