Posted by James_glasgow on April 24, 2007, at 4:33:53
In reply to Re: How come it seems only 3-4 benzos are ever used? » James_glasgow, posted by Quintal on April 24, 2007, at 2:30:55
Hi Quintal
You make some very good points. Hopefully when I am feeling better I will be in a position to engage myself in the coversation with somemore salient points myself.
Over the years I have had just about every label stuck on me possible, mainly because I have argued with SHO's in psychiatry about benzodiazepines. One once told me that if she gave me 5mg of diazepam today, next week I would be asking for 10mg, then 15mg and so on. When I tried to correct her she took umbrigde at this and refused to speak to me any further. Some of them are just plain stupid (one Consultant said to me "where does the NHS get them from"), one SHO once said to me "you know if you answer yes to this next question I am not going to let you out of here", it was are you planning on killing yourself, I promptly said "no", took my jacket and left. When I told my Consultant he said he liked my sense of humour.
Are you still on the Parnate at the moment. On my third course of it I had a spontaneous hypertensive reaction, which I could hardly beleive was happening. I got a taxi to the local casualty department, and was first asked "are you trying to kill youself?", then, "do you suffer from migraine", unfortunately for me the answer to that one was yes and as I doubt they had ever seen this before they though it was a migraine. The headache was expectionally painful and I did not want to be seen as drug seeking but after 10 minutes I could stand it no longer, so I asked for pain relief. To my astonishment they attempted to inject me with tramadol (when I protested that it would give me serotonin syndrome and likely kill me in my current condition, they start going on about me reading things on the net and turned it around as me refusing proper treatment) Only later did the doctor say thanks for stopping him from killing me. It just gets worse from there, I was discharged home with no treatment. When I got there when I attempted to lay down the head got even worse, and I decided I was either going to call an ambulance (and end up back in the same hospital where they clearly did not know what they were doing) or chew one of the nifedipine capsules I was give for something else ,but I know it is used to bring down blood pressure and to end these episodes although there is concern among some doctors that it can bring your blood pressue down too low too quickly leading to a stroke. Within another 10 minutes the headache was gone and I wish I had done that in the first place. So my warning to you would maybe to get a medic alert braclet so that no one gives you pethidine or tramadol (as tramadol has now replaced nalbuphine as the medicine ambulance crews carry to treat pain).
Hope I have not scare you too much.
Take care.
James
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