Thread: xanax

Hey Guys,
So as a teenager I used to have terrible panic attacks. Full on I thought the world was going to end, sweating, max heart rate etc. Over the yaers I learnt how to control that shit through counselling and can now talk myself out of most panic attacks. Today the only panic I experience is on a fucking plane and I cant control it. Ive found xanax controls the anxiety enough to travel but fucked me if I can get a GP to prescribe it!
Im well presented and tell the doc openly what I need the drug for and I get treated like a fucken drug seeker and a lecture on how xanax is a drug of abuse and I should get counselling for the anxiety. Fuck me! I fly once a month for work and dont need the stress...
Anyone got any ideas on dealing with a GP and getting the outcome you want and need?

Cheers Guys

Yeah I hear you bonza. Its so frustrating dealing with bloody GPs. When my dad and younger sister died in a car accident all I needed was a sedative to let my mind relax for a bit and allow some sleep. This doc gave me 5 valium and pushed anti depressives on me. Ofcourse I was fucking sad its called grief! I tried another 2 doctors and they flat out refused and offered me prozac. I finally found a doctor who gave me some meds to sleep and something to take the edge off and allow me to plan the funeral. Did I become an addict? NO! and after things settled down I stopped all the meds cause I didnt need them. That experience really opened my eyes to how GPs operate in Australia

gp's here are fucking good for nothing, maybe try another type of sedative like ketamine lol

Simple. Take something that will increase your BP... like shitloads of gear. dont sleep for 2 days... go to the docs... say uve been having sleeping problems for the last six months. you've tried all herbal remedies (do ur research) eg. valerian.... they do not work.. the last few weeks its been getting worse. uve had to sleep in cause the best sleepu get is early morning... tell him u dont know what to do anymore... ur now getting headaches every day... u've lost 5kg.... u dont know what to do.

dont ask for drugs. when they say "i can give u something" look at him puzzled as if u have no idea... if he says anything about valium and asks if uve heard of it say "yeh but i thought valium was a pretty heavy drug... the thing is.. i dont want to be drugged out.. i still need to wake up... is that going to be ok?"

play dumb.... i even tell them "i dont like taking anything that isnt natural"

they will test ur BP... see u have high BP.. and give u something to chillax u... just need to get ur bp up :P

hahahahaha, maybe take records or something of your past counceling. Or some sort of proof that you have done it. That should be enough for a dr to give it. I mean even suggest for the low dose xanax i think they come in .5mg or even .25mg, and ask for like 3 or them or something, that way he see's it is only for that 1 off occasion that you fly. after a month or so im sure they will prescribe the whole bottle lol

Cheers for that plexus and thrasha. Both good ideas and I will give it another go. Probably wasnt the best idea being honest with these docs and openly asking for a certain medication seems to get their radar up. Will play it a little smarter when I go visit this week. It shits me having to take time off work aswell as paying cash and then you walk away with nothing but a lecture...