Hi everyone. I am curious about peoples experiences with Xanax. Here is my problem. When I feel off, I mean inside my body, I freak out. If there is a side effect to be had, I have it because I focus on it. It makes me worry. After 2 panic attacks the psychiatrist, I am from a small town so I don't have much choice in the who, put me on Effexor. That lasted about 3 days because I felt so horrible. It made me so sick and I didn't want to get out of bed. I tried it twice and quit both times. After the Effexor failure they put me on Xanax. I was on .5 three times a day and now I am on 1mg 3 times a day. I was on 4 mg for about a week and a half and it dazed me right out and made me completely non-functional. The 3 seemed to be working great, and I went back to working full time. It seemed cool until I noticed I was staggering around a bit again like I did in the beggining and my head is cloudy. I question my ability to drive sometimes because I feel so out of it. Plus, even though I have been told by my psych that she will not let me become addicted, I am so scared that I will have terrible withdrawls. I have a 4 year old and work full time and I have so much to do I can't afford to be sick and dizzy all the time and it does not work with my job to feel that way. Anyone been on Xanax and successfully withdrawn without being totally screwed up? I wish they had never put me on anything. I have some frienRAB with the same problems and they did it naturally. I feel like I feel worse thanks to the Xanax sometimes. Everyone keeps telling me I have to trust the doctor but I am so sick of the ups and downs and weird feelings all over my body. I am sick of not feeling like myself. It also sucks because I can't get in to see the psych for probably at least 2 weeks! Grrrr!
I hate medication!
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