Hi, I have been type 2 since 1999 and was put on insulin within 5 weeks :***:
anyway long story but ended up with the 'chemical imbalance' resulting in severe depression, did a session or 5 with the shrink
which was a total waste of NHS money, tried different tablets, they lost track of what ones and eventually I just took the last ones they issued and got on with it.
So this was a couple of years ago, had a period of being signed off as unfit to work, had a run in with the surgery as I could never get an appointment with my Dr and all the others kept saying I had to see my own :***: so ended up wanting to speak to the surgery's manager, got put thru to senior Dr, who made me an appointment with my own the next morning, she signed me fit for work and did not want to talk about my feelings etc.
Keeping up peeps?
I have had to 'self diagnose' on occasions, once ending up with testogel which has helped. Next appointment I asked if I was insulin resitant (having a brown mark appear on my neck looking as if I had been hanged, Answer was dont be stupid, two years later Db nurse, says, your results are not right, you may have become............, really says I, have a change on insulin from 3 jabs a day to four, wonders never cease, feel a lot better.
Ongoing problems with Dr/Boots:
ok, 6 monthly prescription issued only for some items, Dr's do not know how to change a 6 month prescription :silent:
So yet again go to get everything from Boots after ordering it all via them, nothing ready, (can take 20 minutes to get medicines from them) come back only 3 items, so I say wrong, they look oh what were you expecting, how about Metformin, Pioglitazone, Novarapid, Levemir (last 2 insulin) Venlafaxine (anti-depressant)
Oh, we will have to fax the surgery they will issue the prescription but that wont get here until after 12 tomorrow.
But I am away till Saturday, sorry that's all we can do.
So I sit here with withdrawal symptoms from not having my happy pills: See below, got all of it
So in this age of technology is it that difficult to be able to get it right, it takes the Pharmacy 20 minutes, why?
everything has an i.d. it is just the same as argos, it has a bin location, select it, get it checked signed off, max 5 minutes
So, what do I do, find a new Dr/practice and Pharmacy, Complain yet again? come on here and whinge :lol:
I really hope others do not get this happen :crazy:
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The indicators of SSRI discontinuation syndrome are the following:
Interruption, cessation, or reduction of dosage in an SSRI treatment that has lasted four or more weeks.
Symptoms which:
interfere with normal social, occupational, or other functioning.
are not due to another medical condition, drug use, or discontinuation.
are not due to a relapse of the condition for which the SSRI was originally prescribed.
Neurological
Symptoms described as "brain zaps," "brain shocks," "brain shivers," "brain pulse-waves," "head shocks," "pulses," "flickers," or "cranial zings" are withdrawal symptoms experienced during discontinuation (or reduction of dose) of antidepressant drugs.[3][4] These result from a global downregulation of serotonin receptors in response to increased levels of serotonin in the synaptic cleft, but the specific mechanism through which this creates symptoms is not understood.[citation needed] Common responses to dose reduction or cessation include dizziness, electric shock-like sensations, sweating, nausea, insomnia, tremor, confusion, nightmares, and vertigo.[3][4] The MedDRA "preferred term" for coding these types of symptoms in adverse drug reaction reports (for use in pharmacovigilance databases such as under the Yellow Card Scheme) is paraesthesia.[5][6]
In a 1997 survey in north-east England, a "sizable minority" of medical professionals were not confidently aware of the existence of antidepressant withdrawal symptoms.[7] A 2005 review of adverse event reporting showed that descriptions of "electric shocks" from patients on paroxetine had been reported more frequently than some other symptoms.[5]
anyway long story but ended up with the 'chemical imbalance' resulting in severe depression, did a session or 5 with the shrink
which was a total waste of NHS money, tried different tablets, they lost track of what ones and eventually I just took the last ones they issued and got on with it.
So this was a couple of years ago, had a period of being signed off as unfit to work, had a run in with the surgery as I could never get an appointment with my Dr and all the others kept saying I had to see my own :***: so ended up wanting to speak to the surgery's manager, got put thru to senior Dr, who made me an appointment with my own the next morning, she signed me fit for work and did not want to talk about my feelings etc.
Keeping up peeps?
I have had to 'self diagnose' on occasions, once ending up with testogel which has helped. Next appointment I asked if I was insulin resitant (having a brown mark appear on my neck looking as if I had been hanged, Answer was dont be stupid, two years later Db nurse, says, your results are not right, you may have become............, really says I, have a change on insulin from 3 jabs a day to four, wonders never cease, feel a lot better.
Ongoing problems with Dr/Boots:
ok, 6 monthly prescription issued only for some items, Dr's do not know how to change a 6 month prescription :silent:
So yet again go to get everything from Boots after ordering it all via them, nothing ready, (can take 20 minutes to get medicines from them) come back only 3 items, so I say wrong, they look oh what were you expecting, how about Metformin, Pioglitazone, Novarapid, Levemir (last 2 insulin) Venlafaxine (anti-depressant)
Oh, we will have to fax the surgery they will issue the prescription but that wont get here until after 12 tomorrow.
But I am away till Saturday, sorry that's all we can do.
So I sit here with withdrawal symptoms from not having my happy pills: See below, got all of it
So in this age of technology is it that difficult to be able to get it right, it takes the Pharmacy 20 minutes, why?
everything has an i.d. it is just the same as argos, it has a bin location, select it, get it checked signed off, max 5 minutes
So, what do I do, find a new Dr/practice and Pharmacy, Complain yet again? come on here and whinge :lol:
I really hope others do not get this happen :crazy:
===========================================================================================================
The indicators of SSRI discontinuation syndrome are the following:
Interruption, cessation, or reduction of dosage in an SSRI treatment that has lasted four or more weeks.
Symptoms which:
interfere with normal social, occupational, or other functioning.
are not due to another medical condition, drug use, or discontinuation.
are not due to a relapse of the condition for which the SSRI was originally prescribed.
Neurological
Symptoms described as "brain zaps," "brain shocks," "brain shivers," "brain pulse-waves," "head shocks," "pulses," "flickers," or "cranial zings" are withdrawal symptoms experienced during discontinuation (or reduction of dose) of antidepressant drugs.[3][4] These result from a global downregulation of serotonin receptors in response to increased levels of serotonin in the synaptic cleft, but the specific mechanism through which this creates symptoms is not understood.[citation needed] Common responses to dose reduction or cessation include dizziness, electric shock-like sensations, sweating, nausea, insomnia, tremor, confusion, nightmares, and vertigo.[3][4] The MedDRA "preferred term" for coding these types of symptoms in adverse drug reaction reports (for use in pharmacovigilance databases such as under the Yellow Card Scheme) is paraesthesia.[5][6]
In a 1997 survey in north-east England, a "sizable minority" of medical professionals were not confidently aware of the existence of antidepressant withdrawal symptoms.[7] A 2005 review of adverse event reporting showed that descriptions of "electric shocks" from patients on paroxetine had been reported more frequently than some other symptoms.[5]
