Yeah Allein, saw the name change. I think with me, MK777 makes me sound like a little kid... Which back in 2004 I was 19 and very much immature but now I'm like... wtf about it.
I hate doctors that do that shit. It happens all the time too! I used to make sure that I would refill my meds as early as I was allowed to (2 to 5 days depending on insurance and drug regulations) so I would always end up with extra pills to avoid running out. When I lost my insurance and my doctor dropped me, I had so much extra Klonopin between taking 2 pills a day instead of the 3 I was prescribed and early refills that I was able to go like 6 months without a Valium prescription until I was able to see a new doctor and get a Valium script again.
The whole prescription system is pretty fucked to be honest. But that's a rant for another day in and of itself.
kace - I had a whole huge post typed up and then whacked my trackpad and lost it so this is the much more brief version
In the way of improvements, the biggest thing that I've noticed is that my heart doesn't shoot up as high anymore. It makes it easier for me to handle panic attacks. I just curl up in a ball on my bed and put something mindless on the TV (King of the Hill usually) until it passes. I stopped compulsively checking my pulse. I used to check it so much I actually had an indentation on my right wrist that fit my left index and middle finger perfectly because I checked it probably 30 times a day. My brain is still completely fried though.
The insomnia is draining indeed. I have a few bottles of trazodone and I take it occasionally but when trazodone fails to work, the mCPP metabolite hits me and I feel miserable all night so I skip it unless I have something I absolutely HAVE to get up and do the next day.
The Tranxene is actually a prodrug to the Valium metabolite that we rely on to help us in withdrawal, desmethyldiazepam. While Valium has a 20-100 hour halflife, desmethyldiazepam has a 36-200 hour halflife. Tranxene is also less potent than Valium (15mg of Tranxene is equivalent to 10mg of Valium) so you can make smaller cuts. The downside is that the smallest pill is 5mg while the smallest Valium is 2mg so you have to switch to liquid titration at the end.
I actually really like my psychiatrist, she hasn't given me any indication that she is going to cut me off or otherwise screw me with the Valium, I'm just being paranoid. She IS dead set on getting me on a mood stabilizer, however, and that's not something that I want. Luckily for me the two that would require testing, Depakote and Lithium, I can't tolerate so I can just as easily fill the scripts and never take them which is likely what I will do. She didn't give me the 2mg pills because I still had plenty of 5s when I went to see her. She was actually being diligent and making sure not to give me an abusable amount of Valium. I went there with almost 2 months of my regular 4 5mg pills a day prescription worth of pills. I'm sure when the time is right she will give me the 2s without hesitation.
Feel free to PM me as well. I don't generally get so in depth about talking about my problems... Not really sure why, I guess because I like to do things on my own and don't like burdening other people or maybe I'm just a person that does everything himself. Who knows... But yeah, keep up the good fight
