My Doc Will Not Refill My Xanax Im Feeling Sick (Page 9)
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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: 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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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: 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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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)

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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I TAKE ALPRAZOLAM .25, AND HAVE SO FOR OVER 14 YEARS. I HAVE HAD NO URGE TO TAKE MORE THEN I SUPPOSE TO. I AM A DISABLED VIETNAM VETERAN, AND HAVE MANY ISSUES DUE TO PTSD, AND BEING EXPOSED TO AGENT ORANGE, ETC! THE VA HAS BEEN VERY GOOD TO ME, ABOUT MY ANXIETY, AND DEPRESSION, AND LET ME TELL YOU, WHOEVER CAME UP WITH ALPRAZOLAM NEEDS TO HAVE THEIR FEET KISSED! IT LITERALLY SAVED MY LIFE ALL THESE YEARS! I AM 69 YEARS OLD, AND I FOR ONE SAY, THAT I DON'T HAVE THAT MANY YEARS LEFT IN THIS LIFE, BUT IT SURE IS NICE TO BE ABLE TO ENJOY WHAT TIME I HAVE LEFT! ESPECIALLY NOT TO HAVE TO WORRY IF I GET MY MEDICINE IF I REQUIRE IT!

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Re: FREEDOM (# 476)

I agree with you but you're leaving out some of the story. Jack gets his meds from Bob. Bob gets his meds from the doctor (or has a family member get them or both) or a higher up dealer and instead of taking them he sells them. See, you can make a lot of money selling them. This is the main reason they're coming down so hard. They want to stop the diversion from patient to street. It's a shame that the many are paying for the few.

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I'm sorry for your issues. You need professional care to de-fox from Xannax. Cold turkey or abrupt stoppage of it can cause seizures. Get help and don't wake up in the Hospital. If You do wake up. All the Best

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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: FREEDOM (# 474)

You need to find a different place to vent your issues. This is a place where people come with real issues and real problems. You've got real balls coming in here talking to people like that. This is a sensitive issue and we do not need people like you coming in here throwing around these kinds of words and nonsense. Go somewhere else with your petty insults. Please don't post in here again. Or you will be reported.

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Re: The Contessa (# 18)

NEVERMIND THE MEDICATION ISSUE. YOU SOUND LIKE A GROWN MAN WHO'S MOTHER IS PAYING ALL YOUR BILLS AND STILL GIVES YOU AN ALLOWANCE LIKE A LITTLE BOY. I THINK YOU HAVE SOME MOMMY AND LITTLE BOY ISSUES TO WORK OUT.

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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: 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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