I've been on 2mg of Xanax Xr for 13 months now. I didn't have a panic attack the whole time until last month. Then I had extremely bad panic episodes which of course sent me back to the dr. She uped my dose to 3mg at night and 2 in the morning. But all I wanted to do was sleep.
When I went in the next week she changed my dose to just the 3mg of the XR at night with Effexor 75mg to help with my PMS. I've been feeling great, but don't want to be on drugs forever.
So here is the clincher. My new insurance carrier won't pay for my Xanax Xr. If I pay for it out of pocket, I can't really afford to do that at $175 for the 3mg bottle of 30 pills. The 2mg is more doeable at $119 for 30 pills. At least my insurance will cover the Effexor.
So this past week I started tapering off the 3mg and switched back and forth between the 2mg one day and the 3mg the next day. Now today I have been jittery. I wouldn't call it panicky, but just weird. Slightly shaky hands out of control thoughts (more obsessive really)

Has anyone else taken this drug and actually gotten off of it?

Thank You,
Carrie