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Yeah, still watching HLN. I remember Dr Drew from Loveline years ago but I don't know what his medical qualifications are, (he just referred to himself as a "medical person") but he was just explaining his Zanny = xanax theory which I've heard but he just said Xanax is a really expensive medication and Casey switched to chloroform when she ran out of money.
No, it's not. Generic Alprazolam is CHEAP. I have taken it for an anxiety disorder for years and that's a $4 rx at Walmart/Target/your local grocery store's super cheap meds lists. I've never paid more then $10 for a months worth. Making chloroform would be more expensive. Now if he wanted to argue she lost access to xanax source.
I don't know if Casey had medical insurance. I'd guess she was still on her parents policy? No evidence she ever saw a therapist or had a prescription for any benzodiazapine, right? She could have been getting it from a friend/family member but it's not like anyone would cover for her at this point.
I just realized I've made 98 posts here in two weeks. I'm way too obsessed with this case, Not sure what that says about me.Dr Drew is interviewing "sharpie lady" and showing video of the insanity of the fist fights this morning. I know it can be hard to distinguish with the absurdity but this is a case about a murdered little girl. Not a three ring circus
Yet I don't look away. Aside, I noted earlier Baez referred to "Caylee's remains" this afternoon. It was after JA had wiped the floor with bug doctor so he was surely stressed out and upset. Has he referred to Caylee by name before like that?
I have also taken this for years - from the time that it first came out in the mid 80's, and it was being preached to the doctors from the pharmacutial companys that it had no side effects, and, was not addictive.
Whoa - were they ever wrong.
After a little over a year of being on it at the highest dose, 3 times a day, I could "tell" that something was not right. I was fine in the morning, and for my bedtime dose, but by 1PM I was clock watching and antsy, feeling what I always described as "snakey" feeling.
I complained about it to my doctor, who still assured me that it was okay, that it was not addictive, etc. He wanted to up my dosage though.
I wouldn't do it.
I decided that I would wean myself off, and do so by simply skipping my evening/bedtime dose; thinking that it would be fine since I was always fine when I woke up in the morning.
At 4AM I woke up hallucenating and freaked out of my mind. In a blizzard, in the country with the wind howling, etc.
Thank God I had the presense of mind to call a good friend that talked me through it, talked me into taking that pill.
The following morning, I starting out splitting that pill into quarters, and taking 3/4 of it that AM, then, a whole one in the afternoon, and a whole one at night.
My weaning lasted a year to go off it at that time. A quarter of a pill at a time, one dose at a time, then adding/deducting another quarter from the afteroon, etc. Spacing each "wean" by 10 days.
Years later, I found out that the after-life of this pill is 9 months, which means from the last time you take your last dose, it takes 9 months to get completely out of your system.
Then, the side effects of withdrawall can also suddenly appear for up to 2yrs.
I was also told around the time that I had finally gotton off of it, from a nurse in a treatment center, that she would rather sit with a heroin addict than a person that was on Xanax, or any type of benzo' class medications.
When I asked her why, she said that a heroin addict will only think they are going to die ~ a Xanax addict CAN.
It can cause seizures if you miss a dose or stop taking it all together, and, it can kill you.
My mother was just in the hospital 2 weeks ago in ICU for 3 days.
I had to go take care of her when she was released - and she was still not "right".
After 2 days, she was just beside herself.
Chest pains, difficulty breathing, etc. I finally said, "Mom, you know, when I start having muscle spasms, and it is hard to take deep breathes, I go ahead and take an extra half dose of my Xanax. {which I had to go back on 12yrs ago for an injury} I remembered that I had put together an emergency bag of her meds last summer for tornado's, in which, I put 2 extra Lorazapans {another Benzo}.
She looked at me, and said, "Well, you know, it probably won't hurt, I haven't had one since the day BEFORE I went to the hospital!!
My God, the woman was in complete withdrawall, and they had admitted her to ICU for her heart!
The hospital didn't have records of her taking this, because her doctor had written to take "as needed or one every 6 hours".
So, she didn't have her nurse put it in her weekly med planner.
Come to find out, she was taking it, "religiously every morning", "oh, and in the afternoon {maybe 4-5 hours later}, and then, low and behold, at betime to!!!
She is lucky that it didn't kill her.
So - now that that long story is out of my system - my point is:
Maybe Caylee was addicted to Xanax. Even the smallest dose, cut into quarters like I did when I weaned myself off would be an immense amount for a baby.
And, it wouldn't take long to get her addicted to it, had Casey been giving it to her for a month or more, "religiously".
And, yes, it is cheap, but, if Casey's source ran out or if she pissed the source off, and Caylee was addicted........ just saying.
And, maybe that is what Casey's seizure was that she had while with Jesse Grund?
Even though all the Anthony's claim that a durug profile was done at the time, who are you going to believe???
I know I hate having to take it again. And, there are many doctors and pain doctors that will not even prescribe it because of the dangers of something happening to you and you can't talk and tell what meds you take.
Okay - won't say anymore - but it's always been in the back of my mind also right from the get-go, as many have thought.
But, I also knew/know the ramifications of it, and just never wanted to "go there".
But, you see those dark circles under that little babies eyes in the last weeks and months, and it scares me to think that this little sweetie went through withdrawall and Casey just thought she was entering the terrible twos and having tantrums, and ended up seizing while Casey was texting or something.
