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Xanax

I am currently on 4 mg daily of Xanax for Anxiety attacks.  My question is, simply does Xanax have any long term affect besides the obvious of addiction?  Also, for some reason I have notice an increase in the intensity of the medication any time I eat chocolate, is this just coincidence or is there a medical reason behind this.
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Eye opening:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b30iwhEw9ho

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=azkLQpyiGHA&mode=related&search=
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you drug addicts take entirerly to many xanax 30 5mg pills last me almost three months i feel so sorry for you all
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Re-bound anxiety is simply a return of the anxiety symptoms you had before you started taking medication to reduce the anxiety level and re-bound will seem worse at first because you were used to feeling better.

I have been on Klonopin for 1 1/2 years (10 mg a day)that's 2 mg taken five times a day. It has helped me tremendously and I would hate to try to stop it.

That poem up above would describe very well the seizures and DT's just like the alcohol withdrawal I went through for months on and off two years ago. That was pure hell just like described in that poem.

I now have a permanent seizure disorder so I take the Klonopin for that and for the anxiety disorder. Re-bound anxiety would be if I was to cut down on the Klonopin too fast I would go into severe acute anxiety and would feel like I was going to die. Being as I have seizures about every five days and always under the threat of being cut off from the Klonopin in the future I have already prepared my mind for death. I will not go through the DT's ever again if I can at all prevent it.

As violent as I became two years ago in the psych-ward they actually treated me pretty well during detox. It could have been worse. My worse nightmare is getting arrested for something minor such as traffic stuff just before the weekend and going for three days with no Klonopin. I would be a raving lunatic within 24 hours and they would have to send me back to the psych-ward, my home away from home I call it. I would hope they would send me there anyway and not throw me in some pen to go through the DT's. You just never know when you are addicted to something. Anything can happen.
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What is Rebound Anxiety?  Please be specific on your answer - as I wonder if this is not what I'm going through.
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Chocolate is metabolized in an entirely different way so should not intensify the drug effect. You have to worry about rebound anxiety if you stop too quickly.
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Hello All,


   I ve been on Xanax for 3 years, and it's PURE Hell Getting off.  After a while it stopped working, and I feel like I'm gonna die.

   I hate this Drug, and wish I never took it!!!!!!!!!!!!!


    I wrote a poem.......

  
            
                                                                                            LAVENDER



      Come gather all my agitated friends, I want to say hello;
       I
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[Philly], How much xanax do you take. Why don't you ask your doc to switch you to a longer lasting benzo, Klonopin [Clonazapam] and it should change those feelings you are having. I have written songs about alcoholism and siezures similar to your poem. You should try to turn that into a song and market it.

[Choclate lover], Yes choclate is known to effect the chemicals in the brain and some people are literally chocoholics, so to speak. I noticed a difference so I stopped all choclate.
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