Posted by weatherfreak on September 29, 2010, at 7:15:13
In reply to Re: 5th treatment, posted by ruby on September 28, 2010, at 19:40:36
Thanks for all your support. She has seroquel and seroquel XR for anxiety and neither is really working at all. She's also on 300mg of Pristiq which was keeping her anxiety at bay more than the seroquel.
Ruby she started going backwards before they turn up the power on Monday because of that. It hasn't helped in my opinion. I have noticed that she has been way more withdrawn since Monday and taking more seroquel to knock herself out which her pdoc said was fine but it's not working. Pristiq has been quite good for her but they need to change her seroquel. She said it's fine for me to come in tomorrow, but her pdoc might be gone before I can go into recovery. I really want to stress to him:-
1. Please give her something else for her terrible anxiety and
2. Please let her recover from this round first before she goes any further.
She has become so anxious that she is literally pacing, it's like shocking akathisia to the point where she keeps shaking her hands like she is trying to get sand off them. Her pdoc refuses to give her benzo's as she had a drug problem years ago but that was with speed. She has been prescribed benzo's in the past and never abused them. I just can't understand why her pdoc won't give her anything but seroquel. Even if it's just enough valium or clonazepam for 1 week, or a stronger anti psychotic for a week to calm her down.
I was totally blown away at how little her first 3 treatments effected her memory and personality. Now I feel like it's not helping her at all and she is sliding into a deep black hole of worse depression, racing intrusive thoughts and severe anxiety. I can't see why a break from it wouldn't hurt. She was only meant to have 6 treatments anyway. I really want to speak to her pdoc. Why continue at this point when it's gone pear shaped in my eyes.
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