I am clean for just over 30 days from a 100 mg per day opiate addiction. Doing ok physically except still experiencing some memory loss/fuzziness about things that happened during those times, I'm starting to think they might just be "gone".
So, now that you know why I got started here (and I have to say it saved me from ruining my life, literally) I am starting to wonder about the xanax posts I see. While I know everything posted is experience and opinion, its making me wonder about if it's something I need to worry about.
I have general anxiety disorder, it runs in my family. It didnt really hit me until about 30 years old (10 years ago) My mother has is pretty badly and I remember I used to just say "why do you worry so much"? Now I know...lol
I have been taking xanax for anxiety for a few years. It doesnt make me "high" in the least, and I've never been confronted with the tolerance issues I got from opiates. (prolly becoz it doesnt get me high)
I have a montly script for 60 1 mg pills. My directions say take 1mg am and 1 mg pm as needed. I dont always take both doses but I usually take one at least a day. (When I had the lortab and percs I didnt care about taking the xanax, unless I got "wired" and needed to "relax". That wasnt often, mostly I just gobbled up the opiates and ignored the xanax.
Ive seen people state that its a bad med long term, and that its terrible w/d, etc. My questions are
1) If its used as prescribed can it still become addicting? If I dont take it and I feel anxious I can work up into a panic attack. Once I take it I feel "level" but Ive never experienced any kind of high, what kind of high do people get from it?
2) I skip days sometimes and Ive never had w/d. The only time Ive ever taken more than the 2 per day was during my w/d from percs/vics, and I only ever took one extra in a day
Compared to opiates I dont feel I have a problem with xanax. I can have a bottle and it lasts me til the next refill, I dont feel like I spend any time "thinking or obsessing" about it After the scare with almost going down a VERY wrong path with the opiates, and seeing these xanax posts, I was hoping I could put this out to people who have had problems to see if they would share what happened to them. I never want to get addicted to another pill in my life. I am only one month clean from opiates and I still have my bad days of wanting to call for pills, but I havent. I never want to be a slave to another pill ever!
Thanks in advance to any who respond.
Peace.