Benzos Xanax, Oxy and Promethazine...will it kill me?

[Oxy8_8]

Wait...in another post you said your dad was so mad about your lack of treatment for anxiety he took you to a private doctor who is scripting the xanax? I'm confused.

But yeah I think your xanax dose is a bit high, you hear things on BL about people taking ridic amounts of it but that's not something the average person can do.

Anyways sounds like you already did it.

Sorry for the confusion. Yes, he did. But as you know, doctors only use benzos in the very short term.
Within weeks I was being tapered off.

I hate being took off. I missed not getting anxious and having panic attacks, I missed just having them as a safety net. Sometimes just KNOWING I had a Xana on me if I needed it helped.

So I basically thought "fuck this shit" when he - or any other doctor - refused to prescribe.

I bought some 0.5mg alprazolam. Should I halve them and take 0.25 or even quarter them? Less than 0.25 just seems silly, though.

Would 0.25mg three times a day be good? Or even twice a day? I heard you had to take them 3 or 4 ties a day.

 

[thesameoldfears]

Oh okay, that ^ clears it up.

I know what you mean about just knowing you have the pills helping with the symptoms. I get tension/cluster headaches and the panic when one have nothing to take really makes things escalate.

If you're not getting a consistent script, could you just take them as needed? I wouldn't recommend getting yourself dependent on xanax if there's a possibility you won't have a reliable source for as long as you want. Xanax is fast acting so it would work at the onset of panic/anxiety.

 

[Oxy8_8]

i'm going to second what a lot of people have said on here & say that xanax is a little bit of a tricky thing to be playing around with... my mom & i are both rx'd .25mgs twice a day as needed for anxiety & we both have gone through periods of tolerance creeping up higher than what it should be... i've never taken more than 1.5mgs in a day, but only because i stopped myself from getting my tolerance even higher. i brought it back down & now i take maybe .5mgs in a day on an average day for anxiety, but i take days off frequently to ensure it still works well at that dosage when i need it too. i've never gone through hardcore benzo withdrawal, but i have gone through opiate withdrawal (more than once) & after reading about how life-threatening benzo withdrawal is on BL, i never ever want to experience it for myself.

i'd take days off with the xanax when you can, maybe use it every other day or every third day, or take a couple days off & a couple days on, whatever you find works best for you. it's just really easy to let your tolerance get higher & higher without you consciously realizing it.

be careful, we all care about you!!!

Thank you so much for the lovely post!

I'm going to go with your advice and take 0.25mg twice daily (when I wake up and in the evening). I'll increase the frequency to 3x daily if needed and will try to skip doses or even whole days whenever I can.
Some days I will try and just take the xanax first thing in the morning and add 25mg promethazine to my oxy mid-afternoon and 50mg promethazine with my oxy before bed.

I take a lot of promethazine anyway: it's amazing for the opi-itch as well as an impressive opiate potentiator (possibly the best, IME). It's also great for insomnia and pretty damn good for anxiety and nausea, too...overall the stuff is fucking fantastic. Thanks to the kind people on this board, I never mix the two (three including the oxycodone). If I'm running low on Oxy, I'll take 25-50mg prometh with 0.25 xanax and only 20mg oxy.

 

[Oxy8_8]

Oh okay, that ^ clears it up.

I know what you mean about just knowing you have the pills helping with the symptoms. I get tension/cluster headaches and the panic when one have nothing to take really makes things escalate.

If you're not getting a consistent script, could you just take them as needed? I wouldn't recommend getting yourself dependent on xanax if there's a possibility you won't have a reliable source for as long as you want. Xanax is fast acting so it would work at the onset of panic/anxiety.

That's what I'm trying to do, but the thing is with xanax is that it really helps with my back (two collapsed disks) and knees (to be investigated). Plus, they go so well with my oxycodone.
You're right about it being very fast-acting, though! Especially sublingually. I normally put it in my mouth, then awkwardly bite it into smaller bits with my front teeth and then even more awkwardly maneuver the bits under my tongue where they pretty rapidly dissolve...then swallow any remains, then have a few chugs of [insert beverage of choice] then inspect my teeth lol.

I got a nosebleed today (I usually occasionally insufflate my xanax, OC is to blame, though) which has scared me off taking recreational drugs a bit. Ironically, the bad effects of drug use makes me want a xanax haha.

 

[gorgoroth]

I hope you haven't taken this combination, while it might not kill you, y'know, it might kill you..
Just because a person will mix once and live, doesn't mean they'll be so unfortunate next time.. Don't mix Opioid s with other CNS depressants..

 

[Oxy8_8]

I hope you haven't taken this combination, while it might not kill you, y'know, it might kill you..
Just because a person will mix once and live, doesn't mean they'll be so unfortunate next time.. Don't mix Opioid s with other CNS depressants..

I have to because I suffer severe chronic pain (Opiates: codeine phosphate, oxycodone, OxyConyin ) and anxiety, panic attacks (benzodiazapines: Alprazolam, etizolam, starting on diazapam this weekend). I try not to take the Promethazine Hydrochloride, too. Unless I get itchy. Usually the itching is caused by Codeine Phosphate.

I also have other benzos if they are any safer with opiates, but I guess non? The trick is just minimal doses? Anyway (just in case you DO think one is safer) I have: Etizolam, Diazapam, Nitrazepam and Zoplicone.
I could try Xanax at the lowest dose (0.25mg). When I just take 0.5 close family members and close friends tell me I'm slurring my words or moving slowly/appear a bit drunk.
Actually, there is a cross-tolerance between alcohol and benzos so most people probably start out with a slight tolerance, unlike meas I don'y drink. Exactly 7 months sober today, actually.
I have to take the risk (I'm careful) as life without either one (the pain meds or the anxiety meds) would be unbearable.

 

['medicine cabinet']

Sure. But so can drinking too much water. That combo could def ko you for good if you have low tolerance, but its the synergistic effect you have to worry about as in 2+2=10.

 

[Oxy8_8]

Sure. But so can drinking too much water. That combo could def ko you for good if you have low tolerance, but its the synergistic effect you have to worry about as in 2+2=10.

I have a very high oxy and prometh tolerance. Not much of a benzo tolerance, but I start at 0.25 and slowly add usually.

The 2+2=10 is an excellent way of putting it

 

['medicine cabinet']

Gracias!

 

[A2Z&NBETWEEN]

you are right in that i did tons of stuff like this and their is tons of people who will, however two downers dont make a positive, this is chemistry not math