I have been having severe anxiety due to my fathers' death and have been prescri!

I have been having severe anxiety due to my fathers' death and have been prescribed xanax. Is this safe?

I am not on any prescription meds, don't drink or smoke eat healthy, am not overweight, etc. My dad died recently, and i have been really stressed out helping take care of my mom. yesterday my blood pressure was 146/94. 150/100, 146/98, etc. according to my mom's portable home bp machine (my mom checked hers and it was normal according to the machine). i do not have hypertension normally. I went to a dr. (my normal dr. is on vacation) and he prescribed .5 mg of xanax to take twice a day. he did blood tests but said that he though that everything was most likely normal, that my bp was rising because of stress and possible panic atacks. my bp at the drs. office was 116/80. I have been taking the xanax for the past day, but i have read about about it and it is scary to me. the dr. stressed that i really need it, at least for a little while. will this be safe to take until next week when i see my actual dr.? I am hoping that he can prescribe something safer.

If you don't exceed the prescribed dosage, Xanax is safe and can be really helpful. All medications have potential side effects, and they have to tell you about them, but the percentage of people that get them are so small for most things that you shouldn't worry too much. Take it for a little a time as possible, just until your doc thinks you're ok. You sound like a really healthy person and the chances of you having a side effect from it are minute. And also, that's a very small dose. I think you should be fine to take it, and it might help you alot. I've taken it before myself, and it helped, and I was fine.