Posted by stargazer2 on June 11, 2007, at 16:28:52
In reply to Re: Nifedipine/ BP crisis/Jedi/ I'll inform my doc » stargazer2, posted by girlnterrupted78 on June 11, 2007, at 12:03:14
Nurse with lots of experience finding doctor errors and oversights as it is now known that nurses find many of the physician errors that cover thir a$$es from lawsuits. Also, from 20 + years on meds know that many meds can worsen condition and cause more side effects than the condition they were designed to treat despite pdocs saying "that isn't a listed side effect" when I complained about becoming suicidal on Zoloft, I knew it was causing this effect not my depression. The latest black box warnings stating "medication for depression can induce suicidality in children and adolescents" but mark my word it can cause it in adults since I expereinced it first hand and I'm sure others have as well. The drug companies are too worried about any warnings that might affect sales despite the reality of its occurrence. It's sickening that the drug companies don't want to ever admit the short comings of any drugs despite needing to morally and ethically do this.
Nardil was the second medication ever prescribed for me after Elavil, back in 1987, and it worked like a miracle. It was truly custom ordered for me until my crazy psychiatrst keep triying to get me off it despite me telling her it was helping me. After she did this I found a new doc and got put on the SSRI's and every other AD known to man between 1989 and 2007. Marplan worked from 1992 to 1994 until Roche discontinued it and I lapsed into a long period of trying to find a med that worked. I had a few short lived successes on a few AD's but never as good as the MAOs,with the exception of Parnate.
I'm disappointed that the original Nardil is no longer available since my original dose was 15 mg twice a day and I'm already at 60 mg since the "new" pills melt in your mouth like M and M's, not like the original hard shelled pills that lasted for 12 hours vs. the 1.2 hour half life I've been reading about with the new pills.
That is why I can see this stuff more easily than the average person, lots of experience and nurses are picking up lots of errors that would go unnoticed without them, as they eliminate nurses and replace them with nurses aides who think they know everything with only a few weeks of training want to tell the nurses how to do their jobs. Those are the people hospitals are replacing nurses with to save money!
Stargazer
P.S. My father was burning up with a fever and was so rigid we couldn't uncross his legs from the effect of the Haldol, a typical NMS reaction which the staff missed and I brought to the attention of the attending MD and boy did they pay attention to me once I mentioned NMS, they looked at eachother and must have thought how does she know anything about that, I also worked in psychiatry and saw lots of reactions like that so it was a blessing I saw it and diagnosed it before permanent damage was done. You have to have someone with you in the ER to witness things despite the objections of the staff since these errors happen all the time.
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