Xanax Dose (For anxiety not recreational)

[BritishLad]

The very best advice I can give, being someone who also uses benzos for genuine anxiety is to take the lowest effective dose, and only when your anxiety is kicking in. That is titrate up, not down. If you are feeling no anxiety, or just rebound anxiety take a very low dose to take the edge off, avoid seizure risk, what not; you should normalize and be feeling okay to the point you can tolerate it.

When experiencing anxiety, still start low, give it time to kick, if it helps enough leave it at that, otherwise keep adding small bits more until your situation becomes manageable. It often takes less than one would expect.

The worst thing (and easiest to do under anxiety) is to dose high, and obliterate the anxious feelings. This is bad because for one, you develop no skills to cope with your underlying condition sans medication. Secondly, eventually tolerance will rise to a point where you just won't be able to get out from under the panic with medication, and this leaves one in the worst place there is to be.

Hope that helps.

Thank you so much for this tip! This will help me with my own anxiety issues a lot. Cheers mate.

 

[benzoman12345]

I'm going to bring the mood down here but nobody seems to have raised, to me, which is, the obvious.


You're being prescribed 20mg Diazepam every day (by your GP I assume), which you say isn't sufficient. And that 20mg every 4 hours is more on the ball.

So instead of going back to your GP and saying 'Hi doc, I'm really suffering on 20mg every day, it's just not sufficient, I really need your help and advice. Can we sort out a withdrawal plan with a higher dose, I really want to get off of this shit and I'd really appreciate your support in helping me' ... you've ignored their previous help and gone to self medicate on Xanax having no idea on earth how much to take 'but it's stronger then Diazepam so I'll take it anyway and see what happens.'

After my mother passed away I suffered from horrific anxiety and was prescribed Diazepam, it nulled all of my worries and for the first time I had head space. It was 'the only thing that worked' so after I exhausted my prescriptions I went against my doctors advice and obtained them illegitimately and started to self medicate. I got in a horrible mess months later when my supply was cut off and had horrific W/D symptoms.

I went back to my GP and just laid it out honestly, 'I've been doing a very stupid thing, it's got out of control and I really need your help.' He completely understood my situation and together we created a gradual withdrawal programme over 8 weeks, with me picking up a prescription every 7 days so the amount dispensed was controlled. He's sure as hell seen worse than my case but at the end of the day it's his job to care for me. He knew that I knew I'd done something stupid and spared me the lecture but under his care we both sorted it out together. Since then I know I can always be open and honest with him and we have a great relationship.

Doctors are paid to care for your physical and mental health, we all go off the rails in life, we're human.

Why don't you do the same? Get the help, advice and support that you need where you can be closely monitored for progress by professionals who are paid to do just that. They all take the Hippocratic oath to declare that they will always act in the best interest of their patient, YOU.

It is in your best interest to get medicated properly and sort your life out.

That's not bad advice pal, but I know all this already, I on on a detox programme because of a massive seizure I took , they wouldn't let me out the hospital unless I was on a script, problem being like I've mentioned before, it's NOT a detox I need , it's a repeat script like a had before, they're treating me as a drug addict rather than a mental health patient, I only ever took valium for anxiety, went off the rails 1 time , that's it , anxiety and paranoia has fucked my life since I was the size of my first erection, this shit aint drug inflicited , it's built in and let's just say I had a hard paper round, anyways when I go to my next appointment at the drug clinic I'm gna try and talk to them about this, and BTW Bronsons post was bang on

Edit: Also, its daily dispense, I have a full time job I aint got time for fucking daily dispense of 4 tablets , it's not the way I should be getting treated.

Anways the Xanax did not arrive so this thread was pretty much a waste of time, just gny have to speak to the docs and try and work something out man, Anxiety is a bitch !