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Random MSN Gibberings LVI - Until You've Lived It Like, Divn't Preach It

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I'm so grateful i've had a walk in surgery. Just turn up a bit before surgery opens in morning or afternoon, and it's first come first served. I always take a book, as there's usually an hour's wait unless you're the VERY first in line. People turn up half an hour before surgery opens and they start booking people in then. I've never waited more than an hour to be seen.

However, they've clocked that i'm now out of their catchment area as the hospital sent them a letter with my new address, so i'm going to have to move doctors. Which is annoying, as it was this doctor I had a good relationship with, and gave me a valium script a couple of times on repeat, which I'm about to run out of!

I think their way of operating is a much better system than appointments only.
 
monstanoodle said:
So I'm going to have to go down again tomorrow to see her in person and rectify it... I hate doing this as it just adds to the "drug-seeker persona" :(
Ah well...
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Why don't they just put some broken glass down and ask you to start crawling, eh? Fuck 'em. Hope it goes well.

Morning EADD. My first alcohol-free night in weeks passed without the slightest hitch, save cravings. The benzos that facilitated it don't count, okay?

Feel fantastic though. Shame I now have the journey into town to contend with, followed by eight hours of unrewarding work. Ah well. Enjoy. ;)
 
TheSpade said:
Fucking stupid system. Mines is the same, I never seem to get through until about 9am and by that time there's no appointments left and I get told to call back at half 10 to see if there's any cancellations but so is every cunt else doing that. It can go on for days.
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My previous one was the same only they never turn a genuinely ill person away, they stack up extras after morning and afternoon surgery and all the GPs just stay til they are all seen. It's a big practice though, lots of doctors.

I suspect it might have something to do with targets - how many patients can get same day appointments or something..

My current one is ace, 3 docs (2 part time) but have rung up in afternoon before and got same day appt. Been offered a range of several appointments in one day, in fact. One dr is a bit scary but mine is lovely and seems really good, don't understand why more people don't register!

Edit: Monsta, that sounds awful :( hope you get it sorted today..

Mornin' mornin' crew, 4 hours sleep and 9 1/2 hours work to go, joy :(
 
so sorry to hear that monsta. and no they haven't been through any of your shit. well i'm generalising from one to all here but did get massively told off when prescribed valium for not working harder with anxiety issues, despite explaining i'd been dealing with other issues which put me in immediate danger. they seem to expect a superhuman ability to cope with life, or more likely just don't genuinely understand mental health problems/think they're only for wasters. i don't think in cases like that they care as much about your health as they do about justifying giving out the scripts. i hope your usual doctor is more of an actual human.

as for booking appointments- mine are ok for that and have even given me emergency appointments when i insisted it wasn't necessary. have had some utterly atrocious ones for getting appointments though. don't know how people fit this shit around real jobs though. probably people in my position don't hold down real jobs so it never becomes an issue.....
 
Reading the comments on AOL news is entertaining and disturbing. They seem to find a way to make every article a platform for their racism.

Commenting on Burglaries one reader said

IF ONLY---WELL WE ONLY WON THE WAR ON PAPER ANYWAY----WE NEED SOMEONE LIKE HITLER TO SORT THIS COUNTRY OUT---VOTE BNP
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there are some serious nut jobs out there.
 
AOL News, c'mon to fuck eh?

get massively told off when prescribed valium for not working harder with anxiety issues
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You're really lucky to get anything for anxiety let alone valium. Bad idea prescribing blues for anxiety IMO anyway.
 
TheSpade said:
Bad idea prescribing blues for anxiety IMO anyway.
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Not all valium's blue, Spade. Anyway, they are anxiolytics after all, so it's kinda what they're made for,y'know? I know what I'd reach for in preparation for a stressful episode and it wouldn't be a self-help book on breathing exercises... ;)

Long-term though, (and I don't often say this) you're absolutely spot on. There are ways to work on anxiety and its triggers without resorting to medication, but it's a very involved, drawn-out process which is difficult for many people - ironically more so for some of the most anxious types out there.

Hell of a complex issue though, and varies massively from person-to-person.
 
TheSpade said:
You're really lucky to get anything for anxiety let alone valium. Bad idea prescribing blues for anxiety IMO anyway.
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when i say anxiety its probably not what most people think of. more of a total brain shut down + inability to stop crying leading to rapid onset of insomnia and weight loss so kinda an extreme case. also you don't get it in a single doctors appointment its generally after a couple of weeks monitoring with no improvement. i suspect they take your medical history into account and how much the treatment that could be required if the anxiety isn't medicated there and then would cost, which in my case would generally be months of residential treatment. its cheaper for them to give me drugs so probably helps with their targets.

and yes i agree, long term benzos don't help you cope with stuff. same with all escapism i guess, but everyone needs a little to stay sane. sometimes you need a little medicinal kick in the ass to get to a mental place where you can start to work on the bigger issues.
 
Ah chinup, sorry you've had such a rubbish time of it :( hope things are a bit more settled now.

Not too sure targets will have much to do with it.. GPs may be concerned about their practice budgets but residential care wouldn't come out of that whereas drugs would. And I don't think psychiatrists have much to do with money matters at all! Lack of facilities and money in general, however, is a big one I'm sure.. makes me so mad how poorly funded mental health is (think we've had this chat before? haha)

Also lack of understanding and (particlularly in GPs case) lack of confidence to break the rules or go against the current guidelines has a lot to do with not managing anxiety v well I'd say. And as many have said benzos won't fix it in the long term, although I do think doctors should be less anxious (hah) about prescribing them in the short term or more flexible with tapering schedules. Tis a tricky one though, doctors are supposed to first do no harm and benzos long term can cause considerable harm with addiction, rebound anxiety, depression etc..

Blimey I'm in a reflective mood today! And have a lot of free time it seems ;)

Hope things get better monsta and chinup <3
 
awwww cheers. i've been ok recently, i was referring to times past, and trying to make clear that i don't mean i just go into the doctors and say 'i've been feeling a bit anxious recently can i have some valium?'

i don't know much about how the budgets all tie in together, though had been given the impression by a GP that they are discouraged from making referrals, which is where i got that idea from.

i do find it weird how if you go across the channel, they will happily prescribe you benzos long term. i don't know much about what they do to you, but i also got banned by a doctor from quitting smoking once because exams were coming up and the stress would be worse for me than continuing to smoke. so i guess they must actually be pretty bad for you if the stress caused by not having them is less damaging than the drugs themselves.
 
SamhainGrim said:
Why don't they just put some broken glass down and ask you to start crawling, eh? Fuck 'em. Hope it goes well.

Morning EADD. My first alcohol-free night in weeks passed without the slightest hitch, save cravings. The benzos that facilitated it don't count, okay?

Feel fantastic though. Shame I now have the journey into town to contend with, followed by eight hours of unrewarding work. Ah well. Enjoy. ;)
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I think I was just being consumed by anger and wasn't thinking properly. This turned into self-doubt but then I thought to myself:
"If I was drug seeking, then I'd just go out and buy loads of Vodka and Smack!"
So I gave myself a break :) And to be honest, he was just doing his job, but he didn't have to be such a cunt about it.
I saw my regular GP today and she was, as always, really lovely and understanding about it :) She did say that under the same circumstance, if someone who was another GP's patient came to see her, she would have done the same and I totally understand. I guess, as I said, it was just that the other GP bloke was a wanker about it all.

Nice one on the booze sabbatical too mate! :) It's not easy, been struggling myself lately too. So yea - **High 5's Sam** ;)

effie said:
Edit: Monsta, that sounds awful :( hope you get it sorted today..

Mornin' mornin' crew, 4 hours sleep and 9 1/2 hours work to go, joy :(
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Thankyou muchly Effie hun :) And urg! You need some good rest chuck :\ Hope you get some tonight ♥

chinup said:
so sorry to hear that monsta. and no they haven't been through any of your shit. well i'm generalising from one to all here but did get massively told off when prescribed valium for not working harder with anxiety issues, despite explaining i'd been dealing with other issues which put me in immediate danger. they seem to expect a superhuman ability to cope with life, or more likely just don't genuinely understand mental health problems/think they're only for wasters. i don't think in cases like that they care as much about your health as they do about justifying giving out the scripts. i hope your usual doctor is more of an actual human...
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Thanks to you also mate :) There's a great deal of GP's, mental health workers (Psychologists / Psychiatrists etc.) who shouldn't be in that line of work as they've no idea what their patients are going through :|
I mean, this cunt GP actually said to me "Well you should stick to the dosage you're prescribed..."
Fuckin duhhhhh! I fuckin know that, but I also know that it's not always as easy as that, especially when you're tapering. You have good and bad days - last week was full of the latter unfortunately :\
But, and the flip-side, there's some utterly fantastic GPs etc. who really understand their patients and want what is best for them. I'm extremely fortunate to have one I can see :)

♥♥ Love and cuggulz to you all! ♥♥ I hope you're all doing well :)

Just had a right good mix in preparation for this Tea and Cake do that my mate's putting on (the proceeds are going to the youth working place that she volunteers at and where this is taking place) so I'm really happy with that :) It was spot on and I included everything from Ambient Japanese Electronica, to Garage, to Electro, to Dubstep, to Contemporary Orchestral and back again ;)
 
Gad to hear it ended well Monsta, and if there's one thing better than drugs (well, sometimes) it's music. :)
 
I've impressed myself, been exercising every day for over a week now. How long can this last?
 
Keep it going! Not only will you feel better and sleep better, but given time you may even become an Adonis like yours truly... given time, yeah?

Spam o' the day on my work email:
Dana Begold said:
I am British Gay. I stay alone. Call or write message to me, please +447737102341. I want to find my love:-(.
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So don't expect to be hearing from me tonight then, folks. :D
 
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