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Depression & Anxiety | Last Active: Jun 20 9:57pm | Replies (332)

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When I first started having severe anxiety, I was prescribed Lexapro as well as Xanax at bedtime. Later the Xanax was switched to Klonopin. I took 1mg at bedtime and never increased the dose. At the time, I feel these drugs were necessary for me to function. In time, I have learned other ways to cope with anxiety. I have not been on an antidepressant since 2014, and I don't want to revisit them. At the time, they were needed. When these drugs were prescribed, doctors had no problems with them but over time, that changed. First it was opiates, now benzos. Seldom prescribed now and strongly regulated. Most doctors seem to want us off them. I would suggest you try not to worry about the medication as it just increases your anxiety. Hopefully you have a psychologist to work with and someone to manage your medications.

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Good stuff! Yeah, with respect to physicians, what I have found is the older physicians are the ones who still prescribe this benzo crap. The younger guys/ladies do not, my primary (young guy) said as much and I have found that to be true. As a precaution, I saw a neurlogist two weeks ago, to just make sure, my tremors weren't the result of something more serious, although I strongly suspected it was the klonopin. After giving me a thourgh exam, he said, he agreed with me, the klonopin was most likely the cause. Asked me why this sleep doc gave me that medicine as he was frankly surprised. I told him it was due to off/on insomnia I had and he couldn't believe he prescribed this. He did say he prescribes this med (old guy too), however, fairly rare. So 3 docs could not understand why I was ever given this med, go figure. Neurologist told me to just stay away from physicians, thought he was joking but then I realized he was serious. Reminded me of what my God son ( a physician) had told me a while back, be your own advocate. He said he was shocked at what he sees in his profession and being at top of his class at Harvard, he's the brightest of the bright, so I take what he said to heart. Best to you!