Posted by squids on December 20, 2003, at 23:46:06
In reply to Re: Xanax vs. Klonopin, posted by kishor on December 19, 2003, at 11:45:14
I've been on xanax for 2 years, valium for 8. For depression with anxiety. I found the xanax had an antidepressant action, but didn't calm me down as much as the valium. I find that X is more addictive; it made me feel really good while I was taking .5mg 3x/day for a year, but it causes physical dependence and produces some pretty unpleasant withdrawals - that I've found.
5mg V 2x/day for 8 years worked pretty well. V's still had a "feel good" component to them, much less than X, and would sometimes make me a bit too sedated.
However I turned to hard drugs - was a heavy opiate user for 5 years, just recently gotten clean from that. The addictive behavior appears to be the result of my ADD which was not diagnosed until this year.
My pdoc knows about my drug problems and will only prescribe me klonopin now - no V or X. I don't get any euphoria from the K and it's not that sedating; but I find that it really does work well for my social anxiety. Calms me down without giving me a "high" - which at this point is a good thing for me. I take it on occasion and really find it beneficial.
I've never heard of K doing anything like you mention.
Best of luck with everything. My only word of caution is to watch out for the addictive properties of xanax - and I don't just mean wanting to pop them. IMHO X produces physical dependence fairly quickly, and the withdrawals are worse than any other benzo. Nothing as bad as coming off opiates, but extremely unpleasant nonetheless. Stopping 8 years of 10mg valium a day was nothing in comparison to 1 year of 3 .5mg xanax/day.
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