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Originally Posted by misskeena
That's a good question. You do have the right to refuse them changing your meds. You also have the right to ask them to go back to the original combination of meds i.e. what you were on before this drastic change. Is it 12 different medications or are you talking about 12 pills as in the actual number of pills you are taking in a day?
You would have to take a very high dose of the blood pressure meds in order for them to kill you, more than what was prescribed. They would make you feel pretty awful if they dropped your pressure, but they likely would not have killed you.
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I was one Zoloft, Lamictal, Vyavanse, Lexapro, Trileptal, Klonopin, Chlonodine, Prazosin, Hydroxyzine, Risperdal, Trazedone, Amantadine (I think I butchered the spelling on that), and Atarax (or something like hydroxyzine only not an antihistamine) all at one time.
I was on a REALLY high dose of Chlonodine (given to patients with violent outbursts - which didn't match my symptoms at all to reduce blood pressure) and a relatively low dose, but still enough to affect blood pressure of Prazosin.
I didn't do a lot of asking simply because, I am a bit of a hypochondriac, and I didn't want to hyperfocus on my medication. I also didn't trust my view of what was going on, and had full faith that my idiot doctor at the hospital knew what she was doing, and would take good care of me. That's kind of why I just went with it. It also didn't help they gave me outdated information on my medication...