Xanax and Guanfacine(intuiv, tenex)

First, there is no thread anywhere to my knowledge of the interaction between these two drugs so I am going to make one for the sake of knowledge where someone is wanting to know the same information as I do now.

My personal problem:

I have an old script of intuiv, and I came off of xanax a couple of hours ago. I was extremely irritable.

I was reading about guanfacine(intuiv) and its metabolism is CYP3A4. I know this is the same as xanax am I wrong? I do not know much about this, but seemed to have leveled me out.
I only have 1mg of xanax, probably 4-5 grams of kava kava, and a bag of 2-3 grams worth of kava/kratom mixture(a tad bit more kratom than kava)

Tomorrow night I have to go to dinner with this girl. And I cannot be going through withdrawals during it. It would just. Ruin everything.
So my idea was to take an intuiv and then eat my kava as the day passes through work just to get by. Then a little before I go get her, to take the xanax so that it's no problem.
Next day, eat the kratom kava so that the withdrawals are minimal because I can't get anymore xanax for a couple of weeks unfortunately. (I wish I just had a fucking script already, but not really seems as I love to dig deep holes with the shit.)
Pot won't help, I will probably buy a beer [or six] while we're out.

But how does this all work? I am going to buy some white grape fruit juice before I head into work and drink some of that all day too because from the reading that I've done it does potentate all of these things seems as they all have something to do with CYP3A4. Problem is, I don't really know what 'CYP3A4' is.
Wikipedia uses vocabulary that is far over my head, maybe I am just lazy.
So, will the grapefruit juice help both the guanfacine/kava combo, and then the xanax later? I have a couple valiums too, but I think I'm just gonna let those stay because I am sick of being slave to benzos as I have more important shit to pay for right now(motherfucking paraphernalia reduction and ticket cost)

So what is CYP3A4, how does is work with guanfacine? How does it work with xanax, what does it do? How does it work with kava/kratom or kava alone? And should I take low dosages of dxm too to help? I am trying to make this withdrawal as minimal as possible seems as I've been taking 2-6mg daily for about two months. Today only 1, yesterday, two, same with the few days before, since I knew I was running low.

Won't let me edit, I took a guanfacine earlier to ease this all. left that part out in the beginning, it helped a little bit.

Is it a depressant? Because with benzos that's the main thing to watch out for. I'm not sure what Guanfacine's mechanism of action is, so just google it. Depressant + depressant = no no.

What your trying to do is very similar to potentateing which works well in theory and well on the internet but not in real life most certanly not in withdrawl

The alchool can help , if taken while the drug has effect on you - To your body alchool is about the most toxic thing their is , and your liver/kiddney's will eliminate alchool at all costs before the benzos , So the benzos will have a affect on you for a little while longer
When I shoot dope and ran low/out I would do that and I would be good for around 6 hours off the same amount , that would normaly held me for about 4 hours
I have also heard from some people that alchool did not help
- Just my experiances

-- Hope all is well --


Any way you can get it from other sources , When I go to the doctor and complain of sleep issues benzos are the first thing they offer me

Thanks guys!

Yeah I actually felt like severely dizzy last night for some reason. Probably the guanfacine and Xanax. But man this sucks lol like I had to take my Valium because it was so bad and kava kava wasn't helping.

The Xanax will be tonight. luckily I have the next two days off so I'll just buy a bottle and smoke my pot alone for two days so it's not as bad and I can just sleep.. Fuckin benzos.

Glad I never truly got into the dope, I do it occasionally it leads to some fun nights but the itches man... Don't get me wrong though I've gotten myself ino some holes with that shit too.. Well really only once, after that it was always a shits n giggles thing Lol I prefer doing that stuff alone and passing out whilst watching some anime all day and night. Need a window for that shit though.
Glad you at least got over it though man! A lot of people don't.

Man I need the duck, I want to get a comprehensive explanation to that cyp3a4 thing.