How to get Xanax (for legitimate reasons?)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My primary care physician suggested it as a stop gap measure while we waited for the SSRI to work effectively.

She's refilled it a few times since then. .

I was prescribed Xanax as needed for "travel" about 10 yrs ago- when my anxiety and panic was acutely triggered by plane travel and then later, pretty much any travel.

Prescribed a low dose and just a few pills. Xanax gave me my life back and obliterated the intense anticipatory anxiety that I had experienced every since I was 5.

Now I carry around the prescription bottle with one Xanax pretty much everywhere I go. It's my security blanket. Just knowing that relief is there soothes me and gets me through the event.

Advice for getting this prescribed:

- I bring in my bottle of pills (usually full) to show my prescriber.

- My parent was an alcoholic; I am a teetotaler. My NP knows this.

- I take this exactly as prescribed: AS NEEDED and I try not to take it more than 2 days in a row.

You sound addicted.

No, she doesn’t. She sounds like someone with a high degree of self awareness who knows and respects her limits.

[Anonymous]

I was prescribed this for once-in-a-while bouts of higher anxiety (I have chronic low-level anxiety).
I think two years passed before I actually encountered a situation where I felt my anxiety level justified trying half a pill. It was a one-off situation after a particularly trying day at work, and I did not feel the need to take it again.

A few weeks ago my partner broke up with me and the anxiety has been like nothing I ever experienced. As in, raised blood pressure, spells of labored breathing, tightness in my chest and a pit in my stomach. During work hours I’m busy and mostly ok but facing an evening and bedtime has been awful. For about a week and a half I took a half or whole pill in addition to my normal bedtime vistiril. No alcohol since the breakup since I’m afraid I would just drink more and more.
I feel so stuck. I did stop taking the Xanax once I realized I felt worse in the morning after it wore off. I still feel anxious and depressed and stuck, and having to stay in my house all the time with every day the same, and sleep in the room where the relationship fell apart is making it really hard to move forward.
So in other words I’m glad I had the Xanax because it helped me basically survive, but it is something you really need to be careful with.
Be careful out there, folks.

[Anonymous]

PP who is quoted above and according to another PP, seems “addicted.”

Nope and thanks for the insulting and wildly inaccurate assumption.

Did you not read my lengthy post? I am an ACOA, a teetotaler and have never abused drugs of any kind. I’m too anxious!

I generally resist taking most medicines and am very health conscious. Huge interest in homeopathy.

I have severe allergies to penicillin and an OTC med.

So great is my dear and distrust of medicines that I refused to have an epidural with my first baby.

My GP knows all of the above.

[Anonymous]

Psychiatrist after being diagnosed with GAD.