Posted by garcia cortez on July 27, 2008, at 3:17:53
In reply to Re: meds and next psychiatrist, posted by Sky Brite Line on July 26, 2008, at 23:55:30
Yes the Xanax stops the jerking of my legs to the extent that I can fall asleep and the Ambien prolongs the effects of the Xanax (according to my psychiatrists [during the medicine trial stage I had 3 psychiatrists and one neurologist working as a team until I achieved functionality socially]) so that I do not have "early morning awakenings" and get 7 solid hours of sleep now. This team approach allowed me to get the medical tests needed to figure out why I was a chronic insomniac. They also said that I had a condition called "oneirophenia" which means a hallucinatory dream like state caused by sleeplessness. They predicted that if the insomnia was treated it would allow the antipsychotics to work as they should and my symptoms would be controlled to a point where my psychotic and social isolation symptoms would lift to allow functioning--and they were right! This is the "upside" to being treated by a research hospital w/ a team approach. They also are not bound by rigid-by-the-book politically correct treatments and it is common to see patients treated with very unconventional combinations/dosages of medications. The down side of research hospital treatments is all too well known.
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