Diazepam belongs to a class of drugs known as benzodiazepines. These tablets are illegal. The tablets are round in shape, with MSJ printed on one side and the flip side a line across the middle. They are commonly blue and have a similarity to legally prescribed tablets.
Warnings for people with certain health conditions. For people with kidney disease: Diazepam is removed from your body by your kidneys. If you have kidney problems, more of the drug may stay in your body for longer, putting you at risk for side effects. Your doctor may adjust your dosage and monitor you more closely.
When taken as directed, Valium is usually more helpful than harmful. However, long-term use or abuse of this medication can interfere with normal functions of the central nervous system, causing symptoms such as: Constant drowsiness. Diazepam starts to work very quickly in your body, and you should get calming effects within two hours of taking it. How long will I need to take diazepam? People are not normally prescribed diazepam for more than four weeks as people can become dependent on it if they take it for longer.
Ambien zolpidem and Valium diazepam are used for treating insomnia. Valium is used off-label to treat insomnia; it is approved to treat anxiety, seizures, muscle spasms, and symptoms of alcohol withdrawal.
These study results suggest that clonazepam contributed to the improvement of dopamine sensitivity. The patient examined for this study discontinued antipsychotics without rebound psychosis under clonazepam. It states that benzodiazepines do not treat the psychosis symptoms directly, but are used to treat symptoms such as anxiety, restlessness, sleep disorders and agitation 1.
Even widely used drugs such as non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs can sometimes trigger a psychotic reaction. Alcohol, amphetamines, phencyclidine PCP , cocaine, and hallucinogens are among the most common causes of drug-induced psychosis. Brief psychotic disorder, by definition, lasts for less than 1 month, after which most people recover fully. If symptoms last for more than 6 months, doctors may consider a possible diagnosis of schizophrenia.
Management of psychosis has improved dramatically in the past — even 50 years — when people with psychotic symptoms were locked up in asylums. This chart from the above link looks for the equivalent dose of a given benzo to equal 5 mg of diazepam valium.
So, you need. The klonopin is, as you said, slower in action. However, klonopin has a much longer half life than xanax, so it will stay in your system longer.
The long half life of klonopin is why doctors like it. You are less likely to become addicted to it as you do not need to continually take more klonopin throughout the day to keep anxiety at bay, so you don't get into the habit of "popping pills" and you don't experience break-through anxiety.
As for getting the same feel from klonopin as you get from xanax That mild euphoria increases the chance that patients will become habituated to and possibly misuse their medication. So, basically, klonopin is actually stronger than xanax in terms of efficacy, but if what you are looking for is that mild euphoria, which isn't what benzos are for you can't replicate that.
I usually do 4 1mg xanax then chew and disolve mg of klonapin under my tongue by the time the Xanax starts to wear down the kpin is in effect for like hours but I have built up a tolerance this I'd only when things are really bad I have 1mg or more if needed and 4mg kpin a day prescribed. No surprise someone might develop a tolerance. Another danger is suffocation from inadvertant overdose or through drug interaction with drugs such as alcohol, antiepileptic mood stabilizers, cough and cold medicines, pain meds, AD's, etc.
Step 2: Please fix typo. However if that's really supposed to say xanax twice - you have far larger problem then can be fixed by a conversion chart. Alprazolam has a 10 hour half life. So you pop one Xanax and 10 hours later, its decayed to half a Xanax in strength.
If you pop another Xanax at that time, you'll have 1. Pop another one, and after 30 hours, you'll have 0. In other words, someone who takes a Xanax every 10 hours will have a maximum of roughly 2 Xanax in their system, and a minimum of roughly 1 Xanax in their system. Pop one Klonopin, and 10 hours later, 0. Take another Klonopin, and at 20 hours, 1. Pop another Klonopin for 2. Pop another at 30 hours 2. At 50 hours, 1. So a Klonopin or diazepam user on a B.
We can infer that alprazolam therefore, is much more powerful ie: much higher GABA A activity than clonazepam. However, clonazepam's relative weakness is made up by its long half-life, which causes a chronic, dependant user to experience a similar amount of GABA A -ergic activity as someone popping the same amount of the relatively more potent alprazolam. The 'chronic' plasma concentration for clonazepam will be between 2 and 3 dose units.
Therefore, we can conclude that a single dose of alprazolam will be between 1. So if you're at the doctor, looking for a PRN that you'll use a couple times a month so there's no accumulation -- I would suggest that 1mg Xanax would be equal to 2mg Klonopin for the purpose. The difference is, the Xanax won't last as long, harsher withdrawal, etc, whereas the Klonopin will be relatively self-tapering.
I couldn't agree more.. The problem with using those so-called 'benzodiazepine equivilancy charts' is that they are written for the purposes of tapering only, and assume chronic use of a given benzodiazepine, in exchange for chronic use of another benzodiazepine. The long-acting benzodiazepines, because a daily dose results in a cumulative effect, will require a lower equipotent dose, all other things considered, than a short-acting benzodiazepine with no cumulative daily effect.
Therefore, the people looking to substitute, say, 1mg of alprazolam as a PRN dose for a panic attack, with, say, 1mg of clonazepam PRN, are apt to be very dissappointed. The clonazepam diazepam, flurazepam, chlordiazepoxide, etc.
Doctors who understand accumulation and exponential decay properly understand this sort of stuff. A family doctor who just looks at an 'equivilancy chart', which is only valid for the tapering of chronic use of the agent, will not. But trying to use them to compare long-acting benzos to long-acting benzos in terms of therapeutic potency, is.
Even Ashton points out that they are for tapering purposes only. Geez, I'm getting bad at this. In my opinion, the less of the med you have to take and the longer it lasts and stays in your system the stronger it is.
If you let the pill dissolve under your tongue, they all work at the same speed. Judging by the scientific research, xanax and klonopin are used for the same reasons, anxiety and panic attacks. If you have to take 5 to 6 pills of xanax in order to equal the amount of time 1 klonopin is in your system, obviously klonopin is stronger.
Sometimes less is more. The less you have to put in your body for the drug to work, the better off you are.
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