Psycho-Babble Medication Thread 1020444

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what might my psychiatrist think?

Posted by poser938 on June 29, 2012, at 13:10:31

at my last appointment with my psychiatrist a bit over a week ago she prescribed a med in a dose that i knew wasnt going to work for me, but she wanted to just try it. and no surprise, it is doing nothing.
now i have been trying to contact her through her personal email tat she gave me and told me to contact her with. she wrote back once, but didnt really say much. i want to go ahead and try her other idea she mentioned with the Lamictal, but it seems she is ignoring my emails. she doesnt have a way to contact her at her office, she doesnt even have front desk workers.

but now my idea is to go to my medical doc since i can get in about a week sooner there and ask for the Lamictal. i am sick of waiting and suffering when i can maybe go ahead and get it from my medical doc.

also, if youve ever taken lamictal, how was it?

 

Re: what might my psychiatrist think?

Posted by Emily Elizabeth on June 29, 2012, at 16:46:04

In reply to what might my psychiatrist think?, posted by poser938 on June 29, 2012, at 13:10:31

I feel for you and your suffering. Somehow a lot of pdoc's don't understand that when a person is suffering they want help NOW!

I think that going to your gp to get the rx has a high potential of backfiring. Even if your gp will play along, I think your pdoc will be angered by it. She might even use it as an excuse to stop working with you. If you want to keep working with this pdoc, it is too big of a risk.

I have recently started on Lamictal after doing a lot of research on it. One thing about Lamictal is that it seems to be better for preventing depressive relapses than dragging you out of a current episode. Also, you have to take a few weeks to get up to a therapeutic dose (I suspect you knew that though).

Hang in there. Hope it gets better soon!

Best,
EE

 

Re: what might my psychiatrist think?

Posted by Phillipa on June 30, 2012, at 0:21:05

In reply to Re: what might my psychiatrist think?, posted by Emily Elizabeth on June 29, 2012, at 16:46:04

I tried lamictal but got this salivating so wierd had to go off at 50mg. But other than that it was okay. I'd have to know your relationship with your doc first to advise but to me she shouldn't ignore you. Phillipa

 

Re: what might my psychiatrist think?

Posted by rjlockhart04-08 on July 2, 2012, at 20:59:48

In reply to what might my psychiatrist think?, posted by poser938 on June 29, 2012, at 13:10:31

Psychiatrists depending on how many clients they have sometimes don't respond but if they just have a few clients and still not awnser all methods of contact, then ... make another appointment with them, state whats going on...and that you have a request to Lamictal. If declined move to others that specialize in bipolar illness because Lamictal is vary popular with docs with mood stablization for patients. You can even go to a public heath professional, they wouldnt really give you a hard time....its not a substance that has addiction linked to it.

Anyways I'm on Lamictal right now, really its just going to kinda smoothe some things out, its not like xanax or ativan, or even nuerontin...its effects take time to work...kinda like prozac and lithium....it does have antidepressant effects to it around doses like 200-300...but I have read from posts here on babble that anything above 400mg-600mg can cause memory and mental slowing problems so just avoid that situation. Stay at around 200mg maybe and you'll be fine.

Just request it....say you took in the past and it worked great and you had to stop it because of another medication. Just eleborate...make points.

Good luck:)

rj


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