Yeah they go to Medical School - they study the meds for a while, but they still dont know everything about the meds and how they work on individual patients … There is a lot of guess work involved … They want you on your meds, so downplay or ignore to tell you the side effects.
I now know that the Risperdal is making me more anxious and revved up - I tell her this, her solution is for me to take more Klonopin… ■■■■■■■■ - this is all I have to say - there are other more viable solutions, but she chooses to ignore them.
Now I am seriously considering looking for another pdoc - I will keep it in the back of my mind
Yeah man… Why pdoc didn’t want me on anything other than respiridone. She was reluctant to let me try anything else. She dive give me 1 mg prescription of prolixin to take along side of it at one point. Became suicidal in a week. Stopped taking it.
I don’t know. I wanted to try abilify for a while…
Right now I’m pretty much out of the system but I’ve got meds for over half a year.
I also need a new pdoc. She was one of two in town and she moved back to her native office.
Now all there is is the community health center. You go in for an hour every three months. It’s is cheaper than 20$ a week though.
Even that place is barely staying afloat… They are very understaffed. Only one person can write scripts. He also runs the place. It’s a total mess. The other 15 to 20 people are some of the lowest level therapists there are.
The receptionists aren’t friendly either.
Good luck man… Seeing as how we spend about 6 grand a year on meds(through insurance or whatever) and there are about 2.4 million of us in the states… Something like 12 billion or more in revenue a year…
You’d think they could accelerate things and come up with a larger variety of meds.
Glad you’re fighting this.
Regardless of mental illness you’re still one of the more chill people on here.
There are different models of treatment for patients, I forgot what they are called, but I do remember the one my doc uses- the engineering model. He presents options and I say yes or no. For example, he presented me with trazdone or doubling my nighttime xanax for sleep. I chose trazodone, I told him that I am already addicted to xanax and dont want to make that worse. Trazodone made my heart beat hard and loud, so I quit that, and ambien made me high and jerk off at 3am, so ■■■■ that, now I take 6-9mg of dissolving melatonin.
I could bring up the different models of treatment, I have them in a spiral notebook somewhere in one of my piles of books and spirals, but just be firm to say no and firm to ask for certain meds, as long as you arent asking for narcotics this should be okay.
My psychiatrist is rather aged and knows his stuff. He also treats me with respect because…well I am not sure why, but I suspect that he knows how smart I am and sees a bit of himself in a kid who wants to be a clinician one day.
I like my pdoc dont get me wrong, but she is ultraconservative in her prescribing methods - going by the book.
I do understand that I am very sensitive to meds, and she knows this, I have a feeling that I need to be writing things down - so when I see her in a short amount of time, I can express to her exactly how I am doing and what I need.
There is so much to tell her, that I get overwhelmed when I see her, and my questions get unanswered - she even asked me if I had further questions, I just sat there and said No - my mistake
I am one year older than my psychiatrist. I treat him with respect and acknowledge his authority, but it took me several years to get there. He offers me the latest. I talk to him about dosage mainly and changing things around. I made my peace with medication long ago. What do you expect them to do? What CAN they do?
