My Doc Will Not Refill My Xanax Im Feeling Sick (Page 33) (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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4 mg a day should not provoke the worst of withdrawal as seizures - IF the person took no more than prescribed. Discomfort? Yes, and increased anxiety, but ONLY if the person fixates on no having medication. When attention is concentrated on outside things, mild withdrawal is easily managed.
I have gone days without medication while waiting to see my physician, at the same maximum dose. No seizures, and anxiety must be seen as anxiety - it didn't kill you last time, and won't kill you this time.

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Vicki: You may think it didn't sound like a joke, but the way your comment reads, it seems as though you make fun of another contributor. You're not the only one whose had bad experiences with withdrawal. I had a seizure that was over 5minutes long - no twitching, no activity...but that's the point...there was absolutely no electricity in my body that entire time...no breathing, lips purple....as though I died suddenly. The odd thing was that this happened well beyond the time of acute withdrawal. On top of this revelation, I am an ICU Nurse, and this is well beyond what we would expect to see in Critical Care. Chances are, attending physicians would have released me by the time this occurred, had I gone on for withdrawal anyway, that I would have had a seizure at home anyway. This is why I stress the importance of looking at each person individually. Most people would have seized much sooner. Perhaps I am the only one who thought your remark was snarky. Remember this is text, not direct communication, and I cannot read your mind. Maybe you were unclear as to your intent.

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Wow. You people are putting down a nurse that has knowledge that has went to college and knows what she is talking about. You people have no clue. Move it on down the road.

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I been on Xanax for 15 years get 120 2mg bars eat them.in 10 days and have no withdrawal at all.but I do take 340 30 mg Oxys a month those I would die coming off

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ran out of xanax what can I take to help withdrawal - refill in 6 days -

ANSWER NOT RECEIVED

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i been taking zanx for about a week today an im scared to go threw withdrawls. will i been going threw them with this short of time taking them. im not only taking one a day i usually take 4 a day can someone please give me some advice thanks

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Marlee, anytime you quit something cold turkey, after having been taking it for awhile, you will experience some withdrawal effects, because your body gets dependent on it.

However, they should not get really bad, because you were not abusing it, but they can still be quite miserable.

If it gets to bad, you should call your doctor or go to the nearest ER.

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i have been taking xanax .5 twice a day for 3 or 4 months now.i just quit cause im scare of getting addicted.i took my last dose 2 days ago but my eyes and head feel wierd my lips feel numb.is this normal?should i go get my refill or can this hurt me just to quit?thanks

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Okay, the operative point here isn't that your doctor was refusing the medications, it is that you missed your appointment, had to reschedule and then still wanted them.

If doctors phone in a medication, without seeing a patient they are simply being nice, they have no obligation to do so and by law, they are NOT supposed to do it with any controlled substances that can be dangerous.

Anytime they write these prescriptions, they are supposed to have physically seen the patient in their office, that is under federal law.

Plus if you reacted badly to the fact that they would not phone them in, then you labeled yourself as a drug seeker an addict. In this case the liability for the doctor is much worse than it is, if they just don't give you more of the medications.

He faces no serious repercussions for denying you a medication, however, if he gives them to someone showing addictive behavior, then his very livelihood is at risk, plus he faces fines and jailtime.

I am very sorry for what you are going through, but these are the true facts of the matter.

As to the withdrawals, the fact that you took your last pill in the morning and were already feeling them is not realistic. It takes a longer time period than that for it to process out of your body, especially after being on it for so long. What you were experiencing was your own anxiety over knowing you didn't have anymore to take.

Yes, the normal withdrawals, when they hit, can be bad and you will be miserable for awhile. In addition you can also suffer rebound effects that can make you feel worse than you did, before you ever started using Xanax.

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.

If you do run into a serious problem, then follow the doctors advice and go to the emergency room for assistance.

I am sorry for what you are going through, but as I said, you need to calm down and think a little more rationally to get through this.

Please post back soon and let us know how you are doing!

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