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Posted by rjlockhart37 on August 18, 2015, at 22:38:17
i was thinking i was on it for 1 year after going off regular xanax, but my review of it, it's coverage for anxiety through out the day is vary good.....i noticed alot of stress and tension during the day was lower than regular days, but that's for anxiety puproses, i do give it a good review because im starting to rerember taking it at 4mg daily, 2mg at night and 2mg in the morning.....it's coverage is good.....but really it depends on the person, but alot of people respond well to xanax for anxiety, but still there's other's that work diffrently.....
lorazepam is mainly relax ... not like relax to get high, it just.....it took the edge off and you can feel like pressure has lifted off.....i was lorazpeam in 2005, 2mg twice daily......it is good for anxiety associated with tension, shaky, and it's good in siezure threshhold when there's too much electrical firing going on.....lorazepam's recreational value, it depends, it does give you a relax feeling and feel like chill.....kinda similar to couple beer's....but it's ability to relieve anxiety is good but that's what makes it being dependent on, because when it's withdrawn it is vary difficult.....alot of the psych hospitals use lorazepam as a sedative....it's liking from a random person, it just chills you out.....relax
klonopin - for anxiety: yes it's vary effective, and for panic attack's but it's effect on mood is not so good, xanax i've realized has the best mood modulation with decreasing anxiety.....klonopin.....defeintly is effective, but it tends to make me depressed and i've read similar writings here on babble that it the same......getting some kinda of high on klonopin is ... not so much, it's more going to give you a euphoria relief if you having anxiety that dehabilitating.....you get that relief that it's gone, but clonazepam by itself for recreational uses....it's low, mainly it's euphoria is because of the relief.....
i havent been on others.......only those, at different times......
phenobarbital i've wrote about.....but i've reaad tons of addiction, and reports from decades ago about it's complications, the only thing it's mainly used for now is siezures.....but still it does have a good anxiety med properties, but i think it's sedation is whta causes complications......i've read in articles that patients view more of a medication than a drug of abuse (recreation) like amobarb and secobarb.....it's slower in action and not as direct.........still i think it can have a small role to use for anxiety resistant cases......it's just it lasts long time and sedation.......xanax xr could be compared to it....because it lasts similar duration but the pheno causes more nuero depression than alprazolam......(depressed, and slower)
anyways thats my review......i just sat here and decinded to write my avaiable knowedge of research and past use.....
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r
Posted by herpills on August 19, 2015, at 11:47:34
In reply to my benzo review, posted by rjlockhart37 on August 18, 2015, at 22:38:17
I've been on all the standard benzos (Klonopin, Ativan, Xanax) and honestly I don't really see that much of a difference. Klonopin does last longer for sure, and doesn't need to be dosed more than twice a day. As far as onset of action, I never really found Xanax or Atvian to start working any faster than Klonopin, unless you are getting Ativan as an injection.
How are you feeling these days? Did you get your meds figured out? I know you were talking about making some changes in the doses.
Posted by rjlockhart37 on August 21, 2015, at 19:03:52
In reply to Re: my benzo review » rjlockhart37, posted by herpills on August 19, 2015, at 11:47:34
i'm doing ok, nothing really out of the ordinary, alot platued stuff....i need to embark on a journey or something, get a burst of energy and ideas and find something to wake fast.....but i start class the 31st introduction to pc concepts and media writing, i was taking a intro database class but there's not enough students in the class.....this is at my college that's not far from me....
my meds right now are ... there ok, im going to get the prozac adjusted, im hoping to 80mg, my current doctor doenst want to do 80mg, so....we'll see what happens, she offered to use lithium but .. i think you have monthly blood tests with lithium......and really lithium is more treating mania and manic episodes than depression.......
lamictal, im gotta get it adjusted to 100mg.....anything above 200mg really makes me just boring......flat mood, boring, robot mood....
anyways, hopefully i see her on actually the 31st so.....i hope she works with me on the prozac.......because depression......whole bunch of diffrent things like living on my own, but staying in school for career......need to mak a more dirastic change besides just being in school........
Posted by SLS on August 22, 2015, at 6:16:51
In reply to Re: my benzo review, posted by rjlockhart37 on August 21, 2015, at 19:03:52
> lamictal, im gotta get it adjusted to 100mg.....anything above 200mg really makes me just boring......flat mood, boring, robot mood....
How long have you stayed at 200 mg/day? Did you give it enough time to see if the flat affect dissipated? When I first increase the dosage from 200 to 300 mg/day, I experience much the same thing as you describe, but it does disappear for the most part.
- Scott
Posted by rjlockhart37 on August 22, 2015, at 11:59:28
In reply to Re: my benzo review » rjlockhart37, posted by SLS on August 22, 2015, at 6:16:51
hey scott, right now as on the prescription bottle it says take 2 200mg (400mg) but i stopped it, and take 200mg, because it just.......makes everything too stablized meaning i can't feel like my regular self, im always controlled......and also when i take 400mg any nicotine or similar it blocks the effects.......
i've been on 400mg for about a year and started really to notice it's apathy, robot mood effect, yet it works well for other people and keeps their moods from being dyphoric, but not me......i don't kno but im still taking 200mg, try to get it decreased to 100mg.......it's too much at 400mg
hopefully maybe get off it totally, move to depakote.......not sure whats gonna happen until i see my doc on the 31st
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