“It was even suggested that Valium should be added, like fluoride, to the drinking water. Together people would be blessed both with tranquility and strong teeth.” – Prof. Heather Ashton, December 2011
“A woman is safer in a park at midnight than on a psychiatrist’s couch.” – David Miscavige, October 2006
“Instead of removing the conditions that make people depressed modern society gives them antidepressant drugs.” – Ted Kaczynski, the Unabomber, June 1995
“Nearly eight years ago, I first gained some very limited access to the Internet. I correctly diagnosed myself in about an hour.” – Benzo Buddies founder Colin Moran, January 2006
“7 Barbican Road is occupied by Colin Moran who has a secure tenancy. We are hoping that the time will come when he will want to move on.” – Calvary Chapel York, December 2008
“Drug users who are trying to kick their habit are perfect prey for cults like Scientology.” – Arun Arora, Director of Communications for the Diocese of Birmingham, March 2003
“I must confess, I have thought about becoming either a phone sex operator or a cam sex operator, probs phone first. I wish I knew some girls who would show me the ropes. I can’t seem to get any info online.” – Benzo Buddies member Journey, September 2012
“Did huffing gas do this to me? When I was about 12 or so I huffed gas.” – Benzo Buddies member jr991, March 2011
“I have been told countless times at Benzo Buddies not to listen to my doctor. ” – Benzo Buddies member jessiccarabbit, October 2012
“There are thousands of members on Benzo Buddies and there are bound to be some real loons, sociopaths, psychopaths and downright cruel freaks.” – Benzo Buddies member ld1, May 2013
“Go to hell you quack fucking bitch!” – End Psychiatry leader Daniel Carter to a registered nurse, April 2015
“Benzo Buddies members are usually anti-psychiatry because they have suffered at the hands of the profession.” – Angela, Benzo Buddies member
“Who are all you freaks? WHO THE FUCK ARE YOU?” – Benzo Buddies member Whoopsie, February 2013
but I suppose it could happen to men too.
This is real, in a way. I don’t know the right technical words since I’m not a doctor and English is my second language but … benzo tolerance and withdrawal can mess up the hormonal system pretty bad. I’d never had any hormonal problems before benzo tolerance hit me. But it’s been hell for about a year. I have every symptom as if I were pregnant. Tender breasts 3/4 of the time, food cravings and food disgusts to the point where I don’t even know what to eat anymore, very sensible to odours, nausea, etc. I have also had three yeast infections in five months, and each took two courses of treatment in order to go away. I only had one yeast infection in my life before this last year so it’s not something common for me.
So yes, benzos play with hormones and can cause all kinds of weird symptoms, including tender breasts.
I have been tapering benzos for 5 months and at the halfway point in this taper and I can tell you I have started experiencing what a lot of other women are experiencing when they are tapering. My breasts are tender and swollen along with my armpits for about 3 weeks out of the month. It starts as soon as ovulation occurs. The benzo also is wrecking havoc on all my hormones and my thyroid is now hyperactive. You can mock us going through this but unless you have had to, please know that these benzos greatly disrupt the endocrine system. There is plenty of research from the benzo manufacturers themselves stating these drugs cause a hormonal imbalance and trying to get off of them is the hardest thing I have ever had to do
“I have started experiencing what a lot of other women are experiencing when they are tapering.”
What you’ve described above is a medical condition called mass psychogenic illness (MPI): “Mass psychogenic illness is characterized by symptoms, occurring among a group of persons with shared beliefs regarding those symptoms, that suggest organic illness but have no identifiable environmental cause and little clinical or laboratory evidence of disease.”
You can read more about MPI here:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3536509/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_psychogenic_illness
https://www.aafp.org/afp/2000/1215/p2649.html
You will find breast pain listed on the benzo.org.uk symptom list
I have it myself as well as pain everywhere else.
https://benzo.org.uk/slistz.htm
Sorry friend, but benzo.org.uk is not a credible site: it’s run by a man who once had cartoons of Dr. Leo Sternbach being boiled in oil, and hit in the head by golf balls (after being decapitated) – but not to worry, because I’ve a list of symptoms too 🙂
http://cesspoolofmadness.com/?page_id=42216
BTW – I always believe anonymous strangers online re: their “medical” conditions.