My doctor monitors my taking Xanax very carefully, and has never written a prescription with refills.
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He was detained at Jeddah Airport after officials found the anti-anxiety medication Xanax in his luggage.
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If these symptoms improve after each dose of Xanax, this is the more likely scenario.
It might have also marketed it as an alternative to Xanax or Valium.
People that abuse and go through withdrawals, give Xanax and other medication needed for people to function normally, a bad name.
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But I'm going to do my best to give her a mental Xanax and try to let go of the fear.
In fact, IMS says antidepressants were prescribed 169 million times in 2009, twice as much as anti-anxiety drugs like Valium and Xanax.
We know a great deal about the short-term effects of Xanax (generic name is alprazolam) and other benzodiazepine medications on the brain.
Police said Robert Todd Harrell, 41, showed signs of impairment and acknowledged he had consumed hard cider and taken the prescription pills Lortab and Xanax.
He referred me for a full cardio workup, just to ease my concern, scratched off a prescription for Xanax and sent me on my way.
Unlike antidepressants, which take days to weeks to turn down brain anxiety centers (and to show clinical effect), Xanax and other benzodiazepines produce immediate relief.
If these feelings coincide with each dose of Xanax and improve as the hours pass, it is a good bet that Xanax is the culprit.
"If you have to take Xanax to get on the elevator, you never learn that the elevator isn't something to be afraid of, " says Dr. Josephson.
Compared with other benzodiazepines, Xanax has an additional problem.
Like most other psychiatrists, I dislike Xanax for this reason and will often try to switch long-term Xanax users to one of the other benzodiazepines that has a longer half-life and less liability for producing patterns of rising and falling anxiety across the day.
"Drugs with advantageous safety profiles, in particular drugs that avoid daytime carryover, are not going to make headway with psychiatrists who as a group are prescribing Valium and Xanax during the daytime, " says Gary Richardson, a senior research scientist at the Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit.
It was a struggle for me to explain what was going on with me to my doctor, but after telling him what was happening to me, he told me that I was having an anxiety attack, and that he would prescribe a medication called Xanax that would make me feel better.
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