Need Help Finding A Doctor To Prescribe Me Xanax (Page 5) (Top voted first)

Please give me a list of doctors that will prescribe me xanax? I have bad anxiety.

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Well someone out there is prescribing it! I can find it myself easier than I can in any expensive drs. office and believe it, I've been to many trying to get my prescription back after my shrink retired and no one will prescribe it. It makes me sick that all these people can get it who don't need it and I have to buy it illegally from them because no Dr. Will help me. I have severe panic attacks and social anxiety and have been prescribed everything from trazadone to buspar to seroqil to hydroxozine... none of which work. So I have to purchase Xanax via other means to be able to function and it makes me sick! I had one Dr retire and once he left the mental health facility they went "benzo free" about a year later. The next Dr. Up and left and moved back to her home after a failed marriage. So here I sit using all my money paying 5$ ea for 1mlg and 10-12 for 2 mlg. This is just terrible.

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Try Dr. Frank McNeil or McNiel

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Xanax can exacerbate symptoms of Depressive Disorders.\. especially in higher doses.

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Way to go DR Joey. All of your post are good. I enjoy them, straight shooter.

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My friend,

I think I'm bout 10 minutes younger than you are at 60 going on 61. Glad there are no hard feelings and thanks for the kind words. "Thanks" to the AA/NA Cultists, you and I can't call ourselves "addicts" or "recovered addicts" and be taken serious by any professional group. If appropriate, I mention I had a med problem. This incurable Medical Model crap is just that. I've done research that has shocked, appalled and disgusted me, particularly about Bill W. I did a dissertation; if I had time (and I might since I'm retiring) I might shop a dissertation-style book about Bill W., et. al.. The late Lyle Leverich, without any advanced academic background, did the same on Tennessee Williams ("Tom: The Unknown Tennessee Williams") and it was amazingly sourced and accurate. As I said, I wrote a dissertation and know good scholarship. I recognized 20s advertising rhetoric immediately and looked deeper and wider into this cult. I saw what they had planned for me when I returned to college and rejected it completely. I respectfully accept your proposal to agree to disagree about benzodiazepines. Can you recall what it was about? I think writing for Xanax and Methadone. I admit a problem with pregnant women who continue to use and then (a) expect to go back to it; no breast-feeding and/or (b) think they deserve to have their children NOT removed or returned. I've been an Expert Witness God knows how many times and I've never testified on the side of such parents. My personal feelings are that a mother who will knowingly harm a child in utero forfeits her right to the motherhood of that child. Thanks for your kind words. Sounds like we'd make a great team. I'm a great Grant Proposal Writer myself, thanks to my late, beloved, Mom, who passed on May 02, 2015.

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@Dr Joey, Wooo Hooo I knew there was a reason I liked you. There should be more Docs like you!!! You overcame your habit and you treat everyone regardless of their sexual preference or addiction. So anyone out there trying to beat the demon listen to Dr Joey the dude knows his s***. Listen to him. Not only has he been there but he could be making major money but volunteers to help addicts. Dr Joey you are the bomb!!!

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Hey Doc! Your post is very interesting and inspiring! You know alot about addiction. That's awesome tof hear from a doctor. Are you retired now?? Where are you from??

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Do you write scripts? ? Lol ;)

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Unless you presented on your first visit while having a serious Hypomanic Episode, I don't think I'd do a Ddx in five minutes. In fact, I know I wouldn't. The few residents I heard of who were doing this met "The BAD Dr Joey" (a best friend and colleague, a pediatrician in charge of the NICU said to a resident, "You don't wanna meet The BAD Dr Joey — do as he says. And she's senior to and has better creds than mine; she's also built like Lynda Carter as Wonder Woman: 6' without heels!) That's irresponsible medicine by any measure. I know how fear can stop us from doing what we really want to do. It's happened to me. I don't mention my past addiction except to drug/alcohol patients, but I won't lie if directly questioned (I"ll probably ignore the question. After a couple times, they get the message. For all my education, I can use the English language in its most graphic terms. "F***ed if it's any of your badness: works, too.)

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I think I was unclear in my previous post. We have a condo in NYC so I don't die prematurely of stress- and traffic-related PTSD! My practice is in NYC and my hospital position just a little bit out on Long Island (it's 120 miles, so "a little bit" means 5 miles from the NYC border). This accident slowed me down a lot and that I had to use my own resources to get the pain meds I needed infuriated me. Fortunately, I"m old enough to have friends who were Board Certified anesthesiologists and EXEMPT or GRANDFATHERED fin re: these new regs. I got spoiled, since shrinks always have been given a lot of leeway with Controlled Substances. I treat our addicted patients with respect and dignity and my Sicilian temper goes into high gear when I hear a pain patient isn't getting properly medicated. I don't believe a "legit" pain patient is superior to an accident. I had migraines for years and scarfed down a lot of pain meds and benzos. Legit? Marginally, but I believe I can feel the pain of both addict and pain patients. I don't have patience for its trying to game the system and feel high while in a Drug Treatment Program. I see a lot of this on these forums. On methadone, but asking Klonopin can I take the week before my U/A? Some pts need maintenance meds, addicts or not. I have the licenses to write for some restricted drugs and, when necessary, I sign off on my Residents' orders.

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This is good advice (he said modestly). BuSpar can work if you work it, as the Nazis, say... in other words have a doc willing to play with the dosing sometimes even above the maximum recommended dose. It's a very low-toxicity drug. I don't describe it unless the pt is already on it or asks for it. It's not bad medicine to accommodate her and we do get some work done in therapy.

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@Katie, No one was condemning. Hell I am the last person to condemn someone. I was giving you sound advice from a person who has been in your place. Do you actually think somebody is gonna email you a DR Feelgood. Hardly. My advice is what worked for me. I offered it and you took it as I was taking your inventory. All equal here Katie. TAKE ACTION and may you find what you need. I feel your pain but so will you unless you take action.

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Click the link below and then select what state you are in and scroll down to doctors and the number of claims you see is the number of prescriptions they wrote in a year:

projects.propublica.org/checkup/drugs/3282

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Yup what a good idea if someone made a more user friendly and easier way to find that info they would make a killin$$$

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Some people actually need it. People who have panic attacks daily and self sabotage. I never understood why I could never bring myself to do the most simple things. Like simply checking my e mail because even that can be soo stressful that you just say f*** it and it screws people and yourself over. It's hell. I have to work myself up just to look through my personal e-mail yet alone my work e-mail. It's not like I want to be like this. I've lost jobs over it. I barely get any sleep. It cripples me in pretty much every way imaginable. Some people want it just to feel high and have an excuse for it but some people really do need it and doctors are so cautious these days. Ton of doctors would decide not to give it to someone who clearly needs it out of fear. I'm looking for a doctor too just to avoid wasting time. I know I need it to function. I've been prescribed before when I was 17 because I needed it to get through every day (without doctor shopping or anything) but I had to see my doctor weekly for refills and I work full time. It's next to impossible to take off or leave early once every week so I got off it knowing I needed it and I struggle like hell every single day. If anyone knows a doctor in northern VA (about 40 minutes away from Washington DC) Please let me know.

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NEED A DOCTOR IN GASTONIA TO PRESCRIBES XANAX CAN ANYONE HELP ME?

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I have tried every anti depressant and non benzo anxiety medication known to man kind. I have been taking xanax for about a year; same dose as I started. Sometimes I go weeks without taking any. It all started out of no where and before I got prescribed xanax I ended up with about 10,000 dollars in medical bills as my anxiety got so bad I would have to take an ambulance because I couldnt feel my legs arms hands or face. I am finally living normal and take any where from .25 to 1.5 mg a day when I need to. I live in LA and need to find a xanax friendly doctor, can anyone help me?

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Let me know who you find I'm around the same area thank you!

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That's not helpful. Life is stressful today and people like you who respond with a "pull yourself together" injunction just make it worse

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You know 50mg of alprazolam is 100 tablets right?

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