Anyone with experience with Xanax?

[trayi52]

I am on Xanax right now. It has helped me a lot. Though when I first started taking it, it did make me drowsy. Now it just settles my anxiety.

Willie

[Pam]

It was prescribed to my co-worker for her insomnia. I was a little surprised that he gave her something that I always considered a tranquilizer type drug as opposed to a regular sleeping pill of some kind. Maybe nowadays it works well for both situations. That said, maybe your hubby should be careful with it and start out with a low dose before going up to the three times a day usage.

[Laura's Babies]

I had a Rx for it and got it filled during a rough time I was having and I hardly took any of them. I can tell you one thing, they are all that saved me from completely loosing it when I found out my friend of 20 years had been murdered and who did it. I was on the boat and it about distroyed me. I went hysterical and was shaking head to foot and could not stop or calm down no matter what I tried. They calmed me down and I was functional.

I don't think he will like taking 3 a day though, that would zombie me out and render me so very non functional. It depends on his system. I would start him on a week end to see how he reacts to them.

[Catlady711]

At one time years ago I was put on Xanax for my panic attacks which caused me to have to leave my job I had at the time.

I found the 3x a day WAY more than I could take. If I took that much I was sleepy as all heck but still having a mild panic attack.

I found that if I just took 1/2 a pill 2x a day or as needed it did alot more for me until I could get myself together enough to learn to live with my panic attacks and control them better.

I haven't had to take anything for them in years. I still have mini panic attacks but can deal with them, and only have really big attacks about once every year or longer. No I didn't do any kind of therapy either, just dealt with them on my own. It helped alot when I found out many people have that problem and I wasn't 'weird', losing my mind, or having a heart attack.