Posted by SLS on December 3, 2015, at 21:30:31
In reply to Re: Lou's reply-of meds and death, posted by joe f on December 3, 2015, at 21:04:36
> does anyone here agree with lou?
NO!!!
No. No. No.
My advice to you is to get other opinions using various resources.
Should you go to the hospital? If you have to ask that question, then you probably should. You could go directly to the emergency department (ER). It is the safest route for you to take. They will screen you there and make a determination whether or not you need hospitalization. You would be getting a second opinion and perhaps have managed changes made to your treatment. Ask the attending psychiatrist for suggestions on finding a new doctor if you feel that it is time to make a change.
I am not happy to see you have your medication reduced in such ways by your current doctor. Did he make all of these changes at once? Certainly, he could have tapered the Cymbalta and Tegretol gradually, as both drugs come in smaller dosage forms. I hate to say negative things about other people's doctors, but it seems that yours has very little appreciation for the intensity of drug withdrawal, including the emergence of suicidality.
Keep posting.
- Scott
Some see things as they are and ask why.
I dream of things that never were and ask why not.- George Bernard Shaw
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