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#485525 - 03/31/07 11:51 PM
Re: Advice
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Registered: 01/21/06
Posts: 221
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Hi, I'm 17 and have been diagnosed with a panic disorder by my psychiatrist. He's prescribed me to buspar. I've been taking it for around 2 weeks with improvement in neither my general anxiety level nor my panic episodes. He's told me he's wary of prescribing benzo's like xanax to people my age simply because he's told me that "it slows the learning processes of the brain as long as the drug is in my system, whether I'm aware of the effects or not".
I had an allergic reaction to a medication he prescribed me, resulting in pretty severe extrapyramidal episodes that were treated in the ER. They think the reaction was to the prozac he had prescribed me. This, along with the buspar, was intended to relieve my depression and my anxiety, and it has served to do neither.
So I'm due to see him soon, and I'm wondering when he'll finally prescribe me a benzodiazepine to treat the anxiety. I also need a new antidepressant. My dad's a Dr. and this guy went to med school with my dad, which is why I think he's so hesitant to prescribe me anything like xanax.
Do you think this psychiatrist will ever see that I need a benzo to treat my anxiety? I'm worried that he'll never see that the buspar+antidepressant combo is not enough.
Baby, you are so young and you do not need to be on any benzo <IMHO> at your age. If your Dad is a doctor why don't you have a heart to heart with him and explain your condition? If you feel you need help you have to know that no one in this world loves you like your parents. I'm sure he will help you.
Keep in mind this board is for adults <thank you for being honest> but not for under aged children.
PLEASE...talk with your father or your physician and tell him/them exactly how you are feeling. You have a whole life ahead of you and, I know, everyone on DB wishes you only the best.
Good luck with you and your anticipated talk with your father. May God be with you.
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#485528 - 04/01/07 01:27 AM
Re: Advice
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GOLDEN EAGLE 
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Registered: 01/29/06
Posts: 4570
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Dear, your 17 and have been diagnosed with a panic disorder. That is no way to live life at your age.
But you will probley have to go through several combanitions of anti- depresants, and exersises, before you get a benzo prescribed. No one wants to see you with a dependence or adiction to benzo's at your age. When it is time to stop, you really feel uncomfortable, mad, unhappy, and agitated when you slow down and stop.
Their just trying to slove your problem without benzos right now, after you have gone through a few other drugs, if that still won't work, then you might be prescribed a benzo. Good luck.
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#485536 - 08/02/07 05:12 PM
Re: panic disorder
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Registered: 07/30/07
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i can understand not wanting a young person to use benzos as a crutch, but really what difference does age make?
He's in school, and needs to learn and remember stuff? Makes a big difference IMHO.
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