Just got prescribed 2 mg of xanax

Just got prescribed 2 mg of xanax.

Would taking one once a week be enough to become dependent? I do NOT want to experience benzo withdrawals.

No. I take 20 mg of Valium over 3 days for back pain and never felt withdrawal symptoms.

one a week? are you fucking 12?

take one an hour op

withdrawals aren't that bad, like 2 days of being uncomfortable/irritable and some bowel issues but that's it. also Xanax will make you end up dead eventually, have fun not remembering anything ever.

>Xanax will make you end up dead eventually,
elaborate?

Bruh I pop like 6mg of xan like every time I have a session, stop bein such a pussy op. Just have a 1 day break in between that shit and you won't experience any withdrawals. Xanz are great and it's hard to od unless you're really Fucking trying. Go hard faggot.

it's just a horrible shitty drug that doesn't serve a purpose, there are many other things that will help you with issues that xanax is supposed to "fix". like i said memory loss and doing things like robbing stores without knowing it can happen and have. have fun waking up in jail.

>withdrawals aren't that bad

Benzo withdrawals can kill you, dipshit.

no, they cannot, dipshit.

Just curious but why would a doc prescribe just 2 mg over a one week period. What are you taking it for?

Hes a kid, he doesn't have to make sense.

2mg xanax? Holy shit. What fucking doctor prescribed you 2mg right off the top like that? I was prescribed 0.25 and after telling the doc I had to take 2 to calm my anxiety for like 6 weeks, he finally prescribed 0.5.

Xanax blackouts don't happen without alcohol.

What the shit are you talking about??? Who is prescribed to take xanax once a week? No one.

This is fucking bait or jesus, I don't even know.

from personal experience, yes they do.

How much did you take & what happened. Seems unlikely.

Do have panic attacks?

Except, they can. So long as you don't abuse xanax.

Indeed

I don't think you want to take 2mg in one go OP, 0.5mg is enough to notice the effect. And once a week will not make you become dependent just don't increase your dosage once you become tolerant to the 0.5mg.

not sure, more experienced now but i was like 13 at the time and my bros friend just kept giving me blues.went to a school dance after a football game, cried on a girl about some dumb shit and got a bj from a fat goth girl in a trailer park. don't remember a bit of it but from others telling me.

lol no, I can go a week taking like 4mg a day, and go cold turkey without feeling anxious at all. And 4mg a days isn't a lot. I prefer clonazepam anyways. It doesn't spike in your blood stream and one dose can last 2 days. The high is much better too on klonopin(clonazepam)

I was prescribed it for anxiety and panic attacks and am directed to use it as needed. However, I want to limit myself to taking it at most, once or twice a week so that I don't become dependent.

I'm not proud of it or anything... but I was prescribed Xanax XR (time released fags) for 5 or 6 years. I took it 3 times a day as directed, pretty much. Anytime I drank, it have no negative (or positive) affect on me at all.

Now I take klonipin, same thing, alcohol does not fuck with it.

BUT, but, that is just ME.

Have you identified your triggers for your attacks yet? Once I figured after several years what my triggers were they went away. Maybe once a year a might have a low level panic attack that never peaks. I just get warm with increased heart rate then it goes away in a couple minutes.

if you're insane with it you can get seizures from long term abuse, but it's highly unlikely. death from alcohol abuse is far more common

No. But it also will be well beyond peak effects with in hours of taking it. Xanax is short acting. With a fast onset. More for acute attacks of anxiety than generalized anxiety. Why others here have it for pain is beyond me. Other than it loosening muscles...

none of you have any idea what youre talking about... OP, once a week will not cause you to be dependant. other than that im not giving any more advice. ask your doctor. and if you dont like what he says consult another doctor. people on 4 chan will tell you shit intentionally wrong in hopes that you kill yourself by accident or whatever else. youre an idiot for even coming on here asking shit like this. xanax is a great drug but can be very very bad if you abuse it...

Exactly, drugs affect everybody differently. Learn your limits.

youre a lying sack of shit

vvvv

shit alcohol on top of anything is bad, especially mood stabalizers and anti-anxiety/depression medications.

Ugh, the worst. I've been seeing a psychiatrist for 15 years since I had my first panic attack and have been having them and anxiety ever since.

It gets better, but I hate to tell you this, it never goes away. Prescription medication has saved my life.

Fuck you were a hectic 13 year old

the ld50 is 975 times the 10mg daily human maximum dose. Just DO NOT MIX IT WITH OTHER DRUGS OR BOOZE. lost some old friends that way

i had 2 older brothers and one was the black sheep of the family, i was supposed to keep him out of trouble and that didn't work out too well. i think i smoked green the first time at age 10. miss the old days

Obviously you don't need them, you took them just took get high, fine, whatever. But this should not influence people who ACTUALLY struggle with anxiety.

Once or twice a week is fine, you are very unlikely to become dependant taking them like that. The hard part is limiting yourself to once or twice a week

i did, and i do, i'm on anti-anxiety medication now, which is way better daily than taking xanax that turned me into a drooling retard that still had anxiety and depression, it's a shitty drug.

took ativan and xanax can say there were memory issues, but not blacking out. It was more waking up the next day and things just seemed blurry, never drank with them tho since I was on lexapro too, so Im not sure what that'd do. Had no withdrawal, took them all daily for around 3 months. 2mg xanax 1mg ativan

>learn your limits

I don't take these drugs to get high, is the thing. So there are no limits to be set.

Thanks for linking my two comments together.

my advice as a medfag is to get on zoloft/lexapro etc. some other anxiety medication, try low doses with your dr. until you find something that works for you. xanax can ruin your life pretty easily even if you don't abuse it. (i suggest low doses because they can make you suicidal for no reason, double edged sword sometimes) and in my experience if you take something WHEN you're anxious you're more likely to over do it and lose control.

The fuck are you talking about?

>trips

For sure. That's why I tried to stress that it was ME that I'm talking about, not that this is OK for other anons.

I don't take them together, at once, but, if I'm about to go to bed and I'm still drunk, I always take my pills as directed.

ah, yeah i understood. i'll take my lexapro before bed as well after booze and its usually fine, but i still get memory loss if i'm drinking liquor on top of it earlier in the day.

lol. I was wondering the same

You wont become dependent if you stick to one a week, but I wouldnt risk taking it regularly at all. The risk of breaking your rules is too high, eg. You might start pushing it to Fridays and Saturdays, then 3 times a week, and so on. Tolerance goes up really quickly.
I got addicted bad for 3 years and it started that way too.

Med student here, actually the most recommended thing is not using it for not more than two weeks. Never mix it with alcohol, as both are depressants for the neural system, they can stop your diaphragm from moving and you will asphyxiate during your sleep.
Simply ask your fucking doctor for fuck's sake

I hate to say it, but I have already been prescribed both zoloft and lexapro.

I was prescribed zoloft the first time when I was 12 for depression/anxiety and from what I remember, it helped with my depression. Then I went off of it but I have no memory of going off of it or even if I had withdrawals.

Years later I felt I needed medication again so I found a new therapist and psychiatrist and told them that I used to be on Zoloft when I was a kid and it helped.

So I was put back on that and for some reason it didn't help me at all. So I switched to another ssri and that one didn't work either. Then I was put on lexapro because I have family member who are also on it and figured if it helps them, it should help me. For the first couple weeks I managed to convince myself that it was working, but then I became suicidal and realized that I was just fooling myself. I've been through a lot of different prescription medication and have had absolutely little to no progress.

The only thing that has really helped me was pot, however, my entire family is anti-pot and would rather me go the pharmaceutical route. I guess in their eyes, xanax and ambien are better for me than weed.

any you fags had venlafaxine? I'm meant to start taking them but I dont' want to.