Long Term High Dose Xanax Effects (Page 6)

I began taking Xanax in 1982. I have been abusing it more and more over the years. I can now take 14 mg and not even tell it. I can stop taking it with no withdrawals. It's like I am immune to it. For the past two years I have been experiencing a lack of cognition, forgetfullness, and general fatigue. It does not matter if I stop the Xanax for a couple of months, I feel like the deficit is permanent. Can Xanax lead to permanent brain damage?

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Hey all, first time posting on this site, reminds me of drugbuyers. i been an addicted to xanax and opiates for 10 years or so. Been in and out of detoxes,detoxed on my own.Yes i know all the dangers of xanax wds!! About 2months after i started takin xa nax daily i was taking like 20 bars a day, yea 40mg + 250 to 300mg of hydrocodone. How in the hell can anyone develop a tolerance that big in 2 months? Its crazy. Then maybe 8 months l8ter started doin oxycontin 20's 4-6 at a time,on top of everythig else, but the OC's was just occasionally.. anyway..long story short.I been up and down in my dosages and 4 last 4and a half yrs been gettin 90 bars a month and 12mg
Of suboxone a day 45 8mg pills a month from the same Dr. That treated me in the last 28 day detox/rehab i was in. I take the sub right,most dÃys only take 8mg suboxone. Xanax is totally oposite. I could take all 90 barz in 3 days easy, but i dont. Honestly i try my best to make em last as long as 0ossible but they never last longer than about 12-13 days, then the rest of the month i get wat i can. If I'm lucky 4mg a day. But i am misserable unless i can take atleast 16mg a day. Ànd now he wants me to check back in to a detox then to a 90 day rehab. Last time i seen him he called in my scripts with 1 refill and didn't schedule me a apointment. WHAT DO I DO??? I AM TRIPPIN OUT TO SAY THE LEAST. Any advice???

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I would try to get a hold of him and ask exactly what is going on. It could just be a misunderstang seeing as doctors see so many patients. Either way Your Dr can't just cut you off of Xanax since you can die from the withdrawal. If I were you I would call him asap and find out exactly what is going on and if he doesn't want to see you any longer find a new doctor and explain what happened. I have cut down to 5 bars a day but still have to call my dr with an excuse why I can't make it to my next appointment since I'm only prescribed 3 and where I usually got them on the side has disapeared. My girlfriend is calling around trying to find me a sub doctor today since i have two weeks left and got them from the same guy as my extra xanax. Back to your xanax though even if the worst thing happened and you ran out they would give you some if you went to the er and probably a different dr.

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Thanks joe 4 responding. I have thought about that,calling him.honestly i want to get off xanax.. the only problem is all the detox centers around here cant detox me right cuz of my dosage. Iwas gonna tell u go to suboxone.com and you can find a dr. In your area.the first time i went to a sub doc in 05 there wasnt that many of them, docters but now there are a bunch.

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My girlfreind has helped me out and talked to 2 different places with sub doctors willing to help. They seem to be giving me a hard time making an appointment since I'm uninsured though but having her help me and basically be willing to pay anything to find a dr will help. She even got me on her insurance now but it doesn't go into effect until January. In a way I wish I could completley quit xanax but I have a really bad case of social anxiety disorder and can barley leave the house until I found it. I know in the long run it will cause problems (actually with the rate science is moving at anything is possible) but I'm willing to deal with some problems to be able to live a somewhat normal life. Right now I want more than anything to get off of these subs. I think finding a dr will cut my anxiety in half just knowing I can do it at my pace.

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Ashley benzos is a narcotic also. But anyway where did u get that info opiates don't speed up ur heart. I have taken all of them except oxymorphone.

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OMG! reading these posts makes me cry! I've been fighting my daughters dependency and abuse of Xanax for years. I can't get her to see she desperately needs professional help. she's abuse OxyContin and various other drugs at different times but ends up back with the Xanax. she's been using it daily for "anxiety" and many times she seems fine but then she gets more and has been known to take 40 pills in 24 hours. she's done the usual addict talk with promises, excuses, lies. blame, etc..I used to think...finally she'll get some help but never does. she fights with her boyfriend and I end up in the middle somehow, actually he has called me for help but then wants to do things himself. this past week was the end for me...they had a fight. she flipped, he left when she fell asleep, she calls me! I told him not to get me in the middle if he's just going to go back in 2 days and make me the bad guy again. oooh no he says, he sees how bad she is and hell do what I suggest. I talked to her, had rehab numbers for her to call but that wuss was back there again filling her head with BS...now, she's 37. he's 39...3 kids..16, 14, and 2...the older kids know, I've talked to them and they agree she needs help..the 14. yo won't go back until she gets help. idiot BF has told me he has checked her breathing, he's found pills all over the floor, etc. I know I had her convinced to get help, told her I cannot go on like this anymore and don't want to see her or talk to her until she calls for a ride to rehab! I'm so angry at her BF right now that dirt bag undermined me after saying her do what needed to be done!! what's in it for him to keep her. from getting help??? his dirty little secrets he can't let people know and be knows if she gets better, he's out he's almost 40. been going to school for 20 years, part time, no degree and doesn't work!! this is sooo bad they fool doctors and lie so much, she stole these last pills from someone!

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i feel ur pain...im actully withdrawling as we speak ive never been prescribed xanax but ive been abusing it since i turned 22 and im 28 now and its ruined my life..a big part of it anyways..im so sick...but i'll go on binges with the drug like for 2 months straight to 6 months last year i was on it for almost 10 months straight and i tried to quit cold turkey and on day 6 of being off of em i cant even recall any of this but alls i know is i woke up with paramedics all around me on my living room floor my husband kneeling above me crying my kids cryin tellin me i just went in to a horrible seizure...the whole neighborhood outside ...wondering what happend as i got rolled out on a strecher i didnt know how old i was i didnt know anything i didnt even know who the president was and the hospital just told me dont be taking other pples xanax and sent me home a few hours later....it was scarry ...and i stayed clean for like 7 months after that and then one day i was cleaning and found 3 triple bars that i had hidden and forgotten and the addiction is so strong i couldnt resist....and i was on a roll again,,i when i get high i completley change im very quiet and shy i dont go many places,,but as soon as they kick in i wanna go run around go the bars i wanna drink...and at first i feel great..but after days on em im so out there i dont even know what goin on or what im doing,,and the withdrawl and side effects are so horrible...and i know whats comin pure hells on the way...it got so bad that my periodscompletley stopped i thought i was pregnant cause ive never missed a period..but it was the xanax that did it..i have extreme weightloss cause i cant eat have no appitite im sick to my stomach..i feel like im gona vomit constantley i sweat so bad and freeze at the same time cold sweats..im so dizzy..and i cant see rite out of my eyes im shaky and i have muscle cramps in my calves wakes me up in a dead sleep both of my legs well the calves in my legs and my stomach muscles do it to where i have to stand up real quick to try and make it go away...and the insomnia is one of the worst i have it rite now today has been my 7th day clean after a 2 month binge...thats just some of the physical then theres the mental...i have horrific nightmares and then im confused on whats real...i have way major anxiety attacks...i feel like hopelesness and sorrow...i feel like killin myself...i cant quit crying and feeling horrible guilt...i have delushional thinkin there was evilness in my home,,demons...scared to use the bathroom cause i was thinkin there was someone hiding behind the shower curtain..i get where im losing my mind...this drug need to be banned and should never be given to no one...i want help so bad but i dont have the money or insurance to get in a rehab i never want to take it again....the things i do are just horrible....i dont care about nothing...my poor husband benn living in hell....ive cheated on him blowed away....its sickning...omg...i hate myself so much..i dont care about my kids when im on them all i care about is getting more.......drugs...i just hate myself i am so sorry i pray to god to forgive me...cause i dont want to be this way....my tolerence is so high now i have to take at least 5 to 7 bars at a time then through out the day and nite i take more......then the next day i have to get more ...sleeze bag guys know my addiction so they keep givin em to me thinkin their gona get luckey....its just a sick cycle..im done though ive been withdrawlin cold turkey now 7 days with no seizures and once i get passed this... no more... please dont take this drug it will destroy who u really are i barley remember most of my twentys........god please help me

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I don't know if this is a support group to quit or a support group to find ways to keep using...anything. The war on drugs is real at least from your family's viewpoint bug I think what would make a bigger impact with trying to reach kids to not get where all of you are would be to step up and fess up, talk to kids at risk and tell them how bad this really is and how hard it is to quit, the things you've lost...jobs, friends, family, etc! Please....try to make a difference by helping others by speaking out. I know some if you probably think you function well and "no one knows" your secrets but I assure you. they know. IDK, I just read these posts and think ...is there hope my daughter can stop? or am I hoping for a list cause? prayers to you all..,

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Can i ask what your daughter is hooked on? When it comes to not knowing if these post are from people trying to get better or drug seekers it is meant to help but it can be taken advantage of too. When i went into rehab to get off of Xanax since I was taking it illegally ten years ago they found that it was helping my panic disorder so they kept me on it. In the outpatient rehab is where i became friends with people who were there just to find connections and i started using opiates up to heroin before i got onto suboxone to quit a little over a year ago. I cut ties with old friends and now the only "illegal" drug i use now is marijuana. Your daughter will have to truly want to quit her drug of choice in order for it to really happen and be willing to give up a lot of her perdonal life.

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my daughter will use what she can get her hands on...started with oxy, progressed to heroin, BF got arrested, she did 4 months in jail. when she got out she got pregnant and was the best I've seen her in years...looked good, acted a whole lot better and I thought it was a turning point for us all. but its been another downward spiral... Xanax is her drug of choice, last bender she stole about 50 pills from a friend. with these "benders" she's out of it for at least 2 weeks, this most recent she was violent, trashing the apartment. She has 3 kids, middle one chose to be with me until her mother gets help. BF told me he supported me but went back to doing what he usually does bcuz he's got a problem and he sells whatever he can get..suboxone and more recently rumored to have GHB in the mix, using and selling. as hard as it is for me, I've told her I don't want to watch this anymore, dragged into middle then made out to be the bad guy cuz I don't accept nor support their substance abuse. it's been a long soul search for mr and I have to think of my health., both physically, emotionally and mentally as well as my grandaughters. They think I forced her to come to my house as they think she hasn't seen or doesn't know about their usage but they have under estimated her...she's know for quite some time. I haven't given my daughter money in a long time and she doesn't live with me but its when she "can't" or "won't" or "forgets" to pi k up her kids and asks what's the big deal? is it such a problem for you to give the kids rides? then comes the "you're never there for me" the ONE time I'm asked, etc BS. I've offered to help her get help, I've given her phone numbers for rehabs, etc and she has admitted she needs/wants help and I believe her but thus has been a long painful journey for me and the kids and I'm at a place where I know there is nothing I can do and I can't or won't believe she's getting hp until she's in a recovery program. I know the reason she acts and talks the way she, treats me ghe way she does is bcuz of the drugs, I'm not mad at her. I am a bit pissed at the BC for his role thus last time but I also understand he had a problem also, just better at functioning. prayers to you all

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It already has, just by the way your talking

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hello, i have undectable cirrhosis i take xanax 1mg 2 times per day for the last 7yrs. so far tests still show undectable cirrhosis. will it affect me in the long run

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Shaw33nin:
Your idea that you can come off Xanax so fast is not just wrong but positively dangerous. I have known people (and I include myself, who was given a medically atrocious, dangetously short, 21 day detox on entering prison,) to suffer benzo withdrawal syndrome delayed for more than three months; it is possible just to feel anxiety of the rebound kind for that long then suddenly BANG! you enter straight into a full-on BZD w/d.
I repeat my advice. Never, ever stop taking.nenzos suddenly or over as short a period as a month, especially the stronger ones and those with short half lives. The exception is triazolam, but that would take a page to explain pharmacologically. You MUST transfer onto a BZD with desmethyldiazepam (nordazepam) as active metabolite, giving a half life of up to 250 hours. Diazepam is the obvious drug of choice. Detox must take no less than six months.
And I repeat, for the absolutely perfect and the safest, mist comfortable detox with least chance of loss.of life or the development of dangerous epileptic episodes, STICK TO THE REGIMEN OUTLINED IN THE ASHTON MANUAL, the ONLY really safe detox you should do. The worst offendimg BZDs are alprazolam, lorazepam, oxazepam and clonazepam. Proper substitution therapy is a must. Find the Manual at benzo.org.uk
Take a note of this. It is the most important website of all for every person habituated to BZDs and who wishes to come off, or even to cut their dosage by more than 50%. Prof Ashton is the worlds leading authority on benzos and their effects and withdrawal. What she doesn't know doesn't exist, what she says is the path to follow if you wish to withdraw without problems.
The Ashton Manual.
Never forget it.

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Let me all tell you something. Yes I am on xanax, BUT I just went through 2 weeks of HELLLLLLL. I got sick from my oxycodone. I had severe Pelvic Ilies, In Plain english I was full of s***. I had severe edema in my legs and feet. I was in the hospital 7 times in 10 days, all because the paramedics lost my bag of meds, Yeah right probably stole them, and I was forced into detox, because my pain management Dr. would not refill my script. SOOOOOOOO What I am asking is this. I am going to create a petition online at change.org, and the petition is going to be that is any Dr. can write a script for any addictive or chemically dependent drug ie; xanax, oxycodone, etc. They should be responsible for taking that patient off of them at an exceptable rate of time. I am so pissed, I am still trying to recover and it's not right. It's not fair for the ones, like myself who should be treated like drug addicts, when we have legitimate reasons to be taking these medications. When I get it together I will post a link and hopefully you will all sign and pass it around. WE MUST TAKE CONTROL, The Government is trying to kill us. Look at our food. All the chemicals, girls maturing at 8 and 9 yrs old. Come on people we have to wake it up. As for your daughter I will pray for her, and if she needs a friend I AM HERE FOR ANYONE, ANYTIME, day or night. You can email me at xxxxx@xxx {edited for privacy}

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you wont die form xanex, no one ever dies form benzo overdose alone, only when its in combination with any other CNS depressant will it kill you. codene will on the other hand kill you by itself

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You first say you can stop taking it after 30 years and you feel no withdrawals, then you say you feel a 'deficit' as if something is missing. Pal...if you take 14 milligrams a day....and you say you can stop on a dime and have NO WITHDRAWALS [which I find hard to believe] then why do you take it at all? If you are abusing it like you said, you have a problem with it. You are in STRONG DENIAL......

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You first say you can stop taking it after 30 years and you feel no withdrawals, then you say you feel a 'deficit' as if something is missing. Pal...if you take 14 milligrams a day....and you say you can stop on a dime and have NO WITHDRAWALS [which I find hard to believe] then why do you take it at all? If you are abusing it like you said, you have a problem with it. You are in STRONG DENIAL......

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Wild thread, plenty of morons have graced the pages of Prescription Drug Info it seems? At my last forum everyone was praying for each other and making wild claims about Jesus & Xanax. This thread is funnier though!

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When it comes to Xanax and withdrawal....Jesus has always had the day off for me...

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