Thread: Just disgusting

Originally Posted by HeavyG

I don't doubt that the VA tosses around Gabapentin. When I was given it, I feel like I needed it. My General Practitioner prescribed it to me, but when I went back to my Specialist hand surgeon, he wanted me off of it. He said that I was too young for it and that the side effects and addictive potential of the drug was not good for me and that the nerve pain would subside soon. It turns out he was right, and I started to feel better within a couple weeks, but as I was decreasing my dose of Gabapentin, the pain came back. They prescribe it because it works.

Pill clinics are a problem... It is just terrible when you can't even get doctors to agree on what you should take. Some are more giving than others, and some don't seem to care at all about the consequences. I work for a big Pharmacy now and have some friends high up on the food chain (Managing Pharmacists) that I ask for advice. I often find that Pharmacists are much more knowledgeable about drugs, side effects, clinical trials, and alternatives than the Doctors ever were.

I agree with most of what you say but one sentence. They dont perscribe it because it works. It did shit for my pain just as the needles in my spine did shit for my pain. If a drug is released for a purpose that is what it should be used for. Giving vacation away to get doctors to perscribe it doesn't change what the pill was made for. I can take tylinol severe flu for a head ache. Sure it will alieve the headache but its not what its meant for. Same thing applies the opposite way.

In this case its more like perscribing methadone for a twisted ankle. Your ankle wont hurt but at what cost? Skirting the actually conditions the drug is meant for causes other issues. With this particular drug the most common side effect for using it for something it was not meant for appears to be aggressive behavior. On the lesser side was suicide. I hope they had good vacations for the shit they put people thru because they're to ignorant to perscribe the correct medication.

Originally Posted by DJ Mr. White

My problem with my first psychiatrist, psychopharmacologist specifically, was that he was TOO knowledgeable about side affects. My body became a walking experiment. When I told my second psychiatrist what all I was on he was shocked, and then proceeded to be more shocked as I kept listing off what I was on (especially the amounts). Had to be eased off of all that shit so I wouldn't die, and when I was on it, I had to watch what I would eat (especially my B-vitamin levels) so I wouldn't have too much of a vitamin and die. Can't tell you how glad I am to be off that shit. Still on a lot of meds, but they're all for legit reasons. Might be having to go on more soon, which I am not too excited about. It's not just that more meds=more side effects, but that shit gets fucking expensive.

My mom had that same issue. Sometimes they just dont know what the fuck they are doing.

Originally Posted by DJ Mr. White

It's called tinnitus. They have actually made advancements in recent years in treating it. You might be able to get that fixed or the severity lessened.

Well im no doctor but i think the cause of mine would be lack of fluid draining. I already know i need surgery to fix the canal from my ear to my nose. I cant scuba dive because of it and avoid air travel at all costs. Fucking sucks getting off a plane deaf in one ear. Not to mention the decent is fuckin painfull. When i landed in japan i was deaf for a fucking week.