My Doc Will Not Refill My Xanax Im Feeling Sick (Page 24)

I was prescribed Prozac & Xanax 10 years ago by my psychiatrist for depression & severe panic attacks. He started me on 1mg 3 times a day. Around Dec 2005 he increased my daily dose to 1 mg - 4 times a day. I have been a patient of his now for 10 years where I see him every 3 months. Through the years, there has been a few times were I had to call to reschedule my appointment and a couple of times he had to do the same. He would call in my meds for the amount I would need to get me through to my next appointment. This month I had an appointment for May 27th I called to reschedule due to transportation. I do not drive now and my ride canceled on me. so, I rescheduled my app. for June 17th I then requested my meds be called in until my appointment, a 3 week supply. She said she would call me back when it was called in later that day. Not hearing anything I called back the next day to find out what was going on. I was told my doctor feels uncomfortable due to liability reasons to re-fill my medication, until I see him again in June. I asked her what about the liability to take me off medication I have been taking for 10 years? She told me to go to my primary physician to get my meds. I told her my primary care doctor will not prescribe me those medications without my medical records from this office and I just signed a medical release form a few days ago at my first appointment with this new primary doctor, so she told me to go to an urgent care if my symptoms became to uncomfortable for me to deal with!! I had enough xanax to last me until today. I took my last xanax this morning and I am already starting to feel sick, my head feels cloudy, I feel like I'm getting the flu. My heart is racing, I'm feel really anxious & closed in. Has anyone out there gone off xanax cold turkey what more should I expect? I don't understand how a doctor can prescribe medication like this for 10 years and just make you stop so suddenly it doesn't seem fair. I have lost trust in my doctor now and I don't think I can continue to be his patient anymore. I am scared and I don't know who to turn too.

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Re: Destiny (# 457)

2MGS would put me out for 2 days, never mind the amount you take the rest of the day. You really have a high tolerance at this point, I am reading that many take 2MGS TID, and I just cannot believe it.

The "shrink" that prescribed XANAX to me, ended up getting 5 CONSENT ORDERS from CT., Public Health. He paid fines, and then was on probation, and another doctor had to watch over him & his patients for 2 years.

XANAX is supposed to be prescribed PRN-ONLY for panic attacks. That is what he got in trouble for, + he allowed his license to expire 5 times in 5 years.

He also decided that 5 of us were BIPOLAR so, he added LITHIUM to the laundry list of medications he was dolling out. He NEVER ordered blood work before, during or after we all began this nightmare. Plus, he was NOT in contact with any of our primary care doctors. Mine said he never got anything, and he praised me for throwing the LITHIUM in the trash, calling him a quack, and walking out. "You were dying", said my primary care doctor. I had diarrhea and I was hallucinating (signs of dying on LITHIUM). "You are NOT bipolar either," said my primary care doc.

THESE DOCTORS are all to blame as they are all prescribing this as an everyday med. Cutting anyone off of this, is like shooting someone in the street. You are being set up to fail and then have seizures, that will lead to your death. It is harder to get off of than opiates, and they expect you to just stop, "cold turkey". That is reckless, and a MALPRACTICE people. STICK UP FOR YOU because nobody else is going to do it for you. I cannot get off the KLONOPIN I was switched to. That is as far as I got. They just bumped me down 2 levels because its still a BENZO. They write "detrimental" on my Oxycontin 20MG prescription, because I am also taking a benzo, that I cannot get off.

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Hi X!
I'm not being insensitive. But find a new doctor. Keep looking until you find one that will help you. Or go to the ER.
They're very hard to find nowadays. But there are some good docs left.

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Re: Kristyne (# 461)

I don't know if you read my post, but I've been on Valium for over 25 years, and the last Rx I got was in March.. Still feeling the WD's, but they're manageable now. You can get off Clonipin, but why if you have a doc that's writing you scripts? I would gladly accept them.. They actually write on your script "detrimental"? Wow.. Good luck..

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Re: marlee (# 4)

You have to go to detox. Xanax is very addictive. I have been on it for 10 years. I take 0.5 twice a day. I was taking it three times a day. My doctor is being difficult and wants me to go off altogether and I have been obit for -0 years. It’s the most dangerous drug so you can’t just go off it cold turkey. You will have to detox.

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Re: Elam (# 463)

If you got off Valium in March, why do you want someone else's prescription?

"Detrimental" is written, because the combination of a benzo and an opiate, makes the person a higher risk to stop breathing.

My total daily dose of Oxycodone is only 30MG's.
I tried to get off Xanax, but I was turned away fro 4 behavioral health clinics, because they do not want the liability of another doctors mistake. An APRN made the switch to Klonopin. That was as far as that went.

I am weaning right now off of Gabapentin, so I can only handle one addictive medication at a time.
As I clearly showed, nobody has any interest of helping me wean off this garbage.
The only program that saved me is the CT. Medical marijuana program.
They helped decide the "strain" of cannabis for the vape pen I now use.
I also have a different starin for bedtime, which helped me cut my Klonopin dose in half.
Down to .5MGS at bedtime from 1MG.
Oxycodone - Down to 30MGS per day from 120MGS.
Gabapentin withdrawal > Indica vape pen for shaking and insomnia.
Thanks to my state for having this program.

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Let me just start by saying that if I didn't take Alprazolam/Zanax, I would've died, it saved my life. I've been taking them for about 5yrs. Everyday, I had taken them before but it was off and on. First of all, you need to find a new doctor(If U Can) I know because a lot of times it's just easier to stay with the same one instead of going through ALL the B.S. Anyway, back to the subject, obviously you and your Dr are/were on Good terms, just like me and my Dr. If he called it in before why wouldn't you think he wouldn't do it again, it's just So Very Wrong what he's done, esp after taking the medication for 4YEARS. It's Very dangerous to just quit cold turkey and I don't care what Anybody Else Says, I know for experience. Worse case scenario you could have a stroke, heart attack, seizures, etc. Depending on Your situation. Most importantly if you feel like your going to explode, Please go to the emergency room ASAP, but you need to call your Dr back and talk to the DR's Nurse or Someone in Charge(office manager) and explain Calmly & Nicely as possible what exactly is going on and how can you get this resolved Quickly because This is NO Joke. Good Luck-

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Re: Verwon (# 3)

Your wrong about one thing, she may very well be feeling withdrawal symptoms after a short time without her meds. The body learns to metabolize a med faster after it's been on it for awhile. Medical fact, look it up. She may be metabolizing it fairly quickly because she's been on it for 10 years.

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Sorry to hear of your condition at this point in your life.... YES!! Xanax will put U in a danger & create a seizure. Don't go "Cold Turkey" on this medicine or U may wake up in the hospital some day.

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Ant reason your critical night have body physic, matabolisim.
Particularly in weighing 800 pound, now it's very likely be, in hospitals are now creating afsttiv

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Re: SweetPotato (# 469)

What are you talking about? Who said anything about weighing 800 pounds?

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Feeling same way he started me at 1mg 3 times a day he increased through the yrs after 10 plus yrs he prescribed 2mg 4 times a day. All of a sudden he just dropped me 2mg with some stupid reason then when I explained the next visit needed to find another Dr as his sch had me coming in once a month just get rx and waiting at least 2hrs before actually seen. His reply I'm dropping you 2mg don't want to be responsible if I'm going somewhere else luckily I found a shrink to prescribe so back to 2mg four times a day but was told that soon law might not allow rx for this med..this is only med that helps my anxiety and racing thought ugh

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Re: Kristyne (# 465)

I don't want anyone's prescriptions. I don't even know why you posted that.
My reference was to you, having a doctor writing you Rx for Clonipin to "gladly accept them". The doctor gave you the meds, so I don't see why you can't wean yourself off of them. Good luck with the mm. Gabapentin is not fun to get off of either..

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Re: Mandaar (# 444)

Great comments, missed it the first time around. Alprazolam is a really dangerous drug, except it rears its ugly head on the way out during withdrawal. I personally almost died

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Re: The Contessa (# 18)

NEVERMIND THE MEDICATION ISSUE. YOU SOUND LIKE A GROWN MAN WHO'S MOTHER IS PAYING ALL YOUR BILLS AND STILL GIVES YOU AN ALLOWANCE LIKE A LITTLE BOY. I THINK YOU HAVE SOME MOMMY AND LITTLE BOY ISSUES TO WORK OUT.

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Re: FREEDOM (# 474)

You need to find a different place to vent your issues. This is a place where people come with real issues and real problems. You've got real balls coming in here talking to people like that. This is a sensitive issue and we do not need people like you coming in here throwing around these kinds of words and nonsense. Go somewhere else with your petty insults. Please don't post in here again. Or you will be reported.

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Re: Minnie (# 52)

Okay, time for the truth. I am on medication, but thats mine and my doctors business. I do not go around posting or telling people what I take. All I can say is that I take my meds in a responsible way. Now!!! Let me explain why it is getting harder to get a doctor to prescribe certain medications. I will tell you a fictional story with fake names, but the story is true about what is going on out there. There is this guy jack who hurts his back and goes to the hospital. They take x-rays and find nothing wrong. All he did was strain a muscle. So the doctor on call gives him a 2 week supply of hydrocodone. A week goes by and the pain is gone but he is still taking the pain pills because he likes the way they make him feel. After a week and a half goes by he is out of pills. He goes back to the hospital claiming he is still in pain and needs more pills. The hospital says that he needs to do a follow up with his own doctor and see if he/she will give him a prescription. Now jack leaves the hospital and he is mad. He makes an appointment with his doctor and after a few visits and a few prescriptions jacks immune system is no longer making the low dose pain med give him that feeling that he liked. So he sees his doctor complaining about how the pain is hurting more than before and asked his dr for a stronger dose. Now a smart dr would not give him anymore pain meds. They would send jack to get a mri to see if he really is hurt. A dr who does not have a lot of patients is losing money. So that dr will keep giving jack stronger meds in order to keep jack as a patient. Now I would call jack a drug abuser. There are so many people like jack who take pain meds when they really do not need them. At some point the dr has to stop prescribing jack pain meds because he has no legit reason to be on them.

So jack starts buying them from anybody who is willing to sell some. When jack can no longer afford the price of these pills, he starts buying illicit drugs which are way cheaper. Well, one day jack dies. So jack's family does not want anybody to know that their son jack was taking illicit drugs. So they make an agreement with the newspaper that they can print their sad story. As long as they print that jack died from the pills that the evil pharmacutical company made. It was not the dr.'s fault or the pharmaceutical companies fault that jack died. But the newspaper keeps posting every day about people dying from pain meds when it's really illicit drugs that they are dying from. Now this is becoming a problem for the people who suffer from legit chronic severe pain who need this medication to live a half decent pain free life. It makes it harder for them to get the medication they need. Now back to jack. Nobody forced him to fake he was in pain, nobody forced him to go to the doctor, and nobody opened his mouth and put pills in it. Jack made this choice. He had no self control over himself. But it was his own fault. People are raised to know wrong from right. I have control over how I take my meds. I take them as directed. And there are so many other people who take their meds the proper way. The biggest mistake you can make when you are on pain meds for legit reasons, is to tell people what you are taking. Keep it between you and your dr. and do not feel like your being judged by people like people who work at the pharmacy giving you dirty looks or whispering about you when you bring your prescription in to be filled. But that's another story. So for now speak up, and be proud. Dont let them stop making your medication. America, last time I checked, was the land of the free that our forefathers died to make (a free country)!

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I'm sorry for your issues. You need professional care to de-fox from Xannax. Cold turkey or abrupt stoppage of it can cause seizures. Get help and don't wake up in the Hospital. If You do wake up. All the Best

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Re: FREEDOM (# 476)

I agree with you but you're leaving out some of the story. Jack gets his meds from Bob. Bob gets his meds from the doctor (or has a family member get them or both) or a higher up dealer and instead of taking them he sells them. See, you can make a lot of money selling them. This is the main reason they're coming down so hard. They want to stop the diversion from patient to street. It's a shame that the many are paying for the few.

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I TAKE ALPRAZOLAM .25, AND HAVE SO FOR OVER 14 YEARS. I HAVE HAD NO URGE TO TAKE MORE THEN I SUPPOSE TO. I AM A DISABLED VIETNAM VETERAN, AND HAVE MANY ISSUES DUE TO PTSD, AND BEING EXPOSED TO AGENT ORANGE, ETC! THE VA HAS BEEN VERY GOOD TO ME, ABOUT MY ANXIETY, AND DEPRESSION, AND LET ME TELL YOU, WHOEVER CAME UP WITH ALPRAZOLAM NEEDS TO HAVE THEIR FEET KISSED! IT LITERALLY SAVED MY LIFE ALL THESE YEARS! I AM 69 YEARS OLD, AND I FOR ONE SAY, THAT I DON'T HAVE THAT MANY YEARS LEFT IN THIS LIFE, BUT IT SURE IS NICE TO BE ABLE TO ENJOY WHAT TIME I HAVE LEFT! ESPECIALLY NOT TO HAVE TO WORRY IF I GET MY MEDICINE IF I REQUIRE IT!

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Re: SKYE (# 479)

That's a nice post and glad to see others taking them responsibly. You would probably feel terrible though if you withdrew and that's the scary part about alprazolam

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