Posted by gilbert on June 8, 2001, at 16:22:59
In reply to Re: Xanax vs. Klonopin, posted by Elizabeth on June 8, 2001, at 15:47:38
It is so weird I can take xanax once a day and not have rebound maybe I am a slow metabolizer. I also recall reading somewhere that people short on gaba have less side effects from withdrawal periods. The worst sensation I have ever even gotten from forgetting to take the xanax is a kind of low blood sugar feeling but nothing that makes me run for a needle and a spoon like you read about. I also think Elizabeth makes some very valid points. I have stayed on the same maintenace dose of xanax for the last year it still gives me the panic coverage I need. I have friends and family mebers on effective doses for over 10 years. The chances someone could get that long and stable of a result from the same ssri without increasing the dose or augmenting with a second drug or poop out is slim. The talk about how ssri's get to the root of panic disorder while benzos only medicate the symptoms is hogwash. Any drug I have taken with seratonin effects screws me up worse than prior to meds. Any drug with noraephrinine effects gives me tachycardia....Take a short term ssri and see what kind of roller coaster ride you get. I was on paxil and luvox talk about up and down. The benzos have been around along time. The studies on abuse even show people with panic and anxiety even ex addicts like myself don't abuse the meds. The abuse that comes from ER rooms and walk in clinics is different in that patients melt down the pills and shoot them either with heroin or cocaine. These are not people looking for a solution to panic disorder, these are people trying to slow their hearts down and still be able to shoot coke, or something to even out their heroin with. Very few street addicts would be happy with the results they get from swallowing the pills. They have to be torched and mainlined to get that instantaneous blast most addicts look for. Doctors and emergency room workers who have benzo beggars show up should look first for needle marks or crack smokers they ain't there just for the pills.....sometimes they will use the pills to get them from one fix to the next but it sure ain't for anxiety disorder. I have been around and worked with addicts for the better part of 20 years and no one I know was holding up a pharmacy for xanax or klonopin......It was not their drug of choice for abuse...it wasn't even in the top 10.....now demerol or morphine that's a different story.
I thank God my pdoc allows me the opppportunity for a normal life with the use of xanax.
Gil
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