Posted by rskontos on June 26, 2008, at 12:45:43
In reply to Re: pdoc yelled at me (sort of), posted by sunnydays on June 26, 2008, at 9:49:07
Suuunydays, that was a concern for me when my pdoc first prescribed xanax for my high level of anxiety. He first prescribed it as needed but I never took it so he amended it to every four hours. Which is good because I never take it that often but I will take one during the day if I need it and then one at night to sleep because my anxiety was through the roof and I had a hard time sleeping. My voices, my thoughts it was all too much. The thing that xanax has done is calm me enough for me to learn what anxiety is. I have lived with it too long and never recognized it for what it was. Now I know and now I can take the xanax as needed. But I needed that calm, that sleep that more or less xanax around the clock for a while to learn just how stressed, and anxious I really was. And when it hit me, it was an AHHHAA moment. I thought to myself one evening as I was falling to sleep, prior to taking the xanax, I am extremely anxious. I grabbed the xanax took it and finally got calmed enough to fall alseep. I am now so much better at knowing when I am so anxious I need it and when I am only slightly. I am now using other methods to try and calm myself before I need it. So maybe you might try it like suggested. I am not hooked on it.
I fretted about becoming dependent too. My p-doc informed me I would not get dependent. I think they do some sort of clinical assessment first. Mine said just the fact I was so worried about it proved to him I would not. Now I have a high tolerance for meds that usually are those that people get dependent on. I used to be prescribed vicodin and oxycotin for migraines and never got dependent on them as they did not work well for my migraines. Maybe that is one reason. Whatever it is I am never tempted to go beyond what my pdoc has told me to take. I rarely take more than one, unless it is a extremely upsetting situation. I have had those and done so but rarely.
I just wanted to tell you my experience. Which has been positive using xanax. I have gone a week or longer without it. No side effects.
just my experience. good luck
rsk
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