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Ok to moderately drink with clonazepam?ltho

ihateanonymous

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I was recently prescribed clonazepam for anxiety, and I took 1.5 milligrams (my first ever dose of a benzodiazepine) about an hour and a half ago. Would it be safe for me to have 3-4 beers? I'm going to a party with some friends later. Will 3-4 beers get me messed up with that much clonazepam in my system? Would it be safe?
 
Wouldn't advise it. Having no tolerance to benzos and drinking on top of it is a blackout waiting to happen.
 
If you've NEVER had benzos before, taking 1.5mgs was a little much. I would drink like a half a beer to play it safe. You don't want to wake up with 5 new tattoos, all your money gone and the clap (blacking out). Be safe with it.

P.S. Google could've answered this.

-MF4M
 
I did google it, but most of the results that I found were posts by people who had taken in excess of 2mgs and were planning to drink a lot more than 4 beers, so I wanted advice that more specifically addressed my particular situation. Thanks for the advice though! I have decided to play it safe and just abstain from alcohol for the night.
 
You wouldn't be able to watch for it. One minute you'll be ok the next you'll be blacked the fuck out lol.

I don't advise using klonopin daily. Worst mistake of my life. Benzo withdrawals are pure hell.
 
You wouldn't be able to watch for it. One minute you'll be ok the next you'll be blacked the fuck out lol.

I don't advise using klonopin daily. Worst mistake of my life. Benzo withdrawals are pure hell.

This^. Admittedly I do sometimes drink on my benzos (temazepam) but the dose I take would be around .5mg of clonazepam and I limit myself to 2-3 ounces of booze and when I do this I NEVER leave the house. I also have been taking benzos for around 2 years so I do have some tolerance. If you do this please be careful because while you may not feel all that intoxicated you will be and you don't want to wake in the back of a police cruiser or in jail wondering what the hell happened.
 
my first experience with a benzo + alkohol combo, was trying to stand up, falling flat on my face and staying down unconscious. i was carried off to bed and didn't remember a thing about the incident.
the second time my friend joined in, and in the morning we noticed he had fallen asleep with a burning cigarette in his hand which had burned a giant hole into the bed sheets. we were very lucky.
so.. yeah.. either just don't do it, or have friends around who still know what they (and especially you) are doing.
 
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First off, theirs tons and tons of threads already on this kind of topic. Just search mixing klonopin and alcohol even on google you'll find plenty of much more detailed information.

If this was your first time taking it, i don't recommend drinking on it, if you were to drink on it i would wait a week or two till your body is a little used to the tolerant.

I am prescribed klonopin 1mg twice a day about 5 months ago, and i was and still am able to drink on it after a few weeks of being on it, and believe it or not I do not get any more messed up than i normally would like most people do. I go to the bar a few times a week for the past few months, and realized that if you take the klonopin as prescribed and want it to stay working, it's best to skip doses here and their especially when drinking alcohol.

The reason i say that is because, alcohol is the one of the only few drugs that targets anxiety on the GABA receptors like the klonopin. So if you drink often with them, your brain will become used to having way more GABA being released from the klonopin and then also from the alcohol. SO in the long run if you do it frequently, your klonopin will not work as well for you, just a warning.

---Lastly, although klonopin does not affect my alcohol buzz by anything more, it does for most people so some signs to look out for if you do it are, slurred speach, feeling more tired, more confident/less anxious, real sleepy (this combo can make you black out without much warning as well which most people would report as one of the most common side effect of mixing klonopin or any benzo with alcohol).

A long time ago, when i wasn't on meds, i decided to take 2 xanax bars my first time (4mg) and i wasn't feeling it, so i took ONE sip of alcohol and was unconscious for 14 hours (i basically fell in deep sleep and wouldn't wake up) and i still felt real fucked up after coming back into consciousness, it was a crazy experience so caution is always advised.
 
Do NOT try this until you have been taking klonopin for a while and have some experience with alcohol. Even then tread lightly at first and always stay around anybody that will really take care of you if they need to in case you get out of hand.

I drink on klonopin but I have a long history of heavy drinking and have been taking medicine like klonopin for years. When I start drinking the first couple drinks hit me harder than without the klonopin. After a few drinks the difference to me is negligible but I take a low dose YMMV and I doin't advise this.
 
See as i hope you read my post above the this guy above me here. I mentioned how it affects everyone differently, but MAJORITY of people feel they get a lot more intoxicated with this combination (which makes sense to me when your not tolerant to benzos, or extremely sensitive to alcohol).

I have been able to drink 4-5 drinks with no problems, even if it's 4 shots all at once (as nasty as that tastes) but usually aim around 6-7 drinks even before being prescribed benzos. For some ironic reason after drinking and usually along with weed on my klonopin probably a total of around 30 times now, i never once felt anymore intoxicated or close to blacking out or have any amnesia, and i go to work like this once a week or so and nowone can tell and i perform highly functional. My body chemistry is weird in many ways, everyones different.
 
Way too high of a clonazepam dose for first time using a benzo, even someone not considering drinking on them.

If you drink 3-4 beers on that you will blackout. Then you may drink way more than planned or do something real stupid. You might blackout on 1.5 mg of clonazepam alone w/o a tolerance, no beer needed.

I've taken plenty of benzos and still can get anxiety relief from .5 mg of clonazepam, there is no need for 1.5 mg.
 
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