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Benzos Problem with Xanax

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ImAShark

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I did Xanax for the first time ever yesterday. I took a 2mg bar at 2:15am, and felt the affects after about 20 minutes. I felt sort've drunk, and very tired. I was already tired earlier in the night, but normally I'm really tired around 2:00am but don't fall asleep until around 7:00am (I have an extremely fucked up sleep schedule, I know). I don't really remember going to bed, although I think that it was 3:00am at the latest. I woke up feeling extremely weak this morning, so I was just wondering what I did wrong? Did I take too high of a dose? I'm thinking of taking .5mg next time just to see what it does to me, and then go from there. Any help would be appreciated. As a side note I have no tolerance to benzos and this was my first time doing any benzo. Thanks! I also swallowed the Xanax with water instead of snorting it if that matters.
 
2mg alprazolam can be a bit much for someone with no tolerance at all.
Swallowing it was the best choice you could have made because snorting benzos it a waste IMO.
Try to .5mg like you were saying. That should be enough to feel effects yet not be overwhelmed and after a while into it you may feel you are able to take another .5mg to make it 1mg total.. just know benzos can cause compulsive redosing for a few reasons. 1 being you are chasing to get more "fucked up" or a "high" but benzos dont produce a high so to speak, just chill you out. or 2- You were planning on taking more and did but the amnesia from them can make you forget you already did and you do it again lol.
Things like that.

Have fun.
Be safe.
%)

-HOOD
 
Thanks for the response! I actually wound up taking .5mg at 9:15pm, and then another .5mg at about 11:45pm. I do feel pretty relaxed, but I have a slight headache, which I am not sure is related to the Xanax. I actually was expecting more of a high like you said, although I do feel pretty nice sitting down. It feels a little weird standing up, almost like I'm drunk, which worsens the headache. But anyway yeah, when I choose to do Xanax (hopefully I can limit myself so I don't get addicted), 1mg will probably be my normal dose. Would you recommend taking the .5mg of it closer together time-wise than I did though?
 
It's a short acting benzo so most of its effects happen fairly rapidly ~1hr and aren't that strong for more than a few hours (half-life I believe is around 9hrs, not 100% sure tho).
So taking them closer together would give a stronger effect, but if you aren't enjoying the type of "buzz" (i call it more of a stress relief or relaxing feeling) than the closer together the stronger that "buzz" will be.. so it's up to you if you would want it stronger and shorter lasting or milder and longer lasting.
I personally don't think the headache you experienced was from the Xanax, usually it would help me get rid of one and comfort me.
But it could have been, I can't tell you for sure tho (would just be speculation and everyone is different with side effects).
MOST IMPORTANT.. You don't want to do it too often. Avoid addiction to benzos at all costs. The w/d's are hell.
I'd keep it (if you're gonna do it regularly) just the weekends or something.
A week (sometimes less depending on personal addictive personalities) of taking them daily is enough to cause mental addiction.
If you feel you might start to have a feeling of wanting/needing to take more just to satisfy a craving, my recommendation would be to stop taking them all together- just to avoid dependence issues.. better safe than sorry.

Like I said before:
Have fun.
BE SAFE.

-HOOD
 
Thanks all, I took .5mg at 9:45pm tonight, another .5mg at 11:55mg, another .5mg at 1:45am, another .5mg at 2:25am, and a full 1.0mg at 3:20am. I'm about to go smoke some weed outside, and then hopefully I'll be getting a peaceful night of sleep.
 
A lot of people expect a real high from benzos but I've only ever gotten euphoria once when my anxiety was absolutely awful and any kind of relief was enough to trigger euphoria. Taking more just brings on amnesia and tiredness. What's the point of having a good time if you can't even remember it?
 
As others have said, 2mg is high for a first time user. Try 0.5 or 1mg.

A therapeutic dose for the relief of anxiety to a benzo naive patient is 0.25mg. So you took 8x that amount. Quite high.
 
Doldrugs said:
A lot of people expect a real high from benzos but I've only ever gotten euphoria once when my anxiety was absolutely awful and any kind of relief was enough to trigger euphoria. Taking more just brings on amnesia and tiredness. What's the point of having a good time if you can't even remember it?
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This is great advice which I didn't realize. From now on, I am probably going to stick with 1mg at a time for recreational usage.
 
I just smoke weed at about 4:50am after having last taken Xanax (1mg but no tolerance) at about 9:00pm. I am feeling very dizzy and feel like I'm going to pass out soon, any reason why this is happening to me? It happened last night too.
 
Well you're taking two drugs that lower blood pressure simultaneously. Some people get those effects from weed alone.
 
idk be careful with taking it daily though if you plan on stopping after awhile, it can lead to seizures if taking off incorrectly
 
It's just weird because I've always read that Xanax/marijuana is an awesome combination, and yeah I'm going to stop taking Xanax for a few days so that doesn't happen, thanks. And it's also weird because I last took a Xanax bar about 7 hours before smoking, so I figured it wouldn't have an effect anymore.
 
Might just be the weed, man. Or you may naturally have low BP and the small decrease from the xanax in your system was enough to exacerbate the BP effects of the weed. It's hard to say, there's a lot of factors.
 
tunesey said:
I would love to try xanax but we cant get it here in the UK
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Not true!

I'm from just north of London and I get prescribed Xanax/Alprazolam... I have a prescription for some right here in front of me!

You just can't get it on an NHS prescription. It has to be a private prescription. I see my Psych privately so hence he can prescribe it to me.


FYI it's overrated. You're not missing out on much. I actually prefer Diazepam :)
 
I think they're all overrated. It's a pretty mediocre high that's not worth the drawbacks in my opinion.
 
you did nothing wrong.. that's what Xanax does.. takes away anxiety, makes your ass sleepy..

its the best for catching some zzz's :)
 
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