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I cannot enjoy Xanax, what am I doing wrong?

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Maybe it's not what I'm doing wrong but still. No matter how many times I take em I cannot seem to get anything recreational. The main problem is that I can't find the right dose. I didn't do Xanax much until recently so my tolerance isn't high, yet I can't feel anything unless I take like 8mg and when I actually do start feeling it I pass out. I usually start at 3mg and wait for an hour. That doesn't really get me feeling too good so almost all the time I end up poppin em till I feel nice and shortly after pass out.

Is there a certain way I should spread out how much I take so I can take enough to feel it and not pass out? Maybe pop some adderall or something to keep me up? For the short time before forgetting, I like xanax, but I just can't seem to actually get to enjoy it if you know what I mean. But yeah, I have xannies but I almost don't want to even bother with them haha.
 
manwithaplan said:
But yeah, I have xannies but I almost don't want to even bother with them haha.
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maybe you shouldn't then. xanax has a lot of pop-culture and hype surrounding it. i think this leads to some misconceptions about what is to be expected from it. a lot of people think it is going to create more of a high--like opiates or speed. maybe it isn't your thing. not a terrible drug to not want.


and your dosing is very high. several times over.
 
hydroazuanacaine said:
maybe you shouldn't then. xanax has a lot of pop-culture and hype surrounding it. i think this leads to some misconceptions about what is to be expected from it. a lot of people think it is going to create more of a high--like opiates or speed. maybe it isn't your thing. not a terrible drug to not want.


and your dosing is very high. several times over.
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Yeah, I always thought Xanax was the shit since my friends all talk about em like they're amazing. So now that I have a bunch I try and see why they like em yet they're just terrible for a high haha. I'm just going to give up on em. I might do it once more, I was thinking maybe today taking 10mg evenly spread out over 5 hours to see if maybe I could get something desirable.
 
manwithaplan said:
Maybe it's not what I'm doing wrong but still. No matter how many times I take em I cannot seem to get anything recreational. The main problem is that I can't find the right dose. I didn't do Xanax much until recently so my tolerance isn't high, yet I can't feel anything unless I take like 8mg and when I actually do start feeling it I pass out. I usually start at 3mg and wait for an hour. That doesn't really get me feeling too good so almost all the time I end up poppin em till I feel nice and shortly after pass out.

Is there a certain way I should spread out how much I take so I can take enough to feel it and not pass out? Maybe pop some adderall or something to keep me up? For the short time before forgetting, I like xanax, but I just can't seem to actually get to enjoy it if you know what I mean. But yeah, I have xannies but I almost don't want to even bother with them haha.
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Alprazolam (Xanax) is a weak sedative, but a very powerful anxiolytic. It is very popular in the U.S. because it is BY FAR the most widely prescribed benzodiazepine - so it's common and readily available.

It really has no other qualities other than being a very powerful anxiolytic. It's a weak muscle relaxant, weak to mediocre sedative, weak anticonvulsant, and even a weak amnesic (unless you take high doses or you use it with alcohol).

It's overrated and it really sucks. I get it prescribed monthly (I've been on it for 4 years now). I take 1 mg 3x/day - I get 180 of them a month (because I get the 0.5 mg). They do wonders for my anxiety, but that's it. For nice benzos, I go and buy better benzos off the streets - temazepam is my favorite, but it's not always easy to come by. After alprazolam, lorazepam seems to be the most common in Michigan (I personally don't like it for recreational purposes, but it's a great therapeutic powerhouse). But I usually end up getting diazepam, clonazepam, oxazepam (it's very weak, but it feels like diazepam lite in the right doses), and I have lots of friends across the border in Windsor, Canada. One of them get's 60 nitrazepam's a month and he sells them to me. All that and I get 180 alprazolam's a month - that's how much it sucks.

Elsewhere in the world, temazepam, nimetazepam, flunitrazepam, and to a lesser extent triazolam are the main benzos of abuse. Particularly temazepam and nimetazepam, which have huge diversion rates, smuggling rings, and temazepam is even illicitly manufactured as the "jelly" variety was banned across the world.
 
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kokaino said:
Alprazolam (Xanax) is a weak sedative, but a very powerful anxiolytic. It is very popular in the U.S. because it is BY FAR the most widely prescribed benzodiazepine - so it's common and readily available.

It really has no other qualities other than being a very powerful anxiolytic. It's a weak muscle relaxant, weak to mediocre sedative, weak anticonvulsant, and even a weak amnesic (unless you take high doses or you use it with alcohol).

It's overrated and it really sucks. I get it prescribed monthly (I've been on it for 4 years now). I take 1 mg 3x/day - I get 180 of them a month (because I get the 0.5 mg). They do wonders for my anxiety, but that's it. For nice benzos, I go and buy better benzos off the streets - temazepam is my favorite, but it's not always easy to come by. After alprazolam, lorazepam seems to be the most common in Michigan (I personally don't like it for recreational purposes, but it's a great therapeutic powerhouse). But I usually end up getting diazepam, oxazepam (common in the Detroit area), and I have lots of friends across the border in Windsor, Canada. One of them get's 60 nitrazepam's a month and he sells them to me. All that and I get 180 alprazolam's a month - that's how much it sucks.

Elsewhere in the world, temazepam, nimetazepam, flunitrazepam, and to a lesser extent triazolam are the main benzos of abuse. Particularly temazepam and nimetazepam, which have huge diversion rates, smuggling rings, and temazepam is even illicitly manufactured as the "jelly" variety was banned across the world.
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Yeah, definitely seems extremely overrated. Also diazepam is pretty nice, and I always thought xanax was a more powerful and enjoyable high than diazepam which is why I'm confused that it sucked balls haha.
 
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i find xanax enjoyable with some good buds, and especially with some opiates... to each his own....
i think you are expecting to high like with opiates, and thats not the case. its more of a really chill feeling than high
 
manwithaplan said:
Yeah, definitely seems extremely overrated. Also diazepam is pretty nice, and I always thought xanax was a more powerful and enjoyable high than diazepam which is why I'm confused that it sucked balls haha.
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Well it's only really popular in the United States. Elsewhere in the world, temazepam, flunitrazepam, nimetazepam, triazolam, and of course, diazepam are the most widely abuse.

Especially temazepam and nimetazepam, which have extremely high diversion rates, smuggling rings, and temazepam of the "jelly" variety are being illicitly manufactured because they were banned everywhere.
 
laCster said:
i find xanax enjoyable with some good buds, and especially with some opiates... to each his own....
i think you are expecting to high like with opiates, and thats not the case. its more of a really chill feeling than high
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yeah the only way i find xanax enjoyable is with bud AND opiates. other than that, ill occasionally use a bar for insomnia, and it doesnt do much for that either, just makes me not care that im wide awake at 3am lol.
 
I find Xanax extremely enjoyable, but I almost never just take it by itself. I like to take a few mgs (not 10), wait about an hour and smoke some good bud or drink a few beers. Be careful drinking on xanax as it causes black outs.
 
^^ yup i find benzos alone don't do much at all except relieve some anxiety...but that can get you into some sticky situations

@ OP
i suggest saving what you have left for a time that you have opiates, weed, stims, benzos, alcohol, ect... some xanax is a good thing to have around for comedowns and freak-outs during psychedelic trips...but you definitely dont need 8mgs when you are a poly-drug user...keep it between 1-2mgs
 
Xanax can be kind of subtle, a lot of times I would be really fucked up but I would "feel sober" despite being obviously smashed to everyone around me. I just think the OP's expectations are too high.
 
^YES(referring to laCster), i completely forgot about xanax post-psychedelic use. im the type who starts trrying to integrate acid trips while im still coming down, which leads to being restless when its time to go to sleep. a mg or 2 of xanax lets me drift off to sleep actually still feeling a bit of LSD, its great. you wake up refreshed also.
 
I hate xanax, but I know people who love it. Were all different. I'm big into opiates and the first time I used xanax I was severely disappointed.

Plus i always fall asleep and lose everything...in that order
 
It's great for panic attacks, comedians from uppers ect... But I don't find it to be all that recreational.. Keep em around for a rainy day.. You might find them useful for something other than getting high..
 
Violenza666 said:
It's great for panic attacks, comedians from uppers ect... But I don't find it to be all that recreational.. Keep em around for a rainy day.. You might find them useful for something other than getting high..
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Yes, I must admit alprazolam is great for panic attacks and just general anxiety. I have been on it for 4 years now, but it just isn't recreational. It has no other qualities to it - it's a weak muscle relaxant, weak anticonvulsant, and a weak sedative. But it's a great anxiolytic.
 
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I might do it once more, I was thinking maybe today taking 10mg evenly spread out over 5 hours to see if maybe I could get something desirable.
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No, you're going in the wrong direction with this. You have to accept that this is a subtle drug and dose reasonably if you want to experience the drug. I'd go for 0.5 - 1mg and see how that effects you (though give it a few days to let these astronomical doses clear from your system...)
 
^ Yes, taking 10 mg is not good. It won't do anything, anyways. I know alprazolam real well because I've been on it for over 4 years. You are NOT going to get "high" off of it no matter what dose you take, believe me I've tried and failed.

People with no tolerance or are benzo naive will get a kick out of alprazolam at low doses 0.5-1 mg, but as soon as their habits grow beyond 4 mg then it's over for alprazolam and it's time to find a new benzo to get 'high' off of. That's how alprazolam is, I don't want to say that's how all anxiolytics are because there are anxiolytics that can get you high even as you go up in high doses but they are not like hypnotics. Alprazolam seems to have a "ceiling effect" to it.
 
Roger&Me said:
Xanax can be kind of subtle, a lot of times I would be really fucked up but I would "feel sober" despite being obviously smashed to everyone around me. I just think the OP's expectations are too high.
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Exactly, xanax is really hyped up. Same thing used to happen to me. I can enjoy xanax when dosed right and combined with weed/opiates
 
Escapedysphoria said:
Exactly, xanax is really hyped up. Same thing used to happen to me. I can enjoy xanax when dosed right and combined with weed/opiates
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The hype surrounding Xanax in the US is not backed by anything real, unlike the hype of the temazepam in Europe, Australia, and Asia especially back in the '80's and '90's - the hype was backed up by hundreds upon hundreds of OD's, thousands of amputations, and still the drug was continued to be used by those who lost limbs to it.
 
I read about that, that shit's ridculous. It's hyped up by white trash people, the hood, and teenagers in the US. It's even referrenced on the radio now by YC - Racks. I don't understand it though, alprazolam has nothing on temazepam IMO. I guess it's just harder to find in the US and xanax is everywhere
 
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