Xanax XR Questions

[personaljournalist]

pardon me if this is the wrong section, but i noticed it was active. some of you may remember me, but let me bring some people up to speed to help with my question. i was a heroin addict for the past 4 years..ive been on and off with that..more recently off, and determined this time. My life had been shit, lost family, lost my girl, lost my schooling, trust, went to jail, etc. Now i'm back in college, got an amazing new girl, legal issues gone, still working on other shit. I've had a good (let me be honest) 5 days completely off heroin at this run, but i've reduced from usage from slamming 4 bags of tar/8-12 balloons a day, to smoking 1 balloon a day, now to not using at all.

However, during this duration of usage i was prescribed Xanax XR from my doctor, however the bitch gave me 0.5mg (the white pentagon shaped ones, i believe its a pentagon) even though i had told her for it to help me i would take 2-6mg of the IR bars. I've been reading all over the internet ways to bypass the matrix of the XR, including crushing and letting sit in high proof alcohol, parachuting, etc. Well at this point in my life I have the option of being sent into a stay in rehab (a nice one, i'm not really fearing this) or attempting the solo effort again with random drug tests at home (i want this, but i'm not positive if i can do it) because of this crossroad my doctor has told me she will no longer be filling my prescription for xanax xr, and i've yet to have any fun out of it. My questions being..how many 0.5mg xanax xr's will get me a decent buzz of around 4mg IR (at least) i have 30 to play with..i also read that you can pop 3x the amount of IR's and it will seem as if you are benzo'd out all day. I also found this chart, http://xanaxxr.com/images/chart-how-once-daily.gif

if anyone here has had any experience with xanax xr and have found any decent way to get a high out of it i'd love to hear it. I just popped 5 at once, i figured i'd start out experimenting the most common sensible way. Sorry for the novel here. No dumbass remarks please.

 

[Cane2theLeft]

So you abused alprazolam illicitly, jacked up your tolerance to '2-6mg' and your doctor is a "bitch" for prescribing you reasonable therapeutic doses within recognized dosing guidelines? wow. How DARE your doctor not prescribe very large doses to cater to you so you can abuse them!

Please post dosing questions in Basic Drug Discussion.



---->BDD

 

[personaljournalist]

actually during the usage of my heroin and recovery i was not abusing alprazolam, but yes prior to that as a younger teenager i would use it recreationally. during the later times of recovering from heroin my aunt who was prescribed xanax would give me 2 or so a day. my doctor asked me what mg helped me and i told her about 2-6mg's would definitely help. i figured if she was asking me what worked she was going to be giving me what worked. if that's not something a little stupid than give me your reasoning..i was asking people their experience on xanax xr with recreational use because i am now getting OFF of everything and staying OFF of everything. if my question was can i get someone to respond with a bad attitude you would have answered it. sorry for posting in the wrong section, i believe thats the FIRST thing i said when i posted this that i was unsure where to post it at. and the last thing i wrote is exactly what i got back. If the doses are reasonable and therapeutic then they should have worked and helped..though they didn't, but thats neither here nor there, i was simply asking if anyone had an advice on bypassing the matrix in the XR and how much will equal what in IR's. thanks for the help man. my apologies for offending you

 

[Cane2theLeft]

You didn't offend me in the least and posting in the wrong section isn't a problem at all.

 

[deaf eye]

as far as the xr goes, my dad gave me his XR xanax's from holland
but they are called xanax retard , i guess retard means slow release

i was a knucklehead and indulged heavily, when i ran out thats when i had my first seizure
i dont know if it was the dutch recipe or the time release, i have no clue

before that i indulged heavily with the IR sticks , when i ran out or stopped for a few days
i would feel a little sketchy, but no seizures, and i could function

my brother also had a negative reaction to the dutch xr's and wouldnt touch them again

sorry if i went off the tracks with that,

 

[personaljournalist]

yeah, i'm not addicted to xanax or anything like that..i was just given it as a buffer so to speak while dealing with the psychological repercussions from heroin addiction. i'm doing fine at the moment, been clean and feeling better, but i was just wondering, since this is my last prescription of the XR's if theres a way to catch a buzz. i know it's a stupid question given that i'm clean at the moment and trying to stay that way, but i just wanted to get some fun out of my last prescription fill and then continue on with my recovery. i'm probably going to do an outpatient program again while continuing suboxone maintenance and psychiatrist visits. i appreciate the response..i've never taken medications from other countries and i haven't had any problems with the xanax XR.. in fact it seems like it doesnt effect me what so ever. i was just trying to figure out if anyone knew a decent way to bypass the time release to make them more like a regular IR bar, rather than the "retarded" release. if you know what i mean

 

[AfterGlow]

I used to get the 3 mg XRs. If I chewed up 2 of em, I would get a xanax rush in about 15 minutes that was almost as good as a 2 mg IR. And I'd feel milder little rushes over the next 1-2 hours as alpraz was released from the chewed up pills digesting.

 

[personaljournalist]

word, so chewing is a decent method?

 

[AfterGlow]

It does not defeat the extended release mechanism. When you chew them, the pills will become a gel and that's what you swallow. It does not release as fast as an IR pill would. But chewing them up and swallowing will give you a faster and more intense effect than just swallowing the pills whole. Chewing up 6 mg XR gave me a similar feeling after about the 15-20 minutes to 2 mg IR.

 

[Alex000]

I don't care for extended release meds period, but Xanax XR is just stupid. Why not just prescribe Klonopin or something that is supposed to last longer. The whole idea of Xanax is that it hits fast, lasts fairly shortly, and is a very nice anxiolytic and ant-panic. Just throwing my thoughts in there. I don't know why she wouldn't prescribe you a higher dose, either. That is a baby dose compared to what your aunt was giving you. I wouldn't expect her to throw bars at you, but maybe a decent supply of Xanax (IR) 0.5 mg or even 1 mg because of what your aunt was giving you. Doctors can be so odd, especially if they ask what helps, and then disregard what the patient has to say.