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Originally Posted by daisychic
I was really concerned and worried after reading this. Medication for treatment is a fragile science so to speak and can have tremendous effects if taken improperly. Your pdoc gives you a certain dosage or a range that you should take. I would worry if anyone was just taking a few and if they dont feel a certain way take a few more that completely scares me. Ive always thought you were suppose to take meds consistently with slow increases or decreases because of side effects.
This is just my opinion but I might even be weary or any pdoc that takes this approach to meds. I hope I dont offend anyone with this post I just feel so strongly and are concerned.
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I was doing this with xanax. I'd take two, I wouldn't fall asleep, so I'd go to the med cabinet and take two more, and then again, and so on. They were 0.5 mg tabs so I am lucky that I never ended up in a dangerous situation. What's worse, when alcohol is added to the mix, it tends to increase anxiety once it begins to wear off, and then sleeping is VERY difficult. So imagine being loaded up on xanax and alcohol. That's very dangerous. I'm being weaned off xanax. Seroquel scares me because it almost killed me, on a very low dose. I now have a fear of all atypical anti-psychotics. I don't think I need them anyway.
Anyway, yes I agree that the "take a few and if it doesn't work take a few more" policy is very dangerous. Please don't do it.
Just think if someone who has never taken the med before takes the med at your maximum prescribed dose level. What would happen to that person? They might very well end up in the hospital. You've been conditioned to get to that dosage level. If you go higher than that you are putting yourself at great risk, especially with things like anti-psychotics.