Posted by yesac on June 16, 2005, at 10:48:38
In reply to Re: I LOVE lithium » yesac, posted by gromit on June 15, 2005, at 18:14:50
> You are right of course, 200 mg of Provigil was a sugar pill, 300 mg and I was like a new person until it stopped working. We need to give these things a fair trial before moving on.I have a friend who thinks that I have some kind of drug metabolism situation (fast metabolizer) and that's why I don't respond to so many meds. She thinks that I need to try higher doses of a lot of them. My shink, on the other hand, thinks that for the most part if a drug doesn't work at a reasonable dose, going up to a higher dose won't help. He thinks going up to a higher dose will help when the drug works to some extent at a lower dose. So I don't know.
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> No longer am I going to accept treatment that isn't working, a doctor who is condecending, who minimalises my troubles or the side effects of medications. If I hire an interior designer and I absolutely hate what they come up with, I'm not going to defer to them. If the gardener kills my lawn he's fired. Anyone who works for me, including my doctor who WORKS FOR ME, that isn't producing the results I want is fired. I'm tired of being nice, I'm tired of being patient. I don't know if this makes any sense at all.
What happened with the Lamictal?Yeah you're story makes a lot of sense. A similar thing happened to me. Well, it wasn't as bad as your Depakote situation... basically I've seen 4 psychiatrists in the past 7 years. The first one was okay-- she was my college's psychiatrist, and it was my first experience with drugs so I didn't know much. The next one, who was actually a psychiatric NP, was condescending and I didn't feel like she trusted me, which was a huge problem for me. After she refused to prescribe Effexor for me because I wasn't going to be in the area for a few months, I quit seeing her and never went back. The third was a shrink at a community clinic, and I hated their stupid policies-- you couldn't call and talk to your psychiatrist, you were supposed to voice med issues to your therapist who would tell the psychiatrist! Also, you could only get an appt once every few months MAYBE. Plus I didn't feel like she respected me, evidenced by the fact that she'd show up at the clinic 15 minutes after my appointment was supposed to start. I got really pissed off by that treatment, and decided I didn't need that crap. Just like you, I realized that I could do better, I was paying for this, my mental health is too important to take that bullsh*t.
Okay now I'm just ranting and raving... well, to wrap the story up, I found my current psychiatrist, who is in private practice, and I've see him for therapy and meds for the past 2 years. He made me realize that there ARE in fact decent psychiatrists out there if you look hard enough.
> I refuse to believe there is no answer, fingers in ears, la la la la la...
>By the way, I've embedded a subliminal message in this post. It's about answers. In fact, it IS the answers. Now you will Know.
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