Posted by utopizen on March 8, 2003, at 0:32:24
In reply to Re: Going off Risperdal tonight » utopizen, posted by KrissyP on March 7, 2003, at 22:35:03
Well,
If nothing else, I did find Desoxyn works with fewer side effects than Adderall or Dex or Ritalin does, during my time with this doc. But then again, it was my idea to try it (you'd think a child and adult psychiatrist in practice for a few decades would know of the existence of methamphetamine to treat ADD? Well he didn't.)
I've already called up a bunch of docs, one happened to call back. I'm playing a hit or miss game because my PPO's website search doesn't let me specify "psychopharmacology." It would if I called them up and have them give me names, but I didn't feel like dealing with them. Anyway, one lady called back, found I wanted a psychopharma, and said she'd have one of her collagues take me in. Good thing is psychiatrists all know psychopharmacologists to hand you over to.
Well, I have an appt. next Tue with this pdoc guy, I'll go to it and just say if you're not prescribing me K then I've got this other doc that will. It'll probably happen that he'll say good for you, move on. He said to me once "this is usually the time patients move on to a doctor that treats them."
This was 1/2 year ago, or a year from starting with him. At least he recgonizes he's different than other docs... argg. I think he made a promise to God once or something that he'd never prescribe Klonopin no matter what for the rest of his life in anything but prn. I mean, he hasn't even tried increasing my prn qty. He could at least do that!
I think I've had 2 breakdowns with him before in the past 6 months. How can a doc ever see a patient breakdown crying and not treat them properly??
And as for Risperdal, day 3 was today, at .5mg 3x/day. I got relaxed today, very. Of course, also dumb as a tack. I'm curious though, so I'll stop taking it for now so I can actually do a paper over the weekend, but try breaking it into quarters and try .75mg and possible later .25mg and see if I still get stupid on it.
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