mitjasonI'm not sure if it's actually call Breakthrough Anxiety but does anyone have extreme anxiety once or twice a day even when you're on Xanax XR. I'm currently taking 2mg Immediate Release tablets 3x daily. I've also taken 3mg Xanax XR but I would have breakthrough anxiety 2 to 3 times a day for about 2 hours for no reason. I was wondering if I switched to 3mg Xanax Xr and take my regular 2 mg when needed for breakthrough anxiety if that will work. Anyone ever thought of this or tied this? I'm going to talk to my doctor about it next time a see him. I know that the max does of Xanax is 10mg So I'm going to ask him if I can change my xanax to 3mg Xanax XR and then also Take 2mg Immediate Release 3 times a day(a total of 11mg which I dont think insurance will have a problem with).
Does anyone in this group take XR Xanax and have Breakthrough Anxiety?
- Posted:
- 14 Dec 2009 by mitjason
- Topics:
- xanax, xanax xr, anxiety, panic disorder, generalized anxiety disorder
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itsmetoo214 Dec 2009
Your doctor might have to give you some other drug. Something like Zoloft or Cymbalta. Xanax is very addicted, and physicians have been clamped down on. Suggest one of these other drugs. Then your physician will know you do not want the addiction. You just want to feel better.
mitjason
16 Dec 2009
Addiction is extremely rare if you take the medication as prescribed. All the addicts I know didn't take the medication as prescribed. Xanax works great for me. Don't get me wrong, I know the risks involved. I notify my doctor of any high I feel when taking any controlled medications. I'm also on Effexor Xr. All they would do is increase it until I finally said STOP because it made the anxiety worse. Xanax is the best medication for anxiety I have tried to date. Thanks for the suggestion though! I appreciate your time and comment :)
itsmetoo2
16 Dec 2009
To be addicted does not make an adict, I have seen people who went through withdrawls on some blood pressure medications. The same with using a legal amount of Xanax, the withdrawls can be terriable. I was trying to save you from that.
traycrow8322 Dec 2009
Are you on any other meds besides Xanax? Just because Xanax really doesnt last that long in your system so it could just be wearing off and thats why you are still feeling those symtoms. You should ask you doctor to put you on something else that you would take daily... such as Zoloft, Lexapro and so on. This couls def help you out.
geisterxfahrer
24 Jul 2011
I am sorry for answering this if it is not for me, i am new to this site. but yes I am on other meds. and have been on over 50 psych meds alone in the past 6 years ranging from lexapro, to geodone, to risperdone, to serquel, to zoloft, to effexor (which I thought was gonna kill me whne i came off), klonapin (1mg 4 times a day), valium 10mg 4 times a day, buspar, ativan (2mg 3 times a day) adderal, ritalin, concerta, now vyvanse. So what I current like take now are (20mg prozac bid, 50mg Vyvanse QD am, 5mg valium tid on a schedule, 2mg Xanax BID PRN, 100mg trazadone PRN for sleep. Im trying to get off the trazonde though, so my doc is helping me ween down to 50mg a night, so i recentlay began that. but the only meds taht have helped my anxiety and severe panic disorder (with agoraphobia) is xanax.. nothing else has worked.
geisterxfahrer
1 Aug 2011
Thank you all for all your help. especially the thumbs down.
bethmed29 Aug 2011
I have been taking Xanax XR for about six months now and I love it, however I began having similiar problems. At first the attacks were only happening about once a week, then two to three times per week, and the episodes where becoming worse and lasting longer. Can't really have this when you are a single mom chasing aroung a 2 year old. I tried to stick it out hoping they would go away, because I didnt want my psychiatrist to begin to believe that I was just trying to get more pills. However, once they begin to occur everyday I had to do something, so I actually called his voicemail right in the middle of a really bad episode, crying and everything. I know he is a very busy man but I heard back from him in less than 45 min. He did something that surprised me. He didn't tell me to go to the emergency room like so many do or up my Xanax XR or even add an extra benzo. He asked for the number of my pharmacy and said he was going to try me on Neurontin.
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Yeah I would talk to your doctor to increase it or change to Xanax XR which is made to prevent people from having panic attacks and panic attacks alone. If you have anxiety and panic attacks I would suggest the short acting Xanax or maybe asking to try both if possible. Thanks for your comment too!
Currently I am on scheduled 5mg Valium TID. prior to this i was taking xanax 2mg
but now I take the valium three times a day and STILL need my 2mg xanax as if the valium wasnt even tehre, I have been on benzos for 6 years so My doctor know that the efficacy is decreasing. I spoke with my therapist about it. I am and diagnosed with severe treatment resistant panic disorder (which if continues, i show signs, paranoia and various type of schizophrena to the point i had been misdiagnosed as schizaffective. but my new doc is great. I have been on so many benzo sadly that Iknow what works, the only one that really works is xanax. so asked my therapist to contact my psych to tell her an idea. switch the valium to 3mg xanax xr BID but af firs tbieng able to stlil take my 2mg IR for what while. what doyou think?
I HAVE oops, been on klonopin for 20 yrs. 1mg. 3x day. they helped anxiety more than anything I tried,but they must build up in your system 1st.I have had xanax before,dr, in ga. are so scared we just dont get them often to see if they help or not.I could not get relief from benzo alone,I have paxil at its lowest dose at night,it stops those addrealine? surges we have that are horid. So yes we all have break through anxiety it seems, a yell by a child can set mine off,looking up and down too fast andt the spinning begins,I am sorry you must live with this too,I know nerves are misery especially mad ones.
Thank you all for you responses. but I no longer see my psychiatrist. They said that they could not handle the severity of my panic disorder... this is the SECOND psychitrist to say that... so she TRIED to baker act me. but i said "I am fully coherent I am jeff I am at ********* psychiatry in *********** hospital and i am not a danger to myself nor others. so the doc gave me the option of volunarily (eccuse my spelling im angry) go to the hospital, or she would write a months worth of my current scripts and i could find a new doctor. i chose the second. no way in heck am i going back to a ward. three times is enough. She gives me meds that DONT help. and she knows ive been on xanax for years so she should know that i have a tolerance. but whatever. ive just noticed something. ever sicne i started seeing a therapist, and a new psychiatrist, and actually beign honest with them, my panic disorder has increases 100 fold.
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So now, I see my therapist today, it may be my last visit i havent decided yet. because Ive only gotten worse since then.(anxiety wise at least) my depression is better, im off prescription sleep aids now. so i am better in other aspects. but the root of everything is my panic. and no psych seems to be able to deal with it. i even read that for people with treatment resistant sever panic disorder (which is what they say i have) you can get up to 2mg of xanax a day. she wouldnt even let me have 6. 3mg twice a day as needed. ive been on it so long that i have a tolerance and its natural to need more. So now Im buying herbal suplemnts too to help. i just order Kava Kava. and not the Kava cr@p from GNC that is standardized at 30% kavalactones and u have to take like 7 pills to feel a thign. i ordered from a reputable site and am waiting for 100 capsules of kava extract with 84% kavlactones(the main antianxiety stuff) in it. Also I am ordering Kratom alkaloids which act like opiate pain killers and help with anxiety and chronic pain. Since doctors wont help me, i have to do it myself. thank you all again for your advice and input.
-jeff