ALPRAZOLAM vs MIDAZOLAM

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?

If a patient has a high CK level from TCs caused by Primary General Epilepsy, have you seen whether Voltoco is more effective than Nayzilam for an abortive med in either reducing full blown status or reducing the likelihood of rhabdomyolysis given Voltoco is a muscle relaxant? The person's ck level

"More specifically, the investigation revealed that during his shift at Medical Center, Respondent locked himself in the pharmacy’s bathroom and injected Midazolam. As a result, Respondent was slurring his words, stumbling, and had blood dripping from the injection cite on his arm. Respondent’s co-w

I’m an EMS manager, and my supply guy tells me that we can no longer get midazolam in a preservative free formulation. He was under the impression that if it a medication contains preservatives we can’t give it IM, but I haven’t been able to find anything about this one way or the other (aside from

First, I need to apologize as this post will be pretty long. So I know this probably isn't the best place to ask for advice, since practice will invariably depend on where you are, but I thought I'd gather some opinions anyway.   I'm the sole pharmacist at our small hospital (managers are n

US paramedic here with some questions about appropriately treating acute and chronic pain in a prehospital setting. My options are this: -Ice pack and position of comfort/splinting/ sling and swathe -Ibuprofen 600mg PO -Acetaminophen 1000mg PO/IV -Fentanyl 0.5-4mg/kg IV/IO/IN/IM/Nebulized -Morphine