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Old Apr 13, 2014, 07:23 PM
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Originally Posted by wildflowerchild25 View Post
They can't just take you off of that much Xanax cold turkey. They would have to wean you. They might want to, depending on the place, but even if they do if you feel worse you can ask your outside pdoc to take you back up. It would only be for a few days.

Do you take it as prescribed? It seems to me in the last place I was in they took a lot of people off their benzos, but I was on the psychiatric and addictions ward. They only took the addicts off the benzos. My pdoc actually made me take more lol.
Thanks! I do take it exactly as prescribed but I read a review online of the place that they are anti Xanax and pulled her off it and made her go to substance abuse programs when she was not an addict because she was on a high dose. I don't care if they replace it with Klonopin - I can deal with it for a short time but if they take me off or even significantly lower it I'm out. It's the only thing that controls the anxiety/panic.
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400 mg Lamictal
300 mg Seroquel
200 Topamax
6 mg Klonopin
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