I just started taking it last week. They felt that I was depressed enough to add it to my anti-depressant. They cut back on my lithium a lot (I was taking 900 mg and am now taking 600 mg) because I had a horrible tremor.
It wasn't my choice to go to the psych ward. My father found me incoherent after taking a handful of sleeping pills. If one is good, then surely twenty is better, right? I took an entire bottle of Seroquel 300's and a handful of gabapentin 600 mgs, too. They also tried to tell me that I took enough Suboxone (which I recently began to take again) such that I only had enough left for eleven days. Well, that wasn't true because when I got home I had two full, unopened boxes left. I don't remember much of it, except trying to pull out my urinary catheter and being bitched at by the nurse. I thought I was having a nightmare and wanted to leave but security was at the end of my bed. I was involuntarily sent to the pysch ward after two lousy days in the ER. I was very resistant the first day or two but I had an excellent psychiatrist who would say "pills don't listen to you and give you encouragement" and the nursing staff was also very compassionate. Frankly, I would have stayed longer than fifteen days if I could have but they felt I was ready for discharge.
I appreciate your concern very much.
