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| RATING | REASON | SIDE EFFECTS FOR XANAX | COMMENTS | SEX | AGE | DURATION/ DOSAGE | DATE ADDED |
| 1 | Don't use this drug to solve your problems. | Hurting from the side effects and the withdrawals? Get some group help (nothing sold at this website, just a group forum) www.benzowithdrawal.com | F | 41 | 0 1X day | 9/23/2010 | 1 | panic attacks and anxiety | my side effects to xanax was hallucnations and hearing voices, I had to go to the hospital where they treated me like a extreme dangered violent person, admitted me into a mental instiute, then diognosied with szochophenia then put me on pills for that. xananx totaly ruined my life. | F | 27 | 12 days .05 1X day | 9/22/2010 | 1 | anxiety | DON'T TAKE THIS DRUG, I'M TELLING YOU NOW..AT YOUR OWN RISK, ALL BENZOS ARE DANGEROUS! | I belong to a support forum Benzobuddies.com, and also benzowithdrawal.com and this medication has put me in the house! i can't go shopping or anything. doctors ruin lives! | F | 24 | 3 weeks 0.5mg 1X day | 9/24/2010 | 1 | anxiety/panic attacks | Paradoxial reaction! Increased anxiety, panic attacks, suicidal thoughts, agoraphobia, nausea and terrible withdrawal effects! | This drug does not work on everyone! Dr's don't like to believe this! Don't get on it if you don't want to go through hell to get off. Side effects of withdrawal are horrible, look them up and research before starting! | F | 33 | 5 months .5 3X day | 9/1/2010 | 1 | Panic disorder | At first I felt confident that a panic attack would not come on. It felt as if my libido was put on hold and I felt extremely calm AND extremely tired. I felt as if I was able to communicate in a calm manner. Unfortunately, there were moments when I didn't come across as being calm. I took one dose before a 9 am meeting. After the work day ended, I went home and fell asleep at 6 pm. Woke up feeling rested the next day, did not take the medicine again but by 5-6 pm that afternoon, I couldn't keep my eyes open. Tried .5 mg again the next day, and the same thing happened so I am now on Ativan and am having better results. | F | 50 | 4 days .5 mg 1X AN | 8/13/2010 | 1 | Anxiety due to hyperthyroidism | Felt like I was drunk, feelings of detachment from reality. When I tried to stop taking it the side effects were horrible: shaking, much worse anxiety, insomnia, strange feelings in my brain. The feeling that something was moving around in my brain lasted up to three weeks after I took the last pill. | DO NOT START TAKING XANAX!!! I was put on the Xanax extended release twice a day for anxiety due to an anxiety attack that I had from an allergic reaction to Advil. After a few days of taking it, I didn't like the way I felt. I tried to go off gradually by going from .5 to .25 twice a day. My brain would not let me reduce the dosage without SEVERE side effects. It took me FIVE weeks to ween off a drug that I was only on for five days. I finally went to ER in week three I was so desperate. The doctor there gave me Vistaril to counter the withdrawals. I finally was able to stop using it. I continued to take the Vistaril which is not addictive for another two weeks in case I had any residual effects from the Xanax. I wish I had never started that awful drug and no matter what anyone says, it's awful to go off of once you take it on a regular basis...even only five days. By the way...the doctor in ER told me that if you have a car accident while on Xanax, it's the same as drunk driving. If someone dies, you go to jail. | F | 49 | 5 days .5 2X day | 6/23/2010 | 1 | depression and sleep disorders | When I tried to stop taking this medication, I had a seizure and ended up in the hospital. Upon recovering from the seizure I discovered I had suffered some type of memory loss, I could not remember any new information that was told to me. | It has been five years since I've taken any Xanax, and my recovery from the seizure is not complete. I still suffer short term memory loss and confusions. Do NOT take this medication. There are plenty of other safe drugs on the market to use for sleep or relaxation. | F | 36 | 2 years 2 mg 4X day | 6/2/2010 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | depression,anxiety | i should of never been on this prescribed med. all these years, i lost my self worth,my life was drugged, it was not me, i had no feelins no emotions i slept my problems without dealing with them,i feel it masked all my emotions, i am now going cold turkey after seeing what this drug has done to me, how can a licensed psy. write prescriptions all these years and never never inform me or my husband what it can do to me. i will never take this drug and i want to tell my story to all. it has been 30 days since my withdrawal so far, and i written a journal about each day what i am going thru. no one wanted to detox me just give me another nacortic and i am willing to clean my mind of this drug. God help any one who is going thru the hell i am going thru. it is a very addicting drug and what it has done to me is so hard to describe. i feel cheated out of about 18 years of my life while on this dangerous drug. there should be something done to make doctors,psy, and whoever to sit down and ex | get it off the market | F | 68 | 18 years varied 3X day | 3/8/2012 | 1 | anxiety | extremely addictive almost almost got my kids tooken away. Now im on klonopin we will see how this works | F | 19 | 1 days 1mg | 11/22/2011 | 1 | slight anxiety | I tried xanax the first time when I was 19, and fell in love. BUT I have been hooked on it for 8 years now. at points I was taking four or five 2mg bars a day, while most people pass out after 1mg. I have terrible mental withdrawals and anxiety if I don't have them, and to be honest I don't think I even had anxiety before I ever took a xanax...just tried it for fun. I have a total love, hate relationship with xanax...the only drug I have ever been addicted to. | F | 27 | 8 years 2 mg | 11/24/2011 | 1 | Anxiety | Memory problems, weight loss, urinary frequency, IBS, then after I stopped it I was completely shocked by the withdrawal no one warned me about...it was a year of shear hell, A YEAR!! | This is a benzodiazepine...LOOK UP BENZODIAZEPINE WITHDRAWAL...at first it will seem like a wonder drug until you gradually begin to lose your health...then when you go off it holy crap!!! I have NEVER been in so much misery for so long! | F | 48 | 5 years 0.5 mg 1X day | 10/28/2011 | 1 | Panic Disorder & GAD | Increased anxiety & panic, insomnia, nervousness, restlessness, agoraphobia | Worked for over 20 years and then became my WORST nightmare and RUINED my life. Am now tapering off benzo's with valium. Benzo addiction and withdraw is very serious issue. Xanax may seem like a God Sent at first but when it turns its ugly head on you, you will realize you are in BIG TROUBLE. Avoid xanax and ALL benzo's at all costs. Check out benzobuddies.com and see real life experiences of people who were prescribed and now trying to come off these meds. It is nothing short of tragic and inhumane. | F | 50 | 20 years .5 4X day | 10/28/2011 | 5 | | 9/3/2006 | 5 | | 3/12/2007 | 5 | anxiety | none | just worry about it being addicting | 54 | 3 years | 6/18/2002 | 5 | Generalized Anxiety Disorder, PD | Initially [for the first 3 days], slight drowsiness after a .5mg dose, which I could fight off easily. | A very potent and effective drug which has changed my life by making things easier. However, the addiction potential makes it risky for those facing substance abuse presently or in the past. Misusing this drug [i.e. mixing it with alcohol] results in a marked disinhibition along with memory loss. Use with caution. | 22 | 1 years | 5/10/2005 |