When I used to get panic attacks in my late 50’s, Xanax was of big help. It is one of the very meds which did not upset my stomach. I cured my panic attacks by playing 5 rounds of golf every week, and then never needed Xanax. But I am in awe of how good it worked.
That explains a lot.
Xanex bump for later...
It destroys the neural pathways to the brain. Could you repeat that?
Apparently, I told them they were turning me into a Borg, with all the tubes coming out of me.
I would GREATLY appreciate informed (maybe even half-informed) thoughts. I take 1.5 mg of Klonipin per day. But this isn’t just for anxiety. I take it for both anxiety and seizures. Not easily replaced for me. I’m also on Lamictal for seizures (and effexor rx for anxiety). I’m 54. I’m going to need to make some difficult decisions. That’s just my initial reaction.
I can’t believe this article was posted today.
I’ve been on clonazepam for sleep (.5mg) since 2014. Last Monday (a week ago) I stopped — cold turkey. I stopped for many reasons, the least of which was the dulling effect on my less than well-performing brain.
I realize I should not have stopped in that manner, but I did and I don’t regret it. It has been a tough week, but I’m finally seeing the positive changes of stopping. I may not be totally through the effects but I believe I’m over the hump now.
There was a very good reason for the doctor putting me on this drug for sleep when I started. It was my bad move to stay on it for so long. It is just another good reason to become your own medical advocate and to not take the medical profession’s directions blindly.
Bye, bye clonzapam!
“...daily sleep-inducing dose...”
Poor rats. Enough Xanax to put a horse to sleep.
Yep, then the “cool anti anxiety drug” was Xanax. The woman Casey in Florida likely gave her daughter Xanax to,make,her sleep, put her in the trunk of her car while,she was upstairs in an apartment having sex, if the prosecution was correct. She even talked about Xanny the nanny, which apparently is streetspeak for Xanax?
Benzodiazepine Is FDA approved!🤗
This is $cience!
My sister-in-law has been taking Xanax daily for 40 years. And it shows. She also has developed a tolerance and so takes a lot. She’s 65.
For many of those years she washed it down with vodka. She is on the wagon now as regards alcohol. But it has all taken a very heavy toll on her mental capabilities.
Of particular interest since I’m on clonazepam.
“In the 1970’s just about everybody had a Valium prescription........................”
And Librium.
Bump.