what is XANAX anyway?

(I have kava kava on my shopping list for today, though.)

But Vicodin, in the right amount, does all that the benzos claim to do, and more!

http://www.e-med.co.uk/

er, uh, um, ok, maybe not.
m.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A61282-2002Jun16?language=printer

It is concerning I think that people end up being put on a merry go round of meds when on anti depressants - ADs for the depression, valium or xanax to counter the side effects of the ADs, Ive known people to then also be on an anti-nausea med to calm their stomachs from all the medication (!!!!). I could never go back to all that again.

I ended up finding what worked with the first thing I tried, because I was willing to pay extra (it would be cheaper to smoke two packs a day than to use these pills). No side effects, as long as I don't go off it abruptly. Get in me.

I'm prescribed 300mg of wellbutrin, 25 of ativan, 100 of trazadone and 100 of lactimal per day. Out of all of that I take only 150 of wellbutrin. I avoid my pysch doctor. I've been on so many different meds my attitude the past few months has been "i give up." Give me cigs and beer and the xanax and valium my mom sends me and I'm cool. . .

(also my bp mom is always yelling "lithium! why don't they just give you lithium?" from the sidelines which doesn't help my open-mindness.)

I would try the Lamictal. 100mg is a fairly mild dose; isn't 50 the minimum effective dose, if I remember right? So that's only a step up. I'm at 150, and it isn't quite enough (well, I'm actually at 100 now that I've stepped myself down in order to stretch the pills out, but I'm supposed to be at 150). Maybe in combination 100 is more significant, but Mr Shrink was all for not giving up on it until we hit the thousands.

Supposedly the only side effect is the "potentially fatal rash" if you increase the dose too quickly or drop it abruptly from a high enough dose. No cognitive side effects whatsoever -- supposedly. (This was my thing: "... Hi, I'm Bill. I make shit up for a living. I'd rather be sad a lot and not get any sleep than not be able to make shit up. That's why I haven't been in here before. I only came in cause I started hallucinating during a manic phase, and I didn't like it much. If you make me take something that makes me not be able to make shit up, I'm not gonna come back anymore. What can we do?" Lamictal was his first answer.)

I'm still suspicious of the claim that anything that toys with your head can truly lack side effects, and I go over everything I do with a fine-toothed comb going, "Okay, but would pre-medication Tep have done this differently/better/more effectively?" So far, though, I think everything's fine.

tep, i just have never had the right meds do enough good for me where i can weigh those options. my attitude right now is that they aren't worth it. :( (see: sam's life is a wreck for more info)

AWESOME!

That questioning of everything pre- and post-med you might differ on can be its own source of serious anxiety. At least it often is for me. I've been trying to find the right meds for a little over 9 months now and still feel like I'm floating around making some near misses.

I take Depakote (anti-convulsant) and Abilify (anti-psychotic) for BP at the moment. Abilify costs a fortune but I've just started using it to replace Zyprexa, which leaves me tired and bloaty feeling most of the time though it definitely takes away dysphoria and other complex depression symptoms I get. I also take Buspar for Generalized Anxiety Disorder, and it makes a difference although I think I still have some serious anxiety problems I need to figure out... preferably with a therapist and not more meds.

Yeah, it's a bit tricky for me, because -- yes, I should ask, you know, a doctor about this -- I'm more and more certain that I suffered very mild brain damage, or whatever the appropriate term is if "brain damage" is too severe, during surgery last year (I stopped breathing and was without oxygen for awhile; I've been a little off since). That predates the medication by a fair bit, and doesn't seem to have gotten worse, but then I ask myself, "Wait, are you sure? Maybe you were a bit better at that six months ago. Maybe it IS the pills, Chuckles."

And then I get all freaked out, cause dude, my name isn't Chuckles.

it's funny though, I keep alternating between feeling like some sort of mental case and someone totally fine who has scammed the system for free drugs.

Shakey, I only took it for first time today, I didn't feel detached really, a bit sleepy and slightly stoned maybe but didn't really feel anything different apart from the fact that it seemed to calm me down and I got through the day of work.

It makes you feel relaxed and light for about an hour. That's it.

xp

It makes you feel relaxed and light for about an hour. That's it.

Are you back to feeling anxious again without it? Is there a danger that you become even more panicy without it and then get into a vicious circle kind of thing?

Fuck this shit

From OP: "why does the internet think I would be interested in buying it cheaply?"

From Wiggly's final post 7 years ago: "It is highly addictive physically..."

And there you have it in a nutshell.

I had an attack of what I can only presume was narcolepsy only yesterday (having briefly been diagnosed with it about a decade back, but not suffered from it since). With my early brush with narcolepsy on a scale of 1-100, I'd give it a 3. But now I've had it happen 6 times in the last month, and yesterday's I'd say more like 93. We'd been enjoying a meal at Chiquitos (well, 'enjoying' might be a stretch), then I decided to go back to mum's house while mum & best friend continued shopping.

I got as far as the small town's railway crossing then started veering uncontrollably from left to right, first on the pavement, then across the actual railway tracks (people must have assumed I was drunk but 10 minutes earlier I'd been completely sober & coherent. Also, the loss of motor function directly followed the sudden urge to sleep. This must be some variety of seizure given its sudden onset.

I have an appointment to see a psychiatrist about this episode tomorrow, but I fear I've not quite hit on the right analogy by which to explain my state of mind during this distubing 15 minute interlude between Mexican food and Weterspons ale, especially given their infamous tendency to read too much into innocent explanations:

I think, instead of trying to memorise this crap tonight, I should just wing it in the morning.

I was falling further and faster into a deep repose as I meandered along the pavement, veering wildly from one side of the pavement to the other, and on occasions, from one side of the pavement to halfway into the road and back.

It was like Dorothy & friends (maybe not the best of analogies to bring up when discussing personal crises with a psychiatrist, given their perhaps undeserved propensity to read a tad too much into innocent comparisons), such as the fact that one minute, as we all strolled determinedly forward, dancing & prancing and skipping along, merrily holding hands while singing hearty songs of determination, before, all of a sudden, a blizzard of opium cloaked all paths, blotted out the sun with clotting cream, while slowly obliterating memories of past origins, while objectives, and instead insidiously urging that, as destinations are all terminal in any case , why not cease all striving, and simply succumb to the ambition-less oblivion of the luxuriant cotton cany o here and now..

sorry to hear about your troubles campari g&t. i hope everything works out for you.

i came here to post this: http://www.vice.com/read/drug-related-photoshop-art-2000000mg-xanax

Melissa Clark · Harker Heights High School
I think I'm in love.

melissa clark otm. i felt the same way about schopenhauer when i first read the wikipedia entry for "the world as will and representation"

Made sure to get up bright & early for my appointment with psych doc, to find out what was going on with this fucking narcolepsy that I had a mild dose of years ago, but since last week has just gone insane. Missed appointment, for following reason: got up early and made myself a strong coffee, then ran a bath that no sooner had I got into than I fell into such a deep sleep that I was oblivious to all my surroundings - was aware of not the slightest sound or sight - for the following 2 hours. Guess it wa lucky I was in such a hurry I only quarter filled the bath. It must have been freezing for ages, yet didn't notice that either. I phoned up and suggested that maybe this was getting serious enough that I should think of going along to the local a&e dept. "No, just come here tomorrow and we'll have a chat about how you're feeling; mind, we don't normaly look favourably on two missed appointments on consecutive days, but seen as you could have been run over by a car (or train!) while walking to the first, and could quite possibly have drowned before setting off on the second, we'll make an exception in this case. Great to know I'm in the hands of the experts now..