There has been a lot of talk about bac and anxiety. How bac relieves anxiety, which is often the major root of people?s alcoholism, or somehow intertwined with it.
Yet at high levels, bac increases many people?s anxiety so much that it becomes the main SE that keeps them from pushing higher ? and, ironically, the SE that pushes them to drink more, even if the cravings are diminished. That has definitely been the case with me.
Enter Xanax.
Dr. L and several members on this forum have been ?pushing? xanax as an anti-anxiety med to combat the anxiety experienced by many from hi dose bac (HDB).
But xanax is a benzo, and all benzos are highly addictive. Tolerance builds quickly and addiction can occur in as little as 2-3 weeks daily use. Withdrawal can be more difficult than from alcohol, I have read and heard.
Doctors are warned to never prescribe benzos on a regular basis to anybody with a history of addiction problems. (Benzos are routinely used for a few days in alcohol detox situations, however.)
Dr. L (and others) does not seem to have a problem with this. He routinely prescribes HDB and xanax together. Apparently, he believes the baclofen protects the brain from getting addicted to the xanax? I think that?s what he said, at least to someone here.
To me, this just doesn?t make sense. But with others chiming in and urging me to try it, I succumbed. (After all, even if I were to trade one addiction for another ? alcohol for benzos ? I would be doing my body less harm than with alcohol, I figured.)
Well, I do believe I am getting addicted to xanax, after about 5 weeks of use. My tolerance has definitely gone up, I notice it quickly when I miss a dose, even a half dose, I take it on a prn basis much more than I did when I started, and although my anxiety is slightly reduced, I still need the alcohol to round it off ? especially in sudden panic situations.
Any thoughts?
Yet at high levels, bac increases many people?s anxiety so much that it becomes the main SE that keeps them from pushing higher ? and, ironically, the SE that pushes them to drink more, even if the cravings are diminished. That has definitely been the case with me.
Enter Xanax.
Dr. L and several members on this forum have been ?pushing? xanax as an anti-anxiety med to combat the anxiety experienced by many from hi dose bac (HDB).
But xanax is a benzo, and all benzos are highly addictive. Tolerance builds quickly and addiction can occur in as little as 2-3 weeks daily use. Withdrawal can be more difficult than from alcohol, I have read and heard.
Doctors are warned to never prescribe benzos on a regular basis to anybody with a history of addiction problems. (Benzos are routinely used for a few days in alcohol detox situations, however.)
Dr. L (and others) does not seem to have a problem with this. He routinely prescribes HDB and xanax together. Apparently, he believes the baclofen protects the brain from getting addicted to the xanax? I think that?s what he said, at least to someone here.
To me, this just doesn?t make sense. But with others chiming in and urging me to try it, I succumbed. (After all, even if I were to trade one addiction for another ? alcohol for benzos ? I would be doing my body less harm than with alcohol, I figured.)
Well, I do believe I am getting addicted to xanax, after about 5 weeks of use. My tolerance has definitely gone up, I notice it quickly when I miss a dose, even a half dose, I take it on a prn basis much more than I did when I started, and although my anxiety is slightly reduced, I still need the alcohol to round it off ? especially in sudden panic situations.
Any thoughts?
you can see that opinions on it are divided. Some doctors believe that it can be a viable solution to long term anxiety problems and that you do not develop a tolerance to it and others believe that tolerance develops rapidly and you should only prescribe it on a very short term basis.
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