04-05-2017, 05:45 PM
(This post was last modified: 04-05-2017, 05:47 PM by Texas Chemist.
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Wow, I can relate to a lot of the posts in this thread about alprazolam.
Alprazolam has always helped me with sleep better than any other benzo. When I was younger, yes, I would get a slight hangover feeling in the morning, not bad, just that I felt I needed another few hours. Nowadays, a 16 oz. coffee in the morning and I'm good to go.
Also to the poster who said that alprazolam makes them more irritable-this still happens to me. BUT, only if I take more than 5 mg or have been taking it for more than 2 months without a break in between. This 'paradoxical' aggression (I believe that's what the experts call it) I actually get from all benzos and thus I will rotate them as I feel is needed so I don't become an ass.
Zolpidem tartrate never really worked for me. I would take one right before bed watching tv with my SO and not feel a thing. Then I would take another, or maybe two more. I wouldn't feel sleepy even after an hour but all of a sudden find myself talking to someone or something in the room until my SO would look at me like I was crazy and ask, "who the hell are you talking to?" I would immediately realize I was drifting off with my eyes open and apparently beginning my dreaming while I was still half-conscious. I would start laughing because I knew this was the beginning of those ambien hallucinations I had heard so much about and then take my butt to bed and lie down. But the kicker is that I still wouldn't feel tired! After trying out ambien for a week or so I ditched it and decided that Z-drugs weren't for me and would just stick to Xanax.
Oh and as far as getting the munchies on benzos like Xanax, I found that side-effect to only last initially for a few days. After weeks of taking it and increasing the dosage I would find my appetite would actually decrease and would need to 'force-feed' myself after taking a dose.
Of course everyone's body responds differently to these drugs at different doses and over different lengths of time so find out what works best for you!
Thankfully I was never one of those people who would take an ambien and then wakeup to the cupboards open and missing half of my groceries because that 'zombie-state' many people report that they fall in to when taking ambien.
Alprazolam has always helped me with sleep better than any other benzo. When I was younger, yes, I would get a slight hangover feeling in the morning, not bad, just that I felt I needed another few hours. Nowadays, a 16 oz. coffee in the morning and I'm good to go.
Also to the poster who said that alprazolam makes them more irritable-this still happens to me. BUT, only if I take more than 5 mg or have been taking it for more than 2 months without a break in between. This 'paradoxical' aggression (I believe that's what the experts call it) I actually get from all benzos and thus I will rotate them as I feel is needed so I don't become an ass.
Zolpidem tartrate never really worked for me. I would take one right before bed watching tv with my SO and not feel a thing. Then I would take another, or maybe two more. I wouldn't feel sleepy even after an hour but all of a sudden find myself talking to someone or something in the room until my SO would look at me like I was crazy and ask, "who the hell are you talking to?" I would immediately realize I was drifting off with my eyes open and apparently beginning my dreaming while I was still half-conscious. I would start laughing because I knew this was the beginning of those ambien hallucinations I had heard so much about and then take my butt to bed and lie down. But the kicker is that I still wouldn't feel tired! After trying out ambien for a week or so I ditched it and decided that Z-drugs weren't for me and would just stick to Xanax.
Oh and as far as getting the munchies on benzos like Xanax, I found that side-effect to only last initially for a few days. After weeks of taking it and increasing the dosage I would find my appetite would actually decrease and would need to 'force-feed' myself after taking a dose.
Of course everyone's body responds differently to these drugs at different doses and over different lengths of time so find out what works best for you!
Thankfully I was never one of those people who would take an ambien and then wakeup to the cupboards open and missing half of my groceries because that 'zombie-state' many people report that they fall in to when taking ambien.