Thanks for sharing on this topic, buddah1too. I'm sorry to read you have neuropathy and that you must wait so long to see the neurologist. Hopefully when you do you can get to the bottom of it and get some relief. My husband has had peripheral neuropathy for much of his life. In recent years, he takes gabapentin (brand Neurontin) for it (with a little success) which you may know happens to be an anticonvulsant sometimes also used for bipolar disorder or anxiety relief.

I think my blood pressure medication, irbesartan, is the cause for my tingling/numb hands and feet, upon waking. It's only upon waking, at this point, but it's waking me up throughout the night. No pain. Just the tingling/numbness. Maybe if I could stop that med it would stop. Or at least if I knew it was the cause 100% I could just live with that. I do need some blood pressure med. It's skyrocketed over the last couple years, plus since I have kidney damage it's crucial I keep it in check.

I'm not opposed to my med cocktail being reduced, but I won't stand for a doctor to slash it, foolishly. I think I need to keep my Seroquel XR, but maybe my small dose of Lamictal and Klonopin could eventually go. I'm more reluctant to give up carbamazepine, for a reason, and yet I know pdocs hate to prescribe it with Seroquel. Even my carbamazepine dose is half what it used to be.

I guess no psych hospital is great, but my nephew had experience in one in Prague and he didn't hate it. One thing I'm considering is perhaps a psychological health "spa" if I need one, but am not in total crisis. Having lived in Germany, you must be familiar with these, i.e. das Bad? One in CZ is in Jeseník. In Czech, they are called "lázně",