I was discharged from the hospital on January 28th with a follow up appointment with my shrink on February 22nd---25 days away. That was the soonest they could get me in but they got it all set up.

So this past weekend I realized that the psych meds I was prescribed at discharge were only for 15 days, not 25. I have four days left on my meds, and I can't go off them cold turkey or really bad things happen really fast. I've been through that before, and it isn't pretty.

So today and yesterday I've been on the phone to the hospital psychiatrist's office, my psychiatrist's office, my GP, and the hospital social worker and so has my husband. Both psychiatrists refused to extend the scripts to get me to my follow up appointment--the hospital shrink said call your GP, the GP won't prescribe psych meds, (that's how I ended up in the hospital in the first place), and my shrink won't do it until after he sees me on the 22nd because he's in another city and didn't see me in the hospital.

So after 8 days in the hospital I'm looking at a very unpleasant physical and mental meltdown come about this Sunday, and I've spent hours and hours and two days on the phone trying to prevent it, and still no refill. All I want is two weeks to get me to my followup so I don't get sick. My own shrink and the social worker said by law they have to discharge you with 30 days of meds. That's nice to know. I have that info, but I still don't have the medication, and I'm almost out.

They tell you over and over and over again at the hospital "don't go off your meds, you are responsible for staying on your meds, it's dangerous to go off" and then they discharge me with inadequate meds to get me to follow up and run me around when I point that out.

I don't get it.

I'm frustrated, angry, and discouraged. Why did I ever ask for help in the first place? You ask for help, they mess you up worse and charge you a gazillion dollars for doing it.

If I don't find a refill called in by tomorrow, I'm going to have to try something new. I can't get run around like this any more, I've wasted two days already and I'm running out of time. I wonder if I just show up at the walk in clinic at the GP if they will help me? I don't know what else I can do. I'm at my wit's end with this.