Benzos 80 mg oral ambien on empty stomach and....nothing

[GABAking]

Long story short I have a pretty solid history of benzo use. Tried em all, like em all. Alprazolam is my favorite and what I am scripted. I take dosages ranging from 1 mg (to calm me before a test or something) to as high as like 8 mg for recreation. Typical dose if I'm just starting my day is like 4-5 mg of xanax with a cup of a coffee.

So I have never tried ambien and everyone always says how unique of an experience it is when you stay up after taking it. I always thought it was kinda stupid and never tried it until last night when my buddy brought over his script. Everyone was floored after 20-30 mg, but I ate 80 mg on an empty stomach over the span of about an hour and really felt nothing. Not even really tired. No noticeable anxiolysis or anything, either.

Is this strictly a tolerance issue?

 

[laCster]

first of all, you should not be abusing your medication, it will lose its efficacy at treating anxiety extremely quickly and benzos aren't recreational in my book besides a few more powerful ones. xanax is not recreational IMO, it is recreational when you combine it with recreational drugs like opiates, but that is not safe and not a smart idea.

who knows why you didnt feel "anything," maybe it was tolerance? the ambien was definitely affecting your CNS, maybe the effects werent as strong as xanax for you? some people respond better to certain drugs. for instance, i enjoy 90-150mgs DXM with weed/benzos, while most people feel that DXM is dirty and dont get good results or even dysphoria. Another better, more relatable example would be that i respond REALLY well to marijuana, while some people don't get much, or get to paranoid, shaky, ect... and by empty stomach, what did you mean? like how long before taking ambien did you eat...like did you eat, wait 2 hours, then take ambien?



the most important part is that you stop abusing benzos, or atleast lower your dosage. 8mgs is a hefty dose man, the WD's will be absolutely HORRID fomr 8mgs!!!! what's the point of abusing benzos anyways? i have anxiety, and i get great relief from benzos, but they don't give euphoria like opiates do.....man just think about what you want in ife, do you want to be hooked on benzos?> years down the road, nothing will change and you will still be abusing benzos and shit....

 

[Cloroxtastebad]

I can relate OP

I can say that prolonged benzos use raises your tolerance to zolpidem greatly. Before I had ever introduced my body to benzodiazapines, I tried 20mg of zolpidem and was straight merked.

After being prescribed Xanax for 4 months at 3mg a day, zolpidem lost all its potency. My bud took 20mg and couldn't walk for the rest of the night. He could stand and mumble..but he would sway a lot. Anyhow, I had 10 left and ended up taking all 10 without much of anything.

After stopping Xanax for a month, 20-40mg of zolpidem would toast me.

All I can say is tolerance to ambien rises incredibly fast whether its from taking ambien itself or a benzodiazapine.

 

[GABAking]

I can relate OP

I can say that prolonged benzos use raises your tolerance to zolpidem greatly. Before I had ever introduced my body to benzodiazapines, I tried 20mg of zolpidem and was straight merked.

After being prescribed Xanax for 4 months at 3mg a day, zolpidem lost all its potency. My bud took 20mg and couldn't walk for the rest of the night. He could stand and mumble..but he would sway a lot. Anyhow, I had 10 left and ended up taking all 10 without much of anything.

After stopping Xanax for a month, 20-40mg of zolpidem would toast me.

All I can say is tolerance to ambien rises incredibly fast whether its from taking ambien itself or a benzodiazapine.

yeah man, sounds just like my situation. maybe i'll give it a try next time i take a break from xanax

 

[etro]

I used Xanax 4mg every day for 5 years and 60mg Ambien qhs every night for 6 years and had relatively little tolerance to Ambien, but some tolerance to Xanax. I guess everybody is different.

 

[mrflowers00]

benzos and z drugs are hard to tell when your high on them you could be hella fucked up and think you're fine

 

[Dread calm]

Good god, just reading that gives me double vision. My benzo tolerance is sky high and zolpidem still gives me double vision and dizziness at 30mg

 

[shreddedlettuce]

Listen to LaCster.

 

[Toz]

Long story short I have a pretty solid history of benzo use. Tried em all, like em all. Alprazolam is my favorite and what I am scripted. I take dosages ranging from 1 mg (to calm me before a test or something) to as high as like 8 mg for recreation. Typical dose if I'm just starting my day is like 4-5 mg of xanax with a cup of a coffee.

So I have never tried ambien and everyone always says how unique of an experience it is when you stay up after taking it. I always thought it was kinda stupid and never tried it until last night when my buddy brought over his script. Everyone was floored after 20-30 mg, but I ate 80 mg on an empty stomach over the span of about an hour and really felt nothing. Not even really tired. No noticeable anxiolysis or anything, either.

Is this strictly a tolerance issue?

I would say it's strictly a tolerance issue. I used to enjoy zolpidem alot but after I started using benzos every day (5mg clonazepam daily) the zolpidem pills did nothing to me. I've now quit benzos and I can once again feel the Z-drugs. They are very much cross-tolerant.