"hello all, i&#039;m 34 years old and have fibromyalgia and anxiety.  i have taken all the anti-depressants out there and xanax is the only one that truly helped me.  i have been on xanax for the last 8 years of my life.  i am prescribed two 2 mgs a day.  i take it as needed, and often i split a 2 mg in half.  if i&#039;m off work for a day, i will maybe take a quarter to half for the entire day.  recently my regular doctor weaned me off of it, i thought i would be okay, instead i started having panic attacks every day.  they were so bad that even being around 1 or 2 friends, for a long period of time, i would almost lose my shit.  i had seven or eight 1 mg xanax left when i saw a psychiatrist, i told him what was happening and he wrote me a script instantly."