thebudmonster
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Help! Getting 2 different meds from different docs.
I'll try and make this simple as possible.
I have severe depression & anxiety, for over 10-12 years now. I've tried all the depression meds, Zoloft, Wellbutrin, you name it. After being their test monkey they finally put me on Klonopin/Xanax & for the first time in my life I could function like a normal person, my attacks where at a min. A few years later I had an opioid issue, I decided to get my shit together, found what seemed to be a caring doctor, not a shady cash one or anything. They put me on Suboxone. This is when it was fairly new or they simply didn't know much about it, even the legit ones where ok with it, combining it with a benzo. I was on 3, 8mg tablets of subs a day along with 3mg of Klonopin a day as well. All was fine just up until a few years ago, doctors everywhere said the combination was too dangerous, etc. So they cut me of the pins cold turkey and kept me on the Suboxone. Ever since then they have tried non benzos meds to try and curb my anxiety/depression. They put me on Risperdal, Neurontin & so on. It was a nightmare, I'd wake up a zombie. I have a family, I have to be alert, functional. My phcatrist wanted to make me so tired my anxiety would supposedly decrease. That's how I saw it. I tried his method for a long time and just up until recently. I've been to the ER numerous times with panic attacks. I barely leave the house, get racing thoughts, I could go on. It's not a fun way to live.
Now to the point of all this. My sub doctor would not give me any benzos, I even offered to go down on my Suboxne amount. He said no benzos but I'll increase your Suboxone. I didn't want to do that, so I had to make a choice, keep suffering or find a way to get back on my Klonopin. I called my PCP and he gave me a script to help me get by. However, I told him I was no longer on the Suboxone.
Now I see my Suboxone doctor/phcatrist this week. When I go in to see him will he be able to look on his computer and see I had a prescription of Klonopin filled? I went to a different pharmacy but they used my insurance that use to fill my sub script. So will my insurance see that I filled Suboxone last month and then the Klonopin just recently. I will be drug tested when I go so the benzos will show up in my system but I was just going to tell him I got it from the ER when I went or I had a few left over from a previous visit. It's worked before when I had to get some off of a friend. But the whole insurance debacle is what concerns me.
When I go this week will he be able to see that I got a benzo filled from a different pharmacy? Or will he only see what has been filled over the years at the pharmacy that I've always used with him? It sucks I had to do it this way but he was just not willing to work with me and I can't suffer any longer. I've never abused benzos just fyi and wasn't a hardcore drug addict.
Thanks for listening to me ramble, take care.
- bud
I'll try and make this simple as possible.
I have severe depression & anxiety, for over 10-12 years now. I've tried all the depression meds, Zoloft, Wellbutrin, you name it. After being their test monkey they finally put me on Klonopin/Xanax & for the first time in my life I could function like a normal person, my attacks where at a min. A few years later I had an opioid issue, I decided to get my shit together, found what seemed to be a caring doctor, not a shady cash one or anything. They put me on Suboxone. This is when it was fairly new or they simply didn't know much about it, even the legit ones where ok with it, combining it with a benzo. I was on 3, 8mg tablets of subs a day along with 3mg of Klonopin a day as well. All was fine just up until a few years ago, doctors everywhere said the combination was too dangerous, etc. So they cut me of the pins cold turkey and kept me on the Suboxone. Ever since then they have tried non benzos meds to try and curb my anxiety/depression. They put me on Risperdal, Neurontin & so on. It was a nightmare, I'd wake up a zombie. I have a family, I have to be alert, functional. My phcatrist wanted to make me so tired my anxiety would supposedly decrease. That's how I saw it. I tried his method for a long time and just up until recently. I've been to the ER numerous times with panic attacks. I barely leave the house, get racing thoughts, I could go on. It's not a fun way to live.
Now to the point of all this. My sub doctor would not give me any benzos, I even offered to go down on my Suboxne amount. He said no benzos but I'll increase your Suboxone. I didn't want to do that, so I had to make a choice, keep suffering or find a way to get back on my Klonopin. I called my PCP and he gave me a script to help me get by. However, I told him I was no longer on the Suboxone.
Now I see my Suboxone doctor/phcatrist this week. When I go in to see him will he be able to look on his computer and see I had a prescription of Klonopin filled? I went to a different pharmacy but they used my insurance that use to fill my sub script. So will my insurance see that I filled Suboxone last month and then the Klonopin just recently. I will be drug tested when I go so the benzos will show up in my system but I was just going to tell him I got it from the ER when I went or I had a few left over from a previous visit. It's worked before when I had to get some off of a friend. But the whole insurance debacle is what concerns me.
When I go this week will he be able to see that I got a benzo filled from a different pharmacy? Or will he only see what has been filled over the years at the pharmacy that I've always used with him? It sucks I had to do it this way but he was just not willing to work with me and I can't suffer any longer. I've never abused benzos just fyi and wasn't a hardcore drug addict.
Thanks for listening to me ramble, take care.
- bud
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