I quit taking my medication.

[KillerMuffin]

Until I see the doctor tomorrow. I'm sick and tired of being an inebriated zombie. I like to think and I like to walk down the hall without bouncing off the walls. It pisses me off cause I called the hospital all day today and spoke with about eight different phramacists, nurses, and doctors and they all said keep taking it until you can get an appointment. The next available appointment with my neurologist is in March. Hah. Bullshit. I am not sleeping 20 hours a day and stumbling around like a junkie ona bad trip the rest of the time. It's not happening. I'd rather fall over and do the dying cockroach or confuse Kansas with Pennsylvania.

I'm just pretty pissed off, right now. I'm in a good mood because I actually ate food today and stayed up for a while, but pissy too.

Huhmph.

Anyone else wanna bitch about doctors, medication, or sleep deprivation?

 

[LemonDroppe]

Sorry to hear that, KM. Did the medicine seem to be helping at all? Dumb question... I suppose it's hard to have a seizure when all you're doing is bouncing off the walls.

There must be something else you can try. Something with less severe side effects.

I'm with you on the sleep deprivation. If I get less than eight hours I'm a royal burr in the bum.

 

[sexy-girl]

my theory is doctors are designed to hurt people


and nurses are designed to help people and clean up the doctors mess'es


its always the nurses that seem nice to me i've rarely met a nice doctor they never seem to have enough time ... i guess they are busy because they are given lots more paperwork by the goverment


P.S no offense to doctors theres always exceptions

P.P.S i mean male or female nurses by the way

 

[bluntforcemama]

Bad Muff! The doc's gonna be pissed.

 

[bluespoke]

Please be careful.

 

[YogiBare]

Please be careful. Stopping some drugs cold turkey can cause serious harm. Call the doctor's office and tell them it's an emergency. You can't take your meds because of the side effects and don't think you should just stop. He (She)'ll probably get you right in.

 

[cymbidia]

Muff, not a single one of us is living in your house with you or inside your brain; you do what you need to do for the people who share your everyday world, darlin', and for yourself.

However, if the people who know you here think you're acting funny, knowing you're off the drugs, we're gonna mention it.

That's what we have to do cuz, in here, you live with us.
In here, we're all concerned for you.

 

[seXieleXie]

i took a medication that is sometimes used to control siezure disorder because it was supposed to help with migraines. frankly it made me ten times sicker than my migraines ever did, AND it didn't stop the headaches. the worst part was that i forced myself to get used to the high dosage prescribed for me and so my doctor and i decided i should stop it was hellish.

 

[April]

Fucking military quacks! The whole system is designed purely to drive patients away, so the "doctors" can go home and fuck around!

 

[TigerClaw]

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[Svedish_Chef]

Anyone else wanna bitch about doctors, medication, or sleep deprivation?

Fucking doctors, busy nurses, and people who wont let you sleep.

 

[Georgia Girl]

Seizures

Muffin......as someone else who has seizures the medication merry-go-round is hellish. I think at last count I had been on about 16 different ones before we finally got control with Phenobarbital. Good luck and fight the docs and make them listen.

 

[christophe]

my theory is doctors are designed to hurt people


and nurses are designed to help people and clean up the doctors mess'es


its always the nurses that seem nice to me i've rarely met a nice doctor they never seem to have enough time ... i guess they are busy because they are given lots more paperwork by the goverment


P.S no offense to doctors theres always exceptions

P.P.S i mean male or female nurses by the way

well sexy i am a reg nurse and i feel the same way, but in all fairness i know many doctors whom i am good friends with and you are right they are busy many working 16 hour days or more plus on call.

and KM marchis unacceptable by my standards especiallly for a siezure disorder. ask if they have had cancellations if you havent already, but please dont abruptly stop your meds.

be well

 

[Siren]

Living dangerously are ya?

 

[PowerOfOne]

RE: I stopped taking my medication

Please be careful. Some meds you have to be weaned off of or really bad effects happen. And keep in mind, the last time I stopped taken my medication (accidentally) I became pregnant. You may want to re-think this.

 

[pabloback]

Re: Living dangerously are ya?

Monitor yourself....
if need be, take a small quanity or dose to take the 'edge' off.

Be safe.

exactly what i wanted to say
you cant go cold turkey with this stuff, you have to come off slowly
coming off these things is often worse than not having them in the first place
every drug has sideeffects otherwise people wouldnt die from asprin or penicillin
be careful
hey , put your foot down to see the doc
dont turn pussy on something as serious as this
with you all the way babe
[any shit from them docs and break out the chocolate sauce]

 

[Cheyenne]

I was just at a fund raising dinner for the Epilepsy Foundation earlier this week. Part of the booklet for the event was a page of facts about Epilepsy. I thought I knew more about it than I did.



Epilepsy is a neurological disorder produced by temporary changes in the brain's electrical system, which results in seisures.

Epilepsy can affect anyone, at any time, at any age.

Seizures result in up to 42,000 deaths in the United States each year.

Over 2.5 million people in the United States have epilepsy.

There are over 493 new cases of epilepsy reported and diagnosed per day.

Epilepsy is a disorder, not a disease.

Epilepsy does not equate with mental incompetence.

In 70% of the cases, there is no known cause for epilepsy.

There are more than 20 different seizure disorders.

More people have epilepsy than active cancer, cerebral palsy, multiple sclerosis and muscular dystrophy combined.

 

[KillerMuffin]

Okay, I did the full dose thing for one today and a half dose for the other, which is new to me, and while I'm not sleeping yet, I will be soon. Tomorrow this will all be ironed out or the doctors will need doctors. I may need a good lawyer. I slept for almost three days solid. I slept through my twelth anniversary.

 

[LukkyKnight]

KM - I may not know a metaphor from shinola

But cold turkey has a way of adding new and different problems. I'm jumping on the bandwagon which has the banner saying "March is too late." Pick another doc, if you can, walk in to a county hospital and sit until they see you, call some referral service and explain you have a time-sensitive issue... make noise 'til you get seen.

Do it.

 

[freakygirl]

KM, may I ask what medication you are on?

 

[Laurel]

My sis has petite mal epilepsy (which is the least of her problems, actually). She's had seizures for as long as I'm known her, but my less-than-attentive father never noticed them. When she has one, her eyes roll back and her eyelids flutter. My dad thought she was rolling her eyes at him, and would spank her when she'd have a seizure. True story.

She's been on and off drugs for years and years. Many of the seizure meds make her sick or zombified or otherwise useless. It's really tough when the drugs meant to help the situation make life nearly unlivable. She's on Depakote now, but often refuses to take that or any of the anti-psychotics she's been prescribed for her "other" issues".

Her seizures are so quick and relatively painless compared to the grand mal kind that KM and others, but they do cause damage to her brain. Plus, she's allowed to drive sometimes, and even a split-second seizure can get her or others killed (she's not the best driver in the first place.) The fact that she won't medicate is a concern. At the same time, I'm not sure I'd want to live in a druggy fog either. It's a tough call.