Sometimes my .25mg xanax seems to lose its effect after a few hours. My prescription bottle says to take it twice daily but it gives no information on how long to wait between the doses. I just want to make sure that taking another dose or even a half of a dose will not harm me if I need it.
I take.25mg of xanax for anxiety. Is 3 hours a long enough time period to take another .25mg dose?
Question posted by Anonymous on 19 July 2009
Last updated on 24 January 2017 by Candicemh
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5 Answers
Candicemh
24 Jan 2017
My rx says twice a day as needed.
hywd53
10 Aug 2016
1/2 tab around 3hours whole tab around5hours
delaney81
29 July 2009
Normally when a prescription is prescribed for twice daily the dosages are usually AM & PM. If your doctor wanted you to take it 3 hrs apart the bottle would probably state that... or something like take 1 every so many hours as needed. & granted you would be fine if you took it how the others described but if i was you i would contact my doctor & ask just to make sure.
Are you on any other medication? Thats something else you should take into consideration.
Inactive
29 July 2009
I'm not on any other medication i just feel like my dosage might be wrong because most of the time i feel almost nothing after taking it and the anxiety is still there. i talked to my doctor about when an appropriate time between doses is and he gave me a really confusing round-about answer. the only answer he could give me was that the longer i wait between doses the better but we didn't talk about it having almost no effect in the first place. the pills are perforated so i can take one and a half doses for a dose of .375mg but i'm just not sure if that's the right thing for me. the doctor did say that i could take up to 4 .25mg doses in the course of one day and be fine.
Inactive
28 July 2009
Yes, I was on 2mg three times a day. 0.25mg is a very low dose. Be careful I became extremely addicted to Xanax after several years, I was in the ICU pretty much psycotic for 2 weeks. 9 months later my anxiety is still much worse than it was going on Xanax.
Derek23
19 July 2009
Yes that is the very lowest dosage of Xanax (Alprazolam). Some people are prescribed up to 3mg per day of Xanax, without adverse side effects. So taking even all three of the 0.25mg Xanax at once would be fine. So in overview, yes 3 hours is completely safe to take another dose.
hywd53
10 Aug 2016
every five hours take 0.25
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