Posted by fachad on February 9, 2005, at 22:48:09
In reply to What have I done to myself? No more meds?, posted by Dkscully on February 8, 2005, at 23:13:07
I've been on psych meds of various sorts for years. I'm very skeptical of their purported benefits AND very suspicious of their side effects and the sometimes gradual worsening of things with their long term use.
Anyway, my wife's gynecologist was trying to be helpful and suggested that she go to a pdoc and get meds for anxiety. I was just horrified at the thought - not that I would want to deny her genuinely needed treatment - but I live with her every day - and I am not insensitive - and I knew that her problems were not that severe - not severe enough to merit the gauntlet of psych meds.
Anyway, her gyn convinced her that she needed a pdoc; the pdoc started the RX express; new meds had side effects for which other meds were RX'ed; old meds were D/C'd which precipitated withdrawal/discontinuation and new treatment emergent problems, which necessitated new meds be RX'ed, etc. - everyone here knows how it goes once you start down that path.
Well, I thought she was the only person on earth to be started on this ride by, of all things, a gynecologist. I guess she was not the ONLY one...
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