Anxiety, self medicated due to doctor being of no help.

Inc:  I live in the USA, however, it is highly against the law to take someone else's drugs.  Perhaps you should mention that a friend of yours takes it for his problems, which are similar to yours and see if he will let you try it on a trial basis....If you go back and tell him how wonderful you feel, he will probably give you a prescription which can be filled....Hope this helps...

Oh dear, Oh dear, Oh dear. Firstly I am not patronising you I am stating a point of view. Tramadol is the last analgesic prior to opiate medication. Coming off them on your own is a risky business. You need to detox from then and that is no easy task. It can take months of planning, if not you could get a rebound effect that makes the original problem much, much worse.  However you are now taking someone elses medication.

Can I ask you a question?

1. Where did he/she get them from?

2. Were they purchased from an online pharmacy off the internet?

3. From dealers?

4. Did they purchase them off the internet?

5. What is in them?

6.Why and how did they come to be in posession of so many diazepam?

Have you thought of that? That's only a few answers of the top of my head. You could be poisoning yourself!!!!

Self diagnosing is a dangerous thing to do. A GP's training is a further 5-6 years from qualifying as a doctor, no easy task. It takes the same time to become a qualified GP as it does to become a consultant in one particular field.

This brings me on to your original problem. You are digging yourself a big hole and are having trouble getting out of it. It will become more and more difficult if you don't start to believe in your GP. If I was a GP and someone ignored my advice and consultation I would be quite conserned and dam right annoyed. Taking diazepam even for a relatively  short time can be more difficult to detox from than heroine. The reason is that it is a benzodiazepine and should only be used for a very short term for things such as muscle spasm and anxiety type disorders.

I would write to your GP apologising for the way you acted. Say it was out of order for you to do such a thing and you only did it iout of desperation for the pain that you were in at the time. You need his professional help to get out of this mess you have got yourself in.

Plese, please never try to self diagnose yourself because there are so many reasons for a pain in your back. Back pain is an effect of so many quite serious conditions and as such be checked out by blood tests and x-rays to rule out these conditions.

Diazepam can also add to your anxiety and mood changes. I have in the past helped with detoxification of people who had long term diazepam use, some over 30-40 years. It is a very slow prosses because diazepam is so very difficult to titrate from the system and any significant drop in the dose has pretty nasty side effects, so you need to go back to near the dose you started on.

Hope you can see that only you can do this. Be humble and write that letter. Best regards and good luck. Peter.

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You need to tell your gp whats going on or a counselor who works with medications. You need guidance and its serious buisness dealing with medicines and withdrawls so best to get medical help because they would know how to handle this. If the go gets angry he might nit want to be your go anymore, youll just need to find a new one. Many people get desperate with bad anxiety and do self medicate. Its a terrible idea but makes sense because oanic attacks and anxiety are crippling overall. Good luck and feel well

I have made the first step to contact and drugs and alcohol interaction team to help me with this as my GP is not the right person i should be seeing as i see someone different each and every time. I hope that by going through this i can get the help i need. Thank you for the replies people and still any and all advice is welcome. 

Thank you