Wondering when it will be safe to take a xanax?

[xburtonchic]

My last dose was a .5 mg about 8 or so hours ago. Went out drinking about 2 hours later, but didn't drink much... I maybe had two or three WEAK drinks and had only a slight buzz going. About an hour later after that a friend and I had some "powder"... again, I only did a little bit. And now I'm feeling all the regular come down effects - headache, soreness, anxiety, hyperaware of my breathing/heart rate which is just making it worse, slight depression, nausea, blah blah blah. Yeah, I've never had the best reactions to "powder". In fact, I always wonder what the hell I even did it for afterwards. I don't even like it. But that is a different story. And not exactly relevant. So. Needless to say, I would LIKE to take a xanax to calm myself down before I send myself into a full blown panic attack or something. Plus, I'm tired and I want to go to bed.

My only concern is the fact that I drank earlier + my daily dose of .5 mg of Suboxone (which was way earlier this morning) + the two .5 xanax I had earlier today for my regular anxiety + the powder. Mostly I'm worried about the alcohol though. However, my last drink was at least 3 hours ago, and I'm pretty sure I've already thrown up a large majority of the alcohol. It's been about an hour since I've taken anything else. So... is it safe to take a xanax yet?

On that note, I feel like a fucking dumbass for even doing this. That is all.

 

[xxl]

If the effects of the alcohol are gone, the alcohol is no longer a problem. Regarding the coke, it is always safe to take a benzo (whichever benzo) after stopping the coke.

As I understand it, it is only unsafe to take a short-acting benzo with coke if the effect of the benzo is due to die away while redosing or while the coke peaks (danger of seizure).

Incidentally, that's quite a mixture of drugs you're mixing!

 

[crystalserenity]

I don't have an answer but do want to expand on your question. My concern is that I was reading the tapering thread n found a reference that it was deadly to mix sub n benzos, which is something I have been doing for 2 mos now. I take 1 mg sub insuflated(sp?) during the day n then 15-30mgs temazepam at night. I am rxd the benzo but not the sub. I do have a friend who is rxd both by her sub dr. Anyway, now I am wondering how dangerous are they? Experience with this combo? Thanx, CS

 

[damagedun]

you will be fine, I would just take it,,,,doctors are concerned with subs and benzos because they both lower your breathing but your time frame is spaced out enough

 

[xburtonchic]

I agree it was very stupid of me and I wasn't thinking. I honestly do hate the stuff and always wonder afterwards why I even took it, because during the comedown I always manage to convince myself that I am dying. And it's not fun. Lovely how I tend to forget this when someone whips out a bag of the stuff. Pretty sure I definitely learned my lesson this time though. I don't think I'll have a problem saying no next time; hell, the last time I did it before last night was a little less than two years ago. I'm not a regular user of it by any means and I've never once gone out and actively searched the stuff, so I think as long as I can actually remember next time that the comedown has that disgusting effect on me... I should be fine.

crystal; I have an RX for Suboxone, buspirone (not a benzo, but it is an anti-anxiety med), and xanax, and I take them at the same time every day. I've never had a problem with it. I believe the risk is when you start to abuse the Subs and benzo's. As long as you're taking them both for the purposes they're actually intended instead of using them to get high, you should be okay. Also, I suggest that you cease fire on insufflating the Subs. They're meant to be taken sublingually, so I'm not sure if the way you're taking it is making them more potent or just rendering them completely useless. Either way, it's definitely not meant to be taken that way and is probably preventing them from working exactly the way they're meant to, which might potentially be dangerous. Are you taking them to manage an opiate addiction, or...?

pontifex; I never heard that either, and a Google search just brought up a bunch of people telling other people to take benzo's to help the comedown. The person who mentioned the seizures said that the danger lies in taking the xanax before you take the cocaine, which does make sense. I mean, if you take a benzo before you do coke, then the benzo is fighting to keep your blood pressure/heart rate/nervous system calm while the coke is fighting to keep it on edge. It seems they would just cancel each other out, but drugs don't always work that way. So I suppose it makes sense that if taken backwards, it could be dangerous. I honestly don't know much about the mechanism of seizures and what causes them, so I don't know if that would have anything to do with it. But maybe a Google search on how seizures are triggered and what heightens the risk of them would bring you a few more answers?

 

[Cane2theLeft]

Dosing questions like this are better suited for Basic Drug Discussion but its the BDD staff's discretion is this will stay open over there... at least you've already received some great info/advice.



OD>>>BDD

 

[xburtonchic]

oh okay, thanks for the heads up! And yeah I've already got all the info I needed and am perfectly fine now

 

[Dr Rxpert]

take the xanax

 

[nicksoutherland90]

yeah your good to go man. the only thing that would have any effect on it is the alcohol so if your not feelin the alcohol anymore then i would have to say your fine. The powder and the benzo have no real intereaction with each other in the brain (other than calmin your ass down haha) i am the same way when it comes to snortin powder or hittin some hard. I always hate myself afterwards and swear up and down i'll never do it again. The comedown is just horrible and its too damn expensive for my blood. I always make sure i have some hydro's or some xanies or somethin to come down off some good powder bc i know whats coming

 

[ccs714]

.5 mg xanax. Take it, btw, the half life of xanax is approx. 18 hours and peaks between 1-2 hours. Remember xanax does come in a 3mg dose, 6 times the amount your taking. There is always a slight chance with meds that effect the nervous system and alcohol can go bad. You are taking small doses, and not pass out drunk. No problem for 99.99% people all the time.

 

[xburtonchic]

Lol yeah, benzos are definitely a life saver when it comes to the stimulant-type drugs. I've heard the same thing when it comes to getting out a bad trip from shrooms or LSD. I don't know from experience, that's just what I've heard from friends and read on Erowid and on here. Benzos = miracle drug. lol