ChemicallyEnhanced
Bluelighter
I'm on my THIRD experience of this.
The first time was 7 years ago while in hospital (acute pancreatitis) and all of a sudden I was having anxiety attacks which I hadn't had in 6 years and I felt very tired and my parents when visiting would say I seemed like I was in slow-motion (movement and speech) and I began having suicidal thoughts. After maybe 4 days of this sudden issue I mention it to nurse. She looks at my meds and says "Oh, an anti-emetic we've got you on clashes the Sertraline [Zoloft] so we took you off it [the Sertraline] 8 days ago". I'd been on it at a high dose for 6 years.
To be fair, she immediately said "I'm so sorry, that should never have happened" by apparently, the doctor decided I'd rather be suicidal than nauseated and didn't even tell me (or..I dunno...try a different fucking nausea med?).
While the nurses (hell, even the other patients on the ward (there were 6 of us) were empathetic and kept checking I was doing okay) the doctor told me to "not be so melodramatic" because "some people will experience a mild discontinuation but nothing serious"
I'm type 1 diabetic and at one time it was discovered that my Quetiapine (Seroquel) was adversely affecting my blood glucose levels (atypical anti-psychotics can cause hyperglycaemia in even non-diabetic patents) so took me off of it. Again, I was told "no, it doesn't create an withdrawal" and then I ended up crying all day and night. And I mean, NON-STOP. I weirdly did not feel sad. Like, I wasn't sad at all, I could just not stop the continuous, inappropriate crying. I also ended up in hospital for "severe confusion" as I wasn't able to sleep (or eat) at all for like 6 days.
I just got my Thorazine script from an emergency out-of--hours place (since it's Sunday evening). I lost some of my script that I got recently (no idea how/where) so I called my doctor when I ran out on Tuesday and he was like "well, it does not cause dependency and has no discontinuation syndrome, so just wait until your next script it's just due [in 8 days] anyway".
Just had to get that emergency supply because I have spent the weekend puking, trembling, panicky and sweating. I took my normal dose (100mg*) a couple hours ago and still feel rough so had to take 3 more (400mg total in 2 hours) to get normal again.
Why don't doctors pay attention to patients or CORRECT information on these medications? Just because a medication isn't like Xanax or Dilaudid, doesn't mean someone can't really suffer without it.
Okay, rant over. Sorry.
*I take 300mg/day, but in 100mg doses t.i.d)
The first time was 7 years ago while in hospital (acute pancreatitis) and all of a sudden I was having anxiety attacks which I hadn't had in 6 years and I felt very tired and my parents when visiting would say I seemed like I was in slow-motion (movement and speech) and I began having suicidal thoughts. After maybe 4 days of this sudden issue I mention it to nurse. She looks at my meds and says "Oh, an anti-emetic we've got you on clashes the Sertraline [Zoloft] so we took you off it [the Sertraline] 8 days ago". I'd been on it at a high dose for 6 years.
To be fair, she immediately said "I'm so sorry, that should never have happened" by apparently, the doctor decided I'd rather be suicidal than nauseated and didn't even tell me (or..I dunno...try a different fucking nausea med?).
While the nurses (hell, even the other patients on the ward (there were 6 of us) were empathetic and kept checking I was doing okay) the doctor told me to "not be so melodramatic" because "some people will experience a mild discontinuation but nothing serious"
I'm type 1 diabetic and at one time it was discovered that my Quetiapine (Seroquel) was adversely affecting my blood glucose levels (atypical anti-psychotics can cause hyperglycaemia in even non-diabetic patents) so took me off of it. Again, I was told "no, it doesn't create an withdrawal" and then I ended up crying all day and night. And I mean, NON-STOP. I weirdly did not feel sad. Like, I wasn't sad at all, I could just not stop the continuous, inappropriate crying. I also ended up in hospital for "severe confusion" as I wasn't able to sleep (or eat) at all for like 6 days.
I just got my Thorazine script from an emergency out-of--hours place (since it's Sunday evening). I lost some of my script that I got recently (no idea how/where) so I called my doctor when I ran out on Tuesday and he was like "well, it does not cause dependency and has no discontinuation syndrome, so just wait until your next script it's just due [in 8 days] anyway".
Just had to get that emergency supply because I have spent the weekend puking, trembling, panicky and sweating. I took my normal dose (100mg*) a couple hours ago and still feel rough so had to take 3 more (400mg total in 2 hours) to get normal again.
Why don't doctors pay attention to patients or CORRECT information on these medications? Just because a medication isn't like Xanax or Dilaudid, doesn't mean someone can't really suffer without it.
Okay, rant over. Sorry.
*I take 300mg/day, but in 100mg doses t.i.d)
