Xanax for cancer anxiety

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Hello,

 

I was prescribed 0.5 mg Xanax pills 3 times daily (as needed) about 2 months ago. My anxiety all stems from a surgery to remove a mass and the right side of my colon 1 year ago that turned out to be annaggresive form a appendix cancer but it was caught early (stage 1) and I needed no chemo. I get CTs and PET scans regulary. All my blood labs and scans are normal but my abdomen is going crazy and I think it might be from withdrawal. I rapidly tapered off of Xanax for about 2 weeks.

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Hi AppendixCscare Welcome to BenzoBuddies!

 

I am glad you found us. I am happy to read that everything was caught early. Stopping benzodiazepines too rapidly can cause some pretty rough symptoms, especially during the early acute phase. As awful as these symptoms are they are temporary.

 

You might like to check out The Ashton Manual it is an authoritative source on what to expect in withdrawal and recovery.  Dr. Ashton is an expert in the field. 

 

Please feel free to post to any of the dedicated boards, we have a wonderful community of people here, who will give sound advice. Members have been through all aspects of benzodiazepine use and withdrawal and are more than willing to share their experiences.

 

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hello  AppendixCscare,

 

i feel bad that you had cancer i have anixiety from an illness  i started having 10 years ago when i started having a few seizures each year it was terrifying to me each time it hapend . i started a low dose too i took .25mg 3 times a day

i used .50 mg pills cut in half i stayed with that size dose the whole time when i quit i had to keep cutting them smaller and smaller till i reached 1/8th of a .50mg pill which was 0.0625 mg it was tough the first 2 weeks after that seemed to getting better every week i quit 2 months ago . is possible is there any way you can do light exercises just 5-10 minutes ? when i felt my worst i went for a  5 minut walk after 5 min i was like wow i felt alot better

 

you can lift some light weights if your unable to walk well ok ?

i hope this helps you god bless you

katie