Posted by up'n'down on February 19, 2005, at 23:11:31
In reply to Re: Its over for me. New psychiatrist is hopeless » linkadge, posted by Greenhornet on February 19, 2005, at 8:22:34
> > Yes I am going to return to this doctor to at least see what he decides might be wrong.
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> > Doctors are big fans of Paxil and zyprexa around here. Waterloo, Ontario is paxil and zyprexa town. In all likelyhood I will be titrated up to 80mg of paxil over the course of 6 months.
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> > After this, any complaint will be responded to with "You know, it takes time to work!"
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> > After 6 months of this, the doctor might say, "have you tried zyprexa?" And when I say yes he will ask how much. I will say 2.5 mg. He will say thats nothing, and prescribe me 10mg of zyprexa to take with my 80mg of paxil.
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> > After this, when I say I'm a zombie, he will ask. When are you taking your medications? I will say the paxil in the morning, and the zyprexa in the evening. He will tell me to take the paxil in the evening and see how that goes for a month.
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> > I will come back a month later, and will tell me that maybe we should try prozac instead.
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> > Does anyone understand the wall I'm up against?? Does anyone know the type of doctor which I am talking about? The type of doctor that thinks the reason the paxil didn't work in the past was because "they" weren't the one that prescribed it.
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> You have my total sympathy. And I know how long that sort of thng can be dragged out. My solution, you might be aware, was rather simple. I got OFF meds. Yes, I was told that I had difficult to treat depression etc etc....I finally, after thirty years or so, I just got sick of it, turned it all over to God and stopped. I am now weaning off the next to the last med and I have never felt better in my life!
> By the way folks this Chemical imbalance crap is just that! Next time you have someone tell you that or that you have an "illness" ask to see the test results, the blood work !! Ha Ha! They have nothing to back up their claim so -- We are an overmedicated society, DO YOUR HOMEWORK.
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I am very sorry you feel this way. I know it is discouraging using meds and then they change as your body changes, and lose some or all of their effectiveness.
You have a right to your opinion, but I feel like you are in essence saying that we who are taking meds are a bunch of suckers. I would not like to see what would happen if all of the people taking antidepressants, antianxiety meds, antipanic meds, etc. stopped taking them.
I am concerned that you are feeling real good now, but once all your meds have cleared your system and the stress begins full force, you could have a very unpleasant rebound effect. Keep us informed as to how you do, and if you do go in to a reaction, remember we arehere to talk to. U'D
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