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thanks guys, i guess it just works differently for diff people....maybe i should try something else?ive tried klonopin and lorazopam too...what else is left? maybe i just need more exposure to stressful situations. i take it cause i get nervous during public speaking. sometimes. and i blush terribly, so its embarrasing. but maybe if i did it more id get used to it and wouldnt need so many meds....

Xanax has worked wonders for me. It is great at calming down my anxiety and it helps calm the manic episodes at times. I have grown a tolerance to it also, as was mentioned in another post. Your results may be due to not enough of a dose. The 0.25 do nothing. I would say the average person needs between a half a mg to a whole mg for any kind of real effect.

Nothing ever worked as well for me as xanax! Unfortunatly I liked them tooooo much got addicted and hospitalized,now I am not allowed to have them :( sure wish I could get them again they were the only thing that helped me with panic attacks,anxiety and insomnia. MMMM...XANAX.

Use it for Anxiety and take one before I go to bed, slows my brain down so I can quit thinking and get some sleep.

calms me down just a little unless I take two then I'm calm but don't get drowsy, been taking it too long I guess

Xanax is a benzodiazepine, a class of tranquilizers. Others that are commonly use are: Klonopin, Valium and Ativan. For what you are describing, I would not suggest Xanax. I would ask your doctor about a beta-blocker; these have more efficacy for the type of nervousness you are talking about. Xanax helps me with my sever panic attacks as well as manages my Meniers, but after 15 years I was well into the 10+mg a day, and could easily throw down 5mg's at a time and not blink. The problem with that high of a dose is that it trashes your short term memory, messes up your sleep cycle (Xanax and all benzo's are not good sleep aids; they keep you out of stage 4) and are incredibly difficult to withdraw from. In fact, too high of a dose and withdraw can send you into seizures. Be careful with them. Look into the beta-blockers; prof.'s musiciancs use them all the time for stage fright.

Xanax is a benzodiazepine, a class of tranquilizers. Others that are commonly use are: Klonopin, Valium and Ativan. For what you are describing, I would not suggest Xanax. I would ask your doctor about a beta-blocker; these have more efficacy for the type of nervousness you are talking about. Xanax helps me with my sever panic attacks as well as manages my Meniers, but after 15 years I was well into the 10+mg a day, and could easily throw down 5mg's at a time and not blink. The problem with that high of a dose is that it trashes your short term memory, messes up your sleep cycle (Xanax and all benzo's are not good sleep aids; they keep you out of stage 4) and are incredibly difficult to withdraw from. In fact, too high of a dose and withdraw can send you into seizures. Be careful with them. Look into the beta-blockers; prof.'s musiciancs use them all the time for stage fright.

I took xanax about 25 years ago when it first came out. It was a wonder drug for how well it helped with a lot of free-floating anxiety I experienced. When they decided it was addicting after all, my pDoc switched me to Tranxene on a PRN basis. I think you are the first person I've known to say it does nothing for you except it makes you sleep. You need to ask your pDoc about this of course, but it makes me wonder if you do need an anti-anxiety med if it's doing nothing for you. Or you just need a different one or something to help you sleep? These are pDoc questions.