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Insomnia Random Spasms Benzos

Posted by JoeBenzo2003 on October 10, 2003 at 07:48:20:

Has anyone experienced random muscle spasms after being on benzos like restoril, xanax, ativan. I've taken those over the last 4 months and I have had these spasms non stop throughout as I was so freaked out about a week with little to no sleep.

I've quit all of them as they were barely working to start with and no longer were effective(tolerance). In between dosages I had extreme anxiety and severe random muscle twitches/spasms in back stomach arm leg foot hand neck etc in the day as well as night.

I've been off of them for now about a week. My sleep is about the same pattern none-little one night, 2-3 one night, 6 one night, 6 one night and none again, etc.

The spasms seemed to get worse for the first 3/4 days and yesterday seemed better but last night again bad.

Have any of you experienced something like this coming off of benzos?

I am able to fall asleep when I can find a window without much spasming.

I guess the other question is have some of you had random spasming from just a lack of sleep? How have you tried to break the cycle without meds?

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