Posted by jealibeanz on March 24, 2007, at 5:01:07
In reply to Re: Xanax XR is horrible! » jealibeanz, posted by Phillipa on March 23, 2007, at 20:08:47
> Jelly saw him yesterday he took me off the xanax long acting and instead gave me 2mg of ativen four times a day. I had two pills left of the long acting so first dose of ativan will be bedtime tonight Wish me luck cause as you I started years ago on .25 of xanax regular four times a day. By all rights I should be a walking zombie on this with the lunesta. And he said the dizzyness and nightmares were probably from the discontinuing of the ad. And then the endo still hadn't contacted him he firmly believes my problem is physical since the thyroid started this merry-go-round so sent to a friend internist across the street appointment next Friday and the internist is part of the big practice of all specialties this Mecklenburgmedicalgroup.com so he should be able to get in touch with him. He is in a different location. You can google this by adding the www. Love Phllipa
It's good that your pdoc sent you to another specialist. You need someone who is accountable and can be reached.What was the reason for taking you off Xanax XR? I thought you were doing well with it. Did this change?
Why the change to Ativan? Have you been on it before?
Do you think the Xanax XR made you tired or groggy? I'm pretty sure it's doing that to me, much more so than regular Xanax. I just want to take naps all the time. I didn't need to before. If I had the time, I could take an afternoon nap, and be fine the rest of the day. But with the XR, I'm just very groggy and slow. (I shouldn't be tired with the 400 mg Provigil and 60 mg Ritalin LA.)
It almost does feel a bit like Klonopin, which made me uncoordinated, sleepy, cloudy, depressed. The XR does not have the antidepressant effects that regular does. It may be depressing, I'm not sure, but that's how Klonopin was... your mood just slowly sinks, and you don't always attribute the decline to the medication.
Ughh... I want off of this drug and back on to something that works. I don't know what my doc's intentions were. Maybe he's trying to ween me off benzos. Is that common to switch someone on to a longer-acting med to get off? I would have thought he'd tell me of this plan, but maybe he didn't purposely, as to not upset me, and let things play out.
Or, I might just be reading in to this too much. That's easy to do when you not happy with the situation. My doctor isn't a person who tries to mess with you just to have power or control. He's not a secretive person. I know he's just trying to help, but I don't know if that's coming in the form of him believing I should try to stop Xanax, or that he really thought that I'd like Xanax XR because of it's consistency.
I'm not liking this at all.
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