What Happens When You Withdrawl From Xanax (Page 2)

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My friend has been taking xanax for the past two months he's been taking the 2Mg bars he would eat about 10 bars a day because of his anxiety he stoped taking them for couple of weeks and now he is not remebering anything he has been passing out and saying he had a conversation with somebody and never even talked to that person. like we'll be sitting in a room and he will think the phone is ringing but it isnt. and he said he had a conversation with me one day and i never even talked to him that day. I'm trying to find out if this could be from the xanax because its making me very worried.

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withdrawls from xanex. Can you take something to help ease the withdrawl process. I have been taking them since 2007 prescribed. I stopped cold turkey and am having HUGE problems. Please help

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I've gone from 4 mg daily to 2 mg daily. YOU NEED TO TRY AND UNDERSTAND THAT ANXIETY AND PANIC ATTACK ARE WIDESPRED ISSUES. SO MANY DOCTORS DON'T CARE.

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So easy for you to say! I totally understand what you are talking about, but Drs today put everyone on this drug so the Drs are making people addicts. I am suppose to take them 4 times a day, i take them just twice a day unless its a bad day! Now this new Dr wants me to cold turkey to stop and after reading everything inrefuse to stop cold turkey. I was you are suppose to be weenied off them slow not just stop due to major risk factors like death! Sorry i cant do that. I have tried n I get MAJOR headaches n shakes and tremble in my sleep and no sleep and naeusa. So for all of you on xanax, say hail to your doctors for making you addicted! And please do not try to stop cold turkey. Ask your doctors to ween you off fhem! Thank you!!!

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You are so right!! They dont know how the feeling of withdraw is! But this withdraw fromnthis drug can be Deadly!!!!!!

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Isnt this spose to be place to find solutions? All i see is arguing and war stories xanax dependency is a serious problem and i have been dependent pon dem more than half my life, maybe some answers would help us out? im dealing with paxil withdrawals for the past two weeks and itsss bad! Nothin even close to bars but im legally not allowed to take my script, any help? I simply do not want to be on paxil anymore, it is a horrible drug that only makes me krazier!

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my uncle just got 22 green xanen from a friend in stead of taking them to help him sleep hes been popping the,m like candy i think he ate all of them in the past 3 days hes making no sense telling me and my cousin he talked to us when he didnt and crazy stuff he flooded the kitchen cause he left the wasjing machine and sink on he goes in and outta sleep, he just ran out of them and now hes sleeping it off sholud i be worried about him having a seizuer or not waking up or is he gonna be ok since he hasnt been taking them that long, but he took alot in the past 3 days but he hasnt takin them in months and he told me that he was looking for his kidneys and he keeps asking me what day and year it is i just dont want him to have a seizure or not wake up is it ok cause its only been 2 days or should i be worried cause he eat 22 2 mgs and hes all out please let me know thanks

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Do you know if your friend ever found his Kidneys? Xanax is a wild medicine!

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My son just recently turned 25 years old and is living with his girlfriend. Just found out that he was into drugs real bad. I thought he had come clean with me when he told me that he smoke marijuana, but never realized all the other things he was doing until he went to celebrate his birthday.

His girlfriend took him out to the casino for a night of dancing and fun. Before you know it, he is wanting to fight her and choking her and telling her he is going to kill her. She said lucky for her that security was there to help because he probably would have killed her. Well, as the story goes he goes he calls me from the local jailhouse at 2:02am to tell me to come see him at the jailhouse, he just got arrested. He said his girlfriend's friend had busted him upside the head with a shoe and his head was split opened. ( I said he got what he deserved and he should have gotten more than that). He swears up and down that they arrested him for nothing. After doing my investigation I find out from the girlfriend that he had popped 6 Xanax pills, 2 bottle of syrup, smoked a few blunts and was mixing different alcohols that night (gin, crown, etc). Well go figure that says it all right there!

He is on probation and now currently sitting in jail. He sees his PO tomorrow and they will make a decision on what to do. He was on five years probation. Be mindful, I don't want to see my son in jail, but I strongly despised any man who puts his hands on a woman. I was abused in my previous marriage and I never understood how a man could hit on someone he calls himself loving. I spoke to his girlfriend and asked her to get out of the relationship before she gets hurts bad, but she refuses.

I want my son to spend time in jail for his actions, but at the same time I am wanting him to go and get help at a Re-hab facility. I do not want him to be released and go home and go back to his bad habits - That's why I am going to talk to his PO tomorrow. I am reading a lot of side effects and withdrawals symptons, and I can now see why he is the way he is. Never realized it was this serious!!! I am hoping he can get the help that he needs and hoping his girlfriend will come to her senses and see that love doesn't hurt.

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Hey guys well its 5am n here I m with ONE DAMN bar of Xanax left n don't wanna take it cuz I'm terrified I'll run out..I'm also right now doing a methadone detox so as some of u know, I'm up s***s creek w/o a paddle. Watery eyes, achy bones, etc. Sux cuz l'm only a 32 yr.. old female in Baltimore so everything's ez 2 get. I'm substituding suboxone for methadone, n I've Ben on 6mgs for 4yrs now of course, I take way more then that. My doc is a total d*** n won't raise me any higher. I guess that's a blessing in disguise I dunno? But it scares me cuz what a lot of u describe having on the 4th day w/o any Xanax, I have on the 1st day. Now THATS scary. What should I do? Any suggestions By chance?

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Xanax & Suboxone together will cause xseizures. I know this because I was on Suboxone to help get off Oxies. I didn't want to give up the zanax but after 1 seizure I have given up the Suboxone. Now to get off zanax would be a dream!

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You don't get it. You don't know what it's like to need something so bad and have it taken away from you. I WAS on xanax prescribed by my doctor. She took me off it, cold turkey. I was taking twice my regular dosage too. I'm sitting in my bathroom right now going f***ing crazy and my parents won't even give me any. We have every right to be angry. Druggies take xanax without prescriptions and when some body who has a prescription actually needs it, people look at us like we're insane. UNTIL YOU KNOW WHAT IT FEELS LIKE, REALLY FEELS LIKE, SHUT YOUR F***ING MOUTH.

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yes it is because of those an axe he needs to go to the doctor and get a prescription to wean myself off because that happened to me. I was just in the hospital for the same exact reasons. He could get really dehydrated and die from it. make sure he eats food & drinks a lot of fluids

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Change to a small a dose as possible of Valium,as it stays in your body longer and then try and slowely stop taking it.Good luck.

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Valium just doesn't address anxiety as well as Alprazolam

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I was prescribed xanax for panic when ITwas origiinally given. I took 6 mgs at a time, but what you must know anything past 4 mgs of xanax doesn't work. I have seen neurologists and psychiatrists. It never really controlled the panic. I discovered 12 years ago, by accident I was diagnosed with epilepsy. I was put on Keppra with a lower dose of xanax, and the panic stopped because unless you go for a video EEG in a hospital, then they can't determine if it is panic or epilepsy or non epileptic seizures; however every neurologist knows and there is a tremendous amount of neurological evidence out there that if a doctor prescribes the drug, and tells you to go cold turkey, then it is malpractice, and you can bring him/her up on charges because you will have life threatening seizures. Go to a neurologist and not a psychiatrist. It is only in your mind if you think that past 4mgs will help you. I know I went through it. Even if you are on medicaid, only go to a neurologist, not a psychiatrist, who will help you with any problems. Don't drink liquor or self medicate because you will hurt yourself in the end, and find out about this med. Look up the words GABA, AMYGDALA in the brain because it explains the physiological aspects of the drug. Don't go to drug counselors, LCSWS, psychiatrists or regular mds. Go to those , who know the most, neurologists. Also look up the word ictal anxiety. Don't take opiates for pain or anti inflammatory drugs. Find out the cause. There is an office in every state. If a doctor is prescribing this drug, and doesn't have a rational answer or if you are taken off it right away, cold turkey, then report the doctor to The Office for Professional Medical Misconduct. Once the doctors and psychiatrists are reported, then the abuse will stop because they will lose their license to practice.Furthermore, you must go to a doctor to receive a medication, and most of all be honest with your healthcare providers

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6 Mgs of Xanax is a hefty dose. I don't agree that you wouldn't feel anything if you took more than that. However the withdrawal effect will be that much harder. I am on 3 mg a day, my doctor doubled my dose so I could have extras, and now I have more extras than anyone could use. I also cut my dosage from 3 mg to 2 mg after smashing my head, twice! However the longer you take Xanax, the less effective it will work.

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Sounds to me like OnMeds is addicted, abusing, and in denial.

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Please listen to me, I almost thought I was going to go insane or even die at one point from panic attacks and generalized anxiety. It was ruining my life. Aim a male at I was young, with a beautiful girlfriend and I had impotence. I was spiraling out of control. Took myself to a psychologist, which I did not want to do. I knew it was a deal killer for life insurance, all kinds of things. The stigma is and still can be horrific, but it saved my life. I calmed down over time, I still take 2.5 mg per day 24 years later. I have asked four different doctors if I should get off this drug slowly under a watchful professional. They have all said "No", because I have reduced the GABA in my brains much, that is the natural human anti anxiety hormone. They are all afraid my anxiety will become untenable again. I went on to retire as an Executive Officer 29 years of stressful work, got married, had and raised a son with my wonderful wife, have a nice home, a pension, have coached sports at the highest level of High School, I mean college scholarship players. Yes, this drug can be very dangerous if you stop cold turkey. Yes, some young doctors are against prescribing it, like some will not prescribe birth control or cough syrup with codeine. They are WRONG. Get a better doctor, one without prejudices that are not taught in medical school, just learned on their own narrow minds. I am not proud that I am on this drug or have been for so long, I wish I had never required it. But I did and I am convinced it saved my job, relationships, my life.

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Im 46 $ have been taking 2-3 zany bars a day for a year or so now & the x-wife doesn't want me around my kids anymore, even though the dr. prescribed them cause I am on SSI for very bad anxiety, depression & bi-polar. thing is, she didn't even know I was on then until she saw bottle cause I took I in morning & I at night. now she tells me she wants me out of the house. what do I can about this issue. please no wise cracks i have 3 kids i love to death & once i leave she will not let me se them anymore & my 11yr old boys worships me ass do i him.

HELP

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Um, its your house too? If you truly have these symptoms then you need to take medicine. You wife has no business telling you what you can take. Does she know about your problems and that you are on SSI. You are probably able for food stamps and other programs as well!

This medicine, is it prescribed by a Doctor or are you getting it off the street?

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