My Doc Will Not Refill My Xanax Im Feeling Sick (Page 25)

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: Anne (# 478)

If Jack or Bob are selling their Xanax, they are committing a Felony. $2 at a time, perhaps they get an extra dollar. There is plenty of room behind bars for Jack and Bob selling their bars.

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Re: SKYE (# 479)

First of all thank you so much for your service Skye!!! It is so much appreciated. I am glad to see that you are being taken care of and that you at least get your meds that you need for the PTSD and anxiety and depression. I am a long-term survivor of very severe domestic abuse and PTSD in any form is no joke. I am also disabled due to a car accident when I was 17. After three surgeries on my back all these years later with so many titanium screws and plates in my back and the medication I was on has been cut down by 90%. It's really a joke but I'm now on 15 mg of morphine 3 times a day as opposed to when I used to take 60 milligrams of morphine three times a day and now only 10 mg of oxycodone 3 times a day, which used to be 15 mg 4 times a day plus all the other medication which is non-narcotic. I also used to take Diclofenac, Topamax and Duloxetine. I was also prescribed valium for my spasms which also helped with my debilitating PTSD, anxiety and severe depression, but now in Pennsylvania, you are no longer allowed to take valium with morphine. So my anxiety, PTSD and depression is way out of whack. And no doctor will prescribe me any type of medication to help with my anxiety or depression because of all the pain medication I take. It just so happened that my doctor prescribed me the valium for my horrific spasms and it kept all my anxiety and depression under control. It is such a shame that people like us are being denied basically life-saving medication due to people who are abusing it and overdosing on these same meds and are making it bad for the ones who truly need it and do not abuse their medications as I, like you, do not overtake my medication or abuse it. I take it specifically as directed and have NEVER gotten euphoria from my medication because my pain level is so high it doesn't affect me in a euphoric way and I NEVER ever sold my medication because I need it and I don't break the law. I'm glad to hear that you are still receiving your medication and you are doing well and that it does help. Good luck to you always Skye!!!

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OKAY, I'VE BEEN HERE FOR 9 MONTHS GETTING EMAILS AND READING EM, so who's got an answer? S***, doctors got me on xanax or something similar since 1986 & now i'm the f***ing bad guy. Also, it's been 3 months and i'm still sick as a dog. I didn't ask to be hooked on em but sure as hell did. I'm sure you will have some answer that does nothing, maybe have a program we can look at, but i'm a minority, a man that works every day and always have. And raising my kids alone. Do I sound angry? You're damn right!!!

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Re: Anne (# 478)

There's another part of the story. Doctors charge a lot for visits. Most between 250-300 dollars a visit. Medicaid and medicare usually don't pay for this. A lot of people are on disability and that could be up to a third of what they receive from SSI every month. What's the logical answer to that problem? Of course if they want to eat that month they have to sell some of their pills. Those people I have sympathy for even though it's wrong, but people who sell just to make a profit suck.

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Re: FREEDOM (# 476)

You are a self righteous jerk. You think you have it all figured out but you don't. You have no idea what it is to be an addict. They have "no self control" because of their neurological make-up. Educate yourself on addiction and the goals of pharmaceutical companies before you go using a forum like this to pontificate!

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I went off cold Turkey SIX months ago and I am still sick. I needed them but my new Dr won't give me them. I don't know what I am going to fo

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Mich (# 482) --

HI, ??
Please just keep looking for a doctor that will prescribe them to you. There are a few good doctors left out there not many just a few. You will find a doctor you'll see. Don't stop looking. In the meantime go to like an urgent care. I call them a Doc in the box. And tell them you are feeling sick and you are afraid of having a seizure so on so forth and they will give you some. Been down that road before. They will. Keep fighting because if you don't obviously you're not going to help yourself plus you're not going to help others that are fighting the same fight that you are.. So fight for yourself and others please. Good health and good luck. Please let us know.

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Hello. A lot of doctors are Running Scared nowadays because all of the new (LAWS). I take my pain medication and my nerve medication just how my doctor tells me to take it. Everyone should try to take their medication the right way and you should be a okay. Taking an extra one here and there is not going to help anyone. Try it it's not that bad. Just do it the right way please. Because it's people that are taking an extra one here an there they're hurting the people like me and others that are doing it by the book. Please just do it the right way. Like I said doctors are Running Scared. Get help get your medication and take it like it says to take it. Good health to all. Good luck.

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Re: crystal (# 13)

I hate it when people actually get on here and they need help and they're crying out for help and then you have *****s that think they know everything. I agree with you that withdrawing from any medication is a nightmare. Seek help immediately.

This Mount Vernon dude or whatever his name is, he is a total jerk.

Have a great day. I hope this lady found the help that she was looking for. Bless her heart.

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Re: Mich (# 486)

After this amount of time you should be way past the point of being sick. Do you mean pain wise or sick from not having the meds?

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i know exactly what your going through but one thing about you dont need someone giving you more medicine thats gonna make you worse off then you are my name is Ruth and there not gonna tell you about a cure that word is deleted from there vocabulary but just more pyco meds to make matters worse there thing is to keep you on for as long as they can i posted some things they are natural and powerful and working for my daughter give them a try it works

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Bless your heart. I think because those 2 meds are benzo class they probably shouldn't have been prescribed together. Unfortunately I think Drs. are learning as they go with some of these outcomes. From the research I have done, you can go to the ER and see what they say about your condition going cold turkey. Otherwise on the documentary televised show viceland cooking show bongappitite, Marijuana has the same properties, only apparently no case of an overdose on it has ever been reported. Some places have the recipes and you can cook a lot of wholesome meals. Even Iron chef Cat Koura guest appeared on the show. Breathe easy and I send you peace and healing.

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Re: Anne (# 490)

Sweetheart, I've tried 4 X to get of Xanax 2 mg 3 x a day !!! I didn't sleep for 3 weeks, diahrrea when I'm used to constipation. I still had my 5mg Methadone, I'm old but was younger 1sr 2 X and it's just as bad. My Hubby did it but he was sick, bad for 6 weeks. DO NOT listen to people who haven't been there or have no empathy, BLESSINGS

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Re: SKYE (# 479)

I too have been on Xanax 1mg two times a day PRN for over two years. I never run out before my next refill because I don't self medicate. I don't have a problem with my psychiatrist ordering it because I am honest with him regarding what's going on in my life. I started with seeing him once a month for about six months, but now I see him every three months so he gives me two refills. I stick with the same pharmacy. One thing though. Please, please, more typing in all capital letters. It equates shouting.??

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Re: SayWhat (# 494)


LIKE MYSELF, SKYE IS 69 YEARS OLD, SO CAPITAL LETTERS ARE EASY FOR US TO SEE. YOU ARE A MODEL/PERFECT PATIENT, AT LEAST SO YOU SAY, NEVER SELF MEDICATING WITH YOUR BENZO'S. CONGRATULATIONS ON YOUR PERFECTION. HATS OFF TO YA!!

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Re: Anne (# 490)

As for Mitch, I totally believe him. Benzodiazepines are what I like to call Head-Meds. They not only affect just your physical body like Norco, Vicidon, etc. They affect BOTH...and it doesn't just go away in 3 days because you're NOT SWEATING ANYMORE. It STRICTLY SAYS "DO NOT ABRUPTLY STOP THIS MEDICATION". So how is it legal for these doctors Who Are Sacred S***less to Legally do this especially to people who REALLY Need it and have been on it for years? So Very Sad.

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Re: Mich (# 486)

Hi is the old Lady again. The ONLY thing we found that helps is Marijuana AND BENADRYL. Helps w/sleep and leg cramps. Good Luck but if it's too bad head to even a "doc in a box' bc you can have a seizure cold turkey off Benos...didn't happen to Hubby but he takes pain much better than my Fibro Self. Blessings Honey.

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Re: Maya69 (# 485)

FREEDOM, I like you...you have been there and should be listened to about this topic. And I prefer Habituated to Addict. I stick no needles in my arm and put nothing up my nose but I am Habituated to my medications. Addict maybe, but Habituated is a nicer term for those of us taking the prescribed amount at the prescribed time bc of CHRONIC PAIN.

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Re: KayLeen (# 496)

I'm just saying as an RN that physical withdrawal doesn't last that long. There has to be some contributing factor.

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That's crazy but that's what happened to me so I went cold turkey that was five months ago and I am still sick not as bad but I am sever depression and real bad anxiety attacks. I wish I would feel better I have been taking a lot of different meds and nothing seems to work better than my zanax. I don't know what I am going to do

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