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| RATING | REASON | SIDE EFFECTS FOR XANAX | COMMENTS | SEX | AGE | DURATION/ DOSAGE | DATE ADDED |
| 5 | Waking up in the morning but feel fine after a shower | Most men my age (43) report similar results. Great drug. I had lost several family member in a short period of time. Like most guys we don't express or release our emotions. 6 months after losing family members I lost my temper over a serious but not so serious incident. I was lucky I didn't serioulsy hurt someone. One of the biggest wake calls in my life. Something ws up. Doctor said you need to manage the anxiety. Took 1 pill and never felt better. Doctors response on revisit was people don't have anxiety they are just "underxanaxed." If you worry about the stupid little things and let the big stuff build inside you need help. Xanax will all cure road rage. Be safe and take care of yourself for once. Best wishes to all. one side note to the youger posters, try a sport first. Xanax should compliment your plan to reach balance, not be the silver bullet. Best wishes | M | 43 | 1 years | 8/23/2007 | 1 | Anxiety, panic attacks | Didn't notice any side effects | I gave this med plenty of time to try to help, but never really felt any benefits from taking it. Have switched to Valium, and so far, no benefits there either | F | 51 | 8 months | 8/19/2007 | 5 | anxiety | Drowsiness, coordination may be affected | I take this as needed for anxiety and it works great! I do take a small dosage(0.25 to 0.50 mg) "as needed" and do not take it often or when my symptoms are mild and relaxation exercises (deep breathing, stretching, exercise, etc.) will suffice. It has been very beneficial for me and my experience has been very good. I honestly couldn't ask for a more effective medication. I haven't had any side effects that were too bothersome or unmanageable. I do not recommend this if you have an addictive personality b/c you will likely develop a problem as many Doctors will warn you. If you need something for an extended period of daily use this is probably not for you unless you are under Doctor supervision, can recognize the signs of addiction, and can be truthful with yourself if you do feel you are becoming addicted. If you find yourself upping your dosage on your own or feeling like you need to take it more than prescribed you should be calling your Doctor to be evaluated and | F | 30 | 2 years | 8/14/2007 | 5 | Panic Disorder, Generalized Anxiety | Some fading of memory at higher dose | Xanax gave me my life back. I'm very young and went down a long road before I was perscribed this medication. Though there are reports about the addictive nature of this medication, I have never found a desire to take more than needed. Xanax calms panic and surges of anxiety like no other. It is fast working and effective at low doses. The biggest benefit was that it DID NOT begin to lose its effectiveness over time like the other benzodiazepines. | M | 20 | 2 years | 8/8/2007 | 4 | anxiety/panic, akathisia(recent) | sedation, confusion, memory loss at higher doses, the ususal for benzos. Side effects were very mild. The benefits greatly outweigh the risks/side effects. (for me anyway) This drug worked effectively and quickly in demising panic/anxiety symptoms. | only take this drug when you really need or if you have severe chronic anxiety/phobias/panic disorders that require long term treatment with benzodiazepines. Most literature suggests that xanax is the most addictive and most potent of the benzos, but also very effective. As of now, I take 0.5mg of the brand name version as needed and not on a daily basis. DONT' TAKE THIS DRUG WITH ALCOHOL OR OTHER SEDATVIES. Severe confusion, complete memory loss of the past days events may result. Additionally, combining 2 sedatives that depress the CNS increases risk of overdose from either substance. | M | 20 | 6 months | 8/2/2007 | 1 | anxiety | ADDICTION, drowsiness, memory loss, agitation, CNS damage, peripheral neuropathy, tinnitus | Xanax belongs to a dangerous subclass of benzo tranquilizers called "triazolo-benzodiazepines" (Halcion also belongs to this class). This type of benzo has a short half-life and binds tightly to the benzo-receptor complex in the brain. This potent tranquilizer works quickly and is very easy to get addicted to. You don't have to have an "addictive personality" as some claim, it can happen to anyone. The Upjohn-Pharmacia Company engaged in a campaign of fraud in marketing Xanax, including covering-up the end results of its 8-week clinical trials to hide its addiction potential. The chief clinical researcher for Xanax, Louis Fabre, MD, is now under investigation by the FDA for fraud and negligence (http://www.fda.gov/foi/nidpoe/n33l.htm). If you must take this drug, take it only for short periods of time at the lowest dose possible. If you are addicted, please withdraw only under a doctor's care. Do not discontinue Xanax abruptly, or it may result in seizures and/or de | M | 45 | 5 years | 7/31/2007 | 4 | Anxiety | The only noticeable side affect was almost instant sleepiness and minor drossiness that carried over to the next day. | I took this medication to deal with my kids, wife, school, and work and I must say it helped me get through the stressful times. I only took it as needed and not everyday and only when I felt a crappy day coming on. I would definitely not recommend this drug if you have to get up early the following mourning, you will just be too relaxed to want to do anything. | M | 22 | 365 days | 7/28/2007 | 5 | anxiety | Tiredness | I've been taking a a low dose .25 for occasional anxiety for 10 months and it's helped me tremendously. I get panic attacks at night and taking Xanax relaxes me and helps me sleep. I've heard it's addictive but I only use it when needed maybe once or twice a week and that works for me. I wake up totally refreshed and feeling normal instead of being up all night in panic. | F | 46 | 10 months | 7/27/2007 | 5 | Anxiety and sleep | Drowsiness at first | This medicine has saved my life although I wouldn't recommend it to anyone because it is highly addictive. I have a high tolerance to medicine so I take 1mg 3 times a day. Somedays I do take more. | F | 50 | 6 days | 7/27/2007 | 5 | Anxiety | Sleepiness about 2 to 3 hours after initial dose. It also gives me an "I don't give a crap" attitude towards people trying to apply too much pressure to me at work. | I have a VERY stressful job and I lost my Mother, Grandmother, and Uncle over the past year. I let everything pile up and eventually started having chest pains that I thought were heart disease. I had an echocardiogram, thallium stress test, EKG monitoring, and even an angiogram to check my heart out. All of them cam back clear. I take Alprazolam (Xanax) whenever I feel the tightness in my chest and it goes away. I take it only when I feel overwhealmed with anxiety and only when I have chest pains. I take about .5mg to 1 mg per episode. Usually about 5 times a month. I think I am fortunate that I havent developed a dependancy on the drug. | M | 35 | 1 years | 7/24/2007 | 1 | self medication | sedation, aggression, and euphoria or sometimes a paradoxical combination of all 3. long lasting hangovers or loss of soul feeling, depression the next day, agitition when effect wore off, severe short term memory impairments. | I've slept better on cocaine than I did the 6 days it took me to withdrawl from a benzo binge. I did not sleep, AT ALL, for 6 days straight while withdrawls from xanax. I had severe withdrawl symptoms, basicly everything the drug is prescibed for I had accutely. I was a wreck, the only thing that got me through it was vodka (I had scored some Xani's to get off the vodka lol) and no way to get more xanax. It took a long time to develope the addiction, as I used them sporadicly for 4-5 years without going through withdrawl. But also I was not prescribed and was taking unsupervised street doses, which resulted in a severe addiction. Do NOT F**K around with this drug, take it ONLY as recommended by your doctor, the withdrawls are a living hell and could definately push someone to suicide. Akathesia or whatever its called where you want to keep walking is terrible, especially when you want to go to sleep and find yourself shooting out of bed to stand up for no reason whatsoever at al | M | 32 | 5 years | 7/23/2007 | 4 | Fear of flying | I take Xanax only when flying. I take it about an hour before the flight leaves. It eliminates the severe feelings of anxiety I used to experience when flying. It makes my drowsy, but that's a good thing, so I can sleep on the flight. | I've noticed vivid dreams for a night or two after taking it. Also, I do get irritable for a day, 2 or 3 days after taking it. | M | 59 | 6 years | 7/15/2007 | 2 | Panic attacks/PSD/?ADD | Initially wonderful relief from anxiety and panic attacks. Then suffered increasing dependency and tolerance to medication. OK for 2-3 years. Then curve was classic 'hockey-stick' in that before I was admitted to psych hospital with Alprazolam dependency, my dosage had skyrocketed. On Xanax, I felt fine if dose was enough to ameliorate symptoms, but my family seemed to sense that I 'was not myself'. Withdrawal symptoms were extreme: severe nausea, vomiting, dry retching, vertigo, visual delusions and halucinations. | The short-acting nature of this benzodiazapine made me take it IN ADVANCE of its action. Also the fact that it took approx one hour to 'kick in' forced me to take it in advance to prevent anxiety. It DID allow me to focus on the task at hand (without drowsiness) for which I was grateful at the time. But the gradually increasing tolerance to the drug led to higher and higher and doses needed, eventually leading to hospitalisation. BTW it has been the only drug so far that has allowed me to FOCUS on the work at hand! Now I am off it I feel less able to work constructively. I have since been diagnosed with Bipolar disorder and GAD. Current med: unsatisfactory. | M | 48 | 3 years | 7/15/2007 | 5 | anxiety | sleepiness | F | 80 | 18 years | 7/13/2007 | 4 | Panic attacks and anxiety | Memory loss, sleepyness. Depression if I take too much in a day. | This drug really well during panic or anxiety attacks. | M | 43 | 3 months | 7/11/2007 | 4 | anxiety | none | F | 53 | | 7/1/2007 | 1 | my aunt takes this for panic | My aunt takes this neurotoxin for panic attacks. She still has panic attacks. Also, a relative of mine is a pharmacist. In the Compendium of Pharmaceuticals and Specialties there is a Xanax study which claims the placebo subjects had higher rates of akathisia (a drug-induced condition) than the subjects who were ingesting the drugs. This study demonstrates the willingness of Big Pharma to fudge results in order to pass dangerous drugs. Please don't take this--it is highly addictive when used daily. | M | 45 | 0 days | 7/1/2007 | 4 | [Social] Panic Attacks/Agoraphobia | I sometimes felt invisible, like nobody could notice anything I was doing. Occasionally it would make me fall asleep if I had to stay in one spot for too long. After a fairly short period of time I would feel moderate rebound anxiety. | I have periodic panic attacks, particularly at social gatherings, riding in cars, and walking into rooms full of people (i.e. late to class). I felt that the medicine worked, but I felt that it created urges to take more than directed when the rebound anxiety hit, so I switched from alprazolam to clonazepam (Klonopin). I think xanax is great for airplanes and adjunctive treatment with ssri's, but by itself I don't think xanax has much too offer except as a short term treatment for panic attacks, klonopin is less sedating and seems to prevent future anxious episodes without causing cravings, and tolerance seems to build up much slower than xanax does. | M | 19 | 60 days | 6/30/2007 | 4 | pre | none | M | 49 | 1 days | 6/25/2007 | 5 | Meniere's Disease, PTSD, Anxiety | It makes me very thirsty (dry mouth) but seems to work well in combination with other drugs for my conditions with no ill effects. | In working with a wonderful doctor and therapist, I have learned Meniere's Disease is an anxiety=provoked condition, and is the worst thing I have ever suffered in my life. To manage this, I take a low dose of Wellbutrin everyday and have a 1mg Rx for Xanax, which I am supposed to take 3x-a-day, but to be honest, I usually only take about 3-1mg a week, so only taking it when I honestly feel "too anxious". I also take Meclizine for the Meniere's attacks and those are only as needed as well. I feel the Xanax is better to have around than not, for my personal conditions. It took me a long time to balance out my meds, and taking too much xanax feels as horrible as the withdrawl can be, as I've experienced both. Now, after much time in getting to know what my body needs and how I am feeling (like with anxiety), and removing the 'stigma' of having to take a drug to manage my conditions is now over, taking just a few pills a week seems to work beautifully. I'd rather have it than n | F | 45 | 2 years | 6/23/2007 |