My Doc Will Not Refill My Xanax Im Feeling Sick (Page 4) (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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"Symptoms of withdrawal include mood and behavior changes, emotional instability"...

I don't know Lola as I didn't notice any of those symptoms? Each day features a new set of symptoms, and it was funny in a way, wild hallucinations! You know what is wrong because it is such a horrible thing to go through. I thought if I went to the ER and mentioned anything about Xanax or a withdrawal they would not take it seriously and let me go. That wasn't the case as I was dying, all readings and all tests came out wrong. The Doctor was amazed I could carry on a conversation as I was called "walking Critical". About the only thing I didn't have was a seizure or stroke during this adventure!

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It's bs that dr's do this! I was forced to go cold turkey by my primary in feb this yr due to not getting into a psycho dr's office in time. During this time I've had the worst panic attacks I've ever experienced, horrific mood swings, suicidal thoughts and much more....nobody will help me! Hospitals send me away because they think I'm some junkie... I've been on Xanax for 3 yrs and for my dr to put my life and the lives of others in danger is unethical!!!! I wish is just die but I have a husband and 4 children that need me...if I were alone I'd already be gone!!!!!!

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All these ppl talking about how it makes you look like a drug seeker for calling the Dr more than once are f***ing clueless and if the dr thinks that then they have no business writing a prescription for benzos. Xanax makes your anxiety 10 times worse. I'd be more worry if he didnt follow up with Dr. Bc if he's not having anxiety about not having his medicine then I'm 99% he's selling them. I was on 6 mg a day for 12 years and have nnothing but sympathy for you. Just know there is alternatives to xanax.

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please i need urgent answer, i was in the hospital or a back surgery an my brother die when i was still there....they start giving me xanax i didnt ask for this, was a bottle refill when i left to go home .25 with generic name on, i stop taking them when i was finish the bottle was no refill, i dint know until today i call the doctor who prescribed it was xanax an i call because im having all this simptoms i feel like im dying all mention on the comments above, when i will feel better, has been a week since i stop, an im no better, i took it only or a month...why is so bad!

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You didn't mention how much you take? While this sounds like mild withdrawal symptoms, I would think it is just the rebound anxiety from the drug along with your recent family problems. You need to see a new doctor who can issue you some more, or tough it out and NEVER take one again. If you get very sick at any point go to the ER at once!

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I have serious anxiety disorder and have been seeing my psychiatrist for over 8 months now. He's prescribed me xanax .5 mgs twice daily for that amount of time. And 40 mgs of Prozac daily. I informed him of the fact that I was looking for a new job and that my schedule would likely change so I didn't know when to schedule my next appt. we scheduled it for a month later on a Monday. I ended up getting a job the Friday before and called him that day to let him know I needed to reschedule the appt. well I couldn't get a hold of anyone in the office, nor did they bother to return my phone call. I finally got him to give me a call on Monday afternoon. Which was two days before I would need a refill. He was extremely rude to me, told me I was wasting his time for having to take time away from his day for me to ask for a refill. After the conversation was over I tried to ask them to fit me in since he was adamant about not refilling it until I saw him. My only available day was a Thursday because that's my only day off. He told me he didn't have any openings for a Thursday for two months and so he gave in and refilled my prescription. After I went to pick it up I realized it was written for a two week supply. I called him back and told him (again) that my insurance only fills one prescription of Xanax a month. Whether it's one pill or 60 pills. One refill a month. If I would be noticed I wouldn't have picked it up. I was upset with the way he treated me but I knew I couldn't just stop taking it because as he warned me, it could cause seizures. So after again trying to get him to squeeze me in since he insisted on seeing me monthly even though I've been on the same steady dose for over 8 months he told me he had no openings for at least two months. I had to have him change the dosage in order for my insurance to refill it. He then wrote a month supply after another extremely rude and condescending conversation with him. Well, I took them sparingly. A month and a half goes by. I'm almost out and he refuses to do anything about it because he just can't fit me into his schedule. A few days go by after going off them Uninvoluntarily feeling awful and crazy moody and sickly. On day three, within not even give minutes of walking in the door home from work, I have an intense seizure and wake up in the ambulance with no idea what's going on. The seizure was so severe I could barely move for days. I haven't felt the same since and I somehow sprained my jaw and can barely open it. Not only that but my license was and still is revoked until they're done with even more expensive time consuming brain scans and other tests. For a few days I was like if Xanax is that dangerous I want nothing to do with it. Since I've been off it however my anxiety is through the roof. I've blacked out a few times from over compensating on oxygen inhalation because it felt like I wasn't getting enough air and suffocating. It's affected my work and my life and my mood and health and finances and sleeping ability. So I finally call his office today and I'm like, look. This is serious. I've been hospitalized from a severe seizure and have blacked out several times. They sounded scared and said they'd squeeze me in on Thursday. I said perfect, but I need him to fill the prescription before then because I can't handle feeling like I'm suffocating for one more day. So the prescription is called into the pharmacy. I go to pick it up and the pharmacist tells me that he's filled it for 5 pills. He knows I only get ONE fill a month! So what does he expect, start me on it again and then I have no choice but to go off it because I'll run out and potentially have another seizure. I did not pick up the prescription. I'm sitting here in bed trying to catch my breath and left him a nice voicemail. I feel like that is unlawful and negligent. If he's effected my health and safety, who else is he hurting!? What do I do? Should I report him?

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I'm taking 2 mg a day for a 3 yr period. .I want to stop taking them..now I've developed ringing of the ears all of a sudden, and I have anxiety stress from running my business. I don't want to be dependent on these no more. I have to resort to getting them off my friends cause no doctor will help me even though I'm trying to explain I want to taper off..so I'm going to taper myself since dam doctor won't help..he thinks I just want the pills but in reality I want off and seek help. Sad but I no people abuse them but I truly want off these things and it's so hard.

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I keep them around still and take 1.5 to 2 mg daily. .I'm trying to do this myself since doctor won't help..As long as I taper correctly and keep my faith I no I can beat this! Thanks for supporting

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I am a testament as we speak I'm dying sometimes is wat I feel .But I do not believe this! The doctors are playing it off.I hv bn on xanex for 10 yrs . Its super hard to get off! I'm getting a lawyer! This hurts real bad I cnt even live and have normal life. ITS ALL I WANT! NO DISABILITY NO CHECK I WANT TO BREATHE AGAIN..FEELS LIKE SOMEONE STANDING ON MY ARM AND CHEST! PEOPLE THIS IS A SERIOUS ISSUE IN AMERICA!!!!!!!

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I had the same trouble 2 yrs ago. My drs co pay went up, I couldn't see him every month because at the time I really couldn't afford 180.00 a visit, he was an internal medicine dr. He cut me off with no refills to my zanax and at the time I had only been taking 3 a day. I finally found a psychiatrist and explained to him my symptoms, what I'd been on, what didn't work and what did. Psychiatrists would be the first place to turn. The best part, it's cheaper, and I only see him maybe every three months. Try that first. Look online look for psychiatrists in your city, then look at their rating.

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I disagree.

I know the discomfortable wdrl you describe. And then again, I know WDRL takes on a life of its own, it cannot be predicted. Did God call you and let you in on what scientists themselves are now learning.

ASHTON MANUAL: The truth is supplied best by Dr. Heather K. Ashton and colleages (U.K.).

The U.S. "addicts" out of the system to our wretched end of life.

The U.K., AU, NZ care for their people like the USA cares for ex-H users. We give them methadone for a misery-free ride and spit on the Xanax patient. Misbehave about your xanax here; watch how fast your treatment gets punitive and stingy and contemptuous.

Don't buy the lies. We deserve better than death by "doctors" who cannot possibly know the difference between a drug-seeker and a truly desparate and very sick individual.

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I'm a veteran,I recently was assigned a new PC,I was receiving my chronic pain medication,atvian(for sleep),diazepam (much spasms) Sudafed because the new physician doesn't believe in these medications, she discontinued all of them. I needed a PC for consultation issues,I wasn't seeking drugs yet,our VA houses a drug program which adversely affects all veterans if you take controlled medicine.I sought help through congress,they were useless ,now I'm told I have to deal with it.The physician never gave me a chance to explain why I needed to be seen,she assumed it was only drug related.I was already getting them,(we recently lost our pharmacist in the pain clinic) for 11months I've attempted to get help with sciatic pain,I fell twice,and no one is listening,instead of hearing my needs,and ordering an MRI the physician stopped all the medicine that was allowing me to function.

Health care is only going to continue to decrease, for a patient to be treated anyway a physician wants yet, if we feel unsatisfied they tell us just deal with it. Four years ago,a doctor took away my medicine,I had a better congressman then,but the pain got so bad I asked a cop to shoot me to stop me from hurting,somehow physicians don't realise how much damage they do when they show no compassion and don't treat the whole person. VA doctors get away with abuse, discrimination, and nothing is done, yet let a veteran raise their voice,we can be given a federal ticket and arrested. Is that fair?

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I took Benadryl when I had that seizure at Fred Meyer I believe they make it worse I would not take them
if you read about them Nyquil, and Benadryl, can make withdrawals worse.

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I have come off these cold turkey and I was taking a lot when I say a lot I'm talking 15 a day you will be over it in about a week maybe 2. The worst part is the cold sweats and light headiness that's the worst hang in you can do it. I'm doing it myself right now cause I'm going to loose my husband if I don't stop taking them and they are not worth loosing him. Just take it easy and you will get through it.

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Dear Vernon, I defiantly agree with CJ. If you feel a need to comment about another's vice , take the time to REALLY get down and deep in what ALL is going on with them. Each and everyone is different! Son, I could tell you some stories that you probably wouldn't believe. Because you seem to have it all figured out. I don't mean any harm towards you, although RESEARCH......WELL, AND THINK BEFORE YOU SPEAK. Still you'll never have someone else's life figured out. But atleast you'll have a better perspective! Advice is always good, because one can take from it what works for them , but telling one how to live and do things, normally # 1makes people ignore the so called advice and 2 not even give it a second thought! BE AWARE IF YOU TRULY CARE.

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I am not shocked, but I am a little dissapointed. If pharmasists are in the Buissness to help people, then why are innocent people being: 1). Injured by refusing needed medications( even if dr is calling and faxing, demanding it's nesesity. 2). Being inbarresed and ashamed infront of other customers as if they are drug addicts 3). Playing dr when the patient is seeing multiple specialists due to the severity of the injury. 4). Making rules as they go and informing patients when the issue arises 5). Not telling patients that missing one or two doses of there medicstion can be life threatening 6). Not telling the patient that they are refusing a drug that they may die from as a direct result of not having, also not directing them to go to the hospital immediately if going without. 7). If you believe a patient is lying to get there refill due to extream nausea 2 months in a row. Then you refuse even thowe they claim vometing violently to the point of hospitalization, but refuse to check their pharmacy history showing anti nausea and vometing meds from the emergeny room you filled, nor believe the doctor pleading with you, or check with other drs, you just refuse: it's your rite. THIS is SAD and CRIMINAL I understand you get lied to, and their are crappy drs but seriusly some of us are victims of the system. I don't want to take these meds, I was nearly killed by a drunk driver on my way to work. After 8 years I was suffering from stomach issues from meds, very common. I got a hietal hernia the 9 meds were adjitating and would vommet whole pills withen minutes. Although finally getting better to the point of returnig to work and life was then nearly killed again. This time the pharmasist refused to fill my medication 4 days early, even though my dr was aware and contacted them and they were notified when the script was dropped off. No one told me till I returned that my 3 mg each dose of xanax was being refused( even with dr on the phone and re-faxing several times). Well big shock I had a GRAND MAL SIEZURE and almost died it BROKE both shoulders and seep rated many muscles tendons and nerve and brain damage, I have forgot most if my life now and will never regain use of my arms or remember my childhood or deceased relatives, or hold my kid and throw ball. I'm no criminal I a rocket scientist / astronautical engineer who can't remember there work, type or write. If I am an addict it is because they made me one. It even says on the companies website that mussing 1ng can cause siezures, much less 6mg. I can see discussing a slow decrease safely and would have gladly cooperated. But there is no excuse I should loose life as I know it and fear death from seizures and suffer night terrors. How is this legal much less acceptable or bragged about. For the record I was never informed of the risk ever starting or forcing me to stop. They also knew that I couldn't obtain them anywhere else as we had discussed several times in the past it was rare and they orederd it just for me at that dose, I was also in a pain management contract to use one pharmacy as they know in this state. So by refusing they left me to die and I nearly did. I was in an induce COMA for weeks and will never recover. I thought getting hit by a drunk on my way to work crippling me permanently was bad, but knowingly putting me a risk of death and causing such extensive phisical and mental pain abd suffering should be a crime, at least the other guy had an excuse he was drunk not an arrogant.... I won't stoop to where you want me to so you can fit me with your addicts, I hope justice will be done and maybe some one else won't be hurt because of arrogant assumptions. I understand your dilemma, but we are not all criminals some of us are just victims of a broken system. Sory for the length and thanks for reading this.

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File a civil suit against your psychiatrist. He displayed clear negligence here. He over prescribed you. Following that, he titrated you up even further to more extreme amounts.

Any psychiatrist worth their weight in Salt should be aware of the extreme danger that coincides with stopping Xanax cold turkey. If you're doctor is not aware of that, he is incompetent and you should look into a malpractice suit. Stopping Xanax cold turkey after such heavy use (started by your primary psychiatrist) is not only extremely uncomfortable for the patient; but could result in serious adverse medical effects. Dr's are almost certain and even DEATH has been reported. For your psychiatrist to stop prescribing it cold turkey is absolutely atrocious.

I recommend hiring a criminal negligence lawyer and/or a malpractice lawyer. What your doctor has done displays clear ineptitude only further demonstrated by suggesting if your symptoms get so severe that you should go to a doc in the box.

Stand up for yourself here. Malpractice is the bane of the medical community. It raises eyebrows. Their are documented cases of civil suits pending against psychiatrists/primary care physicians that beging a Xanax regimen and then refusing to even help ween their own patients off of it. Again if your psychiatrist isn't aware of the potential dangers of a cold turkey Xanax regiment cessation that is incompetence; and may very well be grounds for a malpractice suit. I would tell your psychiatrist you are looking into a civil suit with a malpractice lawyer. Incompetent MD's are a plauge and should be removed when possible. Nothing changes the tone of a doctor like the threat of malpractice/negligence. Best of luck.

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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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I am going to try and be nice! You need to get off of xanax! I took it for 10 years. It is a nasty drug. I am now on Clonzapam. It is not as strong as xanax depending on the prescription they give you. It is much better than xanax. It does't burn going down. It doesn't zonk you out. You can get off of xanax if I did it. I am not saying it is easy. But you can do it. Get your Dr. to prescribe you the clonzaopam. Enough and strong enough to get you through the withdrawal of the xanax. I guarantee you that you will feel a lot better on Clonzapam. Once you get used to it! It is good too to get some muscle relaxant. It helps too getting off the xanax. Good luck everyone! Try it. Be strong. You can do it!!

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First of all you should have never mentioned liability to your 1st doc, second you go to a psychologist to get benzodiazepines for real reasons which I'm sure you got real problems for ten years. There is a handful of Benzos out there that will stop your panic attacks, xanax only last for 6 hours, clonazepam which is 12 hours. xanax is not a must, you got ativan, librium, restoril, dalmain, valuim, clonazepam, xanax and I'm sure of few more, you can go to any doc as long as your record is good. If not I suggest you get off of them because they can lead to alot of problems if you can't get them no more and someone that's been taking them for ten years, you should know better than to not get there and call, there thinking your shafting them on money if you have been going awhile, by calling in and saying to call in 3 weeks, why not a week till you can get there, something don't sound write if the family doc won't give them to you with a ten year history, and Prozac can lead to being very confused when you stop taking them, not knowing what's going on around you also. So proceed with caution, and don't ever mention liability in the future, no doctor will mess with ya and by law they have to give you your records maybe make you pay but they have to. Go to the next one who wants to help people, there out there bro trust me and not crocket at all, once you stop taking you are going to see things, sweat, not all there, heart beating fast, panicking and possible seizes, so get help asap, but don't tell no one you are a threat to yourself or no one else and don't act like a druggy. if you need to go to urgent care and can't stress enough don't lie because they already know what you have been taking, good luck.

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