King J
Bluelighter
I gotta question for both harm reduction and addiction potential.
Now I was used to being on 3x 0.5mg Klonopin but my doctor is trying to wean me off with 2x a day 0.5mg Klonopin. I am NOT doing well because I have panic disorders, anxiety attacks, and Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) from an accident where I broke my back.
The Klonopin always lasted longer but it's so structurely similar to Xanax that I don't want to become addicted. This is a recent switch. I was on 1mg Ativan 3x per day and took as needed and thankfully *knocks on wood* never went through w/d from it. This new family doctor I am seeing keeps changing her mind about Klonopin being a benzo that she's trying to taper me off and I've been on EVERYTHING before, from Lithium to anti-psychotics, to SSRI and SNRIs.
NOTHING is effective as a benzo, in which is its divine purpose. Even counseling wouldn't help me from experiencing flash backs, occasional panic attacks, to regular claustrophobia being in a room until the day I broke my back I was put on Ativan. The new doctor also has the philosophy that Ativan, being a benzo, is the same but in my own research I have found it a lot less addicting and in my own personal life.
The Ativan also helps with depression a lot more than any other bebzo and it's a benzo that isn't widely used recreationaly. How can I put in plain terms to the doctor that I want to be put back on the Ativan 1mg 3x per day as I have been for over a year. I am sick of trying new meds that I even know won't work. I am no mentally or physically at the point that I want to give up a medication that works.
She is so bent on addiction etc that she won't see what I've been through for what it is. I've told her I never needed such meds until I broke my back. I am not willing to be weaned off of it. I HAVE gone through months without the benzo medications that it put me in full-blown panic attacks and put me through mental hell.
How should I go about getting back on the med that I have been on over a year that works? I man realistically she only has to write 3 1 month prescriptions because then I am off to see a Psychiatrist that I've been on a waiting list for months for. She even made the rude downgrading comment that a Psych won't prescribe me such medication, which is degrading.
Anyone have any advice or can tell me what to do? I do NOT want to go to another doctor. I'm sick of trying to find a doctor especially with straight Medicaid. I just won disability, SSI and SSD, which is hard as hell to do at age 21 because of Obama's changes. There is obviously something wrong with me and I just want to be treated right and for my mental illness.
She won't even put me back on Ambien 10mg once at night that helped me relax to sleep due to the fractures in my spine. Even though I'm 21 I'm thinking of havin gmy mother come in and explain the situation better. IS there any advice anyone can please give me? I've seriously thought about buying it off hte street when I have NO money right now at all and shouldn't have to go that route.
Please help. I'm not asking or wanting Xanax. What do I have to do to be properly seen and treated? I gave her a big packet of the meds I've been on for over a year. I cannot afford for her to keep experimenting with me, especially when my Psych appointment is just around the corner. Help please.
Now I was used to being on 3x 0.5mg Klonopin but my doctor is trying to wean me off with 2x a day 0.5mg Klonopin. I am NOT doing well because I have panic disorders, anxiety attacks, and Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) from an accident where I broke my back.
The Klonopin always lasted longer but it's so structurely similar to Xanax that I don't want to become addicted. This is a recent switch. I was on 1mg Ativan 3x per day and took as needed and thankfully *knocks on wood* never went through w/d from it. This new family doctor I am seeing keeps changing her mind about Klonopin being a benzo that she's trying to taper me off and I've been on EVERYTHING before, from Lithium to anti-psychotics, to SSRI and SNRIs.
NOTHING is effective as a benzo, in which is its divine purpose. Even counseling wouldn't help me from experiencing flash backs, occasional panic attacks, to regular claustrophobia being in a room until the day I broke my back I was put on Ativan. The new doctor also has the philosophy that Ativan, being a benzo, is the same but in my own research I have found it a lot less addicting and in my own personal life.
The Ativan also helps with depression a lot more than any other bebzo and it's a benzo that isn't widely used recreationaly. How can I put in plain terms to the doctor that I want to be put back on the Ativan 1mg 3x per day as I have been for over a year. I am sick of trying new meds that I even know won't work. I am no mentally or physically at the point that I want to give up a medication that works.
She is so bent on addiction etc that she won't see what I've been through for what it is. I've told her I never needed such meds until I broke my back. I am not willing to be weaned off of it. I HAVE gone through months without the benzo medications that it put me in full-blown panic attacks and put me through mental hell.
How should I go about getting back on the med that I have been on over a year that works? I man realistically she only has to write 3 1 month prescriptions because then I am off to see a Psychiatrist that I've been on a waiting list for months for. She even made the rude downgrading comment that a Psych won't prescribe me such medication, which is degrading.
Anyone have any advice or can tell me what to do? I do NOT want to go to another doctor. I'm sick of trying to find a doctor especially with straight Medicaid. I just won disability, SSI and SSD, which is hard as hell to do at age 21 because of Obama's changes. There is obviously something wrong with me and I just want to be treated right and for my mental illness.
She won't even put me back on Ambien 10mg once at night that helped me relax to sleep due to the fractures in my spine. Even though I'm 21 I'm thinking of havin gmy mother come in and explain the situation better. IS there any advice anyone can please give me? I've seriously thought about buying it off hte street when I have NO money right now at all and shouldn't have to go that route.
Please help. I'm not asking or wanting Xanax. What do I have to do to be properly seen and treated? I gave her a big packet of the meds I've been on for over a year. I cannot afford for her to keep experimenting with me, especially when my Psych appointment is just around the corner. Help please.
Last edited by a moderator:
