Safe to redose short-acting benzos after 12 hours?

[Steven_Tyler77]

I guess you could say I'm a very casual user of benzos. I don't have much of a tolerance, I usually take 20 mg cinolazepam (equivalent to 5 mg diazepam) at night for 2-4 consecutive days, then stop for a week or more. They make me feel chill even at such a low dose, so I never sought to increase it. And they do help with insomnia.

But I always dosed only once in 24 hours, as it's prescribed and recommended in the leaflet. My question is: can I redose after only 12 hours? Safe to do so? Half-life is 9 hours. Not planning to get high. I'm having a real bad time with a heightened anxiety, due to some very unhappy events in my family. I want to take 1/4 of a pill, i.e. 10 mg (~2.5 mg diazepam), so it doesn't put me to sleep, just calm me down a bit, until things get sorted out. I don't know if it matters, but on Friday I took 1.5 mg of bromazepam instead of it - it has a longer half-life, 12-20 hours, but perhaps it doesn't count.

 

[neurotic]

ime if you redose a benzo before the effects are completely gone and may be wait a few bit just to be sure (sometiems you don't even know the effects are gone), sure makes for a too-benzoed at least for me.
to me alprazolam was supposedly a fast, sort half-life benzo but i remember a few days poppin one like 6am than poppin another bar 9 or 10am, and only noticed the following day that there was blank in my mind after i popped the second pill.

but of course, that was a total of 4mg xanax, wich i believe is equiavelant to 80mg diazepam. so, my guess is that with doses as low as yours (5mg diazepam) you don't need to worry at all.

 

[MrFister]

Depends on the biological half-life of the drug and your personal tolerance. If the half-life is 9 hours its definitely still in your system. But if you're not too concerned about tolerance you'll be alright. As long as you're only taking benzos you'll usually have a pretty wide window of safe dosages.