Nicole Lamberson, PA 2023 Massachusetts Benzo Bill Testimony

[@user-dg7sy8cz3b]

Thank you for not giving up fighting for all of us Nicole.

[@cindywilson6119]

I just Love Nichole for her strength to fight for us!❤

[@planetnone24]

That's exactly my story only mine is still unfolding as I struggle to survive my 3rd attempt using slow and painful taper. So close but not close enough 😢 Thank you for speaking the truth 💕☺️

[@JCatBIC]

Great job Nicole! Agree with everything you said!

[@incognito595]

Oh, Nicole, you are a true trailblazer. Thank you for speaking for us all. We All grieve for the lives and dreams we had that were denied us, don't we? We've been robbed and cheated. We should have immense compassion for ourselves. I try to treat myself the way I would treat anyone else who has endured this HORROR,..it helps me to go on, when nothing else seems to work...Never A Hint of Informed Consent. Zero. MALPRACTICE. We all Know This...

[@louisebarnard2869]

Thank you Nicole.....it is hell to come off ....

[@ranim7618]

Thanks dear Nicole for fighting for us. I am suffering due to the low dose of xanax prescribed for sleep, but it has ruined my life , by stealing my identity, and giving endless physical and mental pains .

[@aashish551]

@ranim7618 same here. I ve nerve damage in my left side of the body after cold turkey. Am in bed from 2 years. I don't want to live anymore 😢

[@ranim7618]

@@aashish551 please don't lose hope. For me, every single day is a battle, I pass my day with a hope to get better as time passes. I am off xanax 2 months ago, but feeling worse day by day. Maybe due to some setbacks. Are you off all the meds?

[@elizabethhauser4395]

Thank you, Nicole. ✌🏻

[@cindywilson6119]

I love Nichole! Everytime she speaks in absolute truth in fighting for us harmed by this! Thank you and God bless Nichole for those who need the help in Bind, and those starting there path and fight in the grips of withdrawal from the health system neglect !! Again THANK YOU 😇 I'm Still hopeful ...seven years later 🙏

[@flips_abird]

Thank you Nicole!

[@debbiegervase8285]

thank you Nicole (Warrior).. sending you so much love 💜❤‍🩹🙌👏

[@evenlyanxious]

Wish I could have spoken. 32 years of prescribed benzos for me - and instead of reducing my doses my doctors just kept increasing and increasing them. My life has been taken away from me and I want it back but there isn't a doctor ANYWHERE that knows how to help me, and the ones that say that they can are certainly not in such a rural area of the country as I live. I'm just screwed. I know someday that someone will rip me off of benzos and I'll probably have a massive seizure and die. That is my concern Every. Single. Day. Also, you cannot - under any circumstances - be permitted to have an emergency supply of even 3 days. I'm terrified every time that there's a huge snowstorm or other severe weather event. It's torture. This is literally torture.

[@valeriefromoregon]

I lowered the dose myself .. I studied about it and successfully got down to .125 of Klonopin by myself.

[@incognito595]

I hope you have someone to Help You if that should happen.

[@pocaluz35]

I’m sorry sweetheart that you are going this keep praying for a divine intervention . 32 years is such a long time I’ve only been taking them for 3 months & the withdrawal symptoms are hell even at 3 months. But i feel that God has done a miracle 24 hours since my last dose & i feel that this is my opportunity to quit them cold turkey because the withdrawal symptoms are tolerable at the moment & i pray it continues to be this way in the next 48 hours. I pray that God intervenes in your situation somehow sweetie!

[@pocaluz35]

@@2shortshorty436 I’m 50 hours cold turkey is complete torture!

[@aashish551]

@evenlyanxious take my words never quit benzos. I cold turkeyed 2 years back.my left side of body is heavily damaged. I can't do anything. I Am bedridden from 2 years I will take my own life now

[@stevelayman8934]

I was prescribed 2mg Klonopin and .75 mg Xanax daily for 23 years. My only side effects while taking the meds were blurred vision from the Xanax and shallow breathing from the Klonopin. Worked very well for panic attacks, insomnia, and generalized anxiety. My doctor retired. New doc said you’re coming off of these. Tapered over 7 months from my prescribed doses to 0 on both. That was extremely difficult with many of the physical and mental symptoms that others describe, but was doable. I’m now 2 years from my last dose and my only lingering side effects are neuralgia in one big toe and some slight trouble with concentration that I didn’t have before. I am 65. I do take antidepressants and respond pretty well to them. During the last 2.5 years I never missed a minute of work. Work was actually therapeutic in that it focused my mind on something other than me. There’s an awful lot of doom and gloom and I’m damaged for life in these video clips and comments and I just wanted to say that its not that way for everyone.

[@KathleenMottinger]

Hi Steve. Wow you did it. Happy for you. I am 83 and did a 7 month taper from almost 40 years of klonapin. Been off for 6 months and going through hell. Never expected to make it but now somehow I think I will. Never want to see a doctor ever again. Total abandonment. I'm glad I stopped the drug but wouldn't do it again. Much harder than I thought and don't have any idea how much longer to suffer. God bless!

[@stevelayman8934]

@@KathleenMottingerThe withdrawal is very difficult. You have a body that is a bit broken and you are trying to make sense of it with a mind that is a bit broken. I too felt a bit of a turning point at about 6 months. Some days you feel you need the patience of Job to get through. I found that keeping myself physically and mentally active was very important. The racing thoughts that I had were so much worse if I didn’t . I could feel myself truly healing at about the 1 year point.

[@KathleenMottinger]

@@stevelayman8934 thank you!

[@kristeandreatujague7016]

Brava ❤🎉

[@evenlyanxious]

Thank you for posting this. We always hear the horror stories - but, of course, people who didn't have a horrific experience aren't exactly spending time talking on the web about it. They've moved on. I hope I'm one of those someday. I hope you feel as proud of yourself as we do for you just reading your comment.

[@michaeljlink]

Keep Fighting! We need change, acknowledgment and eductation on the harm benzos can cause.

[@pocaluz35]

I’m so proud of you nicole, you’re such an inspiration to all of us keep doing what you’re doing we really appreciate & love you.

[@Josh_James76]

Thanks for sharing. My story to a tee.

[@rel256]

My story is similar. I am 10.5 years off, still not healed and lost everything in my life because of these drugs.

[@mitch5222]

What kind of symptoms do u still have? I am 7 years off and still have many issues. Been poly-drugged for years.

[@rel256]

@@mitch5222 Anxiety, stress intolerance, drugs/supplements/food intolerance, fatigue, cognitive issues, cog fog, can't focus, chest symptoms, palpitations. At 7 years off i had more issues, now less, but still I'm pretty much disabled.

[@aashish551]

​@@mitch5222same here 2 years off cold turkey and bedridden cannot walk also.i ve nerve damage in left side of my body😢

[@rameshlumb4003]

​@@mitch5222my friend how are you now

[@andreajohnson6958]

Also still sick 11.5 years out. Actually I was healed for many of these years with minor issues, then severe stress put me into an acute wd wave and I’ve been in bad shape for 110 days.

[@akalucinda8821]

Ty ❤

[@aashish551]

I was prescribed for 13 years. I was off cold turkey my doctor in india never helped me. Just poly drugged me blaming me for the withdrawal symptoms. I now lay on bed from 2 years after having severe seizures and left side of my body not working. We have no disability no insurance in india..i am just 39 i ve no way but to commit sucide.😢. And yet noone is help accountable. Just for a anxiety pill my life is ruined in tears of dark sorrow evert single day. These pysciatrists are evil people. Hell to them 😢

[@katrinamenzies9398]

RIP Dr Christy Huff ❤

[@ministryofpeacekmk]

❤❤

[@incognito595]

How to describe the suffering? We probably shouldn't do that, because we don't want to cause patients to have despair and panic attacks just by reading what's. In their future. Just know that you should prepare ahead of time to be able to properly care for yourselves, when, not if, this happens. Recruit Relatives and Friends to help you! Be prepared!

[@mitch5222]

What kind of symptoms do u still have?

[@ManalAbraham]

We live in the hell and no one care

[@verballucidity]

Times up and they didn't give a shit!

[@basketballfan5763]

I'm still on them but I fear the day I will be ripped off ....I am trying not to take the odd 1 and put it away ...but it is pointless.... I always end up taking spare pills...also I have had numerous incidents while cold turkey off them...ie breaking up with my boyfriend etc....things I later regretted as I feel I did not do things like this 'in my right mind'...😩😩😩

[@ManalAbraham]

What they have don’t for us ? Nothing

[@nicolelambic]

Oh wow, I must've not slept the night before this one - what a mess. Oh well. Thank you all for your kind words and support! Keep speaking out, keep telling your stories... Love and healing to all of you!

[@Waves353]

A very deceiving injury, as you always look and sound 💯 I’m still in the “early” stages of injury (3 years) , after significant poly drugging for with drawls and side effect effects. It’s a sick ass injury for me to even just wish I could appear normal I worked in health care too Always “enjoy” seeing you

[@nicolelambic]

@@Waves353 Thank you. Remember, Im very far off. I didn't appear on camera until 8 years or so off? Or more? I can't recall, but it certainly wasn't early days. Hang in there - you'll get there.

[@matthewrobinson2242]

You’re amazing thank you. I too was taken off a 15 yr prescription at a detox in About 12 days. This was 19 months ago and I just continue to decline. It is horrific. I’m your age with a 5 year old son and a wife. I can’t care for them or help with anything. I lost my career and friends and everything I ever knew of life. No connection to anyone, myself or anything. No memory or cognition. No sleep. Constant terror and agony and agitation to put it mildly. I can’t describe what has happened to me. My health continues to just decline. Hormonal system wrecked. On and on. There is only so much never changing insanity and daily horror one can take. I’m sorry to rant. Thank you for all you do and all you go through.

[@rajeshlumb8659]

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