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cucupuffs,

Whoa, I'm surprised to even hear that your doctor is even prescribing you Xanax, since most will only prescribe them short term. My old doctor that was prescribing them to me cut me off without notice and put me on all sorts of different antidepressant meds like Paxil, Zoloft, Wellbutrin, Lexapro, none of which worked for me at all. For me, Xanax is the only med I can take that effectively controls my anxiety. I've been on Klonopin before, as well, but I had impulse control issues with that med, don't know why, but that's just how they affected me, personally.

As for the benzo's, to hear of a doctor "pushing" a benzo on a patient is relatively unheard of around my way. I don't know where you live, but due to the fact that benzo's in particular are highly addictive, most doctors won't touch them with a 10 foot pole anymore. I can relate with you about the depression, that's what Paxil did to me, to the point where I was suicidal, and I was being treated for anxiety, not depression with suicidal tendencies.

If I were you, I'd try to find another doctor. I know that, technically, it's illegal to "doctor shop," but if this one is trying to force you to take a medication that is making you feel depressed and discriminating against you because you're on Medicaid, then your case falls under special circumstances.

This doctor sounds like he is just setting himself up for a potential lawsuit, since you mentioned that you're having depression symptoms from taking Xanax, and advising any patient to quit a benzo cold turkey like that is just absurd!! God forbid you were to harm yourself (which I hope you don't!!), your family could sue this guy right out of his practice. I can't believe that any doctor would treat a patient so horribly, and I thought that I had my own horror stories about what doctors have put me through personally, but nothing that could hold a candle to what you just posted.

My advice would be to taper off the Xanax instead of quitting cold turkey, doing that could cause you to have horrifying withdrawal symptoms. Once you start doing that, get out your yellow pages and look for another doctor in your area that takes Medicaid and, hopefully, after you explain your current situation with the doctor that you're seeing now, he or she will try to help you with your situation. If that doesn't work, I'd consider consulting a lawyer and/or threatening to get the media involved. No doctor wants to hear the word "media", even if you don't plan on going through with contacting the media with your story, a lot of the time, a doctor will just about poop his pants at the very thought of his name and practice being mentioned negatively in the news. Just some suggestions, hope they helped.

Good luck & take care,

Eeyore

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~ R.I.P. Darrell Abbott 12/08/04