I Need Help Getting Benzodiazepines In North Carolina Or I'm Afraid I Will Be Back On Pain Killers (Page 3) (Top voted first)

I must have called 20 or more doctors today. None of them will prescribe me benzodiazepines such as Klonopin at all. I'm 25 and have been on it since I was 16 and they just simply say "no one in the state will prescribe those thanks for calling".

I'm near Charlotte but right now I would drive anywhere to get them because in a week or two I will be deathly sick and I can't face that. I just moved across the country away from my family, stopped my addiction to pain killers (that was caused by anxiety), and I'm trying to better my life. And to make it worse I'm having such a hard time living on my own mentally and they want me to stop all benzos. PLEASE HELP ME if you know of anyone who can help. {edited for privacy}

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Re: manda (# 7)

Manda I'm currently having this problem also I am trying to get my disability but I'm pain and have severe anxiety. I live in Mitchell county NC. Is there any way I could get his name please? {edited for privacy}

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Are you calling psychiatrists or family doctors? You have to get those from a mental health provider. PCPs don’t want to get involved.

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Re: Optimistic (# 42)

That is terrible advice to give someone who is down and out, what the heck is wrong with you? While it is highly suggested to not call around town for your drugs, they are available from ANY licensed medical doctor

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Re: Melody (# 6)

Do you still go to this Dr. What's hisname

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Re: Melody (# 6)

Who is the Dr. In Charlotte NC..I need a better Dr.

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Re: Emily (# 44)

From what I understand it’s extremely difficult to be prescribe these two medication‘s at once. I used to see a psychiatrist where I would get Xanax from, and pain management was OK with that because I was getting the Xanax before I entered pain management. But my psychiatrist left when her boss died of Covid, so now I’m not sure I could get someone to prescribe them since I’m already on pain medication. But if you live in a red state you may not have any luck at all.

Where I live your only chance of getting controlled substances is from specialists, so if you need anxiety medication like a benzo you have to go to a psychiatrist as a GP will not give it to you.

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I’ve had the same issues, unfortunately when you classify yourself as a RECOVERING addict or alcoholic, all bets are off. Doctors will never prescribe you medicine that’s addictive, cuz they’re responsible. If you need them, embellish a little bit, don’t talk about your addiction. Remember these are your PRIVATE ISSUES, NOONE ELSE'S. I’ve seen it time and time again. Keep your medical record to yourself, not family, friends, just the people on your recovery network. It’s screwed me over plenty of times when I’ve needed help.

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Re: Melody (# 6)

i just recently moved to charlotte from ocean isle beach and i haven’t been able to find a doctor i had a great caring doctor who changed my life with meds they put me on as well as counseling i have been taking wellbutrin cymbalta clonopin and adderall for years and have been without it and not feeling well mentally at allll i saw you said you had a great dr was just wondering if you could share

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Re: Melody (# 6)

Melody my names Emily and I just saw your comment. I am in desperate need of your help. I was on methadone for 7 years but am now on subutext and I have been prescribed klonopin on and off even longer than that. My doctor retired who prescribed my klonopin and I can't seem to find anyone who will prescribe them to me now. I have a severe anxiety disorder and I need your help. I live in Salisbury NC so driving to Charlotte isn't that far. Please help

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I have a question. First of all, I need advice from anyone within a 40 to 50 mile radius of Charlotte, North Carolina who has a good pain doctor that does not judge and writes out pain medicine that actually works. I have to find a new pain doctor because the one I have had for 2 years is wanting to take me off of benzos which work for my anxiety and I've been on benzos for 7 years. This pain doctor knew that I was on benzos for the past two years in which she was prescribed and me a dose of pain medicine that has worked well for me and now he wants to come up and blackmail me telling me that I can go off of the benzos or he will reduce my level of pain medicine. He could have told me that a year or two ago if he thought that the benzos were a problem but now he is not giving me much time at all to wean off of benzos and try to find another medicine that works for my anxiety and then hope that it is not in my system next time I go see him but I think the better thing for me to do is to also start looking for another pain doctor in the process. Mainly because he was so arrogant about it and he has never really been that personal with me as a doctor but just would come in the room and be there for Less Than 3 minutes while handing me my prescriptions then walking out.. the only thing he told me last year was that he could not raise my pain medicine do to the benzos which was fine with me but now he comes up out of the blue want me to go off of them which is very dangerous and he doesn't seem to care about whether my anxiety is controlled or how it is controlled but the pain plus the anxiety go hand-in-hand. I need to talk to the doctor that prescribes me the benzos but it may be a few weeks before I can get him to talk to him face-to-face and I am going to let him know in the process that I am looking for a new pain doctor because he needs to know that the benzos are all that has worked for me ever. I am really afraid of all this because I cannot take antidepressants because they make me feel like I am strung out and I cannot tolerate that feeling plus I do not know anything else that will work but I know that most medicines take awhile to get into your system to even work. I do not even have a primary doctor to ask about prescribing something like Ambien to help me sleep at night which would be of a great help. I have noticed that there are not many post on here from the North Carolina area and every time I click on my email for this website it goes straight to Colorado. There has to be more post for North Carolina than this and I really need some help from people who are in the North Carolina area to go to pain doctors because I do not have a long time to work with us and find somebody decent which I hope that I don't have to travel all over the state to find somebody good but I am willing to travel a certain distance to get somebody but going out of state is not an option because then they would be suspicious of that too. How do I find all the North Carolina post and know if I am doing this right because I really need some help from other people but going to the Colorado Post are not going to help me too much. Any help on that would be greatly helpful as to how I can get to the North Carolina post. My question is that if people can not post their contact information and they are not able to list the doctor that they go to if they found somebody good then how is anybody supposed to get any help from this website to find a good doctor? I understand the Privacy issue and not being able to put the contact information out in the open but it seems like there would be a private chat or something like that so that members could exchange dr. Information. I have noticed that people are just putting the city and state where the doctors are if they found somebody good but that doesn't really tell you anything because you need the doctor's name if you're going to go to them and try them out to see if they work for you so how does this really work if you want to use the site to help you find somebody good due to somebody else's experience? Can you help me out here because I'm really trying to find out if there are people in North Carolina that maybe have found a great Doctor Who is compassionate and non-judgmental when it comes to prescribing medicine that will help them with their pain but I also want to know how do people go about given that information out or are we just supposed to guess because we can't go to Every doctor in the phone book to figure out who it is or there would be no use for a site like this if that was the case? Can someone please help me out here preferably somebody from the North Carolina area and how will I know if somebody response to this post or any of my post because I am not getting any response in my email other than that same one from Colorado? I would appreciate the help and please let me know how I need to do this because I am sure some people may have been helped by the information they have found on this site but I don't know how because I don't want to be going through withdrawal for a month in pain plus being sick because of some ass that does not know how to treat people like human beings. I need to start planning while I'm waiting to get in to see my other doctor. He leaves it to me to find a pain doctor and he does not get involved in my pain management which is unfortunate. Thank you in advance for the help.

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