text: sorry to ask so much.....for pretty much 17 years i have been on xanax for anxiety,for 6 years i took valporic acid,i gradually cut down on the valporic to 250 mg. a day for about  a year and this past spring stopped it cold turkey,after that my anxiety got bad..i started back on it (with drs, appoval) oct. 8th 250 mg. a day.the xanax i take 1 mg. 4 times a day trying to cut back to 3  a day.i want off it.they did a liver function test and say my liver is fine.i also drank beer for 3 years with these meds. i have been dizzy for over a year and have started feeling nausea and i break out in sweats.i have no idea what caused my anxiety but i want it over.....the dr. wanted me to up my valporic to 3 times a day....i tried but it made me sicker feeling. i have had a mri of my brain,cat scans,ekgs,all kinds of blood work and my dr. finds nothing but anxiety. this dizziness is the worse.does anyone have any clues. i am going to physical thearpy for neck and back and shoulder pain...i am only 46 years old an dwould like to feel good. i wish i could just throw these pills away..... i know the feeling but it sounds to me that you are taking way to much of the xanax and is probably prescibed by a family doctor and not one that you should be seeing not saying you are crazy i have these attcaks all the time and going off your meds will only make them worst but you may need a stabilizer and a diffrent approach to treatment. and when you say you are not feeling good i wonder what exactly that means do you have some depression going on? again nothing to be ashamed of just asking . i wish you luck and dont give up on yourself just try to understand what is going on to make you feel this way in the first way