kace said:Yeah, I thought they would initially put me on diazepam due to the long half life, had no idea it was blacklisted. I was surprised that none of the pharamacies had even heard of xanax/ alprazolam! Had to spell it out and explain what it was. Ended up seeing an out of hours doctor at the hospital, he prescribed me with 28 2mgs of diazepam for the weekend. Not sure how many I'm supposed to take, but isn't 2mgs extremely weak? He said that now he's seen me and knows I'm not just trying to drug fiend, if the doseage isn't enough I can just go back and they would up the prescription. Win!
I hope the G.P who prescribed me xanax doesn't get in shit for it! She was very young, I'll feel so bad if she does, she was just trying to help.
I guess if you were taking 4-6mg etizolam a day thats meant to be equivalent to 40-60mg of diazepam a day. I'm not entirely convinced that 1mg etizolam really is the equivalent of 10mg of diazepam though, I found diazepam a bit stronger personally, it makes me feel more noticeably high. 6mg diazepam was still quite a strong dose for me even when I'd previously been taking 10mg+ of etizolam a day, whereas 4mg wasn't quite enough.
The 2mg tablets are fairly handy to have though and give you some flexibility with spreading the dosing out - did they suggest how often to take them through the day or anything? I used to take it 3 times a day, with the afternoon dose a bit smaller, and never really found myself craving it too much that way.
You ought to survive the weekend now anyway
