Posted by jubei on August 22, 2005, at 18:21:25
I am trying to conjure in my mind the best approach to requesting a benzodiazepine from a doctor without the request abnegating my reasonable necessity.
I know quite a bit about benzodiazepines. I have taken them before in due course for negative side-effects with ceratin other medicine. I have not taken them for a while (four months or so), namely because I stopped seeing the doctor that was prescribing them to be (I did not agree to his practices).
I benefit from them very well. I don't get nightmares anymore when I am on them (anti-depressants, etc. are what caused me to start getting them) and they help quell my acute anxiety and restlessness. I know their potential to make oneself addicted to them...however, I believe the benefits outweigh that possibility.
I wonder if anyone has any advice on how to go by asking for them without inciting a disposition of chemical abuse. I know that there are many doctors who won't prescribe them because of this precedent...should one just merely ask for them? "Hey I have bad anxiety and, in the past, clonazepam has helped immensely". Of course, the doctor might want me to confer onto him my past with medicine, and this may cause him to give me those instead. Which would be bad since those medicines really suck.
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