Posted by Squiggles on April 18, 2007, at 7:47:50
In reply to Re: Non-compliance, posted by notfred on April 17, 2007, at 23:24:43
> I have never had any doc of any kind I saw ask me if I was compliant. They ask about side effects but never ask questions to see if I am taking them on schedule or missing doses.
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> OTOH, I am the kind of patient one would expect to be compliant.I think it should be part of monitoring, especially on the first initiation into treatment. The patient may assume that he or she can skip a dose or two whenever it makes him feel ill. But that can be a very dangerous practice, especially with some psychiatric drugs. The interim and the reinstatement of the dose may actually bring on a variety of psychotic symptoms, or even cardiac, cerebral and vascular-type crises. The doctor should tell that to the patient, so the patient knows that it is better to report his reason for non-compliance than to self-medicate.
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