ALPRAZOLAM vs DIAZEPAM

34F Height 5'5 Weight 130lbs Race white Medications sertraline 100mgs, alprazolam .5mgs as needed, ibuprofen as needed (I know I use too much, generally 800mgs every 4 hours). Current daily smoker, no drinking, no drug use. I was in a motor vehicle accident in 2004 which resulted in a shattered ri

In short, I am a 33 year old male who has been on alprazolam 90mg for 19 years. The times I have gone without it, I have had seizures consistently as well as suicidal ideation. I have tried coming off of it but it never goes well. Literally out of nowhere, the nurse practitioner randomly said she do

*This is a* ***LOT*** *of information, but we wanted to give all of you as much as we could. The local doctors have had no idea and everything they've thought it could be has been wrong. We've seen an orthopedist, a general practitioner, and now a rheumatologist.* 39M, 5'9 height, 230lbs, caucasian

Well, our DM sent an email out to lock up all popular items. (alprazolam, any kind of -tussin, and pretty much any benzo) This is reasonable enough, but it was added on that we need to take down ALL will-call bags, place them into empty vial boxes, and lock them in our storage room. Of course, we ar

Hi AskDocs community My mother is having some issues at the moment and I feel like she might be overmedicated. She is on multiple different medications daily for years and I feel like something really needs to change as her health is really deteriorating over the past few months. Some background on

3 days ago I had a seizure in my room, I fell and hit my head and somehow survived. Since then I’ve been tasting metal in my mouth, my tummy and chest feel hot, I completely lost interest in everything, no appetite, everything seems so surreal and eerie I feel like I died I don’t know. It’s been 3 d

I'm a person who struggles with bipolar II (Rexulti, Zyprexa) and PTSD related panic attacks (Alprazolam) from a family member's suicide, yesterday I was planned to go on a trip to see my best friend graduate college. I never travel anywhere without all three of my medications in order for the time

I'm a tech. My pharmacy hired a new staff pharmacist in August and I mean NEW. She just graduated this year. In our opinion, she has absolutely been handling the job like a champ, especially since our store is notorious for being one of the crazier and more challenging ones to work at. Yesterday we

Just a bit of comical diversion in the midst of COVID and your hard work. I live in rural Mississippi, and we get our local news report from a city of less than 40 thousand people. As a result, sometimes the station doesn't have enough news to fill the half hour; they supplement with generic, prefa

I was talking with a friend who is counseling patients in Cambodia. For those who don't know, Cambodian prescribing is pretty...lax and that is putting it lightly. Hear this: * Patient is a 25yo female who describes being depressed every day for 2-3yrs with SI 1-2x/wk. Pt was not reciving talk thera

I had a patient call about her clonazepam medication. It needed PA since it's a new year. Also medication is too soon to pick up because she claims her meds were stolen tried to give me a bogus police report, no Dx code of the medication either, its the the weekend and doctor won't be in the office

Patient is a canine. Alprazolam 1 mg, #90 for 45 days supply. Has filled ~700 tablets in past year. And what’s your rationale for/against?

I stopped at a Mexican pharmacy while on vacation and was shown a laminated paper that I assume is meant to advertise and list prices for drugs that Americans commonly want to purchase in Mexico. It was mostly C4s and below (or above in numbers rather). I didn’t recognize redotex and asked to see th

The following happened in europe. Today at 8:30 a young man came into the pharmacy and demanded a bottle of Diazepam drops from my coworker. She told him he needs a prescription for that and that she can't sell it without. He begins to talk louder and says he wants only 1 bottle and so on and so f

I used to love my job. As a pharmacist at an Albertsons store, I had it all. A manageable workload, great pay at $75 an hour, and the satisfaction of knowing I was making a difference in my community. I filled about 50 to 60 prescriptions a day, enough to keep me busy but not overwhelmed. Life was g

I know a patient who takes both Xanax and Diazepam together. Both were prescribed by the same doctor but one is taken at bedtime and the other as needed during the day. I have never seen that and was worried about the duplicate therapy but apparently they have been on both for months now. The other

In another sub, many people were arguing about the problems of getting hold of alcohol (as in drinking liquor) and some said that they would get withdrawal symptoms. One person who seems to have some knowledge of medicine really went overboard with the horror stories. I told him that in my country p

This must be a very trivial question but since English is not my first language I have to ask because for me the meaning is ambiguous. I have read this a couple of times now where it says in a formulation (e.g.:http://www.pharminfotech.co.nz/manual/Formulation/mixtures/diazepam.html) "Water to 100mL

Got a phone call today which basically went like this. Me: Such-and-such Pharmacy this is %67%, how can I help you? Junkie(?): My girlfriend got a prescription from you guys about twenty minutes ago and there was a problem with it. Me: Okay what was your girlfriend's name so I can look up her dispen

RN here. As I understand it, both are dissolved in propylene glycol. Why does our unit store lorazepam in the fridge but diazepam is in the pyxis? Thanks!