XANAX Reviews (ALPRAZOLAM)Average Rating: 3.9 (928 Ratings)Filter ResultsCompare XANAX with similar:
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| RATING | REASON | SIDE EFFECTS FOR XANAX | COMMENTS | SEX | AGE | DURATION/ DOSAGE | DATE ADDED |
| 2 | anxiety | Rebound anxiety. It's addictive & hence not appropriate for long-term use! Also lowered mood. | Not appropriate for long-term use. It's addictive. And it causes depression. But it's fine for one-dose use (dental anxiety, fear of flying). | M | 62 | 8 months .25 mg | 11/15/2014 | 2 | anxiety | All the side effect were wonderful, it was the withdrawal that was hell. | If you do research you'll find that Xanax is the most widely abused pharmaceuticals in the world, and for good reason. It's impossible to have a panic attack while on it. But I've found from taking normal doses myself, and observing other people who were also not abusing it, that it should simply be a short term drug. You really have to have a diagnosis of panic disorder to be on it. How many of the people on it do you think really have panic disorder? I'm not saying it doesn't exist, I used to have it. I'm just saying it is hyped up, which has made this drug very, very popular and unfortunately many people taking it for normal use have absolutely no idea how addicting it really is. When I discontinued use, I had to be hospitalized. Suddenly, in an office meeting I felt like I was driving down a steep mountain with no breaks. Felt like crawling out of my skin, while all my coworkers looked at me like they thought I was about to go postal. From the research I read, a tolerance to a normal dose can develop in as little as a week. If you're thinking about getting on this medication, do yourself a favor and don't take it very long. If you're getting on it just for kicks, you won't listen to anything I'm saying anyway. That being said, I think it is a wonderful medication for short term use. You sleep like an angel and you don't worry about a thing. There's really nothing that beats it. Caveat, be careful. | M | 34 | 6 months | 1/23/2010 | 2 | Chronic Anxiety | Depression after 2 weeks of .25 mg spaced throughout the day. Constant desire to sleep. | Definitely does the right thing by preventing a panic attack, but by no means is it a long term solution pill. I only use them in quick, special needs cases. | M | 20 | 1 months | 6/30/2009 | 2 | anxiety, depression | a little drowsy | didn't do a thing for me I would take 1.5 mg at a time like a placebo | M | 22 | 10 days | 4/2/2009 | 2 | gad, ocd | a little drowsy | didn't do anything for me except make me a little drowsy | M | 22 | 10 days | 2/2/2009 | 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 | 2 | anxiety | Sleepyness, yawning and the feeling that it was going to ware off. Not to mention it hit me to fast and all i wanted to do was sit. It was quite retarding. Unlike diazepam (valium) Xanax didn't do it for me and Xanax also gave me a mild case of the mild munchies the first time it kicked in. | In my opinion, Xanax is better as a sleeping pill. Valium is better for anxiety than Xanax. Xanax was just to... I don't know, but I didn't go out and get a job or talk to people that much when I was on it. I was still hanging around the house. So after trying it and not being satisfied I went back to valium. | M | 23 | 2 days | 11/3/2004 | 2 | anxiety | Sleepyness, yawning and the feeling that it was going to ware off. Not to mention it hit me to fast and all i wanted to do was sit. It was quite retarding. Unlike diazepam (valium) Xanax didn't do it for me and Xanax also gave me a mild case of the mild munchies the first time it kicked in. | In my opinion, Xanax is better as a sleeping pill. Valium is better for anxiety than Xanax. Xanax was just to... I don't know, but I didn't go out and get a job or talk to people that much when I was on it. I was still hanging around the house. So after trying it and not being satisfied I went back to valium. | M | 23 | 2 days | 11/3/2004 | 2 | anxiety | Sleepyness, yawning and the feeling that it was going to ware off. Not to mention it hit me to fast and all i wanted to do was sit. It was quite retarding. Unlike diazepam (valium) Xanax didn't do it for me and Xanax also gave me a mild case of the mild munchies the first time it kicked in. | In my opinion, Xanax is better as a sleeping pill. Valium is better for anxiety than Xanax. Xanax was just to... I don't know, but I didn't go out and get a job or talk to people that much when I was on it. I was still hanging around the house. So after trying it and not being satisfied I went back to valium. | M | 23 | 2 days | 11/3/2004 | 2 | insomnia caused by Effexor | complete loss of inhibitions, especially at high dosages, as well as blackouts. withdrawal is terrible--vivid gruesome nightmares, lack of appetite, intense agitation. abrupt withdrawal is even worse; 2 days after stopping I had a grand mal seizure while working out, resulting in $30,000 worth of shoulder surgery. | I loved how Xanax (at first) helped me sleep, and disinhibited me socially (I'm an introvert) and at the keyboard (I am a writer.) I hated how I became addicted as as the months went by, and began ordering it over the Internet, and ultimately lost interest in everything except obtaining more Xanax. Xanax can wreck your life as sure as alcohol or any street drug. | M | 40 | 19 months | 12/11/2006 | 2 | anxiety panic attacks | residual side effects, dizziness, nausea, made my depression worse | I've been taking it for 9 years. 1 mg twice a day. I have to constantly be cutting myself down for a couple of weeks at a time to keep this stuff working. During those couple of weeks I'm panicky and nervous, and having suicidal thoughts, ...then I take it at regular dose and instead of all of the other problems I have -- I'm seriously suicidal -- as in I'm going to do it NOW, screaming at people, parasuicidal (self injuy), irritated, angry, and I sleep about 18 hours a day. Remember people -- tranquilizers are downers. I'd feel MUCH better if I could get off of it completely. I've also been having residual side effects for the last 4 years. Overwhelming dizziness and nausea. I have been unable to function at all. | M | 35 | 9 days | 2/16/2006 | 2 | anxiety, panic attacks | mild euphoria, good at knocking out a full blown attack when you know it's coming but sometimes I could still feel it raging inside even after taking it. | first week was okay, only had 3 attacks and only took it at night because every previous attack happened after falling asleep. second week was much worse, attacks starting happening almost every day which also raises my blood pressure which makes anxiety even worse so I had to start taking it more often. The last straw was taking my usual dose before bedtime and still waking up in the middle of the night with an attack. after 2 weeks of wishing I'd rather be dead than go on like this I went to ER and was admitted to the psych ward. psychiatrist said the xanax was making it WORSE because it only lasts 4 hours and tends to cause a rebound attack. put me on klonopin which has been a lifesaver. no severe anxiety or attacks since then. if I need it during the day at work I can't take an entire pill because I get too disoriented so I cut it in half and that works just fine. stay away from xanax, try klonopil or valium instead. | M | 36 | 2 weeks | 1/24/2006 | 2 | panic attacks | anger and hostility | it made me look likke a junky, i lost a job or two and couldnt remember anything the next day | M | 29 | 365 days 5mg 6X day | 7/25/2011 | 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 | 2 | Bad panic attacks | none | I read all about how addictive this is and that it's a controlled substance, but I don't know why since it had no effect whatsoever on me, not calming, not agitating, not euphoric, not nothing. Maybe I need to up the dose but it's supposed to be so addictive I don't really want to try that. I would take one when I was freaking out and I know it takes a little time to work but squat all happened other than after a while I eventually quit freaking out and just went from panicky to merely anxious, untill the next panic attack. | M | 49 | 4 weeks .25 mg 1X AN | 5/12/2010 | 2 | Persistant General Anxiety Disorde | Yes, this drug will calm you down. It will help you sleep. It makes you feel better quickly. Then you become addicted and weaning off Xanax is horrible. The physical reaction to getting off Xanax is worse than the original symptoms. The rapid heartbeat, shakiness, stomach/intestinal upset, restless sleep and so on were worse when trying to get off this med. Too bad because initially, it really works. | M | 57 | 10 months 1.0 ng 1X day | 2/23/2010 | 1 | I had a lot of crap going on in my life a few years ago and my wife was taking xanax, 2mg so I asked my Doc for some. It got to the point that I would take 3 or 4 a day. I had to go cold turkey. The withdraws were bad. Nine days of no sleep, started hallucinations. Had to be hospitalized. | now I occasionally take a klonipin when I get the shakes but this is maybe once a month. (When I get real anxious my hands start to shake) | M | 59 | 3 years 2X day | 5/4/2010 | 1 | Anxiety/Panic | W/D=HELL | I AM SORRY BUT THESE PPL COMMENTING TAKING THIS DRUG 20 YEARS AND SO ON WITHOUT INCREASING IT IS WITH BIG PHARMA!!!! You want to lose your life, take the Benzos! | M | 30 | 2 years 1X day | 2/10/2010 | 1 | Anxiety | Felt disconnected from the world, it actually made my anxiety worse if you can believe that. For 1-2 hours after taking it, I just felt nothing, but it wasn't a pleasant feeling, then 3-4 hours after it I felt like I was going to panic. This drug has the potential to make anxiety worse. | I may be a rare breed, but Xanax made my anxiety worse overall. | M | 27 | 2 days .5 2X day | 5/29/2010 | 1 | panic | withdrawal! | DO NOT TAKE THIS DRUG! | M | 32 | 2 years 2mg 1X day | 10/28/2010 |