Posted by SLS on March 2, 2006, at 11:24:31
In reply to NEED HELP PLEASE QUICK DRUGS!!!, posted by lovemypitbulls on March 2, 2006, at 0:13:20
> I have to be honest,
Speaking of being honest, I think it is about time that you be honest with your doctor. He can't treat you properly otherwise.
I think what you are experiencing is the result of beginning Topamax at too high a dosage and the amplification of the side effects it produces along with the addition of anxiety by introducing Wellbutrin at the same time.
I am not educated nor experienced enough to choose my own drugs and to decide what dosages to begin at. I pay someone more capable than I to decide such things.
What a mess.
I would advise you to discontinue your medications and speak to your doctor instead of allowing yourself or others to play doctor for you.
It won't be easy.
You need to start laying out the facts and making some hard decisions. If you indeed have true OCD or OCPD, it will be extremely difficult to follow your doctor's directions. I think you have to be resolved to get well. If you are, then the next step will be to be resolved to follow-through with your doctor's instructions despite your compulsions. This will be extremely difficult. Unfortunately, many of the drugs that are effective for OCD are also the ones that produce weight-gain. You need to make your doctor aware of your ambivalence to take such medications. You might ultimately have to decide between attaining mental health while managing weight-gain as a side effect or remaining thin and mentally dysfunctional. Sorry. Life really sucks sometimes. You might not be able to have your cake and eat it too.
If you are afraid to confront your doctor and admit your previous failures to follow his instructions, perhaps bringing someone along with you will help give you the courage to be honest with him.
Right now, I can't offer you any quick and simple pharmacological instructions on how to stabilize your psychobiology so that you can avoid speaking to a doctor. I guess the quickest way for you to get well is to discontinue your self-experimentation and let a professional determine how to administer to you these very potent medications.
I know this post is somewhat scolding, but what you are doing is setting yourself up to follow a path of perpetual self-medication with little chance of you finding a cure on your own.
- Scott
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