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| RATING | REASON | SIDE EFFECTS FOR XANAX | COMMENTS | SEX | AGE | DURATION/ DOSAGE | DATE ADDED |
| 1 | Anxiety | Side Effects When I stopped taking it (2 months ago) i was up to 1mg x3 times a day. I suffered from general anxiety, phobias and panic attacks. Something worth noting as a woman it caused non stop "yeast infection-like" symptoms. I had been told I needed to resort to using boric acid inserts for the rest of my life along with hydrocortisone suppositories. Sex was horrible, and my partner and myself had undergone countless testing and treatments even though we were monogamous and the doctors were convinced it was an STD. Lo and behold Charles linden reported the same symtoms as me and they magically disappeared within 2 weeks of me stopping Xanax after having them for 18 months (INCLUDING 3 Months of celibacy while going through my divorce) Xanax I believe is a crutch it doesn't make the symptoms go away: you know- the pounding heart, the sweatiness, the feeling like you are going to pass out or soil yourself or get locked in a room. My anxiety becasme stronger on this drug | Additional Thoughts I am a chemist who works in the pharmaceutical field. I have worked on several drugs and know their affects. I never thought this would control my life the way that it has. In severe cases by all means follow your doctor's perscribed direction but don't see this as a long term solution becasue I originally started this drug to get over fear of flying. I started the Charles Linden Method two months ago and ditched anxiety and the side effects. | F | 37 | 3 years .25 start 3X day | 4/21/2011 | 1 | Anxiety Bipolar,panic disorder | none, at first. | Never start this drug. It is very addictive. Now I am told that it would be easier to get off of herion, methadone or vicodin than xanax. That was from a psychiatrist. Why they never told me or others how it would end up I do not know. If you are on this, please, save your life by getting the doctor to change you to any other drug. Look up withdrawal symptoms and see if it is worth this. God help us who are on it! | F | 51 | 25 years 2mg 4X day | 4/11/2011 | 5 | panic/anxiety | headaches, increased anxiety, | I have taken the same dose of xanax pretty much the entire time. I can now work and drive with little to no anxiety. I have a well paying career now also, that would not have been possible before this medicine. | F | 51 | 27 years .25 4X day | 4/8/2011 | 5 | anxiety and panic attacks | None | This is the best drug ever! I have been taking it for over 5 years and it has helped more than anything EVER! I'm still on the same small dosage that i was on over 5 years ago and i only take it when i'm having a major problem with anxiety or panic. It makes me feel better within about 20 to 30 minutes. Without Xanax I wouldn't be able to work or EVER socialize. I'm not sure why people become so addicted to Xanax because it works wonderfully to take the edge off anxiety but it doesn't make me "high" at all or improve my mood overall. To me, it's not like heroin or meth or any of those addictive narcotics | F | 40 | 5 years 0.5 1X AN | 4/3/2011 | 4 | Anxiety/Panic attacks | Mild drowsiness if taking more than .5 within the same 4 hours, increased appetite once it kicks in which is usually like 50 minutes. Sometimes placebo style though I feel better after like 5 minutes lol. | Well, like 99% of the people taking this, I'm super worried about addiction and withdrawals especially since I can't be 100% sure that I'll continue to get this drug if my medical insurance runs out or something. But in general, it really, really, helps prevent me from having anxiety and panic attacks, and I would just be in school trying to pay attention in class but my breathing would get ridiculous, my lungs would feel like they were almost sealed or other times that my throat was reduced to a microscopically thin airway that felt like it wouldn't be sufficient for me to survive for the next few minutes. But yeah I mostly took this twice a day, but I'm starting to feel more often like I should take it 3 times a day, but by the way I am also taking Citalopram, I just wanna mention that Xanax wasn't able to fully do the job with taking an SSRI as much as SSRI's freaked me out because I was like, I'm not exactly depressed, I'm more just really anxious, why are these doctors trying to give me antidepressants... just seems weird, I was pretty sure I just had a breathing problem or something. But what's obvious from these forums, is that everybody does have a different experience, and don't assume that you can predict how a medication will effect you before taking it, it is simply a guessing game and you're gonna try to think of how it might effect you before you take it, but unfortunately you do really have to experience it to understand whether it's good for you personally or | M | 24 | 8 months .5 mg 3X day | 3/30/2011 | 5 | severe panic disorder/agoraphobia | In the beginning, I was a little tired, but honestly felt better being a little sleepy than I did having severe panic symptoms. I take it only as directed and do not ever go over my recommended dose. I take it daily and recommend it to anyone who suffers from panic. It was truly a life saver for me. | F | 45 | 7 months 0.5 mg 2X day | 3/25/2011 | 3 | Panic attacks | increased salivation, moderate sedation, interdose withdrawals, irritability in between doses, rebound anxiety | Great for zapping a panic attack, but taking it multiple times daily causes problems. I can see how people get addicted to it, as the inter-dose withdrawals and rebound anxiety (which occurred in me 4 hours after taking the medication) are quite unpleasant to experience. I prefer the XR version with the option of taking a short-acting Xanax only for breakthrough panic attacks. | F | 27 | 3 years 1 mg 1X AN | 3/24/2011 | 1 | anxiety | Xanax destroyed my life when I tried to get off of it! | Xanax eventually made my anxiety WAY worse and started having bad panic attacks on xanax, it nearly killed me after I tried to get off of it! I have been off xanax now for 8 months and I'm still suffering debilitating symptoms, I'm too sick to leave my house! Avoid taking this drug any longer than 2 weeks MAX! It ruined my life! | F | 49 | 1 mg 2X day | 3/21/2011 | 2 | sleep, anxiety | Very bad dreams. Usually I will have a dream that is scary enough to wake me up and then I have to take another pill to calm down and get back to sleep. I prefer valium: no bad side effects with the valium. | I prefer valium and won't take xanax again unless I have to. | M | 57 | 30 days 1 mg 2X day | 3/18/2011 | 5 | anxiety, social anxiety | sleepy at first; a little moody sometimes. | This drug made my life manageable! It was a lifesaver for me! | F | 32 | 2 years 0.5 3X day | 3/11/2011 | 4 | Panic Attacks | Nothing significant. | Very addicting. Try not to take this for very long. Wean off slowly to avoid "rebound" side effects. This is a great medication for managing *acute* panic attacks. But if you are having panic attacks to begin with, you may have an underlying condition that is better treated with antidepressants or something similar. Don't rely on Xanax long-term. Xanax addiction can be nasty. | M | 44 | 3 months 1 mg 2X day | 3/10/2011 | 1 | anxiety | I would avoid this drug if at all possible and any other benzo. In Nov 09 went off of valium after 5 years a small dose at night and never took during the day. About a month later a doctor prescribed me a megadose of xanax 200 xanax pills. He wanted me to take all throughout the day. I was petrified when I got this huge bottle of pills after all the press I have read on Xanax throughout the years. I didnt take but the two or three pills ( I forget the actual mg they prescribed) and tried to give it back to a couple of MDS but they say they wouldnt take it off my hands. After second MD said that I was wise not to take but couldnt take I kept and a week or two later a month after I got it prescribed I started to take one pill in AM and night and later 3, AM afternoon and night. | The medication was scary cause it made me want. I wasnt smoking pot at the time and never have been a drinker at all but the only way I can describe this medication is that I felt like what an alcholic probably feels like craving that pill that a drink. I found out it leaves your system quick and thats why. I would never reccmend any type of benzo there is nothing glamourous about this class of drugs espcially this one. Sure it gave me a feeling of calmness but couple that with moodiness and the cravings it develops on your body its just not worth taking. I have heard alot of horror stories about this drug for decades and see where that comes from. There are a multitude of meds out there that can help the same symptoms and cant understand why this drug is still prescribed so liberally. I was really happy to not take this med. I did fine over all on no pills for the past year but did go on a month ago 25 mg of Elavil a day at night and so far that seems to curb anxiety and seems alot more beneficial on your body cause it works in a different manner and seems to not have a withdrawal and craving effect.I was able to go off the Xanax that I took til the bottle ran out but it I couldnt wait for them to be gone and the medication out of my system. I would never take this medication again under any circumstances. They seem to addictive and when I was on it for the two months it made me feel like I was living from pill to pill. Too many horror stories and I can see why. | M | 41 | 2 months 25 4X day | 3/3/2011 | 5 | insomnia | none | Couldn't sleep without it | M | 66 | 20 years .5mg 2X day | 3/2/2011 | 5 | anxiety | drowsiness | F | 26 | 1 years 0.5 1X AN | 2/15/2011 | 4 | ptsd, panic attacks, anxiety | none --only relief of symptoms. only problem is needing to increase dosage and switch to controlled release which is expensive to avoid "withdrawal" symptoms between doses. | F | 56 | 5 years 3 mg contr 2X day | 2/15/2011 | 1 | anxiety | hot flashes, tremors, withdrawals between pills, panic attacks,high blood pressure 186/100 | The first month was fine but after that it turned into a nightmare. My word of warning do not take for more than a few weeks because my body quickly got addicted to these pills. I weaned for 4 months got down to 1/6th of a .25 pill and started getting dangerous high blood pressure and panic attacks every hour. I ended up checking into detox at a hospital so I would survive this without dying of a heart attack. For weeks after stopping I thought I would lose my mind thinking all kinds of insane thoughts but now 1 month later I am fine, no panic! Xanax ruined 8 months of my life! I am never going to take xanax again and I recommend that you do not touch them either. | F | 46 | 7 months .25 4X day | 2/3/2011 | 5 | anxiety | By far the best anxiety medication. If you take it as prescribed!! The only side affects to this drug is, tiredness, and once you get off the drug you have some trouble sleeping but not to much. | F | 22 | 12 months 0.25 1X day | 1/20/2011 | 5 | Anxiety | a little drowsiness | I've had a great experience with this drug. I have .5 mg pills and usually cut them in half. I take my Xanax AS NEEDED. I have never taken it more than 3 times in one week, and I'd never take it more than once per day. I think this has prevented me from developing tolerance. On average, I'd say I use it once a week--usually when I'm headed to a stressful event or if I'm feeling particularly anxious about something. It REALLY helps stave off panic over the big stuff. It's not a good drug if you're looking for a relief from daily, constant anxiety, however. | F | 28 | 5 months .25mg 1X AN | 1/19/2011 | 4 | anxiety | none | took edge off anxiety | F | 38 | 30 days .5 1X day | 1/14/2011 | 3 | panic, stress | numbs you. you're able to do what you need to do, sleep, eat, it truly does work wonders. | i like xanax, it does it job so no matter what you need or have to do you can get through it. i didn't realize it was truly for a short time use. you become very robot-like with life. after i worked through some very tough things in life, i wanted to quit this drug. i dropped my dose to .25 and then half of that and i've been scaling back for 6 months now. its hell to quit. this drug makes you feel like your dying when you drop. i was told to try kava-kava PRN (as it can damage livers over time) i may do that. this withdawl is terrible. my life is good and i dont need this drug, yet it has a hold on me that is scary. use with caution. come off after 3 months or use PRN if you dont have a serious disorder, if you do it'll help big time! | F | 31 | 8 years .50mg 1X day | 1/3/2011 |