Ambien and xanax taken together
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Since you have stopped taking it, please talk with your doctor about alternative sleep aids. Taking Klonopin and Xanax and Ambien at the same time, even if they are taken hours apart, is not a good idea. Two benzos should almost never be taken together unless under strict guidance from your doctor.
There are a number of new drugs on the market for insomnia, discuss with your doctor trying one of those before turning to the more powerful psychotropics.
i have this strong feeling hes going to put me on another benzo like klonpin witch i took them for 12 yrs prior to the xanax...the methadone and xanax been on both of for 5 yrs the same time was put on the methadone with know problems..i take 40 mgs of methadone and avg 3 mgs of xanax aday..this controls the anxietys and panic is the worst..have had it since 1989..i dont get it much.. but when im maina nothing stops that including the xanax....
I just got a script of Ambien 10mg and take 3 2mg Xanax a day for six years.
I have been taking Ambien 10 mg per evening for years and in take xanax only sparingly. Recently, i've had rotator cuff surgery. I was prescribed hydrocodone 7.5 mg every four hours. I decided to reduce the ambien to 5 mg due to the interaction. I found it virtually impossible to sleep in a recliner as they have suggested (due to the sling).and then began taking 7.5 mg.
Klonopin is longer acting so will be easier to taper then xanax. Take klonopin and DO NOT take the xanax. I have taken ambien off and on as needed and have had no problems but you shouldnt have to take ambien if you have the klonopin because that in itself often causes drowsiness so it shoulld help you sleep. So to sum up. Take KLONOPIN as prescribed and your wellbutrin as prescribed. Do not take xanax or ambien that is overmedicating and overkill.
I want to quit taking xanax and ambien. I have been on both for a few years. I also take Subxone.
I take 12.5 mg of ambien and .5mg of xanax 2 or 3 times per day.
Can I quit cold turkey without? I have heard xanax withdrawal can cause seizures,, but am not sure if my dose is high enough to worry about that.
Hi akitagurl12. Thanks for taking the time to respond to my question.. It made me feel like I wasn't going crazy. My doctor prescribed Trazedone to replace the Ambien but it made everything even worse. Then I asked him to write a prescription for a few Xanax so I could get caught up on my sleep but he refused. He then switched me to Amytriptyline.
Dr today prescribed Ambien 10 mg to help with staying asleep at night and skip the last dose of xanax before bed and take the Ambien. I take the xanax for Anxiety attacks and i'm first scared to stop the last dose before bed and second, don't know how the Ambien is going to effect me. The xanax at night only puts me to sleep for about 2 hours then i wake up. What should I do?
t cover Xanax at all and even denied an exception when my doctor tried. So he changed me to 10mg Ambien along with the 100mg Trazadone. No problems. Then a visit to my PCP for the Orthostatic Hypotension and he told me to go off those two drugs and gave me a script of 3 days with 1 refill of Ambien CR to see how I would react to that. After the 3 nights I started sleeping 18 to 20 hours of a 24 hr. period plus felt completely out of it.
I was on 1.5 mgs of lorazepam, went down to 1 mg a day and was sleeping fine at first, now I'm having more anxiety and having trouble sleeping. I'ts been about a month. I am tempted to go back up to 1.5 again but i'm trying to remain strong. I'm even having to use some ambien to sleep and i'ts starting not to help. How long will this go on? and will my sleep pattern come back? Is it possible the withdrawls are actually getting worse?
I took 5mg on Wed night which helped get me thru the night. Last night was bad with RLS even though I had Xanax and ambien. I hate Xanax and the way it makes me feel so I'll stick to the ambien at night. I would like to take another 5mg tonight but don't want to set back the withdrawal. Do you think I would be setting the withdrawal symptoms back if I did this?
I just suggest tapering the Xanax best you can but I'm not a doctor and thus just telling you my experience.... The rebound anxiety you can have *****- not physical w/d like opiates- you are doing good jiust warning you to be careful getting off everything suddenly - other people may be able to help more....
not enough to even worry about right now, though. Ambien is of course a new sleep aid and the jury is still out. People have amnesia on ambien. They go to sleep, but then wake and do silly/stupid stuff. They have no recollection of this after they awaken. One case went so far as to claim a homicide that the defendant had no memory of. That one did not work. A tolerance and dependance will develop with the zanax if used for a great length of time.
t hurt too much to combine Ambien, Trazodone, and/or Ativan - except REALLY strong sedation, and you could injure yourself. I'd start with the Trazodone alone and see if it works for you, if you think you will need something long-term it's the only one that won't put you on a roller-coaster ride of ups and downs, withdrawls, etc.
hey sharon - welcome. I'm 45 days off hydros and I'm almost two weeks into being off both xanax and ambien - both of which I took as prescribed and didn't abuse them. I tried to come off everything at once which was really awful so I stayed on the xanax and ambien until recently.
It has come to a point where I need to medicate myself with several different medicines in order to fall asleep. I usually take Ambien 10 mg and I take two od those and sometimes Xanax 1 mg. I have noticed that Ambien doesnt really help much anymore. I just feel weird when I take it. Sometimes when I dont take anything to sleep and I manage to fall asleep, I have very vivid dreams and nightmares.
Even after taking medicine, I dont usually fall asleep until 4 am and I am up at 8 or 9.
I am just starting day 4 off of norco 5/325. I took usually 4-5 a day. Originally for back pain and then for help dealing with my marriage woes. It's been about 5 months. There was a few weeks months ago where I took Percocet, because I literally could not walk. Of course my back is fine, but my emotional pain continued.
Anyway, I was advised by GP that I was over using them and he would not prescribe anymore, which is true, I was overusing.
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