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• I am a busy mom and recoving from neck surgery (doing well) I am trying to taper off Norco How ? any advice?
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Hi I am also taking Lexapro for depression and anxiety (it makes me gain weight bummer!) could use an answer to what antidepressant is best for anxiety someone told me Paxcil is better for anxiety.?
Pain Meds:
I had been up to 5 to 6 tabs of 10/325 Norco a day now I am on 3 1/2 sometimes 4 Norco a day.
Does anyone have any real good advice about a tapering schedule and the worst symptoms... and how long to taper etc?
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• Ethics of Dr making patients come to office for two separate small issues...?
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I am a student nurse and work at a hospital as a tech and discussed what happened to my fiance and I when we were at the dr last week.
My fiance has been taking lexapro for 9 months and decided she would like to discontinue taking the med. So she called and set up an appointment to talk about tapering off. then 3 days before her appointment she came down with a terrible chest and sinus infection. She called the office and asked if she could move up her appointment to get seen for her chest/head infection instead of waiting 3 days.
After dr. Chasmawala evaluated her and wrote her a prescription she told her that she would have to schedule another appointment just to get instructions on how to taper off her lexapro.
we will be finding a different physician immediately and possibly report this event to an ethic board after more consideration. this is obviously a tactic to try and get another insurance claim and copay out of us.
With a lesser informed individual this may have cause someone to stop taking medicine cold turkey due to cost of the physician visit. Is this ethical. all she needed was a little information on how to take her medicine.
bill the insurance company for the services rendered. but why make us return for simple information on tapering medication dosage? it is not a complicated matter and we could get the info from a physician desk reference.
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• How can I cope with suicidal thoughts?
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I know this is long but hopefully you will be able to read it. I am 15 and I have been struggling with depression for 2 years now. Since November I have been on 5 antidepressants. The first was Prozac, and after 6 weeks it did nothing, I was switched to Effexor, after 6 weeks that didn't help, I was switched to Zoloft, and then I was sent to a psychiatrist. Zoloft made me feel extremely sleepy. I started to take it during the nighttime instead, and I just didn't want to do anything but sleep. Well I gradually reduced the dose to 0 over 2 months time. Then we go to the psychiatrist appointment. He seemed nice at first. I liked one thing he done, which was not prescribe drugs that were not FDA approved for adolescents. He did not like me coming off of the Zoloft without a doctor telling me to, but oh well. He put me on Lexapro. I was kinda having euphoria for the first week on it (this was in May). It was kinda like a milder version of laughing gas at the dentist. I thought maybe it would help. Well I was wrong. After a month it was the same "results" with the other antidepressants. But I know these drugs do take a while to have their effects. So when I went back he prescribed BuSpar, because I've always had anxiety issues, but the BuSpar was meant to augment with Lexapro also. I still was not seeing any results and the last appointment I had with him was July 28th, and I am scheduled to see him next month on the 7th. He wanted me to still take the Lexapro, but he wanted to UP the dose to 30mg, which is 10mg above the FDA approved maximum dose, and he wanted me to take Wellbutrin. He did want to to take Abilify instead of Wellbutrin, but I refuse to take antipsychotics because I had some anger issues when I was 8 and I was prescribed Abilify and I gained 40 lbs within a months time. I stopped it then and I just grew out of the anger issues.
Well just soon after that appointment, I was tapering off of ALL of the psychiatric drugs. I have been off of them for a little over a month now. I have always scratched myself because I have anger issues still. But it's different. It is not anger with others. It is me being angered at myself. I would scratch myself to help release the anger I had. I hate myself. I am my own worst enemy. I have gained SO MUCH weight. This stupid psychiatrist started judging me over my weight. I had been going to a gym but I hated it. The owner was so mean. He made fun of me and ridiculed me because I don't like sports. He was like a trainer for like 2 days and said I will get diabetes if I don't stop and blah blah blah. I went for a month, and I stuck to healthy eating and I just hated it. I would rather be fat and happy than being skinny and miserable, and I don't want to be miserable getting to skinny. I like exercising on equipment, but I hated that gym because it was so small and I hate for people to watch me and call me a p**** because I can't lift as much or just walk on the treadmill and not run. So I stopped and I've went back to my old ways. I have somewhat psychologically improved since then. I live in a small town in the middle of nowhere in the Godforsaken state of Tennessee. There is nothing to do. I had my heart set on volunteering at the animal shelter, and they told me I have to be 18. It's a new rule they did after parents sued them from a cat biting their kid. I was heart-broken. I was wanting to get socially involved and this is the ONLY thing I would have enjoyed that this place has to offer. I am doing homeschooling now. I have no friends at school and after all my freshman year and this part of my sophomore it's getting worse. Everyone tells me my high school years are the best of my life. Bull****! I am getting bullied, I went to the principal which made things worse so I just stopped. I hate that school. The problem was also the clubs they had were not in my interest. I want to be a meteorologist. Weather is my passion. Well, no one is really into weather, therefore no clubs or anything like that. My stepdad judges me because of the way I am, and my mom is the only one here. I want to go to a new school but it's illegal in my state to go to a school out of county. I will not go to the other schools in my county because your chances are slim of getting into a college.
I see a counselor and we have worn out every coping technique. I try to think positive, but even when I think positive, I never feel it. I still feel worthless, and I just don't have a purpose. For the first time 2 weeks ago, I cut myself. 4 cuts on my arm near my shoulder. Well my mom found them and I realized how bad I hurt her and I promised no more. She keeps me here. But I just don't want to be lonely anymore and I"m sick of the pain. Everyone tells me the next few years will fly by. One day feels like an eternity though. What can I do? I just don't know anymore.
Hopefully you're still here, and I'm sorry if you&
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• I want to stop taking klonopin. My boyfriend, friends and psychiatrist?
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tell me it would be a good idea to get off. I have been taking 1mg once a day for anxiety for the past 2 years. I suppose its time for me to get off. I hear that its dangerous so I am ready. Any suggestions on how to taper. Last year I went cold turkey off of celexa and was sick for 7 weeks, and the sad part about it was I tried talk therapy and nothing worked for my depression (extreme suicidal thoughts) so i had to get back on an SSRI, Lexapro. Now that I will be coming off Klonopin I hope it doesn't all go in vain. I don't want to suffer all the withdrawals only to go back months later.
Anyways any suggestions on what kind of schedule I should do?
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• Klonopin (Clonazepam) Withdrawal. HELP!?
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I am not gunna go into detail so i'll make it simple. I was taking 1mg clonazepam everyday for about 3 months, basically the doctor has cut me off cold turkey and I am having pretty bad withdrawals. Dizzy, Nausea, Headache, Lack of sleep, No appetite, Bad Anxiety, Panic Attacks.. It's basically just hell. I don't know what to do. She gave me Lexapro but it has given me nothing but bad side effects plus the withdrawals I am already having. I'm not planning on going back to that doctor because they refused to give me Clonazepam which is ridiculous because they didn't taper me off. I am scheduled to make an appointment with a psychiatrist soon but I feel like I can't take it anymore. I seriously feel like I am losing my mind and I just feel so sick and weak.. I don't know what to do because Lexapro is not helping. My only hope is talking to the psychiatrist but even then, i'm not sure he will prescribe me the Clonazepam. These withdrawals are terrible, I don't know how long I can go..What should I do?
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