Did you ever refuse meds in hospital?

and you were forced injected with AP’s?

I was spitting out my pills after keeping them under my tongue. No one knew.

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In tenerife psyche hospital I tried to escape, and they tied me to a bed for my own safety i was fully psychotic

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I tried to escape at night but doors were locked and security brought me back to my room. I wanted to jump from a nearby bridge.

I tried to jump out a window, but was grabbed by the nurses and pinned down

in ireland psyche hospital in 2010 i was put in a padded cell for my own safety I was fully psychotic

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i was vegan and was paranoid about the ingredients in the drug. i made them give me a list of the ingredients, but i couldn’t understand what it was, because im not a chemist. then i refused meds, then they forced them on me.

One of my biggest achievements is that I have managed to avoid APs and hospitalizations.

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Yes, very often, i was terrified of them.

The most interesting thing to me was once, after one emergency injection (works a few days) my psychotic pms had ended. I put medication under my tongue my whole stay and didnt use it. Doctor was all happy “you are doing so well, see, meds are really helping you…I never saw someone get well so quickly with a low dose of meds”. I was send out of the ward quickly.

When i told her much later i didnt even use meds all that time, she didnt want to believe me. She just needed to believe it was her meds that had helped. :slightly_smiling_face:

(Btw - i was back with the next horror pms few months later. I wish they had just removed my uterus and ovaries and given me stable hormones. That would have been preferable over all these bad years).

My first hospital visit was 2 weeks, I refused meds, I have no clue how they let me go with a bus pass, they must have so many people they just get em in and out.

No. I didn’t agree on mixing meds that don’t go together. Made me sick.

I always feel so bad for the people who don’t want to take meds at the hospital. While pro-medication myself, I do believe people have a right to choose what they want for themselves. Unfortunately, the reality is the hospital typically doesn’t let you go until you start taking them. I wish people would understand that if they really don’t want to be in the hospital, if they really don’t want to be on meds, then it won’t kill you to take meds for a week to get out of the hospital as fast as possible. Then once you’re out you can do what you want. But most people who don’t want to take meds are unable to reach that conclusion.

Currently what I’m seeing is doctors are no longer hesitating to go through with med commitments. If someone says “I’m not taking meds” to the doctor he automatically puts in an order to pursue med commitment pretty much. And once the court orders you to take meds, you’re taking them, even if you have to be held down kicking and screaming.

Avoiding them and managing without them are separate things.
As long as you think tin foil hats will protect you from intrusive thoughts, you’re not ready to go without meds.

Yes who wants to go to the hospital. I am looking for a compassionate pdoc right now.:rainbow::heart:

I’ve refused meds, just wound up getting more of them and delivered more aggressively. It was what I needed, but I sure didn’t like it.

I tried to but I got caught and they injected me with haldol

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I refused in the hospital. The doctor was chill with it after a couple days though.

At the hospital, they first they gave me a saline injection. But did so in a very sloppy manner. I could see a huge bubble of air heading towards my arm, So I pulled the injection needle out before the air bubble got into my blood stream. When this occurs, it’s called a venous air embolism. When an air bubble enters an artery, it’s called an arterial air embolism. These air bubbles can travel to your brain, heart, or lungs and cause a heart attack, stroke, or respiratory failure. But to my surprise, they got really pissed off with me for removing the needle.

Then they gave me a drug that rather than being of help, it made it impossible for me to fight back against the schizophrenia symptoms. And so it became a living hell experience.

Just before leaving the hospital, they gave me another drug that numbed both my mind and body. Because of this, once back home, I tumbled down a stair case, but I felt no pain at all due to being sooooo severely numbed.

So I wish I had refused these drugs.

I’ve only been hospitalized once. I was fully psychotic and never on meds before so I was like yeah go for it I’ll show you who’s not schizophrenic. Evidently the meds worked and now I’m numb and stupid. Life’s cruel.

I routinely cheeked my meds in the hospital for several months, I was very against them. One night, one of the nurses did a mouth check and found out. They started giving me the dissolvable tablets and made me stand in front of a nurse for 10 minutes and then swish my mouth with water.

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