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SteveW

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Re: Feel so low this week
« Reply #15 on: May 30, 2013, 08:44:12 PM »
Your GP sounds like a bit of a disaster. Dropping your Citalopram dose because you reported an improvement was crazy. If a person recovers completely on an anti-depressant it is standard practice to keep them on the dose they responded to for something like 6 months before contemplating doing anything. You didn't recover completely, you just improved a bit. That should have been a cue for a renewed effort not a dose reduction.
 
Keeping you on 20 mg is a bit bizarre as well. If it took 40 mg for you to show an improvement the chances are that it is going to take the same sort of dose for you to improve again. You didn't respond on 20 mg the first time round so your GP has no reason to think that you will second time round. Hopefully she will increase your dose. I only hope she doesn't decide to keep you on 30 mg for 8 weeks.
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Re: Feel so low this week
« Reply #16 on: June 02, 2013, 02:06:12 PM »
Hi Gemgem, that doc sounds like a real stickler for doing things the hard way, i would for sure refuse to se him and get another doc on your case.
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Re: Feel so low this week
« Reply #17 on: June 04, 2013, 04:20:24 PM »
How are you feeling today?
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Re: Feel so low this week
« Reply #18 on: August 07, 2013, 10:56:36 PM »
Trust me you need to demand to see a phyciarst and get the best advice you need.  Don't take no for an answer they have a duty of care.  I always got fobbed off until I had enough of this so now when I am bad I will demand to see the mental health phyciarst. 

Hope everything works out !!!!!!

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