Posted by yxibow on February 3, 2007, at 0:46:24
In reply to Valium AND Xanax?, posted by Alone on February 2, 2007, at 21:18:45
> In my Xanax poll I noticed some of you also take Valium. I am allowed to take Xanax as needed for anxiety but it makes me so drowsy. Does Valium work well for anxiety? Does it make you drowsy? Would it be a good daytime anti-anxiety medication? Thanks!!!!!
Yes it works well for anxiety but I have a complex Somatiform NOS disorder that is only beginning to be studied by the medical community. There have now been fMRI studies of people with Somatiform disorders.It also causes daytime drowsiness varying of course with your metabolism of the medication (any benzodiazepine will do so) and reduction of reaction time to stimuli. But I still believe it makes a good daytime (24 hours + actually) anxiolytic. I happen to take it twice a day because I like the larger peak in the evening when I'm at home, but the average is still the same.
If Xanax PRN makes you drowsy, that ironically is a good thing -- it means you aren't habituated to benzodiazepines in general. That's why its good kept as PRN, because you won't habituate to it nearly as much as if it were given all day or in XR format.
Yes, there is cross-pollination of tolerance so the Valium dose should be kept to a MED (minimum effective dose) and the Xanax kept as a say, .5mg "oh crap its bad" medication a few times a week. The drowsiness of the Xanax will be natural, its fairly immediate acting and kept at that stage, you will feel some drowsiness, but is that better or worse than an ensuing all out panic attack ? Something to take while not needing to be as alert as possible, so drowsiness isn't a major issue.
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