Is it safe to take Adderall and Xanax together?

With both, they counter the negative effects of each other that I did not care for extremely well. BUT PLEASE LISTEN WHEN I SAY THIS! Benzodiazepines are nothing to take for long like I did while being told nothing bad about what starts to happen after years of taking it and accumulating a tolerance. I, and many others, started to have mild withdrawal symptoms before the next dose, and I did not know that was happening at the time. Even worse, yes, much worse, is that I stopped taking it in December of 2016. I write this now in October of 2018, and I am still working my way back to a homeostasis of sorts in terms of neurotransmitters working properly and consistently.

Some don't seem to be so effected by it, but anyone I have met personally had a heck of time dealing with flu-like symptoms for weeks (most everyone if they have been on it for a while from what I gather) along with GABA down-regulation causing all sorts of bizarre symptoms that will make you wonder if you have acquired something terminal, or at the very least, extremely serious.

Klonopin stimulates GABA release into synapses, which is an inhibitory (the "stop" or "slow" mechanism) neurotransmitter that causes the calming effect. The problem is, that if you take it for extended periods of time, it seems (from my research) that the medicine causes the receptors that take in the GABA to actually change physically. Enough to not be able to properly take it in as it would have before you started the medicine.

Since GABA is the "slow" or "stop," there has to be a "go," or excitatory that works alongside it. That is glutamate. So the result for so many is essentially an inability to properly balance those two as they are needed. You end up with a non-stop "go" signal to roughly 60% of the nerves in your body which contain the two, if I remember correctly. So your brain, and the amygdala being the one that causes many, including myself a terrifying irrational fear of EVERYTHING. Your fight-or-flight can be always active. Imagine loving animals all your life and feeling afraid of your dog just looking at you. What about looking at the moon and thinking it's scaring you somehow? It's always scared. Not you, but your amygdala is constantly putting our the red alert to your nerves throughout your body.

Almost two years now, and I still am afraid to talk to my mother(and I'm a momma's boy!), my dad, brother, best friends, etc. Anyone really. I have trouble taking trash out 30 feet in a small apartment complex of 4 apts. Days full of having to manually breathe due to constantly feeling light-headed, but when doing that, I have a heck of a time trying to have the most simple of conversations. And I fear that I am coming off as rude or self-absorbed, when in reality, I am simply trying to maintain composure. It's not easy having a conversation while you are focusing on breathing and scared they are going to think lowly of you because you are essentially dope-sick, but no prescribing doctor ever warned me in any way about anything regarding a withdrawal that would last over 2 weeks.

In fact, there has only been one doctor that was extremely serious when she told me I needed to get off of it because it will cause permanent damage, 5+ years before I finally did choose to stop on my own because I was feeling stuck in a cycle of panic over rationing them out for the month as my tolerance grew higher and my dosage was always the same.

I could go on and on about this as it has been a very traumatic experience for me, along with extremely lonely when I apparently look fine to close loved ones, yet can't believe it based on how I felt, and still do about half the days of the week on average. Nobody believed what I was saying, despite having stopped it previously back 8 years ago where it took 3-4 weeks before I stopped feeling like I had a severe flu, severe nerve pain, dehydration, tremors... some as a sort of vibration that was extremely rapid as if I was sitting on a large speaker blasting music. And I was in an in-patient center with lots of great food, lots of rest, exercise, and about 6 more prescriptions than I went in with. The more recent time, I was on my own halfway across the country from family attempting to maintain a job as a dishwasher in a very high volume restaurant. I lasted two months before I finally got fired for missing two days during that time, but I was late very often. I could barely drive. I couldn't track things with my vision like I could normally. I couldn't look left and right at a stop and feel comfortable with my ability to take note of things. It would take me a few seconds to realize what I was looking at when I would move my eyes from one side to the other rapidly like you would at a stop. I got in a wreck (on ice with 2wd car trying to get to work one day in Denver) but luckily it was with a tree and I continued onto work with a big tree shaped dent in my bumper.

I was expecting it to be like the previous time stopping where it may take a month, but would be worth it to get off the stuff, despite the "benefits" it offered which really did help me. But if I had known what it would have put me through, there are no benefits that are worth the possible year or more of... there are no words to truly describe it... agony, both mental and physical. It has tested my will to live, my patience, my love for the ones that care for me, etc. Dark as you may want to go.

So, to wrap this up, I would seriously doing your homework before you take any benzo for more than a few weeks (tops, I believe it is not recommended for more than 3 consecutive days) unless you are seriously needing help and don't plan to get off of it. But the latter is my opinion. I wouldn't want anyone to go through what I have, not Satan himself if he exists. But he surely could be behind it... offering a solution but with a hefty price tag hidden within.

I hope your doctor knows the dangers, because I have been to doctor after doctor that simply says that it's not possible. It must be something else in their mind. But it is very much clock-work in the way it feels when you stop. I have gone 1-2 weeks many times and it is always the same severe flu-like symptoms, agoraphobia, fever, non-stop sweating that always led to severe dehydration no matter what I did to try to counter it. So please be careful folks! I had severe social anxiety before, but after both times stopping it, I was many times worse with all sorts of scary symptoms throughout every aspect of your body. Mind, body, even my teeth were feeling soft for months. And the full-day panic attacks are still randomly placed throughout the week. I couldn't manage to work for nearly a year, but luckily I found a job delivering pizzas which is still pushing me to my limits all the time.

You do learn a lot about yourself though. Lots of incentive to understand your psyche and what things will set off panic attacks or fainting/seizures. I was able to see what was happening while I was on the floor those many times, but I did not have a clue where I was, what I was doing, why I was, if anyone was watching me convulse on the floor rhythmically. But nobody has seen them and nobody believes me except for a few people who have had them themselves. I recently saw one up close with a close friend and immediately I knew what it was he was experiencing. Or at least recognized it, but unsure if it was a seizure. Nobody believes me there either, and I have passed out from too many allergy test shots as a young child, to getting blood drawn, to over-doing it in sports, and many other times. I was not awake during those. I remember all of this, but I just thought nothing of it until it stopped.

Be careful! I know how much it helps, but you may end up much worse years later as I have and a few people I know personally. Then the internet is filled with people looking for guidance/help on sites like benzobuddies.

Say no to drugs kids. All mood-altering drugs unless you are seriously ill and scared you may do something that you wouldn't do normally. Sorry for the rant, but this stuff has messed me up. I still take adderall, but lower dose as it can be hard on my body... mainly kidneys and skin drying very easily to the point of itchy rashes on my face and scalp.

Best of luck