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What Causes Over Sleeping After Taking Xanax?
Question: I have been taking 4 mg of xanax per day for the last 3 months. This weekend, I took much more, I think 14 mg. I have never done this before. I slept for 24 hours straight it feels like it is out of my system. My wife and I had a fight and it was my of dealing with the stress.
My regular dosage is 4mg, two bars.
Please give me a wean down schedule (very detailed) to go from 4mg a day to zero. I can take it slow to eliminate most of the nasty withdrawals that accompany most xanax stoppages.
My regular dosage is 4mg, two bars.
Please give me a wean down schedule (very detailed) to go from 4mg a day to zero. I can take it slow to eliminate most of the nasty withdrawals that accompany most xanax stoppages.
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Hello, and thank you for your direct private question.
Xanax 4mg daily is an enormous amount of Xanax. Xanax 14mg is potentially deadly -- this can decrease your respiratory drive and cause you to stop breathing, resulting in cardiac arrest. Even after sleeping for 24 hours, the amount of Xanax in your system is highly dangerous, and at any time you could enter spontaneous Xanax withdrawal which can cause tremor, hallucinations, coma, cardiac arrest, and death. You need to visit a hospital IMMEDIATELY. Call 911 or have your wife drive you to the nearest emergency room. Your vital signs need to be monitored very closely for the next few days. There is NO SAFE wean-down schedule for you right now -- you are at acute risk of death. Visit an ER immediately.
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Detailed Answer:
Hello, and thank you for your direct private question.
Xanax 4mg daily is an enormous amount of Xanax. Xanax 14mg is potentially deadly -- this can decrease your respiratory drive and cause you to stop breathing, resulting in cardiac arrest. Even after sleeping for 24 hours, the amount of Xanax in your system is highly dangerous, and at any time you could enter spontaneous Xanax withdrawal which can cause tremor, hallucinations, coma, cardiac arrest, and death. You need to visit a hospital IMMEDIATELY. Call 911 or have your wife drive you to the nearest emergency room. Your vital signs need to be monitored very closely for the next few days. There is NO SAFE wean-down schedule for you right now -- you are at acute risk of death. Visit an ER immediately.
Please remember to rate and close this answer thread when you are finished and satisfied.
In the future, for continuity of care, I encourage you to contact me directly at my private web address below. After you ask a direct question, it would be my pleasure to be your dedicated personal physician on this website. My name is Dr. Sheppe, and I am an XXXXXXX doctor working in New York City at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital, ranked #1 for Psychiatry in the United States (tinyurl.com/psyrank). For a personalized comprehensive evaluation, treatment recommendations, and individual therapy, ask me at HealthCareMagic at this private web address: tinyurl.com/DrSheppeAnswers
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I will use you for all future dialogues. I will go to the emergency room and get checked out right now. If everything checks out at the ER. On monday can we put together a wean down schedule? So I can get off this poison?
Brief Answer:
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Detailed Answer:
You will likely need inpatient detox. There is no safe way to safely wean down this level of Xanax use -- you will need close inpatient supervision and likely substance abuse rehabilitation afterwards.
Please remember to rate and close this answer thread when you are finished and satisfied.
In the future, for continuity of care, I encourage you to contact me directly at my private web address below. After you ask a direct question, it would be my pleasure to be your dedicated personal physician on this website. My name is Dr. Sheppe, and I am an XXXXXXX doctor working in New York City at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital, ranked #1 for Psychiatry in the United States (tinyurl.com/psyrank). For a personalized comprehensive evaluation, treatment recommendations, and individual therapy, ask me at HealthCareMagic at this private web address: tinyurl.com/DrSheppeAnswers
Followup
Detailed Answer:
You will likely need inpatient detox. There is no safe way to safely wean down this level of Xanax use -- you will need close inpatient supervision and likely substance abuse rehabilitation afterwards.
Please remember to rate and close this answer thread when you are finished and satisfied.
In the future, for continuity of care, I encourage you to contact me directly at my private web address below. After you ask a direct question, it would be my pleasure to be your dedicated personal physician on this website. My name is Dr. Sheppe, and I am an XXXXXXX doctor working in New York City at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital, ranked #1 for Psychiatry in the United States (tinyurl.com/psyrank). For a personalized comprehensive evaluation, treatment recommendations, and individual therapy, ask me at HealthCareMagic at this private web address: tinyurl.com/DrSheppeAnswers
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