Back to Begging my GP for help... Oh, joy...

Purple,Violet,Blue · Nov 07, 2017, 04:50 PM

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Originally Posted by happycheeks

I'm also in the UK. I've been to the GP many times. Sometimes I'm prescribed medication or I have to self refer myself to therapy 4 u. It was helpful. The mental health services in the UK I must say in my opinion are not good. Some GP are concerned, some just want to rush you and give you medication. I give up going to the GP. Plus, I'm tired of people forcing me to go to the GP because how I behave and apparently it's all my fault. Forgive me if this has nothing to do with your thread but I hope you get the best treatment possible

I appreciate that, Happy Cheeks.

The GP was better than I'd feared. But the antidepressant was more powerful than I'd imagined. And the Valium-type drug was hopeless. I abandoned it almost straight away. It was like taking two sleeping tablets and then (without sleeping them off) going in to do a long and gruelling day at work.

I got a few weird symptoms with the sertraline. Muscle cramps. The kind you get in your legs if you haven't cooled off after exercise. The spasms made me hop around the bedroom, screaming. Only pressing a damp sponge against the muscle would ease the agony. Then a muscle in my neck would do the same.

Some nights, I was just lying there, pressing cold sponges to different parts of my body. I looked like a wounded soldier or something.

That wasn't much fun.

Purple,Violet,Blue · Nov 07, 2017, 04:57 PM

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Originally Posted by CepheidVariable

This thread came back up to the front page and it reminds me of looking over some of my old posts -- and much more revealingly -- old journal entries.

May I be presumptuous enough to assume you're doing a lot better than where you were at on post #1. (Me too, at least a little, actually. I was too distracted to respond at the time, but I do remember the post now that I see it again.)

Sometimes it's good to see that and think, "I certainly feel better today than I did then." And I find that feels better too.

Besides, I now have a new friend called Purple, Violet, Blue.

Hee hee.

I'm calling insult!

Careful, Fuzzybear might Grrrr at you.

Are you poking me, and doing roll eyes there, Cen?

I like the way you goad me and then hide behind Fuzzy Bear.

Ah, but then you say I'm your friend. I can't stay mad at you! All is forgiven...

Yes, I definitely think I've improved since then. I got 186 or 189 or something like that on the terrifying Sanity Score.

Thanks everyone for being so kind.

CepheidVariable · Nov 07, 2017, 06:45 PM

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Originally Posted by Purple,Violet,Blue

I got a few weird symptoms with the sertraline. Muscle cramps. The kind you get in your legs if you haven't cooled off after exercise. The spasms made me hop around the bedroom, screaming. Only pressing a damp sponge against the muscle would ease the agony. Then a muscle in my neck would do the same.

That wasn't much fun.

Ugh. I used to get those. It was all I could do to rise out of bed and try to press the leg in agony down on the floor to try and force the muscle to release. I could actually feel the muscle tearing a little, and it would take a week to recover.

I don't miss that.

CepheidVariable · Nov 07, 2017, 06:49 PM

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Originally Posted by Purple,Violet,Blue

Are you poking me, and doing roll eyes there, Cen?

Maaaaybe.

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Originally Posted by Purple,Violet,Blue

I like the way you goad me and then hide behind Fuzzy Bear.

I can't help it. I'm desperate.

(CepheidVariable did not write the above. A thousand monkeys broke into his room and typed at his keyboard while he was out checking the mailbox. No Shakespearean prose has resulted.)

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Originally Posted by Purple,Violet,Blue

Ah, but then you say I'm your friend. I can't stay mad at you! All is forgiven...

Yes, I definitely think I've improved since then. I got 186 or 189 or something like that on the terrifying Sanity Score.