[Emmett McCarthy]

2 mg/3 times a day is a pretty high dosage. I have some stress factors in my own life and had a heart attack back in ‘07 which my doctor sees as reason to prescribe Xanax. I take 1 mg each day - at the most - usually not even that much. I can’t even imagine being able to function at the dose he was taking and know that he should not have been “cold turkeyed” off of it like this.

[autumnraine]

My father takes xanax for heart conditions too.

The hallucinations of the cold turkey removal would have put more stress on his already fragile heart.

[proudofthesouth]

I've been on 50 mg Xanax and 65 mg Cymbalta for the past 6 weeks due to a panic attack and depression. I have to say that this is the perfect combination for me. For the first time in my life I feel normal and don't ever want to go off this combo.