My Doc Will Not Refill My Xanax Im Feeling Sick (Page 31) (Top voted first)

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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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: 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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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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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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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: 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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Anne (# 498) --

Nurses and doctors are part of the problem. XANAX...all benzos DO TAKE THIS LONG for some people. BELIEVE me! There are thousands of people having to support each other because the medical community is ignorant and refuse to research!

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Michelle (# 499) --

Same with me except I had a different benzo, valium. It's going on 7 months and I'm not feeling any better. It feels like I'm living one long panic attack.I think my brain got rewired because I was on them for so long...

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Re: Elam (# 505)

That's not physical but psychological. Your body can't go through withdrawals for extended months. It's physiologically not going to happen. Sorry you can claim it's physical but it's the brain not the body. The brain has a long memory.

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Still say 6 months is way beyond physical, it then becomes a brain problem. It amazes me how many addicts will make up anything to deny they're addicts. It only takes 7 days for the body to become habituated to a medication. It takes about 30 days depending on the med for the symptoms to alleviate. Don't talk about what you don't know. The brain may crave it long after the body has stopped.

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If you can taper yourself off the medication then you really are a strong person. Most people can't do it. Stopping it cold turkey can be dangerous. Wish you luck.

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Has anyone had a problem with generic lorazepam made by Actavis? It seems two not last very long and makes me feel like I am going through withdrawals after couple of hours.

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Re: Ruth (# 518)

I don’t think I was being rude. This topic is concerning panic attacks, anxiety, PTSD ETC. So why is the person saying something that we all already know. The OP is asking for help with his/her panic. IMO the person who made the post explaining what our disorders is the one being rude and wasting everyone’s time

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Re: Steve (# 519)

Yes, Along with the symptoms you're describing I occasionally take a pill and it dissolves so fast and tastes like sugar. Does that happen to you?

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Re: Anne (# 511)

The only person talking about something they don't understand or "know" is you. Nobody here is talking about "cravings". They're talking about physical withdrawal symptoms that can last indefinitely. It's called protracted withdrawal. Perhaps if you'd take a few minutes and actually read about it you may be able to comprehend the concept.

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Re: Maya69 (# 509)

You are right. The brain most definitely governs the body. Following Anne's philosophy, if a person's brain is telling them something it can manifest in physical symptoms. As a matter of fact, I believe that's what happens during panic attacks. When I first developed it I honestly thought I was having a heart attack or a stroke. The more my brain focused on what was happening and my thought process zeroed in on heart attack & stroke the more it exacerbated my physical symptoms. I had called 911 that's how terrifying my first episode was and I kept screaming I'm dying, I'm dying and the 911operator heard the fright in my voice and stayed on the phone with me. The brain controls the body and every research I did regarding panic attacks say if you are having one, try to focus on the fact that you will not die, don't fight it, let your body go with it. Also, if you are with someone who is having it, focus on holding their hands and reassure them that they are safe, and it will pass. In other words, get their minds off what is happening. Panic attacks were extremely frightening for me and I would never wish it on my worst enemy. But I think it's one of those things some people can't understand if they never experienced it. Finally, another point that helps validate that the mind definitely controls the physical symptoms of the body, is whenever they do clinical trials using placebos.

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Re: EDDY (# 506)

That is true. Anne, needs to be careful with what she posts. If she is a RN as she claims she should know better. She should also know that it doesn't matter if she thinks what she posts is within her realm. What matters is if the State Board of Nursing thinks she is dispensing information and advice that people might listen to is definitely outside her scope of practice. Regular Nurses do not give medical diagnosis. Nurse Practitioners working with a M.D does after a face to face assessment. BTW, just because Anne writes that she is a nurse doesn't make it true. It could be that it has been her dream to become a nurse, but never did. So, on this board she can be the nurse she wish she was.

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