So some background, I have had a problem with Xanax... abuse wise. I've had 2 seizures from withdrawal, one happening in 2014, and one happening a on last months script. I have been trying extremely hard to manage my xanax (yes my doctor didn't take it away after the seizure, I was surprised to) However, I still am going to run short this month. I'm not using my Xanax to get high, as much, its just I beilve my tolerance has just gotten to high. I am perscribed 90 1mg Xanax, and I have been on that same dose since August 2014, prior to that I had been on 80 1mg xanax, 6 months from a physc, and before that we slowly worked up the mg. After my rehab stay in the BHU after my first seziure, My doctor did pull me off benzos (the physc) so i went out and found a family doctor, took the bottle empty that had my name and 80 on it, made up a lie said I had moved, and bam I asked for 90 so I could take 3 day, no problem. I haven't pushed to go to 4 1mg a day, but think maybe just 2mg is the way to go. I don't wanna give up benzos I very much need them. I will NOT do SSRI's I value my sex drive. Do you think after being on the same dose with the same doctor of 90 1mg xanax would be about time for a mg change, bc im sure tolerance has built up long before I decided i'd talk to the doctor. Well I can't ask the doc i asked to up my pain meds and he said he'd give me a refferal to pain management if I wanted them up, I refused (piss testing i smoke weed). I really don't think 120 1mg (4 a day) would cut it even, I'm thinking 2mg 3 times a day would. But thats a LARGE dose. May scare the doctor. (Whom I don't plan on asking, I plan on asking the Nurse Praticiner whom I orginally saw, we are like friends so it's easier to talk to her (plus my doc is forgine hard to understand and if he'd been the one I orginally asked for the Xanax, he would have refused, however I got the nurse my first visit once its on my chart has to be followed. Anyways, another question would be if I stayed at my same does can you legally add a long acting benzo to you meds? Like get xanax and Kpins or Valium together. I feel like the xanax would work and the I need More I need more would go away if I had a long acting in the morning with my first dose of xanax, and a dose of a long acting benzo at bedtime (Which I don't take xanax before bed, I take ambien and serquel). I always wake up in withdrawl from xanax (not awful) but I don't wake up like a normal person would! I just lay in bed till I can get the motivation to get the meds together and head out to the living room. So I guess I asked two questions.
1. Should I ask for my 1mg 90 xanax a month be increased to 2mg 90 a month (Maybe break the evening dose into 2 halfs, so I could take 1 at night as well)
2. Is it possible to be perscribed two benzos at the same time. (eg. 90 1mg xanax &/or 60 2mg Kpins or 10mg Valium?
(A little more background, perscription prices are no problem I get everything free I have two insurances, I usually pay 50 cents for all 4 of my scripts)
I'm so desperate, I know I have a problem but Id rather die than have to face the world without anxiety meds. I have a diagnosis of generalized and social anxiety, I know my tolerance is playing a role in this.
So another question how often should Xanax dosage be changed, considering i've been on nearly the same dose for 2 years.
Current Meds:
#90 1mg Xanax (generic) --- Need something done with this.
#30 Norco 5/325mg(generic) --- This is really just for fun, I have a tooth that looks like im in pain but im not really, my back dose hurt often but i've never mentioned it, bc I get the norco.
#30 Serquel 50mg (generic) --- Plan to have this upped i've been on it before, for sleep at 300mg and I loved it.
#30 Ambien 10mg
Any advice is appreciated.
1. Should I ask for my 1mg 90 xanax a month be increased to 2mg 90 a month (Maybe break the evening dose into 2 halfs, so I could take 1 at night as well)
2. Is it possible to be perscribed two benzos at the same time. (eg. 90 1mg xanax &/or 60 2mg Kpins or 10mg Valium?
(A little more background, perscription prices are no problem I get everything free I have two insurances, I usually pay 50 cents for all 4 of my scripts)
I'm so desperate, I know I have a problem but Id rather die than have to face the world without anxiety meds. I have a diagnosis of generalized and social anxiety, I know my tolerance is playing a role in this.
So another question how often should Xanax dosage be changed, considering i've been on nearly the same dose for 2 years.
Current Meds:
#90 1mg Xanax (generic) --- Need something done with this.
#30 Norco 5/325mg(generic) --- This is really just for fun, I have a tooth that looks like im in pain but im not really, my back dose hurt often but i've never mentioned it, bc I get the norco.
#30 Serquel 50mg (generic) --- Plan to have this upped i've been on it before, for sleep at 300mg and I loved it.
#30 Ambien 10mg
Any advice is appreciated.