My Doc Will Not Refill My Xanax Im Feeling Sick (Page 24)
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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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well I don't know if you have fixed your issue ,but from my knowledge taking Xanax for like 10 yrs ,if suddenly stopped ,about 2-3 days later I have a seizure,that is no joke ,nothing to fool around with,get a dr. who understands the serious consequences to help you A.S.A.P.

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Sunny D. You are so right! It is miserable trying to get off of Xanax. If you son't have anything else to take you can even epileptic type attacks! No one can understand the side effects of getting off of Xanax unless they have tried to get off of it!

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xanax i used to go thru 90 in 3 days the detox can hurt lower right quadrant large intestine i went thru this for year GO TO URGENT CARE THEY WILL GIVE YOU LIKE 20 WHICH I TOLD THEM MY DR HAD CLOSED HIS PRACTICE WHICH HE DI

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Nobody, My heart goes out to you. Panic attacks are really horrible. And if a person has not experienced t they cannot have any idea what hell you are going through! I will pray for you! I suffer from severe panic attacks for 10 years now too! It is very bad if you cannot get the medications you need. One feels like they are dying!

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My docter put me on morphine and I never asked for it.they never discussed what would happen if I stop taking it, l severe spine problems and that's why Im taking that medication anyways there has been more than several times my docter has not given me on time and he's doing it again telling me o well you will have to wait. What can I do? My dad died young from a fatel heart attack and I'm worried that will happen to me. I've lost my job because of this and my sanity

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When did the Patient being the number 1 priority for Doctors change to the physician is right and the patient is wrong?

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I have panic disorder. Have had panic attacks many many tears and will likely the rest of my like. It is a chemical imballance that needs no cercumstace to cause a panic attack. Over 20 years every medication know to mankind has been tried and failed on me except for xanax. Now I face the same lable the Dawn person described. I can tell you this, I nearly died with out them once. I had hallucinations and could not think one year when I stopped abruptly from a high dose. Now years later the perfect small dose of .5 up to twice a day for panic and sleep as apposed to 3mg 3x a day in years past and I function well. My panic attacts can be treated by as little as 1/4 of .5 melted under my tounge. Now that said, Doctors are now switching from total well being of the patient to rules and guidlines. Who pays the price? Everybody. One by one people are being miss labeled and are up at 2am and my self for days at a time with zero help from a doctor untill nearlt 7 or 7+ days of shear hell. If a past sleep 'script were prescribed then possibly there would be no need for the xanax. When something give the patient quality of life, I question why do Doctors want to change meds know and proven to work? Is suffering and watching suffering fun for them?

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My situation is similar to Dawns. Only worse. I had an appointment with my psychiatrist. I have been taking Xanax for over 10 years for severe panic attacks 2 pills blue 1 Mg three times a day!!. And I would like to say to Vernon to not give any solutions to this matter unless he has severe panic attacks or huge anxiety attacks he should not be giving anyone ADVICE PERIOD!! About the Dr. He got sick 4 months ago.Was sent to another Dr and he gave me prescriptions for 3 months. He knows my Dr well. The two Dr's are friends! A letter was sent out from my Dr to all patients that he was sick and on undetermined medical leave April first. He has been gone 4 months now!!!!. We kept calling and the office manager first told us she did not know when he would be back. The wife who is a children's Psychiatrist would let her know when ( Our Dr her husband would be back ) We were finally told the first of July. Then told the first of August! Today called back and were told maybe in 4 months???? I mean it is ridiculous! The office manager told us one time when we called the Dr. was better and would be back. The we called her again when she told us to call back. And this is when she said it might be 4 more months. No one knows what illness my Dr. has. None of his patients know what is going on period. The office manager told us that the whole family was sick????? When a person take Xanax 6 pills a day for severe panic attacks withdrawals are horrendous !! I know because one time in this 10 years that I have been taking the pills my insurance CO. refuses to pay for them. I ran out. I think it was not even a week.And I was shaking so bad I could not even talk. I was throwing up, could not even walk right. Felt like I was dying. Horrible!!!! Just Horrible. So Vernon if you have not been in a situation like this you should not give out any advice. I had to start going back to the Dr and paying myself. It took well over 3 months and a lawyer to get the Xanax!! Now does anyone know what a Psychiatrist charges? One hundred and fifty dollars for a half hour. And you have to see him every 3 months at the latest to get your med's refilled . I don't know too many people that can afford that and the cost of the Xanax!! The position I am now in is that the nice Dr who saw me told me to go BACK TO MY regular Dr the first of July this year 2015. And my regular Dr's is now telling me this. He might not be coming back for 4 months!! It seems very unethical of my Dr to just leave his practice and not let anyone know what the hell is going on. The man is a Psychiatrist for Gods sake. His patients have mental problems Post Traumatic stress disorder. Panic attacks and on and on!!! And every time their office is called we are being given the run around for an answer!! The Dr they sent us to has a large practice of his own and told us to go back to my original Dr, in July!!! He can't take care of all of my Dr's patients too. I am really starting to panic now. My Dr is still out of the office for another 4 months. He should just shut down his office. I have been seeing this Dr for 10 years. Does anyone know how hard it is to try to change a Psychiatrist after 10 years??? They know nothing about you and unless they get your records and read all of them they do not believe you are even sick. And they are not going to read all of your records!! They don't have time to do that. And just one excuse after another why our Dr is not coming back or even when! Or at all ??? It seems to me that there should be some way to find out what is going on?? It wouldn't surprise me if this Dr's license had been revoked or suspended for some reason. He and his wife have both been reprimanded before. I looked it up on the computer! Scared to death and don't know what to do?? Our son sees this same Dr. And has a defibrillator in his chest to keep his heart from stopping!!! I am a nervous wreck about this too!! He has run out of the medications he takes too! He could actually die from this. And don't tell me to take him to the emergency room. They are not going to prescribe his medicine. I was in the hospital sick a couple of years ago. I started having a severe panic attack . They gave me one Xanax and told me they could only give me what the Dr ordered. This is one of the Dr's that just work in the hospital's only!!! Do you think they care??? No I cried all night and had severe panic attacks all night and again the next day!! I was going to pull out my IV get dressed and call a cab and go home. Because they were not giving me anything for my stomach virus but liquids through the IV. What is it that a person can suffer severe panic attacks that a Dr. or a hospital does not understand??? My regular Dr who is doing what God only knows told me years ago that one could not just quit taking Xanax with out being in the hospital to wean off the Xanax you could actually die from it!! Ge should know. He prescribes it for a lot of people. HELP! I do not know what to do. My son could die. I could die. Is it not very irresponsible of this Dr. I have been seeing for years to not even let us know what the heck is going on? Feel like reporting him to the medical board.. But it probably would not help. Does anyone know what I should do?? I talked to Donny Osmond when he was in town about panic attacks. He told me he had to go back on the Xanax because the panic attacks came back!! Severe panic attack are awful..JUST DO NOT KNOW WHAT TO DO? WORRIED ABOUT SON TOO!!! And not wanting to keep repeating myself but the emergency rook is no help. They might give you the medicine one day and that's it. Getting sick. need to get off of here and take 2 Xanax! Thanks if anyone knows what I should do. JUST NOE VERNON OR ANYONE WHO DOES NOT SUFFER PANIC ATTACKS!!!

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@Billy... You're getting 120 xanax and 120 Klonopin a month? Is it from the same doctor? That sounds like alot. Please don't take this post as I'm judging you because I promise you I'm not. It's just I've never heard of a doctor giving 2 benzos like that. I've been on Klonopin for over 8 years 2mg 3 times a day. I prefer Klonopin over xanax because it seems to remain in my system longer than the xanax. I can actually skip doses of it and have went a few days without it with no withdrawal. I'm just amazed that you have a doctor that gives you that amount.

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It's not her doctor. It's because she has missed appointments and had to reschedule several times as the original poster stated. Its not the doctors fault that she can't get to her appointment. This is to the original poster...does your insurance company offer any type of transportation? I know if your on Medicare or Medicaid they do offer transportation to doctor visits. So you may want to call them and see about it.
Also Xanax withdraws is serious and you can have seizures from it. I would go to the er if your not able to get in with your doctor just so you have some on hand.
I would also suggest trying to get in with your doctor asap. I know this is a old post. But really can't blame the doctor on this. They have to protect their licence. I can understand if he called in a week's worth but not 3 weeks.good luck and I hope that everything worked out for you

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Xanax is harder to get off of than opiates! MOST addictive medication out there. I went to so many behavioral health clinics, TRYING to get someone to help me wean off this anxiety med, because the shrink that prescribed it to me, got investigated by CT PUBLIC HEALTH. I was literally dying from him putting me on LITHIUM when he knew I had Hashimoto's thyroid disease. (misdiagnosed) He never ordered ANY blood work, and he got "consent orders", fines, forced to take classes and was overseen by another physician every 3 months. He ended up getting more "consent orders", but he was so rich, he bought his way out of every crime, and he is still out there writing prescriptions. He allowed his license to expire 4-5 times, and Public Health DID ZERO about that. He was practicing medicine, writing prescriptions WITHOUT A LICENSE!

The CT. AG Richard Blumenthal (at the time 2002) sued Dr. Peter Benet, to no avail. MONEY, MONEY, MONEY gets these horrible, killer doctors off every time. The system is corrupt and it goes out of its way to protect these reckless fools. Nobody wanted to take on his mistake. He was prescribing Xanax TID plus 5-6 other forms of anxiety and sleep medication. Every clinic said, "you could have a seizure and die". Then they started saying, "the patient before you is taking more time then I thought, so you will have to reschedule." Obviously, they were trying to drive me away by annoying me with the drive, and the long waiting room wait, just to turn me away. I went to MT SINAI in Hartford, CT and one nurse there, switched me from Xanax to klonopin. Klonopin is 2 steps down from Xanax, so not much of a remedy.

I am taking half of the 1 mg of Klonopin at bedtime. I CANNOT get off this either. These a-holes prescribe, then every doctor we see, acts like we bought it in the street. They seem to forget, IT WAS PRESCRIBED TO US BY A PHYSICIAN! Not stinking around to help you wean down, OR have you go to a 30 day facility is NEGLIGENCE, forget about deadly. How dangerous and unfair it is to treat us all so terribly. I am sick of the whole healthcare community and I can say, I do not have even ONE good doctor. They could all be sued for malpractice and negligence including my periodontist. YOU or anyone in this predicament need to report this to your states PUBLIC HEALTH, because they will investigate and hopefully refer you to or find a hospital to check into, to get the professional services needed to get off, the most addictive medication out there, and it is called XANAX! Steven Tyler of AEROSMITH, checked into REHAB more than 5 times to get off of Xanax, and he has the money and the connections to the best care out there.

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Are you a self proclaimed expert on Xanax withdrawal? Have you experienced it yourself? You can most certainly begin to have withdrawal symptoms after your most recent dose wears off. And of course the more time that passes the worse it gets. I have been on .50 three times a day for over ten years. Sometimes I get busy and forget a dose at the proper time. I won't even be thinking about it until the withdrawal symptoms kick in. Usually at about 7 hours. Tightness in my chest, shortness of breath, Rapid heartbeat.... If I was taken off cold turkey I doubt I'd make it through one night without winding up in the emergency room. My doctor even said I could be in trouble if I ever ran out and couldn't get a refill. She said I could have a seizure or worse. It's nothing to plat with or make light of and her symptoms are NOT in her head or being brought on by her own anxiety about not having her Xanax.

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Someone please tell me of a reliable site that I may get alprazolam with no rx!!! Been prescribed them for over 15 years and need another way to get them for my anxiety and panic attacks. My Dr isn't available always and doesn't take insurance anyways. Anytime I try to get from a pcp they just think I'm seeking a high which couldn't be farther from the truth. This is the only thing that works for my social anxiety and benign tremors. I used to find reliable online sources ten years ago but the last ones I have tried took my money and ran. I will never pay my money pak again ....Thanks in advance for any info!

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Kay, considering you only took 12, I would not worry about any withdrawal problems. It is smart you stopped as Xanax can come back to bite you!

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Help me anyone!! I was at the emergency room on May 27 2015!! They prescribe me to Xanax only 12 was in the bottle and I have been taking it for 10 days! I stop taking it two days ago because I don't want to get attached to it! I have read everyone replies and everything but it like they took it for years and years and I just want to hear from someone who just took it for a couple of days! How did your body react! Did you have a seizure? I'm scared and need answers now!! I don't want anything to happen to me

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That is ridiculous. It is the doctors who put people on these drugs in the first place and continue to increase the dose. The addiction comes from taking these as prescribed, not abuse. It is extremely dangerous to quit this medication cold turkey and no doctor with any decency would ever expect someone to do this.

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WOW, your entire reply was horribly incorrect; the only fact being your ignorance. This was especially laughable after reading you rant about how it was the OPs "fault" for missing the appointment:
"However, if you were not abusing it and just taking it as prescribed, the withdrawals may be miserable, but not truly dangerous to you physically."

Yeah.. Uhmmm.. This could not be more far from reality. I was prescribed xanax for 8 years and I did not abuse it, but upon a very slow tapering, I started having seizures that are now years later still uncontrolled. It's a little known fact that BENZO withdrawl for regular users and short term users a like, is aside from alcohol withdrawl, one of the most dangerous drugs to get off of and the "Doctor", if you can call him that, KNOWS this. He's horribly irresponsible and needs to lose his license. I have no respect for people in the medical profession that abuse their power like this.

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I was on xanax for 15 years and my doctor did the same thing I was taking 2 2mg tables per day and she cut me off cold turkey and since I got cut I have seizures 2or3 every day and I am scared and I don't know what to do.

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Well put Crystal. He sounds like a total i****.

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Be very careful coming off the Xanax. Do not " Cold Turkey". If you don't have any piles beg and borrow to keep at least some of the chemical in your system to wean yourself? My pain management told me I could have one or the other pain meds or Xanax. This is totally irresponsible, people will be doing whatever they have to to get there meds. My pain med told me to get a primary doctor to write my non pain medicines. I did and the new doctor said that definitely needed the Xanax and wrote the prescription. I went back to pain management and my U/A showed Xanax like I knew it would. I was informed that I had 2 months to come of Xanax or my pain meds would be cut off. They told me to get a primary Dr. to write my other Rx. I did that a now I have to jump thru another hoop. Know I have to go to psychiatrist to get him to write the Xanax. I raised hell. there is another pain management in my town and they write Xanax and pain meds all day long. I told the PA this and she says company policy. F*** company policy, I was feeling better and anger issues went away with Xanax so don't take my medicine that help. I'm only on 3 1 mg a day AND that is nothing to compared to most others.

I took a U/A that came back with nothing but Xanax. Don't these Dr have better things to do, go ring somebody with street drugs and harass them. Leave me alone. I'm just doing what a Dr told me to do. When I started taking Xanax it was a difficult time. I would get mad and punch a hole in the wall. My psychiatrist at the time said" Barry do want to go to jail and I said no, he told me to take Xanax and quit knocking holes in walls. This worked great for me. Anybody that has been hurt for a long period of time needs some help, getting thru the day. If they take all of or Xanax away things will get crazy fighting, rioting and all kinds of things Xanax helps with. I would go to marijuana IF LEGAL but it's not. Does anyone know of someone that died of Xanax and opiates? Probably not, because these TV lawyers would be on there promising a sack of gold if there was a real problem. Did you take Xanax and pain pills at the same time. CALL 1800BULLS***. THIS IS NOT A GOVERNMENT MANDATE. IT'S JUST SOME PAIN MANAGEMENT FACILITIES HAVE TO BE A PAIN IN THE ASS.

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