My doctor wrote me a prescription for
Xanax 2mg, on the prescription he wrote to take 3 a day, but personally told me to adjust the dosage as I felt required. If I needed to take 4 a day, then take 4 a day, or if I needed to take 1 a day, then take one a day.
My basic history in a nutshell is that i get anxiety attacks (at least thats what I term them) where I will start to think about something (could be as little as spending a couple hundred dollars on some camera equipment or just the thought of getting up in front of people in my acting class, and I will start out coughing, then gagging and ultimately vomiting.
My Dr originally prescribed
Lexapro and I've been on that for 2 weeks now, as well as
Diovan 160mg once a day, he's now upped the dosage of my Diovan to 160mg 2x a day, 1 lexapro a day, some cholestrol and triglyceride medicine and now the Xanax 2mg pills.
My question is tha I see half life written in many posts and dont have a clue what that means. Generally I get up in the morning and take 4mg of xanax along with the rest of my prescriptions (because almost assuredly a panic or anxiety attack will occur while I am in the shower thinking about what I have to do that day).
Im wondering at what point I should be taking the xanax, should I take 1 2mg pill when I get up and take the rest of my prescriptions, and then spread them out during xx hours (how many xx hours Is what I dont know) of the day, or to take 4mg when get up, then take another 2 or 4 mg in the afternoon.
Since I just started to take them a couple days ago, Im not sure what would be more appropriate to keep the drug in my body during the whole day so that I dont get some sudden panic or anxiety attack during some point during the day. I certainly know I dont want to take 8mg when I wake up else I would feel like sleeping more then anything else.
I also use them to help me sleep, I've tried
ambien (did nothing for me at all towards sleeping), and I've tried dalmane (which would put me out pretty quickly but make me feel really dopey for about 2 or 3 hours after waking up.
So far it seems that xanax works two fold for me, 1 to relieve anxiety and panic attacks, and 2 to be able to sleep at night.
Is there a suggested method of time taking thie pills so that there is no "between" time when I might experience an attack at the worst possible moment?
I hope this makes sence.
P.S. He also described the xanax for me because I do drink large amounts of alcohol (often consuming half of a 750L bottle of whiskey a night) and when I take the xanax I have no desire to drink anything and dont drink anything.
On the prescription it says to take 3 x day (but again he told me to adjust that to my needs) so what is this half life I hear about, how long does xanax actually supress the anxiety and panic from occuring in the body?
Thanks for any information.
Kuplo
P.S. I also wondering if taking Xanax produces impaired motorskills. While its takig cae of the anxiety attacks I seem to knotice a decreased speed overall in my everyday movements. For example the first time I took Xanax (dont recally whether it was a 2mg or a 4mg pill but I took it at bedtime and when I woke up the next morning, my mind was feeling fresh and alert (good nights sleep) but my body was feeling uncoordinated and I felt kind of off balance for maybe a half hour to an hour and then just kind of shuffled my feet until about 2pm, so im wondering if this is normal, will go away with the regular doeses or if tis is just a side effect of xanax. Even little things like going out to dinner. Usually Im the first one through with eating dinner when we go out to a restaurant, but once taking the xanax I found my meal lasted a good 20 to 30 minutes longer then anyone else at the table, kind of just like slow motion.
Xanax, when to take them? 
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