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Benzos What's your benzo dose for anxiety management?

I was recently prescribed 3 mg of clonazepam a day, but my doctor decided to put me straight down to 1.5 mg a day. It takes me like 5-6 mg to achieve any type of recreational effect. All in all, it gives me piece of mind when i take my standard dose but I don't really notice any effects. It just seems like I am addicted to something that doesn't do much for me. Damn tolerance!
 
Captain.Heroin said:
I disagree.

Anxiety is something that occasionally gets to a lot of us. If you have chronic anxiety, social or generalized anxiety disorder, bipolar disorder, then benzos aren't great because benzos are meant for the short term treatment of anxiety.

For those of us who only need a benzo once a week/month/year, they're ideal. For people who need every day anxiety relief, therapy is better.
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^ nail on the head again there cap'n
 
Well with Xanax I need about .5 to 1mg. Though Xanax is just way to short acting and I think is useless for anyone who just has GAD or SAD. .5mg doesn't really do much to me, but then I take 1mg and it seems to be to much as I start slurring my words a bit and just feel to out of it. Though I'm sure it's great for panic attacks.

Valium on the other hand, 10mg seems to be perfect for me. It's not nearly as sedating as Xanax, and provides hours of relief from anxiety while still being able to function like I was sober, just minus the anxiety.

Klonopin I would need about 2mg to equal about 10mg valium.

Valium is king.
 
prescribed 20mg/valium twice daily - imo best for anxiety. i've been on xanax and it works better than that also in my opinion
 
I take about 5mg valium every other day through the week. Nothing on weekends because I like to drink.
 
I'm scripted 20mg diazepam daily currently.

I was just taking it as one dose in the evening actually to help with anxiety-related insomnia. But just recently I've changed my dosing to 5mg in the morning and 15mg in the evening.
 
For anxiety& w/d relief I take 10mg diazepam 3x daily

EDIT: ^ ha this was a while ago.. i switched to 10mg phenazepam and 5mg klonopin.. but i have since lowered to 2.5mg k pin.
 
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i currently take valium, 5mg 3x a day...but i usually take more like 5-6 a day because i dont feel much relief from the suggested dosage

ive also tried klonopin, ativan and xanax and im afraid to tell my pcp that xanax works the best, because i dont wanna be looked at as looking to get high from pills, but xanax definately calmed me down moreso than anything else ive ever taken, i was able to talk to ppl and not worry about anything, ativan worked ok for a lil while, klonopin did not help at all for some reason
 
Tollerance!

I just lost my son though I also have sever back injuries. I take 60 mg Diazepam, 12 mg Lorazepam, 60 mg Morphine Sulphate, 3 x Buprenorphine 0.05 micro gram and 300 g Tramadol/Zolpram is this abuse as I don't feel much from these drugs anymore and self medicate, also chronic Insomniac and take Zopiclone 10mg
 
^Yes, I would certainly say that seems like abuse... You should probably taper your benzo dose down as soon as possible.
 
TheHashasin said:
I just lost my son though I also have sever back injuries. I take 60 mg Diazepam, 12 mg Lorazepam, 60 mg Morphine Sulphate, 3 x Buprenorphine 0.05 micro gram and 300 g Tramadol/Zolpram is this abuse as I don't feel much from these drugs anymore and self medicate, also chronic Insomniac and take Zopiclone 10mg
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0.05 µg of bupe? Wow, that's an incredibly small dose. The lowest I've seen are the 0.2mg Temgesic.

Your benzo usage is unreal.
 
I found 5mg of diazepam was enough to cure my anxiety problems. Any more I'd feel far too spaced out to do anything, sorta like being stoned but without the euphoria.
 
jasoncrest said:
I have a huge tolerance, and needs 40mg Valium/day to fight anxiety (and 2mg Loprazolam to help me sleep).

I think that the better benzos for anxiety are the long-acting ones, so you can dose only once a day in the morning...
-Clorazepate 20mg
-Diazepam 10mg
-Prazepam 20mg
-Clonazepam 0,5mg/1mg
are perfect doses for someone with no tolerance or a hypersensivity to benzos, to help against anxiety...
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Yeah, I usually take 0.5 of Clonazepam if I'm feeling anxious. But if it's a particularly nasty panic attack it's usually a 1 to 1.5 mg dose... there have been time's where I've experience horrible cannabis induced panic attacks that took about 2mg to come down from.
 
Nowadays I will only take a benzo if I have a really bad panic attack or am about to do anything that would create a lot of stress that I wouldn't do all the time, like present a presentation vs. working on a presentation. Anyways......

These are with zero tolerance, but I used to have a huge one, so I can't say if my natural tolerance is permenantly changed, I think it's just always been kind of high:

Clonazepam 4mg
Diazepam 20-30mg
Alprazolam 3-4mg
Lorazepam 4mg
........with all the other benzos I have too much of a tendency to get high on them or take too much. These doses wouldn't get me high or even sleepy, unless I was already very sleepy. Benzos are weird, because just 2-3 pills of any of these more and I COULD pass or black out.
 
Captain.Heroin said:
clonazepam = 0mg (I get a paradoxical reaction from clonazepam)
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Heya Captain. Can I ask what you mean by this? It caught my attention because I too get some sort of odd effect from clonazepam... and *just* clonazepam. The effect resembles that of zolpidem tartrate and resembles an unpleasant hypnotic daze. Whenever I turn down Klonopin from friends, they look at me like I'd pissed on the Bible. Never heard of anyone else having an adverse effect from only clonazepam out of many others, though.
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As for the topic, definitely a good one. I have been on benzos for (jesus...) 6-7 years now, and I've got a good understanding of how most of them affect my CNS. Which one I choose to use, it depends on the type of anxiety I'm experiencing. If what I'm feeling is that pervasive, lingering anxiety that sits in the background of my day, a low dose of a long-lasting benzodiazepine - i.e. diazepam 7.5mg; phenazepam 1mg; temazepam 15mg - works really well.
More often than not, though, I suffer from acute panic attacks where my best bet is to use something to the effect of alprazolam, although I personally prefer triazolam. I can handle upwards of 1.25mg of Halcion without getting dipped out, but if I'm on campus or have something to do where my attention is required, I stick with 0.5mg. With Xanax, I generally take 1mg to ease mental tension.

One thing I've learned about myself in relation to benzodiazepines and anxiety is that during anxiety episodes, more does not necessarily equal better. I have to check myself, because if I can convince myself that taking, for instance, 2mg of Xanax at once is appropriate (which isnt hard to do) I tend to get a little manic and get a little wild, using my anxiety as the fuel for my behavior.

~ vaya
 
He means he get's increased anxiety/stressed state from it. I know a couple of people that go into that hypnotic daze you're talking about from it. They really hate it and refuse to take it anymore, both of them only took it twice, first time it happened, and a 2nd to confirm if it just wasn't them...it was the drug. They'd both also get heightened anxiety on it, get confused, even delusional.
 
DexterMeth said:
He means he get's increased anxiety/stressed state from it. I know a couple of people that go into that hypnotic daze you're talking about from it. They really hate it and refuse to take it anymore, both of them only took it twice, first time it happened, and a 2nd to confirm if it just wasn't them...it was the drug. They'd both also get heightened anxiety on it, get confused, even delusional.
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It must have something to do with the way the chemical is metabolized in my system and moderated by the GABA subreceptor that clonazepam prefrentially binds to, because I am actually able to enjoy it - but *only* sublingually. That hadn't crossed my mind when I posted last night.

Thanks for the clarification on the anxiety/stress, I hadn't known that can occur.
:| <-- Me on Klonopin!

~ vaya
 
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