Posted by nolegirl23 on January 31, 2007, at 18:37:31
In reply to Re: Drinking Alcohol on Lexapro - WHY NOT ?, posted by shadowplayers721 on January 31, 2007, at 0:40:58
> I just thought of something. Ask you pdoc about med holiday? For example, if you know you are going to celebrate a wedding, birthday, etc, see what they say about a med holiday with ssri's. I am not knowledgeable. I think this was a good post. It's an important issue. Everyone has given good responses.
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> Personally, I had poor experiences with alcohol even without meds on board. This was a long time ago. People putting things in my drink at a party for the fun of it. So, I don't drink and haven't in years.Thank you for your validation that my post was important :)
I will be asking my pdoc about this, and Phillipa, I don't drink liquor. I am a Wine girl. Sometimes a beer, but wine is my drink. I can't imagine what liquor + 4 mgs of Xanax would do to me.
Why I don't drink on benzo's: Complete and TOTAL memory loss. If I take my second 2 mg dose of xanax, even if I have no more than 3 glasses of wine, my mind is blank.
I mean the next day, when I wake up, I literally CANNOT REMEMBER A DAMN THING. And it's not because I drank so much that I can't remember, I know that it is the xanax. COMPLETE and TOTAL memory loss, NO FUN.
So, rather than suffer the amnestic effects of xanax + booze, I'll skip my night dose of xanax.
Plus, I don't want to be a complete waste product when I go out, and xanax tends to turn me into just that, a WASTE PRODUCT.Thank you so much to all that have responded :)
CHEERS!
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