Posted by headachequeen on September 28, 2004, at 14:23:04
In reply to RE: More info please...stressed, posted by bridgey1128 on September 28, 2004, at 13:16:08
There are indeed so many weight-loss drugs available and so many of them are so very very dangerous that it is really something that one has to consider with a lot of research thrown into the bargain.
I am glad that you found this site because there is so much knowledge and experience here.
As Bridgey said, there is a need to identify the reason the doctor suggested this med; is she bulemic? is she bi-polar? what is the actual problem? or is there a need to find a doctor better able to deal with the problem?
I am in a really good position to address that issue, believe me as, in recent weeks I have seen so many doctors following the sudden outbreak of changes in the seizure occurrences.
On the first visit to Emergency, rushed there by ambulance when no one could waken me from a forty-five minute coma, I lay on a gurney in a treatment room for almost three hours. By the time a doctor finally arrived, I was out of the seizure but freezing to death on one of the hottest evenings of the summer, shaking from the 'cold' although I was bundled in warmed blankets...
the doctor went through my medical history that had been taken in triage and informed me that my only problem was that I was over-medicated...
all I had to do was quit taking the medications and I would be fine...
okay, which should I start with...
the ones prescribed for high blood pressure which I have had since I was an emaciated teen-ager, then I could stroke out...
or the meds for the severe lung disorder and I could stop breathing at any point in time...
or the ones that deal with the blockage in my nose from the broken nose from a toboggan accident in my teens and help me breathe...
or the allergy meds... they help me breathe too...
then there is the stuff for the high cholestrol despite my careful diet....
or the epilepsy meds that are supposed to stop the seizures which is why I am here...
you pick, doctor...he wanted to know how I knew I had high blood pressure and how I knew I was epileptic...
well he had been the doctor in emerg who had diagnosed the epilepsy many years ago...
was I sure I was epileptic...
had I proof of that??
and had I proof that I needed meds for hypertension...
would I not be better off if I just quit taking this chemical cocktail???
That was all that was wrong, I was over-medicated and he suggested I quit taking all my meds...
Go home and throw out all the meds...
I would be better in about a week...Anyone ever gone off Tegretol ???? The seizures come on in a hurry and really strong and often...
Topomax??? I imagine the migraines and the seizures set in...
no idea what happens when the blood pressure meds get thrown out, but I do know that without the asthma and lung meds I quit breathing... and on it goes...
where does this guy get off???then he comes back and tells me the blood tech will be in to take some blood samples before I go just to be sure there is nothing really wrong...
half an hour later he tells me I am low in potassium and prescribes an increase in potassium and suggests that I take an aspirin a day to prevent stroke.... and that perhaps I should continue my regular meds and see my regular doctor as soon as I can...
from throwing away my meds and being cured to taking five more pills a day....the next day I was back at emerg in the midst of another deep seizure, unconscious again... this doctor informed me that the meds I was on were not enough to control seizures in an eight-year-old and increased the meds by three hundred per cent while saying that it was just the beginning, a slow start as he put it... he changed the schedule too in an effort to change the time of the seizures
shocked to read the first doctor's notes, wondering if he was really on the planet when he examined me...
well I had been wondering too, but then I was in post-seizure state, so what did I know...two days later I was back again and the third doctor increased the meds again and changed the schedule to try even more to switch the seizures back to night time events...
his dosage and scheduling came really close to achieving success...
no more daytime seizures on his schedule and a whole two and a-half days with no seizures period...
then switched back to the original dose by my own doctor who thought it was waaaayyyy too much tegritol...
funny but he left the increase in topomax alone...
he also questioned the inconvenience of the schedule but I have not changed that....
if I have to stay awake later that is just too bad, the seizures happen at night and not during the day, other than this afternoon...
and that is all right with me...What I am trying to say, is that each doctor seems to see things differently...
you have to ask questions and demand answers...
and you have the right to ask and get answers...
If you are not sure what he is saying, ask again...
take it from someone who has learned the hard way...I now have a new neurologist in the picture and hope to have a more controlled situation...
with medication that controls the seizures and gives me back my own lifestyle...that is what it is all about...
the meds and the treatments are to give us control of our lifestyles with help from the doctors....yes, this is long but I want you to think about it all and realise that you have the right to have control and to help your daughter regain control...
so ask and get answers and if you are not happy get that second opinion...
and we are here to try and help....
whatever it takes...
we are here...
and have probably someone in our midst who has been there....
good luck
kat
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