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Xanax wearing off

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cheesewiz

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So xanax does something weird to me that no other drug other then alcohol can produce. For the first hour or two of ingesting 6-12mg of xanax i can totally feel it. But after that I feel completely normal. But I am not. From my friends account on when I take xanax the whole night I am slurring my words, droopy, and just out of it. But I dont feel this way after about two hours. Also dosing more xanax after 2ish hours seems to not get more more high but just black me out. And its gotten to the point where I dont really know where to stop taking xanax. I had an experience where I took 24mg's because I supposedly claimed "I dont feel shit" and kept popping them. Obviously I was out cold and couldnt get woken up. No hospital or anything but I was wacked the whole night the rest of the week was a blur. Does anyone else experience this feeling of no longer being fucked up when in actuality your completely wrecked?
 
Yeah, I never "feel" high, but I always black out and dont remember shit.....so, I get it....dangerous shit those benzos
 
That's benzos for you, it's not really a fun drug to get high on. You get used to the feeling very quickly and if you take more you just black out. Best used for comedowns and withdrawal or days when you just feel like crap.
 
Jesus Christ, please tell me you've got a massive tolerance and you're not just popping 12mg xanax a night with barely any?!
Most benzos, Xanax included, give both a very subtle and very subjective high. If you're taking that much - again, you'd need to inform us on your tolerance - it's not surprising you're comletely unable to judge how you're feeling and how much you've already taken. You're lucky it's difficult to OD on benzos alone but your friends need to watch you and not just let you take 24mgs in the course of a few hours, that's just insane. Whenever you plan on taking benzos, I suggest you give yourself a mg limit before and if you're gonna be with people, have them keep an eye on how much you're taking/have them actually hold the benzos for you.
 
i dont think i have a huge tolerance or anything. when i took the 24 mgs i was taking benzos maybe a couple times a week for the past months. i think i can just naturally handle more drugs then others. and i like dont mean this in a bragging sort of way but it just seems like with everything E,alcohol, heroin, whatever I always have to do more to get the desired effects. im not a huge guy either. 6'2 180 pounds. it might have to do with the fact that I've done opiates heavily for the past 5 years so xanax doesnt sedate me as much? I'm unsure. Thats a good idea though to have someone hold on to them for me. its really disappointing to wake up the morning realizing i blacked out and my stash that was supposed to last 3 days is gone lol.
 
Sounds like a typical night on Xanax.

I have absolutely no tolerance and I've taken 10 mgs before but I don't remember. My mom knew I was fucked up and said something to me the next morning. Since then I don't buy more then 2 bars at a time and don't take more the a bar or so in a night
 
In my opinion xanax doesnt provide a high, just sedation. It's just a hypnotic so it puts you in a trance, doesn't make you feel euphoric though. You can take really high doses of benzos as long as you arent taking anything else. I don't think anyone has ever died from a benzo alone, ususally its the mix with opiates and/or alcohol that is fatal. I've taken massive amounts before on accident and just ended up blacking out and sleeping for a long time.
 
when i'm smashed on xanax i never think i am i think i'm fine it's a big problem i really don't like blacking out because i don't know what i'm liable to do
 
cheesewiz, it's easy to gulp down benzos because it's difficult to OD if you haven't mixed them with any other CNS depressants - I'd be careful in assuming you necessarily have a larger tolerance to them. Yeah, please try getting someone to hold on to them for you because it's not cuz you're not gonna OD that it's a good idea to take that many, for obvious reasons such as you're more than likely to black out and/or to do stupid stuff you'll regret the next day/ to get taken advantage of. Putting yourself in that vulnerable a state is never a good idea, especially since you're then likely to not be very careful anymore and start drinkng for instance - and that's when it does get very dangerous.

Crashing, let's not get into that 'are benzos euphoric' debate again :p and it's not safe to encourage taking those kinds of doses of benzos for the reasons I just explained. It'ss not cuz it's unlikely you'll die that it's not dangerous - and that's ignoring the fact that people have died from benzo OD alone, even if only on rare occasions.
 
I was just giving my opinion, but ignoring the fact people have died?

Eh, i don't know about all that. For rats the LD50 of clonazepam is 4000mg per kg, Diazepam is 1240mg/kg in rats, alprazolam in rats is 2171 mg/kg.

I find it absolutely impossible that anyone has ever died from benzos. There might be a few rare cases in which benzos were declared the cause of death, but the doctor was probably wrong. People have died from water too but it doesn't mean you can't drink it excessively. I wouldn't recommend taking more than ~2mg alprazolam or equiv. for a benzo naive individual, just because, more than that causes idiot syndrome and can get you into various problematic blackout situations., some which may be harmful.
 
^yup. why do you think you can eat 24 mgs with low tolerance and i can just gulp down 5 bars, even tho i barely use it?

IMO i dont think you would die just dosing xanax but as soon as you put a small amount of opiate or alcohol, especially at your amount thats when things fo south
 
Benzos alone are rarely dangerous but that's not a reason to take a shitload - which could bring you into dangerous situations.
 
You can die from benzos alone but it is rare and usually involves kids eating them or people intentionally trying to OD. They have a wide margin between the therapeutic dose and death. Normally ODs involve taking benzos too close to other drugs. However, as Pagey said, taking too many benzos can bring you into unsafe situations, for example falling and injuring yourself, deciding it's a good idea to drive, taking other drugs because your judgment is fucked up, etc.
 
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