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Benzos Xanax Rebound Anxiety

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jen5276

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Hi all, I am new here. Hopefully someone could help me with my problem....

I have been on Xanax for years (since 2004). I take the lowest dose possible (.25 mg/day). If I am under a lot of stress, I sometimes up the dose.

I did that last week because I had a dentist appointment for a wisdom tooth extraction that I was super stressed about. I upped my dosage to about 1mg a day for the whole week. I had the tooth pulled on Friday.

I went back to my regular dose (.25 mg) on Saturday and noticed that I have been very tense. Also experiencing awful insomnia since Saturday.

I am wondering if this is rebound anxiety and hopefully once my body gets used to my regular dose, I will feel back to normal.

Anyone else experience anything like this??

TIA for any help and pleased to meet you all. :)
 
I have never been on a benzo for a sustained amount of time, other than 1 week binges of 100mg etizolam here and there, but 1 week of upping your dose is a very short time. I wouldn't expect you to expereince rebound anxiety but if you are and it is an issue why don't you go to .5mg for a couple of days then drop down?

Or preferable just stick it out as you are surely going to be back to normal Very soon
 
I am surprised too that after such a short period of time, I am experiencing this anxiety and insomnia, but I can't imagine what else would be causing it.....
 
yeah it does seem like far too short a time for this to happen.

Maybe the pain meds you are taking are causing it? (assuming you were given meds and you are taking them obivously)
 
Actually, the dentist gave me Vicodin but I haven't had to take any because the pain wasn't so bad. Nothing that a few Advil couldn't knock out....
 
i use like 180mg of xanax in 4 to 7 days every month then i'm out till next month i know i need to stop but the point is i experience some bad rebound anxiety for like a week after so it could be the xanax don't know for sure though
 
I agree with taking 0.5mg if the problem persists, and then return to 0.25mg once you are ready.

Did they knock you out for the procedure, because maybe they gave you more benzos there which are contributing to the rebound anxiety.
 
I agree too.
Just scale it down until .25mg becomes comfortable again.
And well done on not taking any of those Vicodin, I'm sure there are not many of us here on BL that would be able to stick to Advil knowing that there was Vicodin at the ready.
Especially for therapuetic use.
They might come in handy at some point so stash them away for a rainy day.
 
Tommyboy said:
I agree with taking 0.5mg if the problem persists, and then return to 0.25mg once you are ready.

Did they knock you out for the procedure, because maybe they gave you more benzos there which are contributing to the rebound anxiety.
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Actually, they didn't knock me out...just Novicaine 8(
 
In my opinion it certainly is possible to experience rebound anxiety when you quadruple your dose for a whole week (and I'm not sure why you'd do this BEFORE the dentist appointment because then on the day of your appointment, you'll have built some tolerance to the 1mg dose...) and then drop immediately down to 0.25mg, as a long-term benzodiazepine user I certainly could possibly feel physical discomfort if I did something like that if you have been taking the same 0.25mg dose for a long time.

I've noticed long-term users of benzodiazepines who do not consistently take the same dose are more tolerant to these fluctuations in dosing. So YMMV.
 
tricomb said:
In my opinion it certainly is possible to experience rebound anxiety when you quadruple your dose for a whole week (and I'm not sure why you'd do this BEFORE the dentist appointment because then on the day of your appointment, you'll have built some tolerance to the 1mg dose...) and then drop immediately down to 0.25mg, as a long-term benzodiazepine user I certainly could possibly feel physical discomfort if I did something like that if you have been taking the same 0.25mg dose for a long time.

I've noticed long-term users of benzodiazepines who do not consistently take the same dose are more tolerant to these fluctuations in dosing. So YMMV.
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You are right, I shouldn't have gone up in dose before the appointment the way I did, but I have a major phobia of dentists and I was honestly a nervous wreck the whole week. I won't be doing that again, that's for sure.
 
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