I sure felt judged when I limped around on a broken ankle last fall and couldn’t get pain meds because I was on all these psych meds. Klonopin in particular, even though I only take it a few times a year. Not a single doc in town will give me so much as an Ultram. It pisses me off because I am NOT a drug seeker, and even when I have surgery I don’t use narcotics a minute longer than I have to. I usually take Aleve and Tylenol together for regular pain, like from arthritis, and I like the combination because Aleve is the better anti-inflammatory and the Tylenol is a better painkiller. But no one should have to go around on a fractured ankle or other broken bone without even a few Percocet. That’s what I get for being on so many “major tranquilizers”, as my PCP called them. God help me if I ever get REALLY hurt.
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DX: Bipolar 1
Anxiety
Tardive dyskinesia
Mild cognitive impairment
RX: Celexa 20 mg
Gabapentin 1200 mg
Geodon 40 mg AM, 60 mg PM
Klonopin 0.5 mg PRN
Lamictal 500 mg
Levothyroxine 125 mcg (rx'd for depression)
Trazodone 150 mg
Zyprexa 7.5 mg
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