Claradoon wrote:
Thank you! I'm now trying to take 1 less pill per week, putting it aside for times when I need help. I still wish the doctor would be reasonable.
Yes, Xanax stops panic in its tracks. I not only panic, I go into shock and once I went into Bell's Palsy.
But I am curious about these doctors you mention - you say "down here" - I see that you are living in Faulkner's nightmare? Could you be more specific?
I hope it's in Canada, like me.
I live in West Alabama in a really small town. But we had these docs in Bham too. Ask drug people, they will know where they are. Then again, yall might be more careful with regulations in Canada than we are here.
The thing was with Xanax for me, when I had been on it a few months (and I got 90 1mg footballs a month) I took it like he told me to at first. My attacks were so bad it wasn't funny. Several debilitating ones a day, so I took a half to a whole, three times a day. Then when I started seeing that it would kill the panic I felt more confident and would just take a half in the morning and a half later in the day. I could take another half or a whole if I ever needed them, but just knowing it was in my purse was enough to prevent the attacks. I was on it like that, ( 1 to 2 a day) for a couple years and after a while I never felt it but would have to remember to take it. That's when I started halfing the halves and spacing them out more and got off it. I actually didn't use the full amount every month most times and finally just went and got a script and kept it around without taking it for a year or two. Just in case, but I rarely needed it. For me, it was the psychological thing of knowing I could stop the attack when I wanted to, and it wasn't just meted out to me and I would have to suffer through some and treat the others.
Ask your local friendly pharmacist for a "pill doctor". That's what we call them here.
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