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Benzos Quick Question About Xanax

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Thizzer50000

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In the morning I take half a Xanax bar & I get high but I just took 12MG of Xanax & I don't feel anything. It's been thirty minutes. Does anyone know why I don't have the same effects anymore? I used to have a tolerance but I was off for 2 months. I find it weird that I don't feel a buzz. Before I would have to take 50MG to feel something. Does anyone have an answer for this?
 
It usually takes at least 30 minutes for me to feel the effects of benzo's and I reach my peak in about an hour. I guess that even with your tolerance you'll be fairly barred out soon.

Also, I gotta agree with captain. Not sure what his acceptable uses for benzo's are but personally I use them for three different reasons mainly: easing an overly intense psychedelic trip, as a comedown softener and also just to relax and be social without the twitchiness of stimulants.
 
I have Em prescribed for my anxiety disorder but sometimes I wanna recreational use Em. Lately they black me out or give that lazy relax feeling. I feel like wanting to do stuff
 
In my experience, tolerance to benzos is a two-part thing. There's the physical tolerance to the chemical, which will lower in time, but there also seems to be a point where you just become "used" to the effects and therefore it takes a higher dose to get the same feeling you used to. I also find on some days benzos will do sweet fuck all, and other days I will get completely munted on far less.

Also, for harm reduction reasons, I suggest that you don't take 12mg of Alprazolam again. For one, unless you have a mighty tolerance, that is a shitload. Xanax -- although shortlasting -- is a very strong benzo, and you can end up getting completely shitfaced and do really stupid things. I ended up in jail for 6 months because I didn't know what I was doing and ended up in someone else's house with a very angry flat full of students who thought I was a burglar. Secondly, a sure-fire way to get a habit and skyrocket your physical dependency/tolerance is to take large doses of benzos, especially when you're already using them daily for medication.

Maybe some of this is incorrect but I'm going from personal experience and my knowledge of benzos isnt as eclectic as it is with opioids so if I'm giving bad advice I'd love to be corrected.

Stay safe,
-OCD
 
I've learned the hard way too many times to be careful with taking large benzo doses. Whether it's due to a blackout and doing something stupid, to getting completely crinkled and making an ass of myself or getting such a wicked tolerance that when I ran out of benzos, I went through horrible w/d's. When I had benzo w/d's I learned the hardest way possible not to screw around with large doses. Benzos are the biggest double-edged sword out there: they can be incredibly useful, or they can completely fuck you over in several ways, all of them really nasty.
 
Thizzer50000 said:
In the morning I take half a Xanax bar & I get high but I just took 12MG of Xanax & I don't feel anything.
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Okay... If you only take half of a Xanax bar, what would posses you to take 12MG? Are you bored? Man, your benzo tolerance is fucking insane.. Just be careful, aye?

One of the biggest things I've come to notice about Xanax, and only Xanax. Is that you never feel that fucked up. I mean, you can be on black-out mode, and you still think you're good to keep going. So, you keep popping your pills.

Next thing you know, you wake up a day and a half later, with all kinds of stupid shit bought that you don't need, a huge dent in the hood of your car, absolutely no pills....
....& you can't remember a damn thing that happened.
 
First off, why take 12mg of xanax at once, that's 6 2mg bars! And secondly, is that a typo in your post or did you seriously used to take 50 mg at one time to "feel" anything?! That is possibly the most insane benzo tolerance I have ever heard of.
 
I used to pop upwards of 150-250mg alprazolam daily, although I had been on benzos for ten years.

Bezodiazepines are not toys, they are tools. My bro Tripman put it perfectly the other day: If you have any hope for a drug to be therapeutic then using it for recreation is not an option.
 
Hiltoniano said:
First off, why take 12mg of xanax at once, that's 6 2mg bars! And secondly, is that a typo in your post or did you seriously used to take 50 mg at one time to "feel" anything?! That is possibly the most insane benzo tolerance I have ever heard of.
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No my friend it was not a typo. I actually did take 50mg of alprazolam. Maybe 60. I was taking em like skittles. I did get a high off of it but not the usual high. I feel like I want to do things. Like motivation. & yess at time it makes me wanna do stupid stuff but I know better & don't. I think being prescribed 60 2mg per month for 8 months made me have an extremely high tolerance. I'm taking 22mg today & if I don't get the high I like. I'm done with xanax. I also never went through withdrawals ill get some withdrawal feelings but everything goes away & I feel better in a week or 2. Must be cuz I'm prescribed to paxil.
 
tricomb said:
I used to pop upwards of 150-250mg alprazolam daily, although I had been on benzos for ten years.

Bezodiazepines are not toys, they are tools. My bro Tripman put it perfectly the other day: If you have any hope for a drug to be therapeutic then using it for recreation is not an option.
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That is a lot of alprazolam. Wow. I'm surprised you are still not zombified.
 
^damn tricomb that is ridiculous. Just curious, what led to you taking that much? I mean I know tolerance builds, but wasn't there some time where you just said damn this is way too much xanax to be taking all day every day. Idk good to hear you made it through that stage of your life. Withdrawing or even tapering from that much must have been hell on earth!
 
^I know you're asking Tricomb, but I just wanted to add my own experience:

Just curious, what led to you taking that much? I mean I know tolerance builds, but wasn't there some time where you just said damn this is way too much xanax to be taking all day every day.
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That was the very thing that got me in trouble with benzos - there wasn't any point where I thought I was taking too much. There wasn't much thought at all. I had a supply and it just got to a point where it was easier to take them than not. And like the OP said, when I took double or triple the usual amount, I believed that there was no more effect than usual. I used alprazolam, diazepam, clonazepam, and etizolam on different days of the week - sometimes on the same day, and frequently without remembering the actual dosing.

And although my short-lived habit of a few months is nothing compared to some people's experience on here, I will also reiterate what Tricomb said about benzo PAWS - they drag on and on and are so insidious that I didn't recognise them for what they were. It took a solid three months after the last taper dose for me to feel as though I had woken up from my binge and during those months I had all manner of psychological glitches I never knew possible.

It's been said many, many times by people far more experienced than myself in the matter, but it's worth saying many, many times more:

do not abuse benzodiazepines.
 
Exactly, after a while you don't even notice the numbers anymore, the only way I know I took around 200mg is I would regularly eat a 100 count bottle of 2mg pills, I was getting like a 100 count bottle every other day basically.

What lead me to use? It's very personal but I'll just say PTSD from trauma and debilitating anxiety and insomnia (i didnt take xanax for insomnia though or I would wake up in the night in WD, I had temazepam for that, another benzo with HORRIBLE withdrawals but a longer half life).
 
200mg?? Holy s**t balls, i cant imagine eating that much alpraz in one sitting, that must be nearing a toxic amount surely?
 
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