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Re: Valium, xanax, lunesta together at night for s » valene

Posted by Quintal on January 30, 2007, at 21:34:00

In reply to Re: Valium, xanax, lunesta together at night for s » Quintal, posted by valene on January 30, 2007, at 20:45:58

> I have a different opinion, Q. My own experience has been that xanax has definite antidepressant properties and I have been taking it for 25 years, and have gone down from 3mg. to 1.75mg. or less.
>

Yours seems to be a fairly common experience Val. Xanax is well noted as being an exception in having antidepressant effects. However, I am still completely at ease with the theory that most benzos can cause and exacerbate depression in susceptible people when taken at high doses for long periods of time, in line with other CNS depressants.

>Phillipa has not gone up in her benzo dosage; in fact she has gone down if I am not mistaken. So as far as tolerance is concerned I don't think she has an issue.

Nowhere in my post did I mention problems with abuse or tolerance, though now you've raised the issue Phillipa has posted several times that the benzos no longer have the same beneficial effect - highly suggestive of tolerance. But that isn't the point I was making. Many benzos are known to exacerbate depression and Phillipa is taking two benzos and a third benzodiazapine-like drug, all of which in combination could be contributing to depression. My suggestion was a trial withdrawal from these drugs with non-benzodiazepine anxiolytics if necessary, but I agree; a switch Xanax first seems the best step to take.

Q


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