Guin. Cite? 
Guinastasia, you’re focusing on the wrong thing. I’m pretty impressed that, without medical training/education, without having spoken to Tuckerfan or even knowing anything about his medical history, Monocracy can diagnose someone over the internet. Now, if we could only harness this power for good . . .
Sorry, absolutely no help on the prescription thing, but I do have one suggestion: can you get someone to give you a ride to the interview, rather than driving yourself? It might be easier to deal with the withdrawal symptoms if you can lay the seat back and close your eyes and let someone else take care of driving through rush hour traffic. Good luck.
My take on the closed thread is that you posted to the wrong forum, and that Dr Matrix assumed that your intent was to ask for advice what to do under the circumstances. And furthermore that Dr. Mateix felt this was a RW and rather delicaate medical situation in which geting advice over the internet from people not familiar with your personal medical history was a bad idea. Also, that you personally might not be in a mental state to realize how bad an idea it was, especially if someone suggested some form of alternative medications. So rather than allow ill-informed medical advice to be posted and acted on, he shut it down altogether.
The is a rational exlanation for Dr. Matrix’s actions, giving him the benefit of the doubt on good intentions. I have no actual knowledge of his actual thought processes, but it seems to me this is not worthy of a Pitting.
If it was in the wrong forum, then he simply could have moved it. As for alternative therapies, I’ve got plenty of books on those, and AFAIK, all alternative therapies involved the use of natural MAOI’s which are deadly when mixed with SSRIs, so I wouldn’t have bothered with those. And the only reason I Pitted him was because I needed answers to how long I was going to feel like shit, and I couldn’t rely on the chance of someone seeing the closed thread and emailing me. As I stated in my OP here, what if there had been lethal consequences of me coming off the SSRIs without being under a doctors care? And as the link Jaade shows, there’s a risk of suicide. Knowing that, I can prepare for that possibility and not be alone and at risk for killing myself.
You couldn’t know in advance what kind of advice would be posted, good or bad. And Dr Matrix couln’t know how mch background knowledge you have, that would allow you to distinguish between good and bad advice, and discard the latter. You used the term AFAIK, but others might K, or THINK they K, more than you, and post some crazy advice. Which you, not at the top of your mental game right now, might take with ill consequences. The only safe piece of advice to offer is to get in touch with a health care provider who knows the particulars of your situation.
I also suggest that your later posts in this thread indicate you ARE seeking medical advice in a place where, given the bature of your issue, is not a good idea. And if you opened this thread to get it, you have again put it in the wrong forum. Personally I feel that your last post justifies Dr Matrix’s action on the earlier thread.
But that is only MHO, and I may certainly be wrong, so I will leave you to continue your rant.
You certainly are wrong. If you’ll notice, there’s been numerous posts on this board from members discussing their battles with mental health issues, so it seems reasonable to assume that some of them have been in a similar situation as myself and would be able to provide some advice. You know, like what has been posted in this thread, charitable programs where I might be able to get free meds, links to reputable sites, statements of their experiences. If mods go around closing every thread which has the potential to cause harm to someone, they’d be no open threads.
Tuckerfan, try to eat something light, tomorrow morning. Maybe with some tea for the nausea. A couple of aspirins for the headache.
You don’t happen to have something like xanax in the house, do you? One xanax might get you more relaxed.
And like Shoeless said: Let someone else drive you?
I wish you all the best. You’ll get the job!
I don’t think it was closed because the mod saw the potential to cause harm, I believe Dr Matrix closed the thread because there wasn’t any question in the OP, which was in GQ.
Now he could have moved it, but chose not to.
I’m glad you are feeling a bit better now, and good luck on your interview tomorrow.
Being out of work, sucks.
For comparative puposes, here are several threads where withdrawal from SSRI’s was discussed. None of them were locked down.
GQ Question about the new TV show intervention and anti-depressants…cold turkey?
IMHO Anyone have experience with Effexor or Elavil?
GQ Experiences with SSRI’s (especially Zoloft)
BBQ Paxil…grr…
I could understand if Dr. Matrix had moved the thread to an appropriate forum. But shutting down the thread of a depressive going through withdrawal shows ignorance of the potential seriousness of the situation, a lack of compassion or a huge lapse in judgment. That’s just unconscionable.
Tucker, by the time you read this you should have been able to contact a doctor for samples. Do you have food? Have you thought about contacting any of the churches in Gallatin for help? How close are you to Rivergate?
Hey, Tuckerfan, how was the interview?
Even though I had the same amount of experience as the ad called for, they said it wasn’t enough. It was a particularly shitty day for me, I must say. Because of a fuck up, I may not be getting my unemployment for quite some time, if ever. So, instead of using the money my mother sent me to buy meds, I’ve got to use it to pay part of my lightbill in hopes that they won’t cut the lights by the end of the week. The rest of it has to go for food and gas, as my father informed me today that he didn’t think that loaning me money would help me. :rolleyes: Both he and my step-mother spent a couple of hours telling me what a worthless piece of shit they thought I was, and complaining that I never called or stopped by (Gee, I wonder why?). They complained that I didn’t tell them I’d finished school, until long afterwards (I told them about it before, and then I had to tell them at least twice afterwards that I was done.) They said that if I had told them ahead of time, they’d have had a celebration for me (and then mentioned that they sent one of my step-nieces $5 for graduating from Kindergarten or something. Guess what they got me for graduating from trade school: Jack Shit.).
When I finally told them that I didn’t like coming around because that they never had anything positive to say about anything I did, or wanted to do with my life, they sort of hemmed and hawed around while throwing out backhanded compliments. Then, while I was using the phone to try and get the mess straightened out with unemployment folks, my dad and step-mother went outside for some reason. After I got off the phone, I went looking for them to see if my dad was going to loan me money for gas (like he said he was before I got there), my step-mother told me to get out of there because my dad was being negative again.
By this time, I had to head home, to see if my mom’s check had arrived, so that I could get it cashed before the bank closed, since I was running on the last of the gas I could siphon out of the Chrysler, and if I’m going to try and find a job, I gotta have wheels. It looks like that if I’m going to avoid being homeless (since without unemployment, I won’t have the money to pay the rent on this place, or the mortgage note that’s due at the first of next month), I’m going to have to hit up some charitable organizations for money. I really don’t like that idea.
Talk to your doctor, and the charitable orginazations to see if you can get an emergency prescription too. You need a clear head so you can better look for work. There might be some way to get you enough medicine to see you through this crisis. I hope things work out for you.
You might be able to get some help through http://www.needymeds.com/.
How do you know what i have or have not experienced? How do you know, based on the OP, that he is depressed or mentally ill?
I have a cousin who was on prescribed anti-depressant medication. It raised his blood pressure, so he had to take pills for that, too. Being a ward of the state, the taxpayers paid for it all. He got off the medication. He said he felt pretty bad for a week (withdrawals), then got better. He wasn’t really depressed, he just needed to deal with the fact that he has no mother or father.
So here we have a case of someone who was not depressed, but was on antidepressant drugs and they were causing him negative effects. And now we have an OP that is suffering negative effects because of prescription drugs. So instead of suggesting ways to get more drugs, as everyone else seems to be doing, i’m asking him to consider whether the benefits of taking the drug outweigh the negatives. Maybe he does need them, maybe he doesn’t. I’m not trying to make a medical diagnosis, i’m just trying to get him to examine the situation.
Okay here is where I get to complain about running out of meds…How the hell does this happen? I mean come on, it dosen’t sneak up on you.
“uhoa, that bottle is looking a little empty, better hope the pill angel comes along and refills that”
People call 911 and go to the emergency room all the time for this very issue. Since when was the EMS system used for your medicine refills? (understanding that the OP didn’t do so, but it does happen)
Okay, I understand you lost your insurance, and yes, it sucks having to spend $115 for pills. Did you make any effort at all to find other ways to get the pills? Talking to your doctor, or your local health district would have very likely prevented this from happening. In Nevada there are programs for those with amental illness to get their medications at no cost, or a reduced cost. Some doctors are willing to give out samples of the meds to get you by.
In any case, your being out of medication is no one’s fault but your own. Now you want someone to feel sorry for you, or offer advice? Should have thought about that somewhere around 30 days ago.
Monocracy, it’s that kind of shit that kept me from going on meds for years. When I finally started taking them my BP was 185/100 (roughly), a month after taking the meds it was down to 150/90, a month later it was down to 140/80, my doc said that if stayed at that level, she’d pull me off the meds I was on and put me on a type that had similar effect, but there was less of a chance of my BP being elevated. I wouldn’t be alive now if it weren’t for the meds.
kinoons, bite me. I’ve been living hand to mouth for months now, and I had gotten my doc to double the dose of my meds, just so that I could have a nice little stockpile, only problem was, before I had the money to get my script filled (since the higher dosage was more expensive) I got axed (and dumped from the insurance with no opportunity to get extended via COBRA). At that point, all I had was the old dosage, which I had been doubling, I cut that down, in hopes to make it last long enough to get my unemployment, and then that got fouled up. I had figured my father would be decent enough to loan me the dough so I could get it filled when I got low, but that didn’t happen. And I didn’t really want to call the doc up and beg for more free samples, since that’s what I’ve had to do a bunch of times in the past. Yeah, pride’s a foolish thing, but some times pride’s all ya got.
It seems to be random, really. I’ve applied for jobs where I and others thought from reading the ad that I was well qualified, and not even been contacted for an interview. I’ve also been offered jobs that, reading the ad, I didn’t think I had a prayer of getting.
Running out of medications for depression and anxiety happens from time to time despite even the best efforts under the best of circumstances.
How the hell does this happen? That’s like asking a diabetic why he has blood sugar problems. Some of the symptoms of depression are difficulty concentrating and remembering. Both the illness and the medication that the person is taking affect the thinking processes. Excuse me, but we’re not talking about treating a sore toe.