can i take 50mg of xanax and be safe
Hi Chris:
Have you spoken with your physician about this? Recommended dose is 0.25 to 0.5 mg, and you are asking if you can take 100 times the recommended dose. If you are treating panic disorder, then treatment of some panic disorder patients has required the use of Xanax at doses greater than 4 mg daily. When they were doing research they were testing up to 10 mg a day, but that was very rare. You are asking about 5 times the highest doses tried in research in very controlled situations. You can read more about Xanax here.
You really need to call your doctor about this. Benzodiazepines are dangerous, very addictive, and should be respected.
Best of luck,
Dr. Diana Walcutt
*Dr. Walcutt is a Psychologist, not a Psychiatrist. Psychiatrists prescribe medications. Psychologists study them, but most Psychologists are not authorized to prescribe meds or give you specific advice about them. Dr. Walcutt's answers are not intended to diagnose or treat any medical or mental disorder. Any information given in a post about medication is for educational purposes only, and primarily to aid you in having an informed discussion with your own Psychiatrist/Physician.
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Chris - Dr. Walcutt gave you all the important information and hopefully you understand that the answer is NO! However, please check your prescription bottle because it may actually read .50mg and not 50mg. There's a really big difference and .50 is a fairly typical dose. If you have any doubts always consult your physician and/or pharmacist!
Rick Wirtz
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Scott H. Freile, DH, EdD, MD(AM) FAAIM FACFE
Tuesday, October 06, 2009 at 10:44 PM
hell no are you crazy? 50mg will defenitly kill you! my doctor perscribes me 1 mg 3 times a day. i hope this gets to u in time do not take that much you will die!!
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50mg is NOT a dosage any doc would or could write. The truth is there are heavy users of illicit Klonipin that I have seen down close to that dosage over a day but they were on IV Speed runs. If you are on anything close to 10mg of Klonipin you are pushing the limit on the body's ability to detox. It takes approx. 15mg of Valium to = 1mg of Klon (that is the EU standard and is used in many states as a guide to detox). In Texas the TXPA uses 10mg Valium (diazepam)=1mg Klonipin (clonazepam). The point is that if you look at valium, (See equivalency tables on Roche site) you are taking a real risk of accidental OD by ingesting foods, drugs, or herbal suppliments (sp? sorry) that will inhibit one of the pathways to clear the benzo's and the metabolites. You will risk eating a ham salad sandwich and not waking up later. By the way, body weight, but more importantly the amount of fat you have will effect the long term storage of the benzos and the active metabolites. If you decide to start working up a good sweat, and losing weight, you are potentially opening the flood gates as the stored benzos and metabolites (along with any barbituates you may have stored i.e. fioricet, fiorinal, and some other sources of barbs that are synergistic with benzos, even when dumping as stored metabolites i.e. those tension headache pills and the ham eaten a year ago , can overload your systems ability to metabolize before you stop breathing in your sleep or in a bad Asthma attack. Benzo's are tricky because your limbic system will not build up a tolerance the way your cognition does. You are always chasing the high, relief, the dragon and you will never catch it. Best of luck, be carefull and get to a detox center (not drug counselor or even inpatient psych ward). You need to come down and be monitored while you do. Then and only then ,can you go for help in another bottle or in a group. Doc Scotty (Psychopharmacognosist)