Take It or Save It? (May Trigger)

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Okay, this is my issue…my provider will be terminating me on March 15 and I have been unable to find a new one in the last 2 weeks. I have 8 days of Seroquel left from when I was in the hospital and, unexpectedly, a 3 week supply that the provider’s nurse gave me on Monday since I’d already paid for them. Without a new provider, that is it, period, there will be no new scripts. I got my court-ordered Abilify shot last week, so I’m okay for probably 5 weeks on that.

My question is this…should I keep taking the 3 week supply after my hospital supply runs out in 8 days or should I save the 16.5 grams for when things might get really bad again?

I’m not suicidal right now, and going back to the hospital would just delay things. I’m afraid of things getting to the point again where I’m living in my truck again listening to abusive Voices all day and night. I know I’m already having some stress-related breakthrough symptoms like irritability and difficulty concentrating, and I’m scared I’ll have to find a new home for my puppy, but I don’t want to live like I did last Fall, constantly acting weird and having the cops haul me to the hospital every few weeks.

So, should I take it as prescribed and run out anyway in 3 weeks, or save it in case things get really bad again?

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That’s a tough one. Maybe ask the doctor?
Hope things work out for you and your puppy @WhiteRaven.

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I would say maybe ration out what you have left and maybe take it every other day or maybe cut the pills in half and take a half a day. The problem is that while some pills have the medicine equally distributed on the actual pill, someone told me years ago that some pills have the medication concentrated more on different parts of the tablet. I might do this myself but maybe it isn’t safe, I’m not sure. But it seems it would be against the mental health field rules to let someone suffer without the medication they need. It seems that it isn’t ethical to just leave someone stranded with out medication. Maybe some other hospital would give you an emergency supply.

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Get a new provider! You can get them different ways.

https://www.nami.org/find-support/living-with-a-mental-health-condition/finding-a-mental-health-professional

I think you can get them through your insurance or other ways.

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Can you talk to a family doctor about this?

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Thank you, everybody, I will try your various suggestions, hopefully they’ll help and I won’t have to worry about either taking them or saving them.

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