What Happens When You Withdrawl From Xanax (Page 3)

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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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No sh*t...! I totally agree! I get a script of 1mg xanax I take 3 a day and do not run out. Just like u said, if you weren't abusing them, you wouldn't run out!! take a look in the mirror... and then say "addict" .......... WOW.

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hey there! my brother has been addicted to xanax for 8 years he's had one episode during the first 6 years... he is currently cutting the dosage slowly although he is currently at 1mg per day and is experiencing paranoia this instance thinking either cops or gangsters following him.... im not sure as a younger sibling how to deal with this situation... what do i do? so far im reassuring him that nobody is following him but its not working any input would be great thankyou!

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First thing, you are trained nor expected to make a decision regarding your brother and Xanax. You need to have him see an M.D.? Xanax can make you hallucinate while withdrawal. Its like a slow death! Let us know how it works out but this can be very serious!

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3 days later he has been taken to hospital who knows what other medications there going to put him on, f***en corrupt pharmaceutical industry

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Went cold turkey on 6 60mg oxy, and 6 perks a day, but I cannot get off the Xanax , been on all the meds for ten years, desperate to get off Xanax, what can I do?? I tried to quit but keptt getting the s*** zapped outta me , jus couldn't do it taki ng 5 mg a day please help,anyone????

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Of course I understand I need them just to walk to the.laundry room..its awful I take ten to fourteen mgs a day and thats a little bit than im used to...scared to be without and today is the day

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That is Sickening. I was just hit by a 40 Ton Semi Truck, refused any Narcotics, and read about your 10 to 14 mg a day of Xanax. I have 4000 mg here at the house, and take about 2 a day.

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Help! I want to get off xanex, I have 4 pills left! Scared! Can I do it on my own? Ian also a diabetic.

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I had my first seizure at 24 I was driving I was taking quite a few 2mg but stopped em for a week n that's when I had my first seizure
so i chilled. Out to 1 mg but I tk a few so that doesn' count well I had a second seizure I'm done w that drug I can't drive I have to depend on pl this has changed my life completely I start nursing I'm a few days since I've stopped the xaxax entirely will I always have them will I always be on depakote

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I have Anxiety Disorder N.O.S. and i have been on 8 mg of xanax per day for a while now. Tried tons of other anti anxiety meds but the benzos only seem to work for me. I had an appointment with my psych for Jan 16th 2014 to get a refill and my Dr. wasn't at his office! This was the 2nd time that he blew off one of my appointments! His voice mail box is always full and he has NEVER called me back or emailed me since I have been seeing him for just over a year now. I HAD to make an appointment with my Primary Care Physician to get my scripts filled but now i feel as though I need to find a new, more reliable psych. I mean, couldn't i have had a seisure and died by suddenly stopping the xanax? I am so stressed out right now looking into finding a new psych. and one that isn't against prescribing xanax. I don't know what to do...

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Unless you have to see a specialist go with the primary doctor if he or she will provide your meds. It sounds like your specialist is a horrible M.D., and yes you could have died. 8 mg a day is about 4 times the death threshold. Withdrawal from as little as 2 mg can get you very sick or cause death. glad you got your meds!

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uhm... it seems like someone is currently going through withdrawals. how does others using xanax get in the way of you getting what you are prescribed? you just wanted to state an opinion that was initially irrelevant. 1. this peron is asking for help. 2. who cares about what YOU are prescribed. 3... i feel like you just wrote that comment because you are in the same boat as everyone else. its just your doctor is your "legal" dealer. either way, the its deadly.

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I need to talk to you, im feeling exactly same way, they are making this stupid rule of taking it off the market here very soon and tapering evryone off it as of people who have abused it, now evryone has to go off it we all have to go through withdrawels soon and nothing will work better and its going to feel like s***, we didnt get it in a bottle shop or off the street ! we were given it by shrinks or GPs and put our trust in them for our condition to be treated we didnt ask to be put on this but they left us on it for so long and now they decide to pull the pin if it was so bad why were we put on it in the first place! its a horror drug known to doctors it may as well be H! yet they are the ones who prescribed we didnt ask for it or get it illegally, others who abuse it have casued this drug to be withdrwan and frowned on by the whole medical profession, now we with mental problems are beeing treated like druggies instead of genuine people just needing help for a condition of anxiety !

evryone you go to frowns on you instead of helping you, i feel neglected and pissed off at medical profession they are hipocrits, there are more problems with alcholcol and ciggies etc and drugs off the street, and noone told us of this horror drug for the last 20 years, my quality of life has not been any good as of beeing neglected by doctors or left on a drug they now wip away form you after this long with it beeing so highly addcitive this should have been NEVER GIVEN IN THE FIRST PLACE if it was such a bad drug !!! it has helped me somewhat and i dont abuse it but it has never really fixed me and its just a bandaid fix.

i think that we deserve some kind of compensation for this as after 20 years it aint too easy to come off if they now decide to pull the pin, if we get sick now whose fault is that really ?? surely not ours as we didnt get this off the street by some drug dealer! if anyone feels same pleas lets chat, and yes your right its becasue of abusers we get treated the same when we have had it for genuine condition hardly fair !! and hardly fair to be frowned on and treated the same away as some druggy off the street when we have just gone to doctor for mental issues in the first place and asked them to help us not ruin our lives by negelct or putting us on drug that is too hard to come off!!!

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You give a great description of the withdrawal symptoms, but your not as positive as you should be. Nobody has said, and I'm sure it varies, as to how long the peak symptoms last when you stop cold turkey. I've stopped five days ago and can bear witness to the paranoid side effects. It seems that you could stay with major withdrawal symptoms for as long as two months. I've been at the three mg pace for 4 years, script for anxiety, and it is very hard to break. Bless you all.

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Me too

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Gizzy, it was the 2nd week that almost caused death. While I could have written a book as each day of withdrawal was different, and although I made it to an ER on week 2, it was almost too late!

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Eddy, glad your ok. I was asking these questions about Xanax mainly. My problem was pain meds as well. I was on pain meds for over a year because of severe back pain, all the way up to MS 120 mg XR. I had back successful back surgery in July, so I've tried to come off that level of pain med. the Drs are not always the smartest kids on the block and in some cases they are legal dealers, lol. It's been 12 days off pain meds and a week off Xanax. Went to Dr yesterday and he said my biggest problem were the pain meds, not Xanax, that was screwing me up with bad withdrawals. However, he prescribed .5 Lorazepam and 30mg Temazepam because I have not slept for 12 days. I had to up their dose a little, sorry Doc but I finally got some sleep. I think pain meds are far worse than Xanax, but you do have to take some patient responsibility and try and take control of you. They would hand me more pain meds and I would give it back. I'm doing better now, have the runs still, but I'm going to make it. My anxiety level remains high still, hopefully sleep will help, but it remains to be seen how I'll be when I run out of the afore mentioned script. God Bless all of you.

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Believe it or not, the benzodiazepine will always triumph Pain meds when it comes to withdrawal. Your Doctor does not seem to fully grasp this problem?

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Some people do what they have to do to stay in a mood you feel with 3 a day, that's great that that is all you need, but people who "Have" to take a very large dose to feel as you do with 3, not all are junkies! Different folks, Different strokes! Don't bash people you have no idea of their situation, their may not be a better alternative or they already tried all the different meds for this.

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"Pissed off" what country are you from? I've never heard of any news that Xanax was going to be removed from the market, your Doc may have said that, but that's their way of being sneaky about things that they want to wean you off, they say something like that so you can't argue or explain your situation, it's their way of stopping people to please not wean them off.. Good luck

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