Posted by Mark H. on March 1, 2002, at 21:01:21
In reply to medication compliance?, posted by trouble on March 1, 2002, at 20:41:50
Dearest Trouble,
Being familiar with your beautiful and heartfelt writing on the PSB, I'm a bit distressed by your question, which I think you know the answer to.
Wellbutrin destroyed my short-term memory (happily, it does not have that effect on everyone), so I worry when someone so intelligent writes here that she's forgetting to take her meds a couple of times a week.
Compliance is extremely important if only to maintain credibility with your psychiatrist AND continue to have input into what you're taking. If our docs can't trust us to follow directions, why should they trust us to do good research or to manage difficult combination-meds?
I've seen more people lose control of their care through non-compliance than through any single other fault. Doctors have to worry so much about liability today, that anyone who cannot follow a treatment schedule or pill-taking regimen is likely not to be trusted with anything stronger than aspirin.
PLEASE, you brilliant and beautiful person you, buy yourself one of those little seven-day pill boxes and USE IT so you don't have to trust your memory to stay on track. And take a hard look at whether what you're taking is possibly CAUSING the problems you're experiencing with compliance. My little pea-brain was literally confabulating events on Wellbutrin that never happened, just because once I "thought" of something I imagined it was already done!
I hope you don't think I'm being harsh; I just don't want to see you lose the freedom to co-direct your own treatment.
With warm regards,
Mark H.
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