Posted by Estella on August 30, 2006, at 5:55:56
I went to the GP. Fairly hopeless... What I wanted was a good clean out with anti-biotics. Yes, I'm well aware that it isn't so good to prescribe anti-biotics for every little sniffle but fact is I've been getting sick every couple weeks / month in the last 6 months and a good clean out is probably exactly what my system needs. Got a blood test though. Iron. Yay.
Another thing I wanted was a teeny tiny dosage of valium. Maybe 15 tablets. 5mgs. Just for when I freak out. One tablet every fortnight max. But no can do. Not on either score. She launched into how prescribing them is 'old' and 'there are much better things available now'. Yeah sure. I bet I've had more contact with psych meds than YOU have had in your lifetime lady and I know what is best for ME. Yeah okay so I'm having slightly more sympathy for peoples on the meds board now.
I got Seroquel. 25mg. She scrolls through the info online at a rapid rate of knotts saying 'mmm hmm shouldn't be any problems'. I know for a fact I'll be so zoned out for the next week that I simply won't get much work done. One f*cking week. If she had given me the valium as directed I wouldn't be having this f*cking hassle now. I wonder how much a bottle of valium would have cost me? Seroquel is costing me around $60 and the drug companies get richer.
Pretty f*cking ropable about now...
Why?
Because we had fire drills last night. One around midnight. I must have been zonked because it felt like 3am. But the clock said midnight. I'm not f*cked off because of that, though, I'm f*cked off because that wasn't the only fire alarm apparantly. There were two more a couple of hours later. I didn't hear them. I didn't f*cking hear them. WHAT IS THIS MEDICATION DOING TO ME? For f*cks sake lady.
On the upside... I have a referral to see a p-doc. A p-doc who seems to have their clinic closed for around half the week, however.
F*cking drugs.
poster:Estella
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