Posted by bassman on April 1, 2006, at 18:00:23
In reply to Re: Is Valium more potent than Xanax? » bassman, posted by ed_uk on April 1, 2006, at 14:10:15
Ed,
Xanax XR is strange...I thought I'd substitute it for Klonopin-sort of like having a longer half-life (other than it drops off like a rock at some point). Funny you should ask, because I tried the XR about a month ago. My experience was that after about 12 hours at 0.5 mg XR, I would seem to have more panic. That wasn't the idea. :>} My guess is that if I had taken 1 mg XR twice a day, I would have been alright-but that scared me-it felt like I was on a one-way train to instant dependence. I'm O.K. with taking 1 mg Xanax a day, if that was the only benzo I was taking-but as I said, I’m tapering off the Ativan, which I find useless, and the Klonopin, which seems to depress me at 1 mg and above. But I convinced myself XR was the way to go for me, and I have a whole bottle of pills that cost me $43 after insurance, but I'm not going to take them. Xanax ER works best for me, but damn, the XR idea seems great in theory.
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