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Drug abuse and medical records

I told my Dr about my drug abuse when I was sixteen cannabis/ecstasy/ speed/lsd/and cocaine and in the last 18 years I have only been prescribed twice once diazepam for a week and then a week of temazepam for help with alcohol w/d......even though I have severe anxiety and have been on every anti depressant you can name.they say its because I have an addictive personality maybe they have my best interests at heart but surely 12 years without drugs and 2.5 years without alcohol I'd be fine with benzos if I hadn't been honest I'd have been given them years ago.
 
Okay so I saw my GP this afternoon and I got a few things - etifoxine to take 3x a day (according to wikipedia that's an anxiolytic/anticonvulsant and has similar effects to benzos), alprazolam for the panic attacks & magnesium supplements. This is for the next two weeks, at which point I'm supposed to call him and if things aren't better by then he wants to put me on SSRIs.
I didn't tell him about the heroin, just about the other stuff that's been going on and luckily he was quite receptive (very receptive actually, got everything I was hoping for).

So yeah thanks a lot for all the answers, otherwise I'd probably have made the gigantic mistake of letting him in on the drug use!

(jancrow I'm definitely keeping what you said in mind btw :))
 
later in life you might find getting life insurance expensive as you will have to declare this on any application if its on your medical record.

Probably not your biggest worry at the moment but just thought it put it out there
 
Maybe just try swapping one substance for another:

My GP knows that I used to use H and that I still drink quite a bit.
And we both came to the conclusion that being put on a Benzo and a weak Opiate was the lesser of two evils - I'd either still be using H and drinking until my Pancreas gave me another "Eerrrrrmmm.... I'm metabolising myself here and you'll end up back in hospital, maybe even in ICU you dickhead!" moment, or on substances that were controlled and much safer.

I don't know that you declaring your need to drink to stop these panic attacks (which I'm very sorry to hear are happening with such frequency) will gain you a Benzo prescription, but perhaps taking that line of "The lesser of two evils" will make said GP see sense.

Sorry... This is awfully un-HR... Or is it HR? Oh I don't know anymore, but I just wish you luck and hope you manage to knock the panic attacks on the head <3
 
The life insurance application never came to mind. In which case I would be fucked since substance abuse is all over my records. :(
 
Of which I have just read 8)
I really am a lazy non-thread reading cunt :D~<3

And with regards to that - Glad to hear it Pagey! Really hope it helps and that you don't get put on any horrible SSRIs!
 
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