Posted by Else on July 27, 2001, at 7:02:30
In reply to Re: RANT. This is NOT fair. I hate it !!!!, posted by Angelique on July 26, 2001, at 21:08:57
> My doc AND the pharmacies make me feel like a drug addict.
> I try to call my doc, she doesn't return calls. She won't return my psychologist's calls. Her office won't call in perscriptiosn and during the school year I'm 2 1/2 hours from her office! Last time I needed a refill they told me it wasn't time yet. They gave me the persc. in march with 3 refils (so march, april, june, july, now I'm almost out silly doctors!), and wouldn't give me the refill without makin an appt. The doc's impossible to make appt's with.
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> She sometimes didnt' call things in (when she used to call in perscriptions) and I was on paxil at the time which can have bad feeling withdrawl and there I stood in the drug store with no pills left upset because I knew what was going ot happen. They gave me one pill to get through. It's humiliating when the pharmacists is only maybe 5 years older than me. The drug store near my house staffs high school and older people, so I'll go to get my persc. and it'll be osme young obnocious looking kid ringing up and knowing what I take, or worse someone I went ot high school with.I know what you mean. They always make a huge fuss over benzos at my drugstore and then I get these 20-year old interns telling me these my make me sleepy and that I can't take alcohol with them like I didn't know that already. I've been going to the same drugstore forever, the pharmacists know me, but these interns are a pain in the ass. They should have them work in the lab and leave the customer service to a technician or just a cashier.
> I had a horrible time quitting paxil, and the withdrawl was awful, I felt like an addict.. My psych has me on 3 meds now, some are to counteract side effects of other meds I take!
I never had problems quitting SSRIs (I took Prozac and Zoloft). Effexor was quite something though, with migraines that lasted for days.
I know some doctors do a gradual taper for SSRIs by switching patients from short-acting ones like Paxil to Prozac which is very long acting. I had no withdrawal symptoms whatsoever from this drug, I think it's better then Paxil or Zoloft and I don't know why doctors don't seem to prescribe it anymore. Maybe it has gotten a bad reputation from all the hysterical people who tried to make a buck off it, like anti-psychiatry quacks and law-suit-happy people. Much like what happenned to Valium.
BTW, you didn't say what you are taking now.> I had anxiety problems in the fall so my mom called her office and they called in a blood pressure medicine . Said all they could give me was paxil (which I was mad about because of my horrible withdrawl from quitting it a few months previously) or buspar which never worked that great for me. My mom and Isuggested an beta blocker but instead she called in an alpha blocker.
Is she aware that benzodiazepines also work for anxiety or is she anti-benzo ayatollah?
> Raised my prozc without asking and then I had to go back to 10mg because of akathisia and restlessness.I didn't get these problem on Prozac 20mg but I was taking Xanax 0.25mg three times a day at the time. Maybe Xanax would help. But if your doctor says there's nothing but Paxil or Buspar she can give you for anxiety I doubt she'll be open to prescribing a tranquilizer.
> Maybe cut out cheese and then go to your doc and show him that you have. I heard there's another MAOI which isn't as risky about the foods you eat, mayeb it's a newer one. Show him that you've done your research and you know what works for you and what doesn't and know the risks. Tell him you're willing to sign and affidavat saying you understand this and will not hold him responsible if you eat cheese by mistake.Look, cutting out the cheese is not really a problem. Although it is very good, it is not really an addictive substance. Eating cheese by mistake once or twice is often harmless (I'm young and don't have hypertension). There are also drug like Adalat which can lower blood pressure quickly if a problem occurs. I did offer to sign a release but he says it doesn't work that way. He's just afraid I'll use these to harm myself. And I must admit I *have* been non-compliant in the past, but mostly about minor things.
I don't know where you live but if you can, change doctors. She doesn't seem very competent and she is quite disrespectful.
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