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Diagnosed with anxiety but having a hard time getting script benzos

canadianpeduser

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Hey everyone.

As you can probably tell from my handle, I’m in Canada. Was diagnosed with anxiety 5 or so years ago. And since then it’s been near impossible to get a dr to prescribe me any type of benzo. I feel like I could definitely benefit from them. I don’t like clonazepam as it’s too strong for me and turns me into a zombie. I had a one month script of lorazepam recently but that was from hitting the hospital and I wasn’t given any refills. And Ativan/lorazepam barely works for me. The amount I have to take to notice anything is 4-6 mg at once. So I found diazepam and nitrazepam to work best for me.

Is there a specific type of Dr i should be looking for?

And yes im an addict and I put down street drugs a while back so there is a possibility I might be flagged in the system as an addict. I don’t want to seem like im drug seeking (even though I guess I partially am)- but for medical reasons to have a better quality of life. My anxiety is crippling at times and I have the odd panic attack here and there. It’s tough because I know my pharmaceuticals and when you go into a dr with the attitude like knowing what you need they tend to view it as drug seeking.

It would be heaven to be able to get a script of diazepam as thats what’s worked for me in the past. I have coverage and all that but my only road to getting any real pharma benzos has been to order overseas. I would be grateful if anybody could help me out with how to approach this.

Thanks
 
Hey everyone.

As you can probably tell from my handle, I’m in Canada. Was diagnosed with anxiety 5 or so years ago. And since then it’s been near impossible to get a dr to prescribe me any type of benzo. I feel like I could definitely benefit from them. I don’t like clonazepam as it’s too strong for me and turns me into a zombie. I had a one month script of lorazepam recently but that was from hitting the hospital and I wasn’t given any refills. And Ativan/lorazepam barely works for me. The amount I have to take to notice anything is 4-6 mg at once. So I found diazepam and nitrazepam to work best for me.

Is there a specific type of Dr i should be looking for?

And yes im an addict and I put down street drugs a while back so there is a possibility I might be flagged in the system as an addict. I don’t want to seem like im drug seeking (even though I guess I partially am)- but for medical reasons to have a better quality of life. My anxiety is crippling at times and I have the odd panic attack here and there. It’s tough because I know my pharmaceuticals and when you go into a dr with the attitude like knowing what you need they tend to view it as drug seeking.

It would be heaven to be able to get a script of diazepam as thats what’s worked for me in the past. I have coverage and all that but my only road to getting any real pharma benzos has been to order overseas. I would be grateful if anybody could help me out with how to approach this.

Thanks
the doctors who refuse to give you a script are actually doing you a favor, and I’ll leave that right there…

I have a regular doctor that I see and he is not easy to get a script from but I asked him a few times over the years for 2mg Valium’s for some flights I was going to be taking over the next month and I went back and asked him for a refill after a few months I then turned that into coming back every other month for a refill,he would run some test too submit too insurance to add to writing a few scripts and handing me a couple referrals,,unfortunately this is the way things work nowadays,you wash my back and I’ll wash yours
 
Like @Just a little pinprick said the drs are caring for you by not giving you what you think you need. They are great for emergency situations (acutely) but long term they actually make your anxiety worse and you need more and more to get relief is my understanding of it. This is NOT an experience I’ve had. But I’ve never taken benzos long term. Not my DOC.

I realize you want these because they do treat anxiety excellently. Few things are better at that BUT long term you are looking at cognitive decline and increased anxiety.

Not to mention the other risks. Other things have side effects but less severe like depending on the type of anxiety it is. Buspirone is great for some PTSD related anxiety. Abilify is too and I usually wouldn’t ever recommend a AP but its side effect profile is light compared to the others. I personally like vraylar but idk about its use for anxiety.

I used to take both buspirone and abilify and worked great but side effects were not worth it for me. My anxiety wasn’t crippling just impactful.

He’ll even gabapentin may help and it’s probably the closest thing to a benzo they may be willing to write. It may cause cognitive decline too but it seems like anything increasing gabapentin can cause that or modulating gabapentin whatever.

If you are dead set on finding a doctor so you don’t get them off the street see a cash doctor if you can. Idk about in Canada but cash only tend to be more lenient in their prescribing sorta speak
 
Well this is after years of trial and error , been on and off SSRI’s, ive taken gabapentin and lyrica before and they didn’t help. Weed used to help but I don’t bother anymore since it seems to make me very lazy and I can’t think properly. I understand your guys’ sentiment and I can appreciate that but having something on hand especially for the panic attacks i get here and there it makes for a shitty quality of life. I don’t want to be addicted to benzos-ive seen what it can do to somebody. But I’m at a point where it’s getting in the way of my life. Hence why I brought it up here. I’ve tried all kinds of things- and a small script of say 30-60 diazepam per month I’d maybe take half of them if that. It’s something I find I have much more control over than say opiates or even a stimulant script which ive had both of them in the past. And yes I struggled with addiction to fent and coke/meth in my past. I know myself well enough to see when things start becoming unmanageable.

Im also prescribed zopiclone which is pretty close to a benzo but those have stopped helping my anxiety. Im prescribed 15 mg per night and on bad days I’d take half of that during the day and take the remainder of the dose for bed alongside my quetiapine. It helped for sure for a while but I’ve been on them so long now they’ve lost their effectiveness . I sometimes take breaks for a week at a time or so to lower my tolerance. I plan on doing something similar with a benzo. I.e not taking for more than 2-3 days straight at a time as to not develop a psychological and physical dependence
 
Hey everyone.

As you can probably tell from my handle, I’m in Canada. Was diagnosed with anxiety 5 or so years ago. And since then it’s been near impossible to get a dr to prescribe me any type of benzo. I feel like I could definitely benefit from them. I don’t like clonazepam as it’s too strong for me and turns me into a zombie. I had a one month script of lorazepam recently but that was from hitting the hospital and I wasn’t given any refills. And Ativan/lorazepam barely works for me. The amount I have to take to notice anything is 4-6 mg at once. So I found diazepam and nitrazepam to work best for me.

Is there a specific type of Dr i should be looking for?

And yes im an addict and I put down street drugs a while back so there is a possibility I might be flagged in the system as an addict. I don’t want to seem like im drug seeking (even though I guess I partially am)- but for medical reasons to have a better quality of life. My anxiety is crippling at times and I have the odd panic attack here and there. It’s tough because I know my pharmaceuticals and when you go into a dr with the attitude like knowing what you need they tend to view it as drug seeking.

It would be heaven to be able to get a script of diazepam as thats what’s worked for me in the past. I have coverage and all that but my only road to getting any real pharma benzos has been to order overseas. I would be grateful if anybody could help me out with how to approach this.

Thank
Hey everyone.

As you can probably tell from my handle, I’m in Canada. Was diagnosed with anxiety 5 or so years ago. And since then it’s been near impossible to get a dr to prescribe me any type of benzo. I feel like I could definitely benefit from them. I don’t like clonazepam as it’s too strong for me and turns me into a zombie. I had a one month script of lorazepam recently but that was from hitting the hospital and I wasn’t given any refills. And Ativan/lorazepam barely works for me. The amount I have to take to notice anything is 4-6 mg at once. So I found diazepam and nitrazepam to work best for me.

Is there a specific type of Dr i should be looking for?

And yes im an addict and I put down street drugs a while back so there is a possibility I might be flagged in the system as an addict. I don’t want to seem like im drug seeking (even though I guess I partially am)- but for medical reasons to have a better quality of life. My anxiety is crippling at times and I have the odd panic attack here and there. It’s tough because I know my pharmaceuticals and when you go into a dr with the attitude like knowing what you need they tend to view it as drug seeking.

It would be heaven to be able to get a script of diazepam as thats what’s worked for me in the past. I have coverage and all that but my only road to getting any real pharma benzos has been to order overseas. I would be grateful if anybody could help me out with how to approach this.

Thanks
if you do get put on benzo’s, you should really think about it deeply first.
. I have complex PTSD from trauma abuse as a child-teen, generalized anxiety disorder, social anxiety, agoraphobia. I isolate way too much.there are many times where i don’t leave my house for a really long time or i keep getting stuck isolating.

I was put on clonazepam 12 years ago and it really helped me because my anxiety was and kind of still is ruining my life. It’s debilitating but people need to remember that the benzos are really just a Band-Aid.

.You have to also work in therapy and learn the mental tools for anxiety too Because if you don’t, what might happen is what happened to me. I’ve been on it for 12 years but most of that time I wasn’t in therapy and it was just a Band-Aid and now i have a tolerance and I’m so used to it.now It doesn’t really work very well anymore, it just kind of does and it’s better than nothing BUT now I have to learn all these therapy tools for anxiety/ anxiety disorders which I should’ve learned a long time ago,many years ago

And now sometimes I wish I wasn’t on benzos but getting off them it’s gonna be scary. It kind of sucks being on medication for life in a way. And getting off of them, Some people have seizures and die, but I know that that probably won’t happen being slowly tapered off over time,years I just very highly recommend really think about it before you get on them because getting off them is really scary and the withdrawal is so horrible. Worse than heroin withdrawal.

.if you can try to not take it everyday for years like I was/am prescribed to do. It would be ideal and nice if a doctor was fully understanding and understood the extreme degree of the anxiety disorder and the life ruining agoraphobia and would just prescribe benzos every once in a while and not take them every single day for years.

.also look into gabapentin first it's easier to get and works really well when taken right and you figure out how to do it right and take the dose that your body responds Well too(everyone is a bit different with it) I wish I would’ve tried that first, but there is a downside to it,You build up a huge tolerance super crazy fast.
 
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