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| RATING | REASON | SIDE EFFECTS FOR XANAX | COMMENTS | SEX | AGE | DURATION/ DOSAGE | DATE ADDED |
| 2 | insomina | Next day grogginess, feeling numb. | I'll take the regular kind, if I have to take it at all. Be warned..this stuff is HIGHLY addicting. If you have ever had any kind of dependency issues, avoid this drug class like a plague. It can cause more problems than it can cure, and you won't even know it until you are long gone. (I worked in the substance abuse field. We saw a lot of problems with this.) | F | 42 | 4 days | 4/15/2007 | 2 | anxiety | memory loss, tolerance, withdrawl, and diminishing returns | F | 24 | 6 years | 11/15/2004 | 2 | to help me sleep from restless leg | I have had restless leg-neuropathy for approx. 6 months. I just recently found out what it was. One of my doctors prescribed the lowest dose for sleep, it seemed as though when I first started taking it; it was helping me. Then my doctor wouldn't give me any refills, and when I came off of them, I was very irritated, anxious, etc. I noticed also that it wasn't really helping me sleep that well. This drug is only a cover-up, and highly abused by many people. You wouldn't believe the people that approached me and wanted to buy these! That really turned me off from this drug and made me think twice about what I was doing. | F | 39 | 2 months | 2/12/2004 | 2 | anxiety | addiction | very addictive | F | 27 | 10 years | 6/2/2003 | 2 | anxiety | very sleepy especially next day and irritability | not very effective for me | F | 38 | 15 times | 2/6/2009 | 2 | Anxiety/Agoraphobia | ADDICTION, grogginess | HIGHLY ADDICTIVE. I couldn't leave the house without taking at least a little chip of it. This was years ago, and I'm glad I came off it before I got even MORE addicted. I take Effexor XR now and my panic attacks are gone! | F | 28 | 3 months | 12/2/2007 | 2 | anxiety | mild nausea, sleepiness, felt withdrawl even after one dose. | the short half life makes you feel very UP one minute and then DOWN soon after.. It's very popular and addicting but this is My least favorite Benzo, I greatly prefer either Klonopin and or Ativan. I find Xanax is clearly not good for long term use. | F | 32 | 7 days | 1/11/2008 | 2 | insomnia, anxiety | Initially, a slight relaxed sensation (my husband said he could tell when I'd just taken it), and I could sleep -- finally! The cons early on were the hangover/grogginess effects. Later, I became a desperate addict. I needed a higher dosage to achieve the same effect, and really, was not a complete person on it, anyway. Any missed days were excruciating. | I will NEVER touch this drug again -- not with a 10-foot-pole (unless I was using it to smash it). I was on no other medication; I was taking only a moderate dose of xanax. After about four years, I got ahead of my prescription by three or four pills. Called my doctor; she wouldn't budge. I decided, this is it, I'm done. My husband and kids were gone for a couple of days, and I decided to use that time to withdraw in peace. I spent that time in a sweaty, mind-bending (thoughts racing, smashing, careening into each other), body-spasming hell. After that, it took me a couple of weeks to fully "return." Luckily I'm a sane person and was able to stand outside myself, as it were, watch and wait it out. Otherwise, I should have been in a psychiatric unit. I've been off xanax for about eight years. I recommend thorough research into the risks to anyone contemplating taking it. And be disciplined; do not exceed your prescription (which is tempting to do, as it's easy to build toleran | F | 49 | 4 years | 4/3/2008 | 2 | anxitety | makes me terribly sleepy and lethargic | I am asking my dr to switch me to vailum becasue it relieves the anxiety without making me curl up and sleep for days. It works for me only becasue I sleep through the stressful situation. At this point I can't even take it when I need it because it makes me so tired. | F | 31 | 8 months | 4/14/2008 | 2 | akasthisia | None. I do not think this drug works in the sense that I cannot feel it. My akasthisia is better (caused by Abilify)but I would rather take Valium. Valium calms me while Xanax does not do anything at all. | I cannot "feel" anything from Xanax. It is as though I am taking a placebo. Nothing at all happens when I take one. | F | 59 | 6 months | 12/3/2009 | 2 | anxiety post surgery complications | memory loss, headache, drowsiness, clumsyness/balance issues, dry mouth (especially in morning), loss of apetite. | Hi Everyone... I was on xanas for about 3 - 4 weeks taking approximately 2.0 MG/day for anxiety related to some surgery complications. I have been off Xanas for the last 48 hours or so and am experiencing a lot of odd body issues including headache, dizziness, chills (sporadic), tingling in toes, neck pain (left side, by vein, not muscular), feeling heat-like feelings in my veins, and blurry vision. All of these symptoms are not happening at once but each has been noticible over the last 2 days or so... Anyone else experience these withdrawal-like symptoms after 3-4 weeks of usage? | F | 32 | 3 weeks | 6/10/2009 | 2 | Because my Back was hurting. | It really did help with my back the pain was gone I didn't feel it anymore is probably the better words for use . I only took one pill and my entire body felt the side effects within 30 minutes of taking the pill with a glass of water I was falling over and I kept feeling this weird feeling of paranoia as if someone was watching me and I was home alone with my fiancé. I was very uncomfortable and for the most part I wished my stomach ache would come back and that the feeling the pill have me would go away I couldn't see anything for a period of about 10 minutes and I don't remember eating or falling asleep my mind today the next day is completely blank after the pill had set in . My fiancé told me he had to pick me up off of the ground 2 times carry me to the bed and that he had to wake me up to check on me multiple times. I will not ever take one of those again. He thought I was going to die in my sleep. | I have also seen others taking this pill some with a prescription and some without one. And it is truly a dangerous drug and that's what scares me and my family so much about it, it's easy to access far more easy then it should be. It's open to children it's open to addicts and it creates addicts most of the time. I think this drug should be banned. Or just discontinued completely . | F | 19 | 1 days 30MG | 1/27/2015 | 2 | Anxiety, PTSD | Helps anxiety but it makes me feel drunk even if I cut it in thirds. I can do or go anywhere after taking this. Went back to ativan. | F | 54 | 1 years | 1/18/2016 | 2 | Anxiety | Xanax used to give me anxiety relief, but not to much anymore.I've been on it a long time. | Omg. Had no idea it causes brain damage. No wonder why I can't concentrate and have problems even getting out of bed, and getting tasks done.I feel like I'm losing it. | F | 10 years .5 generic | 2/26/2017 | 1 | Anxiety | Tiredness body aches from being short acting medicine forgot whole days | F | 58 | 2 months | 3/23/2017 | 1 | Anxiety (misdiagnosed) | Severe anxiety, psychosis, memory loss, agoraphobia, akathisia, disability. Damage to GABA receptors. | If your doctor prescribes this or any benzo, run. www.benzo.org.uk Facebook page - World Benzodiazepine Awareness Day | F | 56 | 1 years .25 - 16.0 | 7/10/2017 | 1 | Mum took Xanax for her insomnia | Mum became suicidal. The pills did not help her to calm down and sleep - instead, she experienced edginess, high anxiety and became like a person possessed. Her voice changed, she wanted to die - she began trying to bite herself...she pulled out her IV drip. She became feral! | Because she couldn't sleep, she started yelling through the night - 6 hours of non-stop yelling. It was really traumatising.Fortunately, the doctors convened and changed her meds. She's back to normal now. At one stage, the heart specialist even made us sign a DNR form - to cover himself no doubt. | F | 91 | 60 days .25 2X day | 10/12/2019 | 1 | Sleep | Disabled physically brain damage neurological damage I have Bind and akathesia.. Herenda's experience side effects are very real. Even after discontinuation.. It's been 6 years and I'm still suffering I'm still disabled. | Is not meant to be taken for more than 2 weeks... Will destroy you physically and mentally | F | 61 | 8 months 1 mg once 1X day | 7/15/2023 | 1 | Anxiety,PTSD,Social Anxiety, etc. | This drug works fabulously when you first start to take it. That quickly wears off and you need more and more to control your anxiety. It causes fatigue, mental fogginess, and short term memory loss for me | I am now a slave to this drug. When I first started taking it I had no idea that it was harder to come off of than heroin. I would never take any drugs of it's class knowing what I know now. I ran out early one time. I had to wait 7 days before I could have it refilled. My withdrawal experience can only be described as hellish.The worst anxiety I have ever had, panic attacks, visual and auditory hallucinations, my body jerking all the time, seizures, sweating, not being able to walk, tinnitus, (I hear that all the time now). I could not leave my house, drive a car, my husband had to help me get dressed. The only way to get off it is very slowly and most Doctors don't want to deal with that. They try to cut you off a milligram every 2 weeks or something. That just leads to more anxiety. I now obsess about running out of it. I count the pills in the bottle. When it starts to get low I start to panic. I feel like a junkie but this drug comes from a Doctor and a Pharmacy. If you take this drug please only take a low amount for a few weeks. Don't be in hell like I am! | F | 54 | 10 years 10mg 4X day | 2/18/2016 | 1 | Anxiety | Don't take this drug! Withdrawals are a living hell. Research this on net!!! | Worst drug to detox from. Withdrawals are a "living hell" feel like you are dying. Interdose withdrawals. Body wants increased dosage. Tapering and or cold turkey a death sentence. Don't take this drug. Started at .25mg occasionally then gradually increased . Finally at 1.5 day before told in interdose withdrawals every day. Tried to taper got down to .875mg ended up in detox couldn't handle taper shaking and trembling all day . Going crazy. Worst drug ever. Two months later still going through horrible withdrawal symptoms! | F | 62 | 4 years | 12/21/2015 |