Fentanyl Hits the Streets Disguised as Xanax and Norco

[invisiblejungle]

This recently came to my attn also as I am struggling hard after 4 months off a certain B mag from a  vendor no longer present but one we all know .  I went to this vendor for a very tough taper for some years. I am now 100% disabled, will be in a wheelchair for life , my autonomous nervous system is broken so if I stand my heart can no longer pump blood from the lower part of my body to my head so my heart will now beat up to 168 bpm to try , It goes back to nearly normal now sitting and laying and when I walk it will range from 45-113 but I cannot walk all over all of the time .. At first I could not even sit up . My heart rate stayed over 113 for 2 months straight.   I can now swallow again also , and I have started to eat food  again as it completely stopped my digestion but it is slow going, my bladder failed and I have to be straight cathed by my nurse husband as I cannot eliminate at all , BP has been very low at 80/50 but is trying to stabilize at 98-102/70 now ..usually . I lost 40 lbs without trying and my hair which was down past my waist and thick came out by the handful's .  The suffering is horrendous . I did the taper correctly VERY slow and still I am destroyed . The taper ended in Nov and we are finding out about this now and I am certainly wondering . My GP says this is one of the worst cases of B poisoning he has ever seen in his career .So I don't know. I'd be hard pressed to take a baby aspirin after this . I wondered if this had been talked about here and I see that it has .  Sorry for the TMI but yeah , I'd say get a kit and make sure , I wish I had .

Hi Satin, so very sorry to hear about your condition. I can somewhat understand since I've been disabled for over 10 years, and autonomic dysfunction is one of my issues.

Do you mind me asking about your situation? It sounds like you have post-orthostatic tachycardia syndrome. Did your symptoms begin during the taper or only after you were completely off? When you say "B mag," are you referring to benzos or something else? Just wondering because I take benzos for my health condition, and someday I hope to be able to get off them, so I try to gather as much info as possible.

Feel free to PM me if you'd rather not discuss it publicly.

Oh it is ok , I just have been so sick that I am off and on , I came here today to check so that I would not seem rude . 
My wheelchair came this week , pearl white and custom , it is a sports wheelchair so it is very sleek and not scary looking and I decorate it with colored push rims and spoke skins .. and We are finally leaving this small town where my husband had a temp nurses job and I got so sick we couldn't go anywhere . ZERO medical care here , one GP told me I was going to have to go back to civilization to be able to find someone knowledgeable in what is going on with me and I pretty much knew this but am SO GLAD to be going back home .

Thank you invisible , I am still just taking it day but day . Yes I do have POTS. It had been fair during the day at 80-101 standing nd I thought I was better until yesterday when standing it was just insane 120-148 again . I am so tired of this .  Almost 5 months now . 80-90 sitting up . Today it is a but lower . My normal was 65 -67. I know the range is 60-100 but that is not my range . My stomach issues are still very difficult and I was having shortness of breath yesterday with the POTS also . In answer to your question yes it was the beast of the benzos klonopin . If you look around the recovery forums you will see that most of us with this issue have been on that benzo. A GP mis prescribed it when my gall bladder burst years ago ,many years . and the phenergen stopped working . Such a HUGE dose that I could not find any MD to help me with a taper  so I had to do it myself . 5 years long and this happened the day after my last dose . It just trashed my autonomous nervous system. This seems t happen to those of us that have been on too high an rx for way too long . I did not have a clue about this F issue . 
 @Noel I should have started testing last year  when a co worker of my husbands ran out and had to borrow one of mine to keep from getting sick and he became very ill the next day . I was just so sick in tolerance that I could not have been able to tell the difference .

Oh my god, you tapered for 5 years and this still happened?? Ugh, that is unbelievable. You did everything right... Do you mind me asking exactly how much Klonopin you were taking?

I'm very familiar with POTS, since autonomic dysfunction is one of my main issues. If you haven't already, I recommend reading this short guide by Dr. Peter Rowe, a dysautonomia specialist:

http://www.dysautonomiainternational.org...ummary.pdf

It lists many treatments that most doctors are not aware of.