Hi everyone. I am currently taking 10 mg of Lexapro per day. Every few days, maybe like 2 or 3 times per week, I take .5 Xanax twice daily for anxiety. I don't like to take it every day (even though I have my anxiety disorder every day) because of the physical dependence factor. I watched my mother destroy herself with a Xanax/Vicodin addiction and I do not want to take any risks. I figure if I take the Xanax with a few days break in between my body won't get dependent.

And, I smoke marijuana every day. Probably the equivalent of one fairly skinny cigarette style joint (with no tobacco in it) per day. I use those Smokin' Clean cellulose papers, they are awesome. I smoke a little of the joint in the morning, a little in the afternoon and a little at night.

While I feel perfectly fine combining Lexapro, Xanax and weed (I feel fantastic, in fact), I am wondering if it is safe.

I am a reasonably healthy person with low blood pressure at my ideal body weight, I don't smoke cigarettes and I get plenty of vitamins. I did have a "questionable 2 mm unruptured aneurysm) but the neurosurgeon who reviewed my MRI sent me home, told me to resume my normal life, that the chances of anything bad happening from it were slim to none. So I did go back to my life which includes smoking weed. He doesn't seem to think it is anything serious and may just be a normal vessel variation.

The only real maladies affecting my life are severe generalized anxiety disorder, hypochondria and clinical depression. What I'm on makes me feel much better, especially on the Xanax and weed days.

I know not to drink alcohol with Xanax or Lexapro, and I don't. I just never heard if weed is bad to combine with those two meds. I don't want to have a heart attack or overdose or something.

Advice? Feedback? Experiences to share?

I take Lexapro too and some other stuff, personally I don't risk it but I doubt trying it once and seeing how you do would hurt.

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dude i take the exact same lus the xaneys the only thing the weed is doing is canceling out the lexapro as the r ssris ...and the xanex just chills ur nerves youll be fine man in my opinion the lexapro is just doin nada when u smoke out

Hi there, I too take Zanax, and I also take 200 mg Lustral anti-depressant every day. For me, it all works well, i find I suffer lack of appetitie with the Chemicals, so the Marijuana, allows me to eat. Nothing cancels out nothing, for me they al work well together. My doctor is also aware, and whilst she would never say, ' way to go', she dosent dissparove either.
Id rather use marijuana all the time though, instead of chemicals. I find the Zanax, leaves a sick feeling.
Withoug marijuana Id be dead from weight loss i think.

Good luck to you,

Rastagal

For what its worth marijuan use we, know how been practiced for thousands of years, these chemicals we pour into our bodies everyday are much more of a worry than any natural remedies.
For all the advances in Medicine, the world is a sicker place,which makes me very curious aout these drug companies.

I trust nature more.I feel more at risk from the Zanox Lexotan, Lustral, than any herb.Possible unwanted side effects are:muscle weakness fatigue, headache, dissiness, change in vision. In rare cases restleness, irritability, delusionns, rage, stomach upsets, loss of sexual appetitie, skin rashes,
These are the words of Roche the drug company in the product information pamphlet.
The only side effect I suffer from marijuana use is the need for chocolate

You hit the nail on the head. I might be wrong, but it seems, to me at least, that with all these medical breakthroughs and such like, comes more diseases, more deaths, and generally people have more ailments. I belive it's because these pills that doctors basically give away in a lucky dip are not only dangerous, alot of them are useless. I bet it's the Governments take on population thinning. Maybe not. But still, for every breakthrough another 5 diseases are born from it. [dont know if that's true, it's probably more than 5]

I got some decongestion pills the other day, well, i got 2 differnt packs. Did some reasearch and the most expensive pack was as good as a placebo according to the site i was on. Anyway, the cheaper pack has Ephadrin [sp] in them so it's a legal form of speed

Does weed not make your anxiety disorder WORSE? From my understanding of anxiety disorders, the problem is in the thinking of the person, there is nothing intrinsically wrong with the person themselves, although chemical imbalance plays a part I'm sure it does, not denying that, its mainly down to a fractured/faulty/irrational belief system in the person.

Actually weed totally helps my anxeity. It's probably the best med I have ever used, close to xanax. Anyways I am now on 20mg prozac and 1mg xanax everyday. I JUST got put on this so idk how they interact. I'm hesitant to smoke weed, I knwo this is kinda thread jakcing but, is it safe for me to smoke weed with this combo? I don't want to like die or anything from it... just wondering. I couldn't find anything online and have yet to search the forums.

Tokin. You Really need to be careful with the Xanax. thay are very additive. I have been taking them for year's and have hade some bad experience's trying to kick them.now i only take .5mg three times a day
and I'am still haveing a hard time geting lower then that.you might want
to switch to clonapin.

Yeah but isn't it the xanax helping your anxiety and the weed just getting you stoned? The weed alone would probaly make thing's worse because even though I know of certain strains for helping anxiety it dosen't work with any old badweed off the street, just makes thing's worse. Do you use specific strains to medicate on?

Kind of, not specific strains. I smoke mostly indica's which give me a nice relaxing stone. If I smoke sativa's I DO get anxiety, so I try to avoid those. I just started taking xanax too.

Do you go by the maturity of the plant when it was harvested i.e more THC is converted to CBD's (pain relief) or just indica over sativa? I'm wondering if a sativa harvested very late would have similar effects..

Pretty much all my weed comes from medical dispensaries so i'm not really sure.