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Posted by Kristel on October 26, 2004, at 13:41:48
Hello. I am just wondering if say taking one 3mg Xanax XR pill on the morning would be similar to getting the effect of 1mg immedite-release xanax pill all day long ?!!
Thanks a lot!
Kristel.
Posted by jboud24 on October 26, 2004, at 16:07:02
In reply to Xanax XR - Any experiences ?, posted by Kristel on October 26, 2004, at 13:41:48
Not in my experience. To me, the XR would last at most 6-7 hours and then I'd have to redose on the xanax immediate release. It does last longer, but unfortunately for me only about 2-3 hours longer. I did use that worthless purepac generic though. Do yourself a favor and avoid purepac benzo's. They really are bad from my experience.
Justin
Posted by Snowie on October 28, 2004, at 8:50:54
In reply to Xanax XR - Any experiences ?, posted by Kristel on October 26, 2004, at 13:41:48
I'm not a Xanax XR expert, but my pdoc gave me a 30 pill 2 mg. script for it. To begin with, it was very costly, but if it worked well I figured it would be worth it. I took one pill Saturday morning and waited for "something to happen" and an hour or so later I fell sound asleep even though I didn't feel at all tired when I took it. I woke up several hours later feeling rested, but not sedated. An hour or so later I started feeling anxious so I took some Neurontin, which helped me make it through the day. Around 5:30 p.m. Xanax XR had completely worn off and I was going out for the evening, so luckily my pdoc had given me a script for some Klonopin, which I filled at the same time I filled the Xanax XR. I took .5 of it and I made it through the evening just fine. I took regular Xanax for many years, but I wasn't impressed with Xanax XR, and haven't taken anymore of it. Seemed it worked all at once and after that it was gone. Maybe I metabolize sustained released drugs faster than other people do. Anyway, I'm now taking 1 mg. of Klonopin in the AM and 1 mg. in the PM and so far that's working great.
Oh, for what it's worth, my pdoc said that a 1 mg. pill of Xanax XR is equal to about 1.5 mg. of regular Xanax. That may be fact or just his opinion.
Snowie
> Hello. I am just wondering if say taking one 3mg Xanax XR pill on the morning would be similar to getting the effect of 1mg immedite-release xanax pill all day long ?!!
>
> Thanks a lot!
> Kristel.
Posted by chess on October 30, 2004, at 0:16:01
In reply to Xanax XR - Any experiences ?, posted by Kristel on October 26, 2004, at 13:41:48
a 3mg Xanax XR pill means that the total pill weight is 3mg...the XR formulation releases 1/3 of the total pill weight every 4 hours...the half-life of a Xanax XR pill is between 10-12 hours...so if you took a 3mg pill of Xanax XR at 6AM it would last until around 4PM-6PM and would give you a steady level of around 1mg during that time
Posted by tankgirl on November 17, 2004, at 2:50:22
In reply to Xanax XR - Any experiences ?, posted by Kristel on October 26, 2004, at 13:41:48
In my experience, the XR's do NOT last 12 hours, more like 6 hours for me.. and im positive i dont have a fast metabolism.. however, I do have a major xanax addiction now (however i did give Xanax XR it's chance to work AS PRESCRIBED and saw it was much less effective).. if youd like, check the post i left earlier this evening/morning, in the substance abuse forum..
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