Xanax blackout

[labellmom]

I believe my daughter is using xanax in large doses.  It started after she graduated a few weeks ago.  Every time I came home from work she was sound asleep on the couch with several loud activities going on around her.  A few nights ago I had a conversation with her at 8:00pm. At 9:45 pm she called and had the same exact conversation with me.  She seemed to be in a blackout.  I know you can't help someone until they admit they have a problem.  She won't.  I would like some confirmation that xanax can cause this type of blackout.  She did not sound drunk when I talked to her, but rather, was happy, stumbled over her words and spoke rather slowly. Please explain, I'm so worried.

[Ga Guy]

The symptoms definitely fit the profile of Xanax. What makes you suspect Xanax specifically? Please provide as much info as possible so the people here can help. I was on Oxycodone, but my Mom went through the whole Benzo thing.  

[TrayCee]

you absolutly have blackouts from xanax.  That is fact.  I also know this from much experience.  Also xanax is the only drug in the PDR that specifically states that it lowers your inhabitations.

Very dangerous.

[hockyfan73]

Hello,

I used to take xanax BTW all meds I take are and were given by a doctor. As for the answer to your question, heck yes it can cause blackouts. I never abused xanax and even the smallest dose would cause a sort of amnesia. It does lower inhibitions. I would have what I thought was a rational conversation and my mom or gf would say " what the hell were talking about"? I would nod or just fall asleep right in the middle of anything I was doing. The first time I took it I remember taking the pill then just woke up the next morning. Scary stuff! IMO come right out and ask your daughter, god forbid she take it and drink she could OD. Better to have her possibly angry than to have passed on right? I feel for you maam. I just wish I could be more help.

Allen

[hockyfan73]

Again just my opinion but see if you can find out where she is getting this stuff. I hope not from a friend. She needs to be under med sup when taking that stuff. If she is on your insurance maybe you could get a statment sent to you? Depending on how old she is. Good luck and god bless.

Alllen

[kramerica26]

sounds like xanax. I used to mix sometimes 4, 1mg xanax pills with about 4-5 beers.
Bad idea i had blackouts many times and sometimes i would do strange things and the next day have no idea what i had done or any memory what so ever. scary stuff. Also very addictive and hard to stop. Doesnt help when u have doctors prescribing it like candy.

[queenbee1975]

Question: does xanax mixed with alchole? Answer: YES This is not joke last friday night I took two .5 ml of xanax  while drinking 4 beers with in 4 hrs time. I left the bar thinking I was NOT drunk!.... I had a 15 min drive home and I can remember the entire drive home with out any problems except the last 45 - 60 sec. of approaching my last stop sign before turning to go to my house only 1 mile away. During that 45-60 sec. I completly blackedout... I do not remember any part of that drive home... I ran the stop sign and crossed over to a residential neighbor hood at which my car jared and I came too again.... only to find my self out of control and my car hydroplained into the neighbor hood ditch and my car was thrown about 20 ft into a residents front yard and then rolled two more times befor it was stopped by an oak tree that was aprox 1 ft. from my drivers side door.  Thanks to God! I walked away from the accident with only some bumps and bruises..... oh and my air bags did not deploy either!!!!! I am very fortunate... BIG WAKE UP CALL FOR ME! DO NOT MIX XANEX OR ANY DRUG FOR THAT MATTER WITH ALCHOLE!

[scot120]

It could be xanax and soma mixed if she's happy . It doesn't matter what it is , just , she has a problem . Make a vidio of her when she's messed up . Show it to her when she's straight and have a talk .

[uvlvrebel]

she might also not even be aware of the problem.  I know my "blackouts" came from outta nowhere and i too had no recollection.  i just knew afterwards (after the "blackouts) that i had "lost time".  
Once I was in K-mart and a friend was with me the next thing i knew i was in my bed at home.  But I really didn't know that these were "blackouts" from drugs (xanax/soma) until I got here and read up on it and said, "hey that's me."  the docs told me i had epilepsy and put me on anti-seizure meds. maybe if you let her read some printed out archived forum posts he would relate and realize how dangerous it is.  
my speech was also affected- it normalized once the drugs were through my system, but it really scared the hell outta me (and my co-workers and my hubby and the ER that i was taken to).  

that day i blacked out in kmart, my friend told me I went into a convienence store and asked her (my friend) if I could kick the clerks a$$.  i was shocked- this behavior is not me.
the last time I blacked out I had some kind of sexual experience with a man (not my hubby) and the only way i knew about it was because he (the man) apologized the next day for leaving a mark on my neck, and because of a "mystery bruise" that appeared on my arm.  then I had to tell MY hubby- not a proud moment...I still don't know all that happened that night- it is scary stuff. not worth it.

[lovebuckets10]

hey queen and scott and yes rebell to... this post is from 2004. i dont think she cares any more. just thought i would let yall know.

[Refugee357]

Yes she may not care ... but I do because I too just had a Xanax/alchohol enduced blackout but my problem changed my friends visions of me... hearing that other people have similar problems make me feel like it wasnt just me that had bad decision making..A few nights ago I had eaten a Xanax bar (2mg) I then continued to binge drink by pounding 5-6 beers. I then think that is when the blackout started but, did not end.. as I continued to drink more alchohol I decided to ingest an ativan, Im not sure what mg but this only continued the blackout..continuing to drink countless beers I ended up at a friends house..in this house stood basically all my true friends drinking also..(I will add most of what Im telling you wasnt recalled by me but told to me)..Amidst all the fun the mood was broken by the owner of the house had 2 E pills stolen out of her purse..everyone emptied their pockets no one had any.. apparently later in the night my eyes began to roll in my head and my pupils were dialated even in the light...I must have been rolling...everyone was sure it was me that had stolen the pills..exept me..now I dont know any of you and none of my friends will read this but I do not recall at any time stealing or eating any more pills since the ativan..I thought of this girl as a true friend and I would have never EVER stolen anything from her in my life let alone tried to get away with rolling and no one would notice.. I got into fights and lost alot of friends that night..not only that but the ones that still are my friends think of me as a theif that will do anything for drugs.. I tried to tell them I blackedout and the real me wouldnt do such a thing.. but that just sounds like the most ******** excuse you have ever heard. I conclusion I just needed to get my story out there and let all of you know Xanax doesnt just cause blackouts but it effects decision makin in a way that no other drug does