I am gonna tell my shrink this.... take me off the Xanax....
 

and all this other shit I am on , and I will just puff weed few times per day.

What do you think?

Weed is less deadly than these paharmaceutal crap I am on......

be careful coming off that shit

if you do that - your daily post count will suffer

Weed isn't a better alternative...bang smack

Go cold turkey, cut everything off. See what happens as a result. I'm rather curious :)
WG

but seriously - I've known 2 people that have cut off - you need to be really careful - one of the people went into the hospital for a few days with some heart issues after stopping cold-turkey

I'd switch teams for you. :winkwink:

going cold turkey from that shit is compared to being as bad as heroin withdrawal. Cant go cold turkey on it.

oh man, you will be so much better off.....

those chemicals really fuck with your mind... you will see once you stop taking them.

smoke the herb, it never hurt anyone.

weed is for sure the best route to go. It is good medicine :thumbsup

Exactly.......I had grand mal seizures when I went off Xanax. Taper off over a long period of time. I eventually had to taper with longer acting drugs like Valium, Restoril, and Soma in order to get off Xanax.

Xanax is definately the hardest benzo to quit.

My blood pressure got so high when I quit xanax that the emergency room doctor said I was about an hour away from a major stroke.

Sometimes underdosing is worse than overdosing. :disgust

weed will most likely not help panic attacks if thats what you take xanax for homeboy

it will help with the psychosis & withdrawls once you're off it though

also ask for some sort of anti convulsant, because you got a 50/50 shot at seizures...

ya - exactly - I've never taken any kind of drug honestly - but I've seen plenty of people get fucked up both on and getting off - Juicy - just be careful - get the proper advice and 2nd opinions before getting off (no pun intended)

You will thank yourself later in life for this. Mark my worlds. Fuck chemicals, smoke weed.

Your doc bullshited, blood pressure is surely a risk for stroke but NEVER a prognostic element, unless he's psychic and saw your future in a vision.

Just don't, man.

I never understood how people can be on these drugs, even if its doctor prescribed. Even if you are under doctor supervision you will get addicted. Why take the chance?

I know for a fact Vogueboy has seriously studied medicine. I would tend to agree with what he says.

cuz some of us are tough enough to jump off the train at the station

& everythings a new experience :pimp

enough of your book learnin julian....help me & bubbles cut up this hash

I have done some creazy shit in my life. Thank god no pills, that will destroy you're life. I learned my lesson from taking up smoking, im totally addicted to cigs. I can only imagin if cigs is this addicting how the pills would be. Must be insance to get off those shits.

normally I would- :)

LMAO. I know PLENTY of doctors who have a lot more knowledge than "vogueboy" and many of them i would not let work on an injured ant. Give me a break.

I was on them for about 8 years and one day I just got sick of it.. I took myself off cold turkey.
I was very very nervous and shaky for about a week.
and
My hands broke out in little bumps for about 3 months :-(

Getting off of them was one of the best things I have ever done.

Good Luck Juicy!

To Swordfish:

No you don't because you don't know me :thumbsup

I would give you so much scientifical evidence bout how harmful quitting psychiatric meds quickly can be but you'd probly wouldn't udnerstand a word of it :thumbsup

I felt like I was tripping for 6 months. Granted I was up to over 30 mg (yes 30 mg) of Xanax each day.

For the first couple of weeks all I could do was eat the anti-siezure meds and sit in the dark. Went over 6 days without sleeping a week. Pure fucking hell.

30mg, extremely bad case of anxiety i s'pose. Usually here it's exchange fow lower dosages of longer lasting meds of the same class, but of course I dunno bout your case.

Im gonna take one Xanax like med now. Don't usually use 'em but my father just what seems to be a stroke, the paramedics just carried him to the hospital, my doc friend is waiting there for him.

I know that's now the proper way to write this but at this time of the night none of my friends is online and I'm so desperate and crying.

Life is so fucking fragile. 2 weeks ago I lost a 22 yr childhood friend.

Juicy (and any others of you who this may apply to)..I never know what to take as serious on this board....but....just in case

My first piece of advice...don't simply decide to alter your own dosing. I assume you trusted your doctor enough initially to let him/her put you on a medication. So, you should also trust your doctor to make the right decisions to take you off or alter either the dosage or type of medication you are taking.

If you have read any of my earlier threads when I first happened upon GFY in March, you would probably know that I can speak with some authority in the field of psych. medications. The adult industry is a fun side line. At the day job, I work as a Research Scientist in the discipline of Behavioral Medicine.

There's lots of questions I can't ethically provide answers to in this sort of arena, but there is one thing I can tell you. Use this board for amusement purposes. But please, trust your doctor for any real advice you may require.

No weed will actually enhance the panic attacks :2 cents:

WOW , some actual good advice :thumbsup

yup, I was just about to post that.. I've seen some nasty seizures from ppl running out, err quitting - u gotta come offa them slow



def get off them shits tho.., they are cool to have around for when u _need_ (nervous for some reason) one not something i'd take all the time ;)

nothing is worse than heroin withdrawal

nothing.

your doing the smart thing by telling your doctor you want to get off the pharmy's.

lol...... is this shit serious
why u started taking pills if i may ask?

You bunch of self-proclaimed experts giving Juicy advice: shut up about things you have no clue about.

Oh and you xlogger - omg I hate you, what an idiot you are! An idiot, a true moron!

Be careful coming off that shit. I was on it after college because of the job I had, and couldn't sleep at night. It really fucks with the chemicals in the brain from memory loss, and feelign groggy, and all that jazz.

With any pills like that, you have to come off them slowly otherwise you might end up in the E.R. or go crazy (if you remember some of the stories in the news from a few years back on certain one's where people killed themselves or others). Those can all be dangerous, and you have to slowly reduce your doses until you taper off them. Especially if you've been on them for some time.

I've never done weed or contraband, so I can't speak to that part of it.

:pimp

deffinately try to get off that farmacutical crap, it will fuck you up faster than anything! And don't listen to the doctors about taking it, they're getting payed to give it to people!!

Go with the weed! :)

What the hell do doctors know... Medicine is NOT an exact science... why do you think doctors "practice" medicine... because they can do it a lifetime and still not get it right.

Juicy. Going back to our discussion in San Diego, you know my thoughts on this one. Good for you. Make sure you wean off, not just stop suddenly.

Juicy, I agree with the above poster, I don't know when your serious or just bullshitting. I'm going to probably get flammed but here goes.

I support you in your decision to cut your meds off. Please go to the doctor and tell him, and allow him to do his job and get you off them in a safe way.

NOW here is my :2 cents: . Don't know why you were on Xanax , and truthfully it's not my biz nor important. HOWEVER, the biggest mistake I see people make with their meds is they feel they can still live like they are not taking them.
Booze
weed
acid
X
and god knows what else. trippin balls , trippin balls BAYBEEE.


How in the hell people expect perscription medication to work if they are indeed doing other drugs in conjunction is beyond me. It's stupid, reckless, and most important DANGEROUS.

if you like to party and will be doing so, it's the smartest thing you can ever do. Get off the Rx's . I am in now way an advocate for perscription meds. or drugs for that matter. But this is not something to fuck with.

I'm on your ICQ feel free to hit me up, I would be happy to share my experiences with you.

lol it looks like an anti social weed junky at work :1orglaugh

im on the same shit youre on ... been weaning for about 8 months (after quitting cold turkey i learned what "discontinuation syndrome" was)

my normal dose of paxil is 40 im down to 15 now and tolerating it good. will go to 10 soon. was at 6mg xanax now 2-3mg per day.

if you accept in your brain that the panic is pure bullshit, thats all you need to know. then when you get one, you tell it to fuck off. hard first few times, gets easier. i look forward to being completely off this shit.

good luck

Yes good idea this will get your libido back :thumbsup

I forgot to take my dose for 2 days one time. That fucked me up so bad I wasn't even aware of my existance. I was in bed sweating for 36 hours unable to move.

agreed...pot is the way to go :thumbsup

I already know that though. Whats you're point?

o.k. let me be straight with you..

Both xanax and valium have a tendancy to create the very problem they are fixing..

Usually prescribed to help combat panic attacks or narcoleptic symptoms.

But the ACTUAL problem is usually a very isolated short-term problem, not requiring long term medication..

The problem is , when you stop taking drugs like xanax or valium that you have been taking for awhile, the withdrawl symptoms mimic the ACTUAL problems you were having, making you think you still need the drugs..

DIET - POSTURE - STRESS - change the levels of those three things and you wont need xanax or valium..

Really?! Holy shit thats creazy dude.

what is "all the other shit" you're on juicy?

i, too, am concerned about any attempts to quit psychiatric medication & having spent 6 years dating a doctor who's father is a psychiatrist/founder of sleep medicine i know a bit about these things. icq me sometime if you want my opinion.

best of luck to you, *hugs* :2 cents: