Ask the doctor to lower your medicine, this depends on you, but if he actively hid the tests from you, or if he simply didn’t bring them to light to you, because you wouldn’t know how to interpret them, thats something you need to distinguish to yourself, and consult with whoever does his reviews if his conduct was within the normal. If so, you need to buck up and try to adapt to this. If it wasn’t normal, then he will probably be disciplined. There’s serious consequences for misconduct so be sure before you make claims because you don’t want to be at odds with the people helping you if you can get away with it.
This doctor I speak of has retired now. Not sure there is much point in complaining.
I have a new blood test booked for 11th September when I get back from holiday
Once I have the evidence, I can then use this to trap the pdoc into actually doing something about this.
My problem is that historically, my mother goes into a spin about me messing with my anti-psychotics, so we have agreed to do it this way.
I need her on board, as she acts irrationally when it comes to this, as before I have just quit my meds cold turkey
This time it will be different. We have a plan.
A few more weeks shouldn’t make much of a difference as this has been going on for some time now.
Your mother isn’t “in a spin” if you’ve quit your medications cold turkey that’s serious harm to you, and they need to take into account your ability to do rash things.
That said, I’m not your mom, I’m some bloke on the internet so what you do ultimately falls on you, and you don’t need me hounding you.
Be polite, be specific about what you want to have happen, have concerns.
Here’s how I’d go about it, maybe give it a look over.
So these people are there to help you, don’t try to “trap them” just tell them that you think you’re on too high a dose, if you’ve begun to regularly take your medicine and have a higher compliance now then before, mention that. Say that you’re getting the medicine into your system and the pro-whats-it level concerns you. Tell them that you have trouble thinking and that, that distresses you and makes you want to lower the dose to see if it will help. That without clearer thinking you feel you will stop complying with medicating. You’ve sought advice from other’s and they agree that lowering the dose might be helpful for the trouble thinking, and you’re wanting to taper to a lower dose. Its the truth from what I’ve read.
I’ve never not had my medical team not agree to try something when I’ve asked, so I don’t know if I’m just better off, or if I’m just doing this as well as it can be handled.
My prolactin was so high I was lactating. Girls can have hyperprolactenemia too.
I lactated until I quit zyprexa in March 2019. I’ve been off APs since. My levels caused osteoarthritis and osteoporosis at age 25. I’m 35 now, my daughter was born 2006. That was way too long, I had to pump it was so bad. When I was pregnant I had no hallucinations or voices, it was part of the reason for having 3 pregnancies in 4 years. But I’d get post partum psychosis when the baby hit 6bmonths old, so we’d decide when they turned 9 months old to get pregnant again.
But my levels were high no matter dosage of anything. And since meds didn’t work anyway we’ve just gone off period. Just adding benzos to help the panic attacks. The hallucinations and voices have never bothered me, I know what’s real and what’s not, so my pdoc just has me do a 45 min call a month and my husband and I say how things have gone, she knows I’m not taking school opening ok, and since my physical pain has made me unable to drive now I am housebound except to go to pain doc on the 31st. My husband is now doing everything in the house as far as errands, taking and picking kids up from school, etc.
I can’t take AD for anything either, so I stick in my headphones and that’s my life. My kids are getting used to an 11pm bedtime since they gotta get up at 4:30am to get ready and school still has no idea what they’re doing for ■■■■.
I’ve given up my mother role and now accept I am a mooch and with the crap in Madison right now with riots, my lidocaine IV infusions are gonna be postponed. So even longer with no pain relief. We had to switch fentanyl patch brands as the adhesive on the other brand ate my skin, but it worked better. This one is not helping. I’m not sleeping again.
Careful. The results need not be what is normally expected of the medication.