How soon do anxiety pills start working?

I took an anxiety pill, but it wasn't prescribed to me. I took it about 10 minutes ago, is it supposed to already be working? Or am i just imagining its helping?

 

benzos actions can be felt as short as 10min/15 min.. If you took a benzo.

 

mine always kick in within the 15-20 minutes. Xanax usually. Klonopin can take a tad bit faster.

 

Gettin anything out of it yet?

 

Why did you take a pill that wasnt perscribed to you? What pill did you take?

 

if it was a benzo it should be felt as soon as 5 mins to 30. however, the intensity of the effect can be mild to barely felt if it was extremely low dosage. depending on your body weight, one pill might not actually have a detectable effect.

also, next time you ask advice on drugs, take the the two seconds to type out what drug it actually was (and what was the dose), not just go with 'anxiety pill', that sounds like 13-year-old girl's lingo who stole the pill from her mom's drug cabinet. all this advice will be useless if we're just guessing what you took.

 

There are many kinds of "anxiety" pills, depending on what you are aiming to treat. Benzos, SSRIs, adrenergics. Not all of them take the same amount of time to work.

 

..and some types might not work at all on some people

 

Hell fuck it, pop another one down an' see what happens. Get a stopwatch and let us know.

 

Benzodiazepine anti-anxiety agents act within twenty-five minutes, reaching full effects, in general (they all behave differently) within an hour.

But perhaps your anxiety med is a Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitor, a class of drugs initially used for depression. The SSRIs are commonly used for anxiety. And in my opinion (keep in mind I have been on about 30 psychiatric medications in my life), they work better for anxiety than depression! I never found any 'anti-depressive' relief from SSRIs, but my anxiety really subsided within a month or so of beginning treatment on Effexor (technically a SNRI, but close enough).

Sorry to ramble off topic. That's the Vyvanse speaking.

 

Was it buspirone/Buspar?

It's an "anxiolytic" (anti-anxiety med) that works more like an SSRI than a benzo. It's NOT an SSRI, but it does work on seratonin receptors - instead of blocking seratonin reuptake, though, it just mimics seratonin. As such, it usually takes at least a couple weeks to start working - if it works at all. It's kinda famous for not doing a damn thing for a lot of people, as was the case with me. Besides apparently canceling out my guanfacine and giving me constant, nasty gas, it did absolutely nothing.

A lot of people try to abuse it like a benzo. They think since it's classified as an anxiolytic that they'll be able to get high off of it - then wonder why they get nothing except brain shocks when they try crushing and snorting it.