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Originally Posted by Lexi232
this was the first time i had ever seen this psych nurse.. i told her i was super depressed and many other issues im going through. I am just glad i never have to go back to her.
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Good, I'm glad you will never see her again. She sounds awful. Who are you seeing now then? Can they help you with this? Can you tell them everything you wrote here? If you don't have anyone yet, can you contact your regular doctor and tell him what happened and ask him for help with tapering? And maybe he could continue the Cymbalta prescription too since you don't want to get off of that one.
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Originally Posted by Lexi232
She had no reasoning for it other than she was going to stop those and that i needed to stop taking them because they are now no longer prescribed,
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Is she a psychiatric nurse or a psychiatric nurse practitioner? The former just has to carry out orders about meds, so she has no authority to prescribe anything to you or change things. If she is a psychiatric nurse practitioner, then she can prescribe. I'm thinking she may just have been a poorly trained nurse with little knowledge of discontinuing meds. She doesn't have the authority or training to do a taper plan with you. She can only say to you that you can't take these anymore because they are no longer prescribed. So she's not really in charge, you know what I mean? She's just going by the book. But it is her responsibility to contact a prescriber and inform about what is going on so they can see you and step in and change things to safely get you off of these meds. She's just being like a computer, "you are no longer prescribed these meds so you can no longer take them beep." She's stupid and awful. You need to see someone with authority to diagnose and prescribe. Your doctor, who prescribed you the painkiller, would be one prescriber you could turn to on short notice, since you have a pre-existing relationship with him. Who prescribed the Xanax, Klonopin, and Cymbalta to you? That would be the prescriber to see for help getting off of those. Also, who is prescribing your ADD meds? That would be another person to see for help with this. Ideally, you should coordinate all your psych meds with just one prescriber.
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Originally Posted by Lexi232
is that why i'm twitching and jerking off and on and getting static shock pains in my head?????
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The static shock pains in your head are from stopping the Cymbalta. I don't know what the twitches and jerks are from--maybe the benzos. As another poster wrote, you are at increased seizure risk for stopping the benzos so suddenly. This is dangerous.
I hope you will contact your doctor who prescribed the pain med or your prescriber who does your ADD meds or whoever prescribed you the benzos and cymbalta. One of them should be able to help you with this. Best of luck.