What kind of doctor or medical prescriber 1st put you on benzos?

[[An...]]

A shrink 1st started me on xanax in the 1980's. I do not go to shrinks anymore though bc they all love to polydrug IMO. I am still slowly trying to wean from valium and I get any meds I need from my PCP. My PCP is great and he allows me complete control and he listens which I love. I feel I have a partner in my healthcare now. When I was seeing shrink, it was more of a master / slave relationship. The pdoc would get angry when he would want to Rx me these off label psych drugs and I use to outright refuse to take them like some of the typical and atypical AP's. I have vowed I will never go back to another psychiatrist. Plus, the PCP can refer me and treat me for other things besides just mental health issues. :-)

[[Do...]]

My general physician prescribed the first time.  through the years, several other GP's then a shrink who tripled dosage.  Crazy ride.  Tragic outcome but I won't let it happen again.  I need to find a general Dr. but have a huge bias and resentment I must resolve first.  I am lucky that I don't have other health issues that require treatment...not yet anyway.

[[...]]

My family medicine physician prescribed Xanax for sleep. I willingly agreed to it not knowing the dangers. Took it for about 18 months as directed before I hit tolerance. Took .25mgs only at night for sleep.

[[Br...]]

Not doctor bashing ...... just facts.  The same GP I had from the 6th grade.  My first job out of school ....age 22 ......boom......panic attack (then more).  Had no idea what was happening. Back in the day (1978), nobody ever heard of a panic attack. Ultimately I went to my GP and he called it a "case of the nerves".  I filled the script for Valium and the journey began .........

[[Ma...]]

Seroquel - Nurse Practitioner. There was supposedly an MD overseeing the clinic, but turns out there wasn't one.

Ambien - GP

clonazapam - same GP. I had told him the ambien was putting me to sleep, but I had the jitters, so the ambien wasn't keeping me asleep. Same GP had me on all 3 - seroquel, zolpidem and clonazapam.

 

Took myself off the seroquel, after reading that long term use caused involuntary muscle twitching which could become permanent, and I was having problems with twitching eyelids as it was. Thankfully those stopped.

 

I didn't know about the problems with long term use of benzos and Z's until fairly recently.

[[de...]]

A psychiatrist, after developing serotonin syndrome.  His blunder in not giving enough wash out period between antidepressants.

 

I'll never see another psychiatrist again either, AntiBenzo.  This struggle with withdrawal has strengthened me in a way that years of psychotherapy never could. 

 

Jeez, they can be up themselves.  And they don't even know it. 

 

Hard way to learn. 

 

Dee

[[Jo...]]

A shrink. He polydrugged me nearly to death. That made me very ill and never helped. I am down now to only the benzo. But this is by far the hardest to withdraw from.

 

Next time I get “a case of the nerves” I will take a bath and drink some tea!😁

[[oc...]]

my neuro at first. i have a history of some seizure but they didnt have to give me this much medicine starting off. They could have started off with a small dose and see if that would have worked.

 

But they turned it up to 11 from the first time i was in there. Back then you didnt realize that doctors dont know what the hell they are talking about or you didnt have all the new information that you have now.

 

Then I go to my GP who is a pill pusher. He has tried to get me on everything even after I have gone to him about helping me get off the topamax. He gave me benzos, flexiril and just a month or two ago when my withdrawal was the worst he tried to give me a SSRI after I told him I was tapering from his xanaz.

 

Im convinced these doctors are insane or just do not care about the patients health.

 

Good luck to you all going out in the health care world.