Posted by theo on January 30, 2004, at 8:17:54
In reply to Re: Zoloft to replace Xanax XR for social,gen anxiety, posted by Adam33 on January 30, 2004, at 0:18:37
And that's my deal, the Xanax XR is working great! I just can't overcome this guilt of taking it daily, even though it's prescribed by my doc I still have feel more guilty taking it than an SSRI for some reason. If you do try it My doc made a suggestion that works good. Even though Xanax XR is suppose to be once daily, it has a half life of around 12 hours. So to avoid feeling to drowsy by taking one dose in the morning, I take divided doses. Instead of taking one 2 mg pill once in the morning, he prescribed me 1mg pills and I take one about 7:00am and one at 7:00pm. It is a little costly because I'm buying 60 1mg pills per month versus 30 2mg pills. The one thing you cannot do is spilt the tablets or it would be like taking regular Xanax. If you read the Xanax XR prescribing info it doesn't mention dividing doses but I called Pfizer and spoke with a pharmacist and she said it's Ok to do this. I'll be honest, I wake up feeling fresh and when I take it in the morning with my Wellbutrin XL 300mg, I don't feel drowsy at all nor do I have slowed thinking. I work in sales and sometimes make 25 calls a day and I actually feel much better with less grogginess and zoneiness than when I was taking 20mg Paxil instead for the anxiety, which I dropped due to not being able to have sex at all. Long story short the Wellbutrin XL 300mg plus the Xanax XR 1mg twice daily is working great, but am worried about daily use of benzo's, maybe because I read to much on this site about short term memory loss etc. The reason my doc switched me to Xanax XR is because of SSRI sexual side effects so if I did try Zoloft instead, that could be another issue, although Zoloft is supposed to be the least harsh with sexual side effects. I'm sticking with this combo and would highly suggest it. I'm probably just being way over caustious and need to go with it since it's working and drop the guilt!
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