I want to know if I take the benzos will it be a problem when I see my doctor for Suboxone and test positvie for them. He didn't prescribe me benzos because he said taking them is like walking on thin ice with suboxone. I have panic attacks and xanax helps stop them. Should I just stop weeks before the drug test or come clean and tell him the truth. I really don't want to be kicked off of the suboxone, that would destroy me. Please anyone with similar situations answer and let me know what the best option would be, thank you!
I get Xanax and temazepam from one doctor, and Suboxone from another doctor, will I get kicked off?
Question posted by dsyhre on 15 April 2010
Last updated on 10 May 2022
11 Answers
GGfootballs
10 May 2022
This is just me and my story. I had an opioid addiction. Ever since cancer I was prescribed 5mg to 10mg oxycodone or pain killers. Then once the cancer was gone I stopped getting prescribed the pain killers and tried lots of different doctors to get them and none helped. So I’m thinking OK then pain is still there and I’m probably addicted to them and withdraw sucks so after a few months of buying it from the streets I was drained of cash. So I found the Suboxone doctor told them my story and got prescribed Suboxone. It helped after 1-2 months of taking it. Then I noticed that I was getting depressed and can’t sleep plus crazy panic attacks when I hear about hospitals or large gatherings. So the doctors prescribed Xanax on top of the Suboxone one. I was prescribed both medication suboxone and Xanax for over 10 years. My life was feeling great.
Working when doctors told me after the cancer that it would be hard for me and I attended reunions with family with no problems with panics or anxiety. Then the doctor went away. I was told to go to a different doctor. All his patients went to different doctors and the one I had still gave me the Suboxone but every month lowered my Xanax dosage to the point I’m back buying it off the streets to get the same dosage as I was getting before my old doctor went away. It’s 2021-2022 and new rules and regulations I don’t know what to do and where to go and talking with a few new doctors they either want to take me off Suboxone and all of them won’t prescribe the Xanax and my life is slowly going down. Family and friends is no where to he found since I alienate all of them due to not having Xanax I isolate myself thinking I am just a burden. But is it just my mind? Maybe I don’t need the Suboxone anymore and just the depression/anxiety med ( Xanax ) or maybe I just don’t deserve to be in this world anymore … if I took 3- 8/2mg Suboxone films and 4-2mg Xanax a day for 10 years and was perfectly fine living my life and enjoying life to the fullest why is it that when I don’t have the Xanax I just feel like no one is here for me and I’m losing everything in the process …. But sorry for the long answer on myself and I think it’s fine to take both of you can drive , work. Do everything fine but when some peoples bodies are different I guess everyone has to stop getting Xanax because someone maybe abuse it or use different drugs to make it bad to have both in your system. But yea I’m just going on and on and I get no one will even see this. I will probably be dead because I really suffer from depression.
watcher1
14 June 2021
Both Dr.'s should have had you list meds your currently taking. How you got around that is fishy,
especially the Dr. who give you sub. Now if he did ask for all meds, and you didn't list that
"I forgot won't cut it.
WildcatVet
5 Dec 2020
Every doctor who prescribes for you MUST be made aware of any other medications you are taking and that includes prescription, OTC, and herbal/natural remedies.
Not only are you risking serious interactions but you WILL eventually be found out and labeled.
WildcatVet
11 May 2022
Your doctor is absolutely right... you're on very thin ice.
Read this Interactions report:
https://www.drugs.com/interactions-check.php?drug_list=439-2040,133-54,2153-0
GRogers93
5 Dec 2020
I wouldn't take the chance in telling him. He could take you off them
Slathermonkey
2 May 2019
Def tell your doc. Any doctor who has a shred of integrity won’t kick you off a medicine that is sooo needed. It took me a really, really long time to be fully honest with my doc about what I used (like 10 years) and I expected judgement. He literally held my hand while I cried and told me he’d help me. I know it’s hard to be honest because there’s a fear it will be taken away, but honesty is truly freeing. Of course, you may have to try something else for your anxiety but make sure you advocate for yourself with transparency.
Good luck!
Intellectzeck1
2 May 2019
Why doesn't your doctor, who prescribes you the benzos, know that you are on Xanax?
djrwm2982
11 May 2010
I got kicked off my clonapin when i told my phcs doc i was addicted to pain killers! It really sucked! I have some of the worst panic attacks! I did get into a suboxone clinic and i was still taking xanax that my boyfriend is prescribed. I thought for sure the sub doc would kick me out but i explained to him that i have been on benzo for almost 20 years and i could not handle my anxiety without them.. Thank God he is a caring doc. He knows i take them without a prescription and is trying to help me get back on them. The thing is he isn't going to prescribe them to me maybe because he don't want to get in any trouble. I'm just glad he lets me take them. I mostly only take them at night to sleep cause my brain races or if i feel like I may start to panic. It is really hard getting the medicine you need after having a addiction. I guess they may think you will abuse anything. And that is not true for me. Well i hope you do get to stay on your benzo while on suboxone. I wouldn't see why not you have a script for them!
Bre33
16 April 2010
Anxiety should not be controlled with benzodiazepines, unless you take them AS NEED ONLY. These medications pose a terribly high risk for dependency and also the worst of any medication withdrawal/discontinuation symptoms. I would recommend you try all other available options first. These include bio/neuro feed-back, acupuncture, psycho-therapy, and non-benzo based medications. etc... It's not that taking Suboxone is really that dangerous, it is a contraindication, though.
oxyaaron
28 Sep 2010
i disagree opiates are MUCH harder to come off of
Going to OD SOON
27 March 2012
I also Agree.
Opiates is Probly the hardest thing to escape the grip of...
I started smoking real opium and it catches up to you. It's not something to mess around with.
I got off without the use of subs... I leaned myself off by switching the way of my opiate high.
One day id smoke it, another day I'd get a bag of H, and the etc like getting a roxy.
Till one day since I wasn't use to doing the same old routine I got my self off finally.
Thank god!
Inactive
16 April 2010
if youre 'doctor shopping' then yes, youll definitely get kicked and possibly be charged criminally, doctor shopping is illegal.
Your doc knows what hes talking about, and if you dont agree with him then thats just too bad (sorry to be blunt), because all hes gonna do is just cut you off of everything that he has you on. The best thing to do would be to go to the doc that gives you the benzos and try to see if he can give you the suboxone as well. Since he KNOWS you need the benzos as well as the opiate he probably will. If he can do that, then stop getting it from the other doctor so it doesnt make you look like youre trying to get 2 scripts to suboxone
last resort (meaning if the doctor who gives you the benzos wont give you the suboxone) go to the opioid doctor and tell him the truth about it, that they havnt been making you sick or anything, and that you really believe they help your anxiety that is otherwise uncontrollable
i hope that helps, good luck
dsyhre
16 April 2010
I have tried buspar, Seroquel, atenolol (blood pressure medicine that can be used for anxiety even though I do not have high blood pressure). I have also been on ativan as needed for panic attacks, then later klonopin daily. When I told a doctor I was addicted to oxy he cut me off all of the benzos, and I ended up checking myself into detox for opiate and benzo withdrawal. Now I am out and I see a family doctor who gave me temazepam for sleep, and .25mg xanax for panic attacks, which do nothing at all. I now have a suboxone doctor but did not tell him I am taking these medications because I didn't take any of them a month prior to seeing him. The day after I saw the suboxone doctor I got a call from walgreens saying my temazepam and xanax are ready. My sub doc gave atenolol for anxiety and seroquel for sleep, which I am scared of.
When I told the sub doc about being on benzos before he said taking them with suboxone is "like walking on thin ice", even though I have friends who get subs and benzos from the same doc. I just don't know if I should just go tell him the truth about what happened and tell him nothing bad happened to me when I took the xanax and temazepam while on suboxone, or just stop taking them a couple weeks prior to my next appointment so I won't test positive in my urine. I really do not want to lose the suboxone, that would just make me end up on oxy and all the garbage again.
rajahbrook
18 April 2010
Sorry to contradict you but ONLY an addiction specialist can prescribe suboxone.
Inactive
18 April 2010
Thats all well and good, but there is a chance that his doctor IS an addiction specialist. Theres no harm in asking him if he can prescribe you suboxone, thats all im saying
Going to OD SOON
27 March 2012
There are not many addiction specialist out in the world.
Yes there are some but it is a low number
kellyandtodd
15 April 2010
patti is right i also take suboxone and i have bad anxiety,you should talk to your suboxone doc since you have tried buspar and other things from him and they didnt work he will put you on something better i know my doc did but you seeing two docs is not a good idea just keep talking to your suboxone doc it will work out and he will give you something that works and it might end up being a low dose bezo,hope this helps
Inactive
15 April 2010
There is danger of respiratory failure while on suboxone and any benzos so you definitely should tell your suboxone doctor that you are prescribed them from another doctor. Some subs doctors do allow it and even prescribed it, but, there is a danger and at what point it becomes a danger, I don't know. There is a medication called buspar that they also prescribe for panic attacks and the like.
dsyhre
15 April 2010
I have been on Buspar, and atenolol for anxiety/panic with no luck. My sub doc told me benzos and suboxone together is like walking on thin ice when used together, but my benzos got filled the day after our first appointment. Should I continue using my benzos until I see him and tell him everything? I really don't want to be kicked off of the suboxone, but the panic attacks are unbearable. I have been on klonopin and suboxone in the past with no problems, I just didn't mention I was on benzos at our first appointment because I was not expecting them to be refilled, but then they did.
Inactive
15 April 2010
I think maybe you should ask the doc who give you the prescriptions for the benzos for something stating why he feels that you truly do need to be on the benzos and if you get drug tested, you are going to have to show a prescription bottle. I don't see how he can absolutely kick you off since you are legally prescribed them. Now, if you don't have a prescription bottle that is current and he drug tests you, you are going to have some explaining to do. There are some exceptions where they let someone remain on benzos.
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