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taking too much medication?

I take xanax, 2, valium 3, serapax2, and restoril sleeping pill 1 each day including 35mg or 7ml of methadone,

Symptoms are panic attacks and general all day anxiety and fears and terrible sleep cause i save my sleeping pills cause i get my meds on daily release from the chemist, and i haven't been taking my sleeping pills cause i'm immune to them so im having a break but my sleep is awful ever since i quit smoking marijuana i wake up in sweats and ive got a nervous bladder so i wake up 3 times a night to urinate. Does anyone else take similar ammounts of medication? or find sleep really bad after quitting dope?

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  • 1 decade ago
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    Chill on the pills. You might hurt yourself on accident. The with-drawls will last about 2-3 weeks and half a Vic crushed at night will help. Not all those pills dude. A lot of the pills will make it worse. The Methadone will turn off your engine with that cocktail you're downing. The Vic alone isn't the best thing to do, but it isn't the worst. It will help if you don't start popping more than one a day. Taking too many will also make things worse.

  • 1 decade ago

    I cant answer your question about smoking up and not being able to sleep since quitting, but good that you did quit.

    As for medications, you'd be surprised how many prescriptions some people take per day. Problem is you become immune to them and over time they stop working all together.

    I know this likely isnt what you want to hear, but I would recommend getting another doctor to assess you and see about lowering the amount of drugs you take... or at least see if there are safer alternatives.

    Source(s): paramedic
  • 1 decade ago

    Good lord guy, you're on enough medications to choke a horse! Your med list sounds almost as bad as Anna Nicole's! If your family doctor is prescribing you all of these meds, I suggest you search for a new doctor.

    I was suffering from panic attacks and clinical depression, and my doctor prescribed me Valium and Elivil ... that's it, that's all. Once my panic attacks were somewhat under control, I was taken off the Valium and sent to see a psychologist. A person can take all the pills in the world, but, all the pills do is mask the reason why you're feeling the way you do. Pills do not substitute for skills.

    Find another doctor, see a psychologist, and work on making your life ... as you would like it to be. I wish you well .... :)

    Source(s): Quit marijuana use 19 years ago.
  • J V
    Lv 6
    1 decade ago

    First see your doctor and get him to refer you to a specialist who deals with the synergistic effects of medication!

    If your GP prescribed all this change doctors.

    Stay off ALL other drugs NO Ingesting weed in any form or nicotine or caffeine except for GREEN or BLACK cos TEA is a diuretic and it will help flush the toxins from the other meds out of your system.

    If you're not sensitive to diary try a glass of hot milk or milo or choclate plus milk at bed time. Yeah its sounds stupid and old fashioned but some diary products have high levels of trytophan and could help?

    Check your diet... is your appetite being effected?

    A Low GI snack mid evening could help?

    Could you also be hypoglyaemic?

    Night sweats and urination could be a warning sign of type 2 diabetes? You dont have to be overweight to get it.

    Bedrom reading. Something slow and calming liek a science or history book could also help?

    Good luck detoxing! Be careful!

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  • Anonymous
    5 years ago

    Interactions between medications and alcohol happen frequently. In many cases it effects the mechanism of which the medication was intended to be used for. Essentially, the drug will not be doing its job...and if the medication is used to treat a serious illness, you can see what devastating consequences it can have on the treatment. Alcohol also "thins" your blood, so the effect of the drug can be altered either by having a greater effect, or a lesser one.

  • 1 decade ago

    You are missing the marijuana! Take the medication ordered by your doctor at the times he prescribed, and you'll have a better chance of getting yourself back to as close as normal as you can be. Important to take what's been prescribed - no wonder you're having trouble sleeping.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    if you take too much medicine, you could get addicted to it. i heard that you cannot take more than 6 different type of medication a month or something like that.

  • 1 decade ago

    I quit smoking pot over 2 months ago and my live has been living hell since. Like you, I suffer severe anxiety most of the day and cannot sleep. I can get to sleep, but wake up every hour and wake up very very early.

  • ?
    Lv 7
    1 decade ago

    Why not go back on the weed? Medical marijuana is legal now ,(maybe not where you live) but it sounds to me like you need it. You should talk to your doctor about it. It's OK to talk about it.

  • 1 decade ago

    no i don't take any medication but i hope you feel better soon!!

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