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Depression Related Forums => Depression Central => Topic started by: smirfy21 on September 02, 2011, 06:36:00 PM
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MY psychiatrist has started me on this med. I have no say over weather or not I take it and to be honest I am NOT happy about taking it.
Has anyone had any experiances with this medication any information would be greatly appreciated. I have all the medical info about it but I would really like to hear about others experiances while taking it.
smirfy
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Sorry smirfy I havent, is it this particular drug you're worried about or having to take meds?
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just the idea of being on the meds does concern me a little but I don't have a choice about taking this particular drug and I'm not sure why. I dont know much about the drug other than the fact that it's an antipsychotic. I have researched it and all I keep finding are negative things about it :(
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It wouldnt have been prescribed if your medics didnt think it was appropriate, is it possible to discuss your worries about it sometime soon with them? I think its pretty par for the course if you look up any drug, I hate even reading the instructions in the box which tell you all about the possible side effects :(
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I'm on an anti psychotic but because it's also an anti anxiety med too. Maybe they have similar reasons. They obviously feel it's necessary.
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are they bright green, i think i might have been on those for a little while,(not too sure it was them though) as an anti psychotic. want if they are, i dont think i was on them for long as they didn't work for me, but everyone is different
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yeah they are a really bright green.
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roughtly the same green as .... $%^ ... right ??
sorry i cant really remember much about them, if i remember anything then ill get back to you
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hahahaha yeah roughly like $%^
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Sorry didn't mean to imply there was something wrong with it being an anti psychotic if that's what it had been prescribed for.
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i didnt see it in that way, its prescribed for many things.
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Evening Cornish. See you're up late like me :-)
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lol I thought it was funny so don't beat yourself up. It is an antipsychotic although I dont see myself as being psychotic I think its because one of the other meds I am now on can cause you to become psychotic. hmm I wonder If I will start rattling when I walk?
also it is bright green and I keep thinking I might wake up one morning and look like shrek lol
smirfy $%^
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I know what you mean about rattling, I take 6 tablets a day.
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I think I am going to get my psychiatrist to throw another one into my cocktail of meds as I really need something to help me sleep but Im not sure if Im taking to many meds for her to do that and she might tell me not to rely to heavily on meds. I dont have another appointment until next week now so I have a couple of days to think about things.
smirfy $%^
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!"! 7 - 15 tablets a day for me, i win :P 5 as soon as im awake but most of the others through the day are diazepam though. im not counting sleeping tablets either as some times i take about 14 kalms if i dont want to take the normal prescription ones that make me feel crap in the morning.
i dont rattle yet so you guys are safe for now.
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How do you find the kalms? 14 sounds a lot.
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you build up an immunity and then become !"! addicted ::) and yes it is a lot, too many really :-[
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hmm that does sound like a lot of medication Cornish how do you cope with them all?
I built up an immunity to the first anti depressants I ever took a few years back but felt like I was addicted to them because I wanted them anyway so my GP stopped perscribing them thank god otherwise I think I would probably still be taking them now.
I tried Kalms, lavender and anything else I could get over the counter. You name it I have probably tried it which is why I want my psychiatrist to perscribe something. I love diazepam I take it when I travel or fly because it just knocks me flat out.
smirfy ;)
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dunno really, just take them in a routine, routines keep me going, side effects are all part of the fun too ::)
i build up immunities to most of what ive been on, not sure how many different meds ive been on now.
kalms dont really do much now, thats why i need to take so many
i think im building up a immunity to diazepam, i have prescriptions every other week now and its 100 diazepam a time and they dont help as much and dont really have the knock out effect that i used to like.
the chemist knows me by name now and doesn't ask about my pre payment thing either, god thats got to be a bad sign.
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I know what you mean I live in a very small fishing town where everyone knows everyone.
I walked into the outpatients ward for the first time and get greated by two nurses who are friends of my moms and as you can imagine that was rather orquad as I had to tell them why I was there, I also have to go to a different chemist as I know the chemist and I reallllly dont want to have to ask for my perscriptions off of her because that would just be imbarrising.
I also have to use the doctors surgery in town rather than the one in my village because two of the doctors are good friends of my parents.
what meds have you got left to try if you build up an immunity to diazepam?
smirfy
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no idea, i just get higher and higher dosages till i cant go any higher, then all change ::) still got a little while for the next change of benzo's i think. but sertraline isn't working as well so ive just gone up to 250 mg. been coming off mitrazipine too, dunno what's going to replace that yet :( i hate coming off one med, and onto another, i can deal with the SSRI, but if its TECA or TCA then there a lot harder to come off and are dangerous if you dont come off them properly :(
thankfully i haven't been on any MAOI yet
its hard to keep track of what ive been on and what im currently on and what to take each day. got post it notes written by my mum put on the fridge with what to take, with about a week at a time on them but i throw them away because i would hate to know exactly what ive taken each week :(