• BASIC DRUG
    DISCUSSION
    Welcome to Bluelight!
    Posting Rules Bluelight Rules
    Benzo Chart Opioids Chart
    Drug Terms Need Help??
    Drugs 101 Brain & Addiction
    Tired of your habit? Struggling to cope?
    Want to regain control or get sober?
    Visit our Recovery Support Forums
  • BDD Moderators: Keif’ Richards

Xanax Dose (For anxiety not recreational)

benzoman12345

benzoman12345

Ex-Bluelighter
Joined
May 22, 2013
Messages
837
Location
UK
Howdy, I know there is another thread similar to this but that's about recreational use of Xanax , this is purely genuine use, I am currently being prescribed 20mg valium per day , does nothing, I have a MASSIVE benzo tolerance , years of use and abuse, but now I am sensible and respect benzos, anyways, a half decent valium dose for me would be 20mg every 4 hours, I am about to get a bunch of Xanax bars 2mg and ksalols , trying to decide how to take them, I tried a whole 1 and it felt perfect,I like to stick by the dose every 4 hour thing, but surely 2mg every 4 hours is too much, I'm thinking maybe 1mg every hours wich would be 2 bars a day. How do u genuine Xanax users take yours ? Any opinions appreciated 1st time I've ever been confused with benzos in my life haha :\
 
if you were new at this i'd suggest 0.25 mg to start but since you've been using benzos for a while and have developed a tolerance, it's harder to say, you really just kind of need to pick a starting point and titrate your dose up until you find something that works for you without too many side effects. if you took a 2 mg bar and it felt "perfect" and you weren't impaired that's probably where you need to be. but certainly you can and should try to see if a lower dose is effective... i think you're right on thinking about trying a 1 mg dose next time and see how that works for you. do note that xanax has a way shorter half-life than valium or klonopin so you'll have to dose them more often, likely every 6-8 hours.
 
Start small, titrate up. You may be more tempted to redose the xanax sooner, due to the shorter half life.
 
Benzos are something you have to figure out for yourself. But the lower the dose the better. The thing with benzos is there only supposed to take the edge off. If your floating through your day your taking too much and this will bite you in the ass. You want a dose where you still have a decent amount of anxiety and then you should work on handling that with coping skills. The goal should be that you keep increasing your coping skills and take less and less of the Xanax. Also if you really have anxiety you should see a doctor. Otherwise you will probably get dependent on them and god forbid you can't get more and have w\d. Also you are suggesting very large amounts of Xanax that lean on the edge of recreational dosing for most people.
 
Gna go with half a bar 1mg every 4 hours to start :) I've had all the seizures and W/Ds , detox programme, drugs workers lol im fully qualified, like I said I've got respect for benzos now, u fuck with benzos theyl come back and cut ur throat when your not looking %)
 
benzoman12345 said:
Gna go with half a bar 1mg every 4 hours to start :) I've had all the seizures and W/Ds , detox programme, drugs workers lol im fully qualified, like I said I've got respect for benzos now, u fuck with benzos theyl come back and cut ur throat when your not looking %)
Click to expand...

Benzoman with all your experience your still willing to put this shit in your body? Sure about it? Ok just checking. Xanax is as nasty as they come:-)
 
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.
 
benzo man i understand i had 2 s,eizures wrecked car ,have legal probs now. and i still eat lots but im at the point they dont work any one who has sa on 4 mg klonopin still have anxiety! its bs but i only rxed 2 mg buy more but man they is scary benzoman u been on them going on a long time samee here i stop seizure time i have had a horrible story w benzos still stuck on them tho
 
If you claim to have so much experience with benzos and title your username off them, you should be able to answer this yourself. Seems if you were that much worse into benzo addiction and have suffered the perils, now knowing what you may face, then just do what ever works for you.
 
Last edited:
0.5mg is a good starters dose. 3x a day. avoid taking it 3x a day, everyday, or else uw ill develop tolerance and become immune to its anti anxiety effects, and physically addicted, its a huge mess to get into..its only meant for short term anxiety relief, panic atttacks, and as needed, not something you take 3x a day everyday...klonopin is more for that kind of play
 
i wouldn't suggest taking it every day on a schedule, but rather taking between .25mg-.5mg AS NEEDED for anxiety. taking it regularly will only encourage you to up the dose, redose, & eventually have to face wd.

bronson's post was excellent :D

i take .5mg as needed, usually only twice a week, as i use it non-recreationally for anxiety. good luck!
 
Others have said already and don't take this wrong,but knowing that I had a problem,maybe using those xanax to begin a slow taper could save a ton of grief later..............just sayin ime.
*1st post on bluelight:].
 
I personally find anything above 1.5mg works wonders for me, but, then again, I do have a major tolerance. 2.5mg is the perfect dose, all my worries leave me like I exhaled them all at once.

I'm not advising you to take 2.5mg though, it could be too much for you. Most people I know fall asleep off just 1mg.
 
euphoricc said:
benzo man i understand i had 2 s,eizures wrecked car ,have legal probs now. and i still eat lots but im at the point they dont work any one who has sa on 4 mg klonopin still have anxiety! its bs but i only rxed 2 mg buy more but man they is scary benzoman u been on them going on a long time samee here i stop seizure time i have had a horrible story w benzos still stuck on them tho
Click to expand...

Yeah mate I'm on em for life, I 1st took a valium to self medicate genuinely for anxiety, but I got carried away , having 2000 in my kitchen cupboard and being 18 - 19yrs old at the time, I got jailed for shit I done when blacked out , took a massive seizure and nearly died when I tried to stop , I know benzos inside out now , and I feel u with they don't even work anymore I can eat 50mgs valium and I'm still not calm, people who have seen me take benzos are gobsmacked , its unreal , my CNS will never recover from the damage its took , and I don't feel normal unless I'm on good benzos, life is a fucking struggle, but it aint an addicition even tho it sounds like 1 my anxiety/paranoia has ruined my life from a very young age.
 
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.
 
xanax is very potent to someone who never took benzos, even 1mg can cause someone to black out or be severely disoriented. after 3 years off of benzos, i took 1mg of xanax, and i was at a stage where i couldnt walk straight...2mg easily can land ya in the hospital with no tolerance, its potent shit. 0.5mg is a good standard dose to take...just be away from ooperating machinery, or not at work, etc..if ur new to it. as potent as it is, tolerance develops so fast to the point for me where i was taking 20 xanax bars a day and felt nothing, but just avoiding WD..
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Top