Posted by Jost on August 20, 2006, at 21:19:35
In reply to Tips for being a bad patient..., posted by jealibeanz on August 20, 2006, at 7:53:24
Or just a little plaque or nametag on your shirt, identifying yourself as a depressed person under a physician's care, taking a mood-altering pharmaceutical, X, with various contraindications, and a reference to a card in your wallet with more info.
(just if you don't want to spend money on the bracelet)
Which you put on as you enter the waiting room (assuming a one-person office) and take off as soon as pdoc's door closes behind you.
Seriously, though, a card in your wallet with your driver's license should be enough. I kept mine visible so, as soon as you opened the wallet, you could see it, but I made it fairly discreet, so no one would notice, unless they had some reason to look.
By the way, you can get serotonin syndrome from other AD's. Esp if you mix say an SSRI (or even a SRNI) with trazadone, which also raises serotonin. That happened to me with Cymbalta and trazadone (my pdoc was aware of my sensitivity to serotonin, so he prescribed a very cautious first few doses, therefore the problem wasn't life-threatening, just frightening).
Jost
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