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Apr 22, 2016, 10:23 PM
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I'm saw my pdoc again today. Once again I haven't really followed his prescribing, I was meant to be taking stelazine 1-2mg BD but after getting an olanzapine script called in during a particularly agitated few days I stopped taking it daily & started using it prn. The olanzapine script he called in I only used prn but that was his instruction anyway. He stated I may need to restart a mood stabiliser or commence another daily AP on the phone when we he called in that script..
Now I've seen him again he wants to start Zoloft 50mg & has given me klonopin prn. Last time I spoke to him he was leaning towards bipolar (well I figured as much due to his recommendations), but he seems firmly planted on the side of anxiety again. I'm ok with that, I question the bipolar dx most days, but I'm worried that I will have yet another exacerbation of agitation with zoloft, although I have klonopin to save me now. He also wants me to keep taking stelazine but regularly not prn like I had changed myself to, (which I can see his frustration with me over but I get anxious about all the pills & if I'm even sick & worry I'll probably cause more problems for myself with polypharmacy & resulting side effects). I need to STOP messing with his prescriptions!
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Dx: Bipolar II, GAD, past substance abuse, temporal lobe epilepsy. Rx: Lamotrigine 125mg, Sertraline 50mg, Clonazepam 0.5mg prn. |
 Anonymous45023, BeyondtheRainbow, gina_re, wildflowerchild25
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Apr 23, 2016, 07:47 PM
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Hello Wanderlust 90: Good luck with all of this.
 I have an ear infection & I'm seeing my old ENT physician this coming Wednesday. (I have Meniere's disease & tinnitus as well.) When I saw him previously, he offered to write me a prescription for Klonopin, which I could take prn for the tinnitus. (It does help.) I'm hoping he'll offer it up again. I may take him up on it. I've never taken it as-needed before. So I don't know how that would work for me.  I have a feeling that starting it prn may be just opening the door to taking it every day.  It would probably be good for my anxiety as well as my tinnitus. But I'm not on any psych med's at the present time. And I'm hesitant to start back down that road again.   
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Apr 24, 2016, 08:20 AM
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Take your meds!!!
  . I used to play around with my meds and to be honest, i only take my risperdal prn now even though pdoc wants it every day. Well tough, I can't function sexually when I take it regularly lol. But my situation in my home life just took a turn and though stressful, I'm feeling relaxed lately. Let's just say...no step kids around lol. It's a huge vacation for me (yea I'm a wicked witch I guess). So no risperdal needed. But my pdoc gets very mad when I tell her I'm taking it like this for dysphoria only. It really does help, even as a PRN. But don't do what I do! Take your meds! lol. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk |
 Anrea
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