Posted by Phillipa on May 25, 2005, at 21:51:43
In reply to Re: Please Help - Very Frustrated with Panic.., posted by hypersloth on May 25, 2005, at 21:17:11
Well your Babblemail is not on so I can't Babble you in private. No, we're all different. Just because something doesn't work for one person doesn't mean it can't work for another. I'm also a postmenopausal woman. A lot of the acute panic I was having was before menopause. Body chemistry changes. For whatever reason my pdoc got me on disability. I also have chronic lymes disease, and a lot of other issues. They don't even review me when the time is up. I too have a career. I hold a still active RN license. Because of the life and death discription of an RN in the hospital I don't feel I should be taking care of pts. Now I know many other medical professionals that are on all sorts of psych meds. But I don't want to be one of them. How do I know they take them? They told me when we worked together. About half of the people I worked with were on something. We lost a nurse manager, nursing instructor and others to illegal medication use and loss of license. You never would have known they were impaired. I am now trying to get the courage up to apply for a position [as needed] to see how I function in psych nursing which is my specialty. And yes I took xanax on a regular basis and passed all the drug testing. As long as you have a valid RX they can't discriminate against you. Please try and calm down. Did you say you were new to the Board? If you are many of the posters are resistant to medications. Just make sure you have a good pdoc who can work closely with you. I want you to do well. I'm sure you will. Fondly, Phillipa
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