In Serious Need Of Help With Xanax

I HAVE BEEN TAKING XANAX FOR 3 MONTHS NOW THE DOCTOR PRESRIBED ME 10 MILLIGRAMS A DAY FOR PANIC DISORDER WELL NEEDLESS TO SAY I BUILT UP A TOLERANCE TO IT FAST WITHIN A FEW WEEKS I WAS TAKING 12MG, THEN 15 THEN 20 I THINK I EVEN TOOK 24 ONE DAY. I WENT TO SEE ANOTHE PSYCH AND SHE SAID I NEEDED TO BE MEDICALLY DETOXED WELL I STAYED FOR THREE DAYS THEY GAVE ME TRANXENE TWICE BUT I WAS FELLING FINE SO I DECIDED TO LEAVE THAT WAS A SUNDAY THAT MONDAY MORNING WHEN I WOKE UP I WAS SICK I DIDNT FEEL RIGHT LIKE I WAS ON A BAD ACID TRIP I WAS SCARED TO LEAVE THE HOUSE I JUST WANTED TO GET IN A CLOSET AND HIDE I LET THAT GO FOR ABOUT 9 DAYS THEN I WENT AND HAD A PRESCRIPTION FILLED AND I EAS OFF TO THE RACES AGAIN I HAVENT GOTTEN OVER 17 OR 18 MGS THIS TIME BUT I DONT KNOW THAT I CAN QUIT SO ANOTHER TRIP TO ANOTHER PSYCH I TOLD HIM I WANTED TO GET OFF THAT WAS MONDAY HE GAVE ME A PRESCRIPTION OF XANAX 90 I MG PILLS HE SAID TO TAKE THREE A DAY AND A 2MG KLONOPIN AT NIGHT BUT NEEDLESS TO SAY AGAIN I STARTED EATING THE XANAX ABOUT 15 TO 17 MGS A DAY BUT I AM TAKING THE KLONOPIN AT NIGHT AND I ALSO TAKE 30 MGS OF PAXIL JUST STARTED 2 WEEKS AGO IF I CAN GET UP ENOUGH WILL POWER TO DO IT THE WAY HE SAID HOW BAD ARE THE WITHDRAWALS GOING TO BE AND SHOULNT HE HAVE WEENED ME OFF THE XANAX A LITTLE I NEED TO HAVE SOME ANSWERS I HOPE THAT SOMEONE ANSWERS BACK
Hi Problem Guy, I am not sure I totally understand your question? If you are asking about wd from zanax, I came off of that in feb of this year. I took it for about 3 and 1/2 months I am not sure how many millagrams I got them on the net, I took 2 or 3 a day and they were purple. I ran out in feb and had no idea I would go thru wd??? anyway I had insomnia for 6 days or so and really sweaty after the 6 days sleep still wasn't great but i did sleep and it slowly got better I did get some ambien from my dr, which I don't recomend it is super addictive and I personally think it is dangerous, I would take benadryl for sleep now. I hope this is what you were asking? and I hope you feel better. I can't really give you any other advice my doc is percocet I don't have a thing for zanax I ordered it just to check it out. This board is awsome I am sure someone knowledgeable will reply. good luck Angela
In my honest opinion I say you need a new doctor. You are playing with fire. Eating xanax like that is not a good thing. You need to find a doctor that will help you properly wean off both the xanax and the klonopin. You could have seizures trying to do this on your own. I would seriously look into a detox facility.. If that's not an option ,I would check out the ashton manuel. I hope Bullwinkle comes along with better advice for you. Benzo's have never been my DOC so I don't know much about it. I would read as much as possible and get educated about the dangers of benzo's and the withdrawl that goes with it.

Good luck to you. Search the net and post on the xanax board as well. There is a girl by the name of Elvis that should respond to you. She is tapering off her Benzo's as well... Rae
Rae is right I didn't take them as long as you and I don't know to much about benzos except the seziure thing is a fact. you should talk to a dr it can be dangerous if you play dr by yourself. definatlly do some resurch (sp?) find out as much as you can. did you go to the other board on here that talks about zanax? its the other perscription drugs section, i am sure ther is some good info over there for you. Please be careful and really consider calling a dr.
Thats alot of benzos. I get prescribed 0.5mg tables three times a day as needed. Thats what he started me on and thats what I've stayed with for a few years, never had to go up. I think he started you way too high. I'm sure tho, that its very dangerous to c/t from them, so please don't. My doc is painpills, but I also take xanax, but don't feel a problem with them as I take them as prescribed and don't always take three a day. Usually just one or two. It is baffling to me tho, how I can be so hooked on painpills and not on the xanax. They don't do anything for me except for what they're suppose to, keep me from panic attacks and help me sleep sometimes. But I've never gotten a high from them, I have tried in the past for curiosity's sake, but all I do is fall asleep. My best to you.
Back when I was in medical detox in Virginia back in Oct. 03, our group was a mixed bunch all put togetehr. I remember one young man who was only 18 and detoxing from Xanax and he was a mess. Poor guy was eating them like candy.While detoxing, I think they gave him Methodone- but I am not sure. each of us was given diff. meds for detox depending on our DOC.

I would take the recommendations of those who have gone before you and research this, post on that other forum and then get some help. Many people here do care!

Good luck!!!!!!!!!!!
Hello Problem Guy! I think your screen name suits you. Not that you are taking a large amount of benzo's, but you have an idiot for a Dr.! No respectable doctor starts a patient off with 10 mg of xanax for panic attacks! The only time to justify large doses of Benzo's ever is for a serious seizure disorder.

I feel your pain. I too am addicted to benzo's. I have been on Klonopin for 10 years for anxiety and panic attacks. I started with 2 mg and have never gone higher than that. The only good thing about your scenero is that you have only used them for a short time. However, you are obviously addicted and need to taper slowly to spare yourself the hell and dangers of CT withdrawal.

I am going to start a sloooooow taper in about a month, after I get back on my feet from the pain pill addiction. Today is day seven of being clean from them.

There is another forum on this site where Benzo's are discussed, but a good place to go and get a wealth of info is Benzobuddies.com. I highly recommend you join that forum so that you do what is right for you. You will learn real fast that slow is good. Good luck!

Terry
Hey Problem Guy, I feel for you. I wasn't using as much and for a little longer and gave it up with a minor lortab thing. But found it to be miserable. You need help getting off of those high doses from what I read here. I'm no substitute for medical advice. But if you can't control your taper, you need to come clean with your dr. Please don't mess around with this. It's rough stuff and the sooner you deal with it, the better you'll feel. There is help out here. I did it alone and hated it. This could be potentially life threatening, please take it seriously. I know telling cuts your sources, but that's the way it's got to be someday, right? In the long run, you won't regret it. There are more here with more experience, but I've not heard of doses that high. Please talk to someone other then the prescriber. Let us know what we can do. Love and prayers, BEck
Terry:

I have taken Xanax for about 8 years for panic attacks. The doctor warned me that I could become immune to them so take them as direcected. I did with no problem. I am on same dosage as when I started. We are all different. My problem is Lortabs, I am now 12 days free of them.
This is very important and what I wanted you to know. I went on vacation about 3 yaers ago and forgot Xanax. I thought this was no big deal, that I wouldn't sleep as well and that would be it. I did hope that I wouldn't have a panc attick attack considering that's why they are prescribed for me.
I did okay with the exception of not sleeping well, which I don't sleep well when I'm out of town anyway. The 3rd night about 7:30 I came to in the motel room with my husband, the 2 hotel security men and 2 EMS standing around me. They told me I had a seizure and my heart had stopped twice. I didn't know who I was or where I was. It took me 'tl the next day to know my family. I didn't know my home phone for about 3 months. Things came back a little at a time. There is no permanant damage except not gettng all of my memory back. That part I laugh about b/c I love to watch movies and have watched so may that I saw before the seizure (my husband will walk through den and say "don't you remember watching that movie" and I just say no, it's like new movies for me)

I'm getting too lengthy - if you have to - tell your doctor or just go and check yourself into Rehab. You have got to find a way to take these Xanax exactly as they are prescribed - I know I'm telling you to do s'thing that I am having a hard time doing with the Lortabs but Neurologist in Vegas and in Greenville agreed that is was going cold turkey from Xanax - why I had seizure. They told me each one could get worse and they could leave me brain damaged to where I wouldn't be able to live at home, I would have to live in a full care facility - I guess a nursing home and I was only 45 at the time - I'm 48 now. I pray every night that I never have another one.
If this doctor doesn't take you seriously, get another one, a neurologist, tell him what they all agreed about my condition. Tell them about me.
I don't mind at all. I don't want anyone to have a seizure ever - that is the scariest thing I have ever had.

Let me know how it goes.
Good luck, Jean
Wow Jean, that's what i'm talking about. I've heard of this...am lucky it didn't happen to me. But man I suffered. Problem Guy, listen up to Jean, this is very serious. Get some help, not just wioth quitting, but doing it safely. You're on very high doses. Get help. Don't risk your health. It's not worth your life. Please listen. Beck...ps.s Thanks for sharing that Jean. You may have saved some people today
Hi there, I started on Xanax a few years ago because I was going on a plane trip and I'm nervous about flying, then my dad got sick and died so I stayed on them cause I started having panic attacks. The problem with xanax is it only last 4 hours, so you have to take more and more. I don't remember what I got up to but one day, I couldn't fill script because it was too early, so I called the Dr. to O.K. and he wouldn't call me back. I think I called 5 times that day and when they finally got sick of it around 6:30, they called back and told me I had a problem and they couldn't give me anymore! He was going to make me go C/T and by the next morning I was like you, I barely could walk, thought I was going to throw up, which I did, diarrhea, dizziness and just felt I was going to die. I called him that morning and told him he had to get me in and he let me come in and took one look at me and knew what he had done. I',m surprised I didn't have a seizure. he put me on Clondine and Klonopin ( which is a stronger benzo), but I felt awful for 3-4 days. The Clonodine helped with the nausea and dizziness and of course the konopin helped with the nerves but it's a longer acting drug (12 hrs) and the weird thing is, I have never had to go up on it. I take one in the morning and 1 at night for 21/2 years now. They also put me on an antidepressant so that probably helps too. I know I need to be off the clonopin but I never had a problem with it. I don't know what it is with xanax, but there are more people who have problems with it. But that is taking way too many so I would go to another Dr. and have him wean you properly. Good Luck.
Problem Dude-
Although Heroin is my problem I unfortunetly have had many a bout with Xanax.I can tell you ,thats quite a quanity that your taken. You probabaly should detox in an clinical type setting. Whatever you choose it WILL get dicey so be prepared to be uncomfortable - Best of Luck


I dont mean to sound negitive -just honest -
peace & respect
joh
THANK YOU FOR AL THE ADVICE THE DOCTOR I SWITCHED TO WANTED ME TO TAKE 3 MGS OF XANAX A DAY AND 2 MGS OF KLONOPIN I DONT KNOW I CANT JUST TAKE 3 A DAY I AM ADDICT SO HE TOLD ME TO TAKE 6 MGS OF KLONOPIN A DAY I HOPE THAT WORKS HE GAVE ME 90 I MG XANAX MONDAY ONLY 24 LEFT THEN I GUESS I WILL TRY THE KLONOPIN I WANT TO STOP BUT AS LONG AS I HAVE THEM I WILL TAKE THEM I HAVE TO START OUT IN THE MORNINGS TAKING 10 MGS JUST TO FEEL NORMAL I WANT TO STOP BUT I FEEL HELPLESS
The you'll need to tell him...be honest about not being able to hold all those pills. Please know, I can't either...almost no one can. Do you have someone to hold them and give you your daily dose? If not, maybe you can see your Dr more frequently and receive smaller amounts. Something has to give and running out isn't the same thing as voluntarily stopping. Talk to the Dr. tell him the truth hon. You're in real trouble, but there is help. Please be honest...get the help you'll have to have. Beck