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Aug 06, 2015, 11:24 AM
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I'm finding it extremely difficult to call doctors, even knowing I will go into serious withdrawals when I run out of my anxiety medicine and don't have anyone to refill all of my medicine. Before I found my last doctor, I went to literally over 15 doctors before finding my doctor. I would drive up to an hour away to see a doctor to find out if I liked them or not. I don't have time to do that this time. I wasn't on any medication last time I searched. Withdrawals feels so horrible and now my anxiety is going through the roof and I'm trying to conserve than take them to calm down. I can't even imagine how rehab would work. That idea terrified me the most. Does anyone know if primary care doctors will refill my meds until I find a new psychiatrist?
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Aug 06, 2015, 11:44 AM
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My primary care doc refilled my Klonopin for a month when I was between pdocs. Can't hurt to ask.
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Aug 06, 2015, 11:45 AM
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I don't have a primary care doctor already though. So it would be a new doctor and I feel like they wouldn't do that.
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Aug 06, 2015, 11:48 AM
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Yeah... if they don't know you they probably wouldn't. Worse, since you'd be new, they might tag you as a drug-seeker. You can't go to the last doctor that filled it, or call them for a refill? Seems like it would be less anxiety-producing than going to a new primary care, or worse, going through withdrawal.
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Aug 06, 2015, 11:59 AM
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That's exactly what I'm worried about. I didn't know anything about addiction and all of that until I had my first seizure when I forgot where I put my bottle. I had a grand mal seizure. I had already been on them at an increasing dosage for a year by then. Now I've been on them for almost 5 years now and apparently a very high dosage. I didn't even know I was on a high dose until I went to the hospital and I was confused and mad at why the doctor only would give me a .5mg every 6 hours as needed when I normally take 2mg, 3-4 times a day when I need it. Anxiety doesn't wait. Sometimes I have to take them 3 hours later but then I can go 10 without it the next sometimes. It's all random and mainly triggered easily. Cutting me down to 25% of my dosage and then putting a time restriction on it made me really upset. That's when I really started reading and finding out about how it's highly abused and that's why. Part of me hates my doctor for continuously upping my dosage and then giving me a 2 months notice that she's closing her practice and moving to another state.
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