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The best drugs to treat anxiety

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Anon54

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I just had a fairly high dose of valium & i think its very helpful for my anxiety disorder. I only take them occationly & im not addicted.
I find it hard to get presribed enough to take for a full month. a 50 pack would only last probably 4 days. but i only just wanna have a high dose once in a while. fuck taken em every day. i used to do that & i was really risking a bad addiction. i had to taper off.
I need about 75mg atleast to feel anything even though i rarely take it
I got someone i know with a connection to heroin. ive tried smoking it & snorting it. i think it was bad quality stuff.
besides the h ive had a mild habbit with oxy & use codeine quite regually.
Im thinking about maybe doin heroin once in while. (& i seriously mean only occationly) im sure doing that would be alot healthier than drinking half a case of beer & waking up hungover & dehydrated.
I only really like downers cuz i cant cope well while comin down from upps like meth & wanna be able to chill out like i do when i occationaly take valium.
do u guys think the best street drug for antianxiety use is oxy & heroin?
im just wondering what u guys think are the best antianxiety stuff?
do u guys think heroin had better antianxiety value than benzos?
I know the old saying. "i wont get addicted, it wont happen to me" but i honesly dont think i could get addicted. i wouldnt be able to afford it & i would only be able to do it sometimes. alcohol just isnt practical for me.
I got diagnosed with anxiety disorder & I need to chill out once in a while & i dont really have an addictive personally. the only stuff i think im ever gunna find hard to quit for good is the smokes & the drink.
alcohol lowers my anxiety better than benzos but i hate hangovers. im hungover today & i felt like shit in the morning. had a bad headache & had to drink 400mg of codeine which just simply isnt strong enough
I might add that i take a low dose antipsychotic every night to help with insomnia but it doesnt help with anxiety & probably makes me feel a little more more depressed. but like i said atleast i can sleep.
should i be taking my valiums subligually? does it make it stronger or just kick in faster?
I didnt have any GFJ tonight. but havnt had much benefits from it.
maybe i should just stick with oxys but i have a naturaly tolerance to downers. I need atleast 80mg to start to feel anything. 160mg would get me about right but i rarely take them. i dont understant why i have this tolerance. the oxy does seem to have a better antianxiety effect than the valium though.
nothing beats alcohol so fair for antianxiety effect but its just not worth it for the next day. Oxy & Valium arnt half as bad as drinking half a case of beer. thankfully i dont drink burbon or anything any more but that stuff worked
 
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Occasional heroin use seems possible but easily can turn out of hand. Some people can handle it but most don't. Right now I was prescribed lorazepam for my anxiety and it does help but I remind myself that this is to take as needed and not to be abused... Which helps keep your supply at bay. I find taking it everyday is a big no, no and will come back to bite you in the ass... Hopefully you can lower the amount you take by slowly tapering down and maybe even finding other ways to reduce your anxiety.

Let me tell you oxy and heroin may seem like a good way to treat your anxiety but in the end they only mask it. This only works for so long but then the high wears off and the anxiety is still there... This will easily make your occasional opiate use become much more than once in awhile but all the time. Think about it, do you think it really would be the best idea? I mean if you have to buy more benzos to help you get through the month before dope but even then an addiction to benzos is one hell of a ride straight to hell.

All I can say is try your hardest to find ways to relieve your anxiety beside drugs. Benzos do work but should only be taken for a short amount of time/as needed. Sadly, I think you already set yourself up to fall though... Try to pull yourself out of the never ending cycle of temporarily fixing your anxiety to only have it comeback full force once again. Also there are much better/less addictive medications out there that a psychiatrist can prescribe you... Maybe go to one just to see some of the other options?
 
^ this..

I can fully appreciate needing some respite sometimes and I'm not going to lecture you - we all self medicate, we all need to just chill at times. However, what worries me is that you will enjoy being free from anxiety so much that you won't be able to resist having it just a little bit more often, then a little bit more - it's so easy to rationalise, and once you start doing that you are on a slippery slope. Heroin isn't inherently more dangerous that other drugs, but the freedom it gives you from your anxiety and worries and stress makes it very seductive, and it is an unpleasant drug to be addicted to (take a look at some of the threads on OD and TDS..)

Opioids seem like a wonder drug at first but tolerance builds, you need to take more and more, you say you'll never shoot but one day you can't afford the dose you need to get high so you do.. as I said, you start rationalising and it is very easy to get sucked in. Once you start IVing there is the danger of overdose, catching blood-bourne infections, abscesses etc.

As I said I'm not lecturing (honest!!) just warning you of the dangers. If you do decide to use sometimes, decide what your boundaries are (eg once a month) and stick to them. If you find yourself slipping, you need to stop.

Have you looked into other treatments for the cause of your anxiety, like CBT?

Oh - and sublingual Valium kicks in faster but doesn't last as long :)
 
like i said i only wanna do drugs once in a while. it makes me feel better that i can sometimes feel normal even if it's just once a month.
atm im drinking now & than but im sick of hangovers & i dont get that from opiates or benzos.

i dont need to taper me valium for the last yr ive been doseing maybe once or twice a month. but i take atleast 75mg valium or 150 temazepam. & i rarely take oxy yet like i said i may need 160mg. i dont understand how i can have such a tolerance even though i only occationly use. That's how bad my anxiety disorder is.

I know it's a bad idea to get into h. but it'll help me cope just knowing that i can chill even if it's once a month. better that than drinking so id be doing myself a favour.

that probably sounds rediculous

weird thing is I get blasted from 1-2 hits of good old green. it actually effects me really strong.
maybe i should just stick with smoking a bit of pot. having a few vals & some codeine 1-2 times month
 
like i said i only wanna do drugs once in a while. it makes me feel better that i can sometimes feel normal even if it's just once a month.
atm im drinking now & than but im sick of hangovers & i dont get that from opiates or benzos.

i dont need to taper me valium for the last yr ive been doseing maybe once or twice a month. but i take atleast 75mg valium or 150 temazepam. & i rarely take oxy yet like i said i may need 160mg. i dont understand how i can have such a tolerance even though i only occationly use. That's how bad my anxiety disorder is.

I know it's a bad idea to get into h. but it'll help me cope just knowing that i can chill even if it's once a month. better that than drinking so id be doing myself a favour.

that probably sounds rediculous

weird thing is I get blasted from 1-2 hits of good old green. it actually effects me really strong.
maybe i should just stick with smoking a bit of pot. having a few vals & some codeine 1-2 times month

sorry about the double post
 
Anon54 said:
weird thing is I get blasted from 1-2 hits of good old green. it actually effects me really strong.
maybe i should just stick with smoking a bit of pot. having a few vals some codeine 1-2 times month
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That sounds like a good idea to me! :)

Some people can handle using heroin occasionally but it is so seductive, so easy to rationalise, so easy to slip into addiction and IV use that really I don't think it is a good plan for you - especially as you are using the drug from the start (to self-medicate your anxiety). You're already onto a loser if you are using the drug to treat something - you will end up needing it, and once you start needing heroin rather than enjoying it once in a while then you're in trouble.
 
Psychiatrist keeps trying to get me to take an SSRI for social anxiety. I didn't want to go on them but if you don't have any problems with them, they are supposed to be effective.
 
^^the ads ive tried havnt worked very well.. kinda made me restless & felt weird.
except tramadol for course which i took 150mg a day for a few months (any more & it was to stimulating. it SOULD be prescribed as an AD but because it has a piss weak opiod effect they wont let ppl have it.
its unfortunete because it really helped with motivation & only took me 10 days or so to ween off.

im scared to try em now. ive had pristiq, lexapro & mirtazepine

maybe im going to try effexor next if im gunna go with em. suppose to be less stimulating than pristiq which doesnt make sense because they're both basically the same thing.
pristiq being the main active metabolite of effexor
 
Occasional heroin use for anxiety? Dude...that's just asking for trouble. You should never ever use any kind of Opiate for treatment of mental pain, such as depression or anxiety. You'll get hooked faster than you can say Oxycodone. What about when you start using more and more because you feel more anxious? Are you gonna use every time you're anxious, or select when? It's a recipe for disaster.

Forget SSRI's. Talk to you're doctor, see a psychiatrist. Maybe they'll give you a low dose of a Benzo to take. By the sounds of it, you are just looking for an excuse to use drugs, and receiving a low dose of a Benzo might help take the edge off while discouraging you from abusing it due to running out of medicine early if you did abuse them.
 
I know you want to only use occasionally but I'm telling you straight up that is probably not going to happen. The reason I can say this is because you're using not to get high but to fix a current problem you have (the anxiety)..... Sooner than later it will become a regular occurrence which will bring a lot of other problems other than just the anxiety. I can say this cause I was addicted to oxys and had a boyfriend addicted to heroin (by the way he died in april and luckily I only overdosed before and am still alive). Anyways he used heroin to fix the problems in his life especially the ones he was battling inside and it helped but all created more problems as well.

Its your choice on what you do or not just be safe and if you think you're the path to everyday use... Stop right then and there (even though its better if you do now). I only say this because I've know too many who went down this road and never came back. Make sure you smoke a little or snort your dope a little before you do a lot just to make sure of the potency (which can change and due to your connects heroin being shaky I would be even more careful).

I know how horrible anxiety can be, becasuse of it I had to go to the emergency room. My blood pressure was so high (never is) and it was so bad they sent me to the next room right away for an ekg... That was fucking horrible but I rather deal with that than being addicted to oxys again...now that's saying something.
 
Yeah agree with most of the above and guilty as charged with most of it, if you got your self to the point you needed 75Mgs of Valium to get a hiot then you don't want to be taking any benzos at all. I'm being a hypocrite here but that just means I know were you were are with this stiff and is ain't the answer.

If you got to that level of abuse with Valium you should avoid H like the plague, I do. I think about it often but have never done it because I know I'd be shootin it up within 6 months or less and my life would be decimated.

Get yourself some counseling CBT or similar, start taking some exercise, see you doc and start taking to him/her about what he can
provide you for long term treatment of you anxiety, benzos are just going to add to your problems.

And definitely try and leave the booze alone, its very damaging health wise and take it from me you don't want to end up rinking yourself into a dribbling mess every night of the week, its a both to kick once it has a hold on you and you cant avoid the dam stuff, its eveywhere you go not to mention people constantly offering it to you for free.
 
xstayfadedx said:
I know you want to only use occasionally but I'm telling you straight up that is probably not going to happen. The reason I can say this is because you're using not to get high but to fix a current problem you have (the anxiety)..... Sooner than later it will become a regular occurrence which will bring a lot of other problems other than just the anxiety.
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^this is a big reason why benzos and opiates are poor choices for long term anxiety treatment.
 
Opiates, for me, are far superior in the treatment of anxiety than are benzos, at least in the short term or as needed. I do take benzos, and they do help, but opiates are better for anxiety IMO. However, I would not recommend using heroin due to its uncertain potency and consistency.
 
I strongly feel that once you start using an addictive drug to treat your anxiety, it can only lead down a dark path.. the relief will be amazing, you will want it more often, tolerance will build, you will rationalise using it more and more and eventually you will be addicted.

The reason it works so amazingly is the very same reason why it is a poor choice, unfortunately..
 
How about pregabalin and a short release such as oxazepam/xanax? Diazepam I've found doesn't get rid of anxiety as well as those two- xanax is a strange one though and is easy to get addicted to in my books... Oxazepam I suggest is better say 10mg 3 times a day along with 150 pregab?
 
I know people that use tramadol & some that use tramadol for anxiety & depression...........they dont get the stuff prescribed for that, they get them for pain & they tell me those meds are a ton better than the SSRI's the doctors prescribe for depression.
 
effie said:
The reason it works so amazingly is the very same reason why it is a poor choice, unfortunately..
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Been there, done that, and THIS ^ is the most accurate answer. No two ways about it, sadly. Opiates motivate me in an indescribable way (well, similar to how regular people react from amphetamines, but regardless).
 
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