[dmhobbit]

My last visit to my psych dr bumped me up from 1mg 4x daily (4mg a day) to 2mg 3x daily. Now I've read on webmd that the therapeutic dose rate for panic disorder is from 1mg to 10mg a day... I'm think really? 10mg a day would put me in bed all day but then again I'm a very anxious panic driven person so he said the mean treatment for "panic disorder is 5-6mg a day in divided doses. He said I won't put you on any higher than 6mg a day.

How do I feel in the past month? More relaxed, less likely to explode or tremor or get cussing angry for no reason. Plus my "prescription sleeping medication" is 100mg of Seroquel at night (works in 30 minutes) and said I'm going to slow your manic butt down and take 50mg (half a pill) in the morning and you may feel drowsy at first but this is to keep you from getting "hyperactive thoughts and speech". THAT's the part I usually ignore because I don't need to be slowed down that much that's waaaay to much medication when I'm already on an upper dose (therapeutic i guess) of xanax.

I have 6 pscyh meds taken at various points in the day, always take a pill bottle that attaches to my keychain and 5 alarms on my cell phone (three on my timex watch) so apparently I'm taking a morning sweep of meds at 8am, 12pm meds 4pm, 8pm meds, and 10:30pm-11pm night meds.

This seems like a lot but I'm stable and "you don't fix what ain't broke" a wise redneck said anonymously. No more medline changes... I don't want to ever go through withdrawals ever again and I FEEL for those going off benzos with a dr's help cause it could (and has) killed people going cold turkey off them... please work with your dr. to slowly drop you down.

My therapist said there are two things that can kill you... 1) withdrawal from alcohol and 2) withdrawal from benzos... that for real Opiod users for pain can withdrawal with flu like symptoms but they won't die.

Anyhow that's my 2 cents for today and thanks for letting me write and vent. This group rocks! So does my other group on psychcentral "schizoaffective disorder".

God Bless!

I'm glad you are doing well! I take 1 mg of Xanax every six hours and I'm on other meds, too, but Xanax helps with my GAD and Panoc disorder. My pdoc occasionally asks me if I want to go down to 1 mg of Xanax every 8 hours but I tell him I don't want to. That things are working fine, which is true. Like you said, don't fix what isn't broken lol

xo

[Shadesofdark]

6 mg of Xanax is a lot. I worry about it all the time. You might say I have anxiety about my anxiety med.