I have tried them all and here's my breakdown:
Bought 4 bars from India and the imprint was gg249 - some say they're fake, but I found out they're just really weak. I had to take 3-4 2mg bars to feel the calming affect.
Brand name 4 bars are amazing, so amazing I became seriously addicted to them in a week! But, I do love the fact that I can fall asleep, stay asleep and I wake up feeling better than ever. I suffer from severe panic disorder and MAJORLY SEVERE insomnia - like, if I don't take trazadone and melantonin, valerian root or benadryl - I won't sleep for days. OTC sleep meds do absolutely NOTHING To me. If I try to drink to sleep - I'll pass out for a few hours, then wake up WIDE AWAKE and hungover and I never go back to sleep - nobody wants to be hungover so I stopped drinking. I tried the pink .5mg xanax and I have to take 4-6 just to relax - I NEVER get the euphoric feeling at all on those. I tried the blue footballs and if I take 3, I feel the euphoric feeling for about 15 minutes, then I'm relaxed and can sleep. I've also tried the green 3 bars and taking one of those is greatness...take two and I'm asleep for AT LEAST 12 hours, but wake up feeling amazing. I don't get hangovers from any type of xanax. BUT...drum-roll please - I just found my favorite xanax and that's the 1mg PURPLE footballs. I started out taking 1mg (I always let xanax pills dissolve under my tongue because it hits your blood stream quicker - and you'll feel the affects quicker) tonight and within 10 minutes the euphoria hit me HARD - it was awesome. It's been about an hour since it hit me and I'm feeling super relaxed, I know I could sleep like a champ, but I wanted to see what taking two of them felt like, so I popped in another one about 10 minutes ago...and now, I can barely keep my eyes open, but I'm happy as could be. I always feel like my entire body is TENSE, like I'm walking around carrying bricks on my shoulders and when I take alprazolam/xanax that feeling goes away and it's like my shoulders/entire body can finally relax. I've tried every anti-anxiety medication known to man and 150mg zoloft plus 2-3mg xanax AT NIGHT BEFORE BED ONLY is the only regimen that keeps all my panic/anxiety completely AWAY and my insomnia is gone. I hate that I take so much medicine because at one point I tried to wean myself off of everything - it took 3 months to get completely clean from all medication, but it took 6 months after that to start feeling 50% normal and all my depression and panic came back ten times worse. I couldn't leave the house! I was a prisoner in my own home for 9 months. I came to the conclusion that I need medication for my mental illnesses for the rest of my life...so, what I do is I keep my zoloft accessible to myself and my husband keeps the xanax locked in a safe (he's the only one that can get into the safe) and he distributes them to me each night. This is so it doesn't get out of control. Taking xanax every night is such a slippery slope - but, I can't hold down a job when I get to the point of not sleeping for days. I've tried all the anxiety medicine out there - narcotics, benzos, all the rx sleep meds, otc sleep meds, natural sleep meds, anti-depressants and none work. Klonopin 2mg works, but I don't the euphoric feeling, I don't feel calm and warm and my sleep tends to be interrupted.
So...after that long winded post...my point here is this - if you can get your hands on the PURPLE footballs - they're 1mg alprazolam and I got them from Mexico...they're my favorite out of all the others. Hope this helps y'all.
