I have agoraphobiaAgoraphobia
Panic disorder with agoraphobia and took XanaxXanax
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Drug-induced hypertension...at firstFirst progesterone mc10
First progesterone mc5
First-progesterone vgs 200
First-progesterone vgs 400. It allowed me to get out and about with my boyfriend and even down the coast for a holiday.  Its effects start to deminish as your body quickly develops tolerance to it and you have to keep taking more and more to get the same effect and keep away withdrawalDelirium tremens symptoms. Its a great drugChemical dependence - resources
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Drug-induced hypertension occasionally, and I mean no more than 2 - 3 times a week. Your body quickly develops a dependancy for it. I know this because, without being told all this, I went on it as a regular drugChemical dependence - resources
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Drug-induced hypertension (.75mg twiceTwice-a-day a day) and soon found out the bad side. I am now having to be withdrawn of it by taking high doses of valium. XanaxXanax
Xanax xr is a drugChemical dependence - resources
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Drug-induced hypertension to be wary of. I advise you read the "Just prescribed Nivaram (same as XanaxXanax
Xanax xr) need advice please!" post below and read  RCA7591 comment. It will give you the info you need to know.

Hi there to those anxious about taking xanex(generic-Alprazolam). I have taken it for about 10 years for PTSPost-traumatic stress disorder and general anxietyGeneralized anxiety disorder
Separation anxiety
Stress and anxiety. About 10 years ago I had a bad reactionAllergic reactions
Allergic reactions to medication
Dermatitis, reaction to tinea
Drug allergies
Febrile/cold agglutinins
Insect bite reaction - close-up
Intradermal allergy test reactions
Positive reaction to allergen
Transfusion reaction to Lariam(an anti-Malarial med), which created massive anxietyGeneralized anxiety disorder
Separation anxiety
Stress and anxiety for me. I was so bad that I couldn't think straight or function- I was one big anxietyGeneralized anxiety disorder
Separation anxiety
Stress and anxiety attack and I had no idea what was going on. At the time, I had a very fast paced job that required majorMajor tears
Major-con concentration and attentionAttention deficit hyperactivity disorder (adhd) to detail. Xanex made it possible for me to continue working. I started out with .25mg once or twiceTwice-a-day a day as needed. I stayed at that level for years and eventually just took one at night. It has been an absolute life saver for me. About three years ago, my doctor raised my med level to .5mg. That is "point" 5mg not 5mg. I was able to control my anxietyGeneralized anxiety disorder
Separation anxiety
Stress and anxiety with that low level, and have continued to do so. Occasionally when I was at the .25mg dose level, I would forget to get my pills refilled, so I would go a day or two without it. At that time, I had no withdrawl symptoms. I have noticed at the .5mg level that when I run out or am almost out, I do get a bit anxious, but not anything I can't handle.

There is alot of negative press about these kind drugsChemical dependence - resources
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Drug-induced hypertension, some of it from people who haven't even taken them, or who have taken them along with other drugsChemical dependence - resources
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Drug-induced hypertension, so their experience will be different from your experience. If you are seeing a psychiatrist who is familiar with your case and that doctor prescribes it for you, I wouldn't hesitate to take it. It really will help, and when you are ready to try handling your life without it, your doctor will help you taper down so that you won't feel uncomfortable.

I have been exactly where you guys are. The panicPanic disorder
Panic disorder with agoraphobia got so bad that I wanted to kill myself to escape the horrible feelings.

I have written a little booklet about what happened and how I cured myself without drugsChemical dependence - resources
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Drug-induced hypertension. I give this away free of charge to anyone who suffers from anxietyGeneralized anxiety disorder
Separation anxiety
Stress and anxiety. Download it free here:

http://www.hastingspress.co.uk/hypo.pdf


Any comments you can email me via that home page there is an email link.

Helena Wojtczak

Just be careful with this drugChemical dependence - resources
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Drug-induced hypertension.  I have dealt with anxietyGeneralized anxiety disorder
Separation anxiety
Stress and anxiety my entire life, went through a year of agoraphobiaAgoraphobia
Panic disorder with agoraphobia also.

I became addicted to the XanaxXanax
Xanax xr very quickly. I had so much constant anxietyGeneralized anxiety disorder
Separation anxiety
Stress and anxiety, even when being awakened from sleepCentral sleep apnea
Drowsiness
Insomnia concerns
Irregular sleep
Irregular sleep-wake syndrome
Isolated sleep paralysis
Narcolepsy
Night terror
Obstructive sleep apnea
Polysomnography
Sleep. This was 20 years ago when XanaxXanax
Xanax xr firstFirst progesterone mc10
First progesterone mc5
First-progesterone vgs 200
First-progesterone vgs 400 came out....my doctor told me it was a miracle drugChemical dependence - resources
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Drug-induced hypertension.  When you deal with severe anxietyGeneralized anxiety disorder
Separation anxiety
Stress and anxiety you want so badly to believe this is true.
I had a grand mal seizureEclampsia
Epilepsy
Febrile seizures
Generalized tonic-clonic seizure
Grand mal seizure
Partial (focal) seizure
Petit mal seizure
Seizures
Temporal lobe seizure (sp?) due to skipping 2 doses.

What helped me most was therapy, 3 years of it.  I did require help to withdraw from the drugChemical dependence - resources
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Drug-induced hypertension.  Dr. put me on PaxilPaxil
Paxil cr which helped a great deal...the anxietyGeneralized anxiety disorder
Separation anxiety
Stress and anxiety became manageable, I went backBack pain - low
Back strain treatment to college, got a great job and became very social.  But I still had to work on the anxietyGeneralized anxiety disorder
Separation anxiety
Stress and anxiety...it lessened tremendously.

I have taken no medicationAllergic reactions to medication
Drug allergies
Drug-induced hypertension
Getting a prescription filled
Home pharmacy
Inhaler medication administration now for 5 years and do fine. NO therapy for 15 years.  I still manage the anxietyGeneralized anxiety disorder
Separation anxiety
Stress and anxiety with breathingBreathing
Breathing - slowed or stopped
Breathing difficulties - first aid
Breathing difficulty
Breathing difficulty - lying down
Breathing sounds - abnormal (stridor)
Cpr - adult
Cpr - child (1 to 8 yrs old)
Cpr - infant
Hyperventilation
Rapid shallow breathing and positive thoughts.  ExerciseAerobic exercise
Aging and exercise
Asthma
Benefit of regular exercise
Bone-building exercise
Diabetes and exercise
Exercise - a powerful tool
Exercise - dress appropriately
Exercise and age
Exercise and weight loss
Exercise can lower blood pressure help TREMENDOUSLY...it helps release the built up tensionDrug induced hypertension
Drug-induced hypertension
Essential hypertension
Hypertension
Hypotension
Ileus - x-ray of bowel distension
Mixed tension migraine
Multiple system atrophy
Preeclampsia
Pseudotumor cerebri
Renovascular hypertension and nervousAged nervous tissue
Central nervous system
Central nervous system and peripheral nervous system
Irritable bowel syndrome
Nervous system
Neurosarcoidosis
Primary lymphoma of the brain energy.
I accept that I will always have the anxietyGeneralized anxiety disorder
Separation anxiety
Stress and anxiety, but it does not control me now.

My musclesDeep anterior muscles
Eye muscles
Lower leg muscles
Muscle aches
Muscle atrophy
Muscle biopsy
Muscle cramps
Muscle function loss
Muscle twitching
Rotator cuff muscles
Superficial anterior muscles do stay tense and I catch myself holding my breathBreath alcohol test
Breath holding spell
Breath odor often.  But I just do what I need to do to take care of myself in  a healthy way.

Please be careful with the XANAXXanax
Xanax xr.  I realize it probably has short term benefits...but it's sadDepression to when you desperately need it...and more of it, and more and more of it.  It caused me to become more depressed.

Try valium, it doesn't do all that. It works great on panicPanic disorder
Panic disorder with agoraphobia attacks and you don't have to take more.

After trying an assortment of different medicationsAllergic reactions to medication
Drug allergies
Drug-induced hypertension
Getting a prescription filled
Home pharmacy
Inhaler medication administration, PaxilPaxil
Paxil cr, Zoloft, ProzacProzac
Prozac weekly my doctor put me on .25 of Xanex about 6 years ago. After a year he upped it to .50 and then 1mg which I've been on ever since. I don't take it every day, only when I feel it's going to be one of those days...which I can always tell pretty early in the morning. I never have had an withdrawalDelirium tremens symptoms, and I've gone weeks without taking it, usually when I am on vacationVacation health care and totally relaxed. I get anxious when my prescription starts to run low, but that's because it is my security blanket. Even when I don't need it for awhile, I do need to have it with me. I think everyone's tolerance level and tendency towards addictionDrug abuse and dependence are different, but for me...it's a lifesaver and a miracle drugChemical dependence - resources
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Drug-induced hypertension.

I've taken xanaxXanax
Xanax xr as needed for over twentyTwenty twenty years. I started having anxietyGeneralized anxiety disorder
Separation anxiety
Stress and anxiety during a divorce in 1985 and never got over it. It HAS been a lifesaver for me, I have NOT increased dosage. I vary the dose on how I'm feeling or what the situation of the day is going to be. What I hate about it is I have a habit of taking .5 to 1.mg at bedtime. I feel like such a loser doing this and have found that a little sublingual Melatonin with it SOMETIMES allows me to take .5mg. I don't think I could sleepCentral sleep apnea
Drowsiness
Insomnia concerns
Irregular sleep
Irregular sleep-wake syndrome
Isolated sleep paralysis
Narcolepsy
Night terror
Obstructive sleep apnea
Polysomnography
Sleep with .25mg UNLESS I am backBack pain - low
Back strain treatment on my yoga regimen. Yoga is so amazing, so powerful, that after you do it daily for less than one week you notice a tremendous improvement in your quality and depth of sleepCentral sleep apnea
Drowsiness
Insomnia concerns
Irregular sleep
Irregular sleep-wake syndrome
Isolated sleep paralysis
Narcolepsy
Night terror
Obstructive sleep apnea
Polysomnography
Sleep. I am just lazy and keep slacking off yoga.
Two years ago I visited my grandchildren and I spent almost an hour racing (walking) across the pool with my granddaughter as fast as I could. That is the One and Only time in over twentyTwenty twenty years I fell asleep right away - no meds. My daughter said, "see? I told you you just need to exerciseAerobic exercise
Aging and exercise
Asthma
Benefit of regular exercise
Bone-building exercise
Diabetes and exercise
Exercise - a powerful tool
Exercise - dress appropriately
Exercise and age
Exercise and weight loss
Exercise can lower blood pressure."

I am also one of the ones who have had a positive experience with XanaxXanax
Xanax xr, never needed to increase my dosage due to tolerance and have been able to ramp up and down as needed.  I started taking it about 15 years ago and was on .25 qid (4x a day) for about a year.  I stopped taking it (don't remember having any withdrawalDelirium tremens problems) on a daily basis with no problems, and now take one with my antidepressant (Remeron) at bedtime.  I used to feel like a "loser" as you said, Susan, and would say that to my doctor.  He knows that I don't take it at other times unless absolutely necessary and so he says, with affection, "You're a still a cheap date!"  I am hypervigilant about taking meds and he knows it so he's told me not to worry.  After 15 years with him, I finally think he probably knows what he's talking about :-)  XanaxXanax
Xanax xr was/has been a lifesaver for someone like me with panicPanic disorder
Panic disorder with agoraphobia/agoraphobiaAgoraphobia
Panic disorder with agoraphobia/GAD.  I got to Europe (10 hour plane flight) and had the time of my life.  I never, ever thought I'd be able to do that.  And yes, I earned a blackBlack cohosh
Black draught
Black haw belt in therapy at the same time...the combination was what did it for me.

So, as you can see there are times, such as before an airplane trip where I start taking it PRN (as needed) for a week or so (usually just one or two .25 per day for the anticipatory anxietyGeneralized anxiety disorder
Separation anxiety
Stress and anxiety) and when I reach my destination I just don't take it at all.  

I think, like anything else, there is great potential for abuseAlcoholism
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Drug-induced hypertension and many others.  It all depends upon the patientKidney diet - dialysis patients, the doctor and so many other factorsFactor ix complex.  

Good luck!

Marsha