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What is the best way to take it-swallowing or dissolution under tongue?
Bodhisattva500
27-10-2004, 17:40
I would recomend just swallowing it as the taste isnt exactly great...the effects dont take long anyways. I definetly wouldnt snort it becausei someone whos nose gets clogged everytime they do it
OneDiaDem
31-10-2004, 01:48
I do both. For faster come on tho, I let it dissolve under my tongue.</font>
WhiteRyan
08-11-2004, 06:01
Ive heard that zanex is not water soluble and that snorting it is a waste of time, it is just letting it drip down your throat. But i always begged to differ considering it did seem to take effect quicker and stronger threw the nose. I got desperate with .5 and snorted 4 of them and my nose bleed, havent snorted them since.
WhiteRyan
11-11-2004, 03:04
Sorry, swallowing the pill will have a slightly less effect, but will last longer. Dissolving it under your tongue will effect your more, but have a shorter duration.
But I also noticed back in the day how zanex dissolved so damn easy that im not sure if zanex has a time-coating or whatever its called. I was wondering myself
Of Nothing
21-03-2005, 06:30
Which of these two are the best ways to take Xanax, best meaning, which one will take effect quicker. Breaking a football in half and swallowing them or chewing a football up and swallowing?
aMorphius
22-03-2005, 04:50
I imagine both of your suggestions would be about the same. A better
idea is to put the pill under your tongue and hold it there untill it
disolves. This method is called "sublingually" (Latin for under the tongue).
This is the fastest route to the blood stream other than IV or up the nose.
Neither one of which I would recomend. The "Under the tongue" method
is what I do when I need to be in the xanax zone ASAP.
Curtains
22-03-2005, 05:33
xanax footballs are not time released so both ur methods would be the same...so u could try aMorphius's method
Of Nothing
23-03-2005, 05:31
If I was to crush up a Xanax football (Or Bar) and mix it with a shot of Southern Comfort (Or a different drink like Whiskey or Bacardi), wouldn't that be a great way to catch a quick buzz?
Gahaba22
23-03-2005, 23:15
That would be a great way to pass out! Seriously, if you are not used to taking benzos and you take 2mg worth of alprazolam (xanax) with a shot of alcohol, you are going to be pretty "relaxed" Now if you have been up all night and your chopping your breakfast up on a mirror, then I highly recommend your alcohol/xanax cocktail.
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Interzone
26-03-2005, 10:10
My Psychiatrist recommends the "Holding under the tongue" method because it is the fastest and most useful vehicle to get the active drug into yout system to cure the anxiety.
hippie_lain
26-03-2005, 11:23
Ill i have to say is xanax is only a temp. fix for anxiety. Dont get me wrong it works better than anythin Ive tried for anxiety but you will need it for the rest of your life if you cant handle the anxiety...and the wilthdraws are as bad as oxys.
Interzone
29-03-2005, 01:19
Ill i have to say is xanax is only a temp. fix for anxiety. Dont get me wrong it works better than anythin Ive tried for anxiety but you will need it for the rest of your life if you cant handle the anxiety...and the wilthdraws are as bad as oxys.
No shit man, for about a year I was prescribed 224 5mg Oxycodones, and 120 .5mg xanax per month and when I ran out... oh boy.. it was the most horrible feeling... the ultimate definition of phychic hell. NO withdrawal is in my experience as worse as a dual Xanax/Oxy withdrawal.
sunshine
29-03-2005, 23:50
Sorry to hear that you have such an anxiety problem Interzone, but those are some good fucking drugs your doctor gave you. I think I read that you have been on xanax for 8 years now which is unheard of to me, best of luck to you when/if you want to get off it permanently. As for snorting or dissolving, I would definitely have to lean towards dissolving besides the horrible taste, but they're pills. You wonthave as much xanax in your systembysnorting it then you would if youdissolved the same amount.
raven3davis
13-04-2005, 18:53
"I hate the taste of xanax so I would just swallow it up if i was you. It doesnt make a difference since your footballs arent time released. It wouldnt hurt to chew em up or anything I just think they taste horrible"
is what someone on another forum said
Im just curious if xanax gets to work even faster if you chew it up, then drink a glass of water or if it's the same quick acting whether swallowed hole or chewed up first?
it will work somewhat faster if you chew it up.
benzos don't dissolve in water so i'm pretty sure that won't aid in
absorbtion although i once saw a guy with a high tolerance crush up a
couple bars, put the powder in a shot glass, stir it up and take it
down. he passed out within 10 minutes.
i would say the best way to speed absorbtion/effects of xanax would be
crush it up and swallow with a glass of grapefruit juice since if that
does not aid in absorbtion it will at least potentiate the effects.
be safe
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I was under the impression that grapefruit juice and xanax can cause seizures and or death?
i've never heard that before.
i know a lot of people who've done it with no problems.
i can even begin to imagine why seizures would occur. grapefruit juice
simply blocks enzyme sin the liver involved with metabolizing the
drug... i guess it could cause death due to accidental overdose but if
you're being care/know what you're doing it shouldn't be a problem.
however, withdrawl symptoms from all benzodiazepines include seizures and death. maybe you got confused that way.
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Grapefruit juice seems to make the xanax and other benzos work a little better.If i had to guess, i would say close to15% greater effects that's about it.
it'll work quicker if you snort it. try that, do not snort too much though.
PsyDefects
30-08-2005, 13:46
or you can let it dissolve under the tongue if you can stand the
bitterness, it seems to hit faster that way and it dissolves within
seconds.
I dont mind the bitterness. I've gotten use to chewing them up without any water on my long 300 mile (round trip) commutes to clients offices, I dont want to drink any water since Im on generic drug for lasix which will make you pee like something else, I've got enough water retention in my body to have to pee often when I take the prescription, I hate adding any more liquids to it when Im on the road, because it will hit fast and hard, like, "I've got to pee now, not in 10 seconds, but now: Edited by: kuplo
allyourbase
06-09-2005, 18:17
the most efficient method of benzodiazapine consumption is sublingually. it hits about as fast as insufflated use but you can be sure you dont lose as much to your gut. just break a bar into its segments, then stick them all under your tongue, its a bit much to get used to at first, but it grows on you. and your irritated mucus membranes.
BlackEyed
26-11-2005, 23:45
Would melting down a xanax then pouring the remaing liquid into a drink work alot better then just ingesting the pill?<!--
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armatitumor
27-11-2005, 00:40
It may come on faster, but I seriously doubt it would "work better". By
melting it down. you're not increasing the amount of alprazolam, just
decreasing the amount of filler.
jesusfreak666er
01-12-2005, 23:27
i didnt know u could melt them, i say just dissolve them in a drink or chew or pop em, or just stick it under ur toungue.... by heating up the pill u will denature it and possible change the chemical make up making it less effective and possible not effective, maybe even dangerious though i doubt it.
Anabolic Monkey
03-06-2006, 08:27
For the quickest way to fall asleep and not take for recreational purposes, Excluding IVing, would snorting it be the best for a quick knockout?
Benzodiazepines are not water soluble therefore all snorting is going to achieve is a post nasal drip and congested nasal passages. As others have mentioned: sublingual is the way to go.
IVing is NOT an option (unless SWIY has access to pharmaceutical vials): The binders and other crap will do untold damage to veins, including causing thrombosis/emboli.
Anabolic Monkey
03-06-2006, 10:22
Thanks Jatelka.
Alcohol with Xanax is never a good idea, but that never stopped anyone. Overall, it's a pretty good way for the afformentioned 'knockout', but who knows what'd you do before! (Then again, SWIM is posting, so far legibly, after doing just that. I guess this is a case of "Do what I say, not what I do." And just as an extra disclaimer: This is not a good idea! Even with experience, there are inherent dangers attached.)
Anyway, to the original question at hand- I suppose chewing it up would be faster, since you're breaking it up and you're stomach doesn't have to. I don't think I'd ever be desperate enough to chew one, though. The taste is absolutely dreadful. Unless you're in the middle of a panic attack, (to be blunt), just swallow the darn pill, same effects anyway. Sublingually is known to be fastest in this case, seeing as there are rather large veins under the tongue.
If there isn't any experience involved here, be careful! A bar is a big start for no tolerance. (Boy, do I feel the over-protective mother here!)
I legitimately have occasional panic sympoms...
I recieve 60 1 mg 'blue footballs' per month.
Sometimes I simply really really need the escape and what is the best and quickest way to get it into my blood stream?
Sublingual?
parachute?
or chew it like a butt fucker?
I enjoy me xannies and traditionally use half my prescription per month with dealing with stress... (girl is prego... that well... is alot of stress)
radiometer
03-06-2007, 06:34
30mg Xanax a month is going to lead to tolerance and dependance. Bet on it.
If SWIY wants to "escape" he would be far better off abusing something else besides a drug the efficacy of which he relies on to help with a panic disorder. A smart friend had a good rule of thumb - those who use benzodiazepines for legitimate reasons should not use them recreationally, and vice versa.
30mg Xanax a month is going to lead to tolerance and dependance. Bet on it.
If SWIY wants to "escape" he would be far better off abusing something else besides a drug the efficacy of which he relies on to help with a panic disorder. A smart friend had a good rule of thumb - those who use benzodiazepines for legitimate reasons should not use them recreationally, and vice versa.
SWIM's porblem is that I use them heavily to avoid going back onto oxycontin and oxycodone abuse.
Xanax fixes that.
as forr the sublingual methid it hit me like a birck.
its not a bad way to gp.
=Mobius=
03-06-2007, 15:26
To be honest : Xanax fix nothing it's just a surrogate.
Why not trying to stop that vicious circle and looking forward to become father :)
Nagognog2
03-06-2007, 18:14
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