Posted by Willyee on February 9, 2005, at 23:49:18
In reply to Re: What have I done to myself? No more meds?, posted by Phillipa on February 9, 2005, at 15:55:12
I think first thing is we need to stop calling it medication......and putting a happy face on it,they are drugs,,medication has some science to it and normaly is treating something,making it better,what we take is based on nothing more than what is looking like more and more of a theory based on dollers.
I too add myself,18 kid who never touched a drug,had an external situation,and told effexor would elimnate my sadness,well 6 years later i went from visiting health stores and going right to the body building shelves to roaming the net obsessed with something that prob dont exisit,i feel like a junkie now,i honestly do.Thanks doc!> The story of my life too. Only I've been on the AD part for 8 years. Initial Dx was Generalized Anxiey. I took low doses of benzos with that. Then when the new SSRI's came out and I was really not adjusting to my newly dx'd Hashimotos Thyroiditis, and was feeling awful, unable to do anything paxil 10mg was rx'd. I should have been suspicious when the pdoc put me on lopressor for 3 weeks before starting it "so I could tolerate it". Well, if it's supposed to help with anxiety why did I need this? Now I too am looking for a way out of meds that have landed me on Disability for 8 yrs, and the end of a career I loved. Fondly, Phillipa
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