I wrote two weeks ago that I got relief from my acute anxiety with the .25 Xanax (Alprazolam) I’d been prescribed. I’m not used to meds so I’ve been doing one twice during the day and then 2-3 at night every other night or so while I’m in this stress period. I’m also taking calcium and B vitamins with it. It takes the anxiety away and lets me stay asleep a solid 5 hours the nights I take it rather than the 3-4 hours I’m used to. It also dumbs me down a little, but that may be overstimulation from the stress. I can’t attribute it categorically to the Xanax. It makes me not care whether I eat healthy food or not, it makes me think of sugar and processed foods, things I don’t typically eat. I don’t eat them but it makes me want them. And while I don’t wake up with anxious or worrisome thoughts racing through my head, I also don’t wake up with creative thoughts and motivations for the day as I usually do.
I typically have many segments throughout each day where I feel inspired and happy and rather euphoric. I’ve had few of those the past week. Again it may be the stress of several situations I’m helping friends and family navigate their way through. Maybe my euphoria was simply an expression of my ongoing anxiety the last bunch of years, and here I just thought I had a fun and ever awakening life. With natural and herbal meds and homeopathics, I’ve not felt a dumbing down of consciousness and motivation. With the Xanax I do. So I won’t worry about becoming dependent upon it, but I have to give it props for knocking out the anxiety.
UNEXPECTED BONUS: I have ongoing (very minimum) nerve pain in my hands due to a car accident in Sept 2000. When I take the xanax, the nerve pain disappears.
EXAMPLE OF DOWNSIDE: The moth at my front door this week is a brilliant iridescent glowing green and amber. With the Xanax, it’s a brown moth.