[Kaotix]

:um So I'm pretty sure I'll be put on an anti-depressant but my appointment is in 3 days and I have no direction as to where to go. I've already been diagnosed so it's not going to be with a psychiatrist but a nurse practitioner. I've had a seizure at the place I'm going and yeah.

 

[swim]

did you have a seizure due to stopping benzos cold turkey?

 

[Kaotix]

Yeah I didn't know the dangers until it was too late and I had dug myself in to to deep a hole. I tried staving it off with alcohol and managed for 3-4 days but undoubtedly that made it worse when I had the seizure.

 

[swim]

so what do you expect from your appointment?

 

[woot]

You cannot cold turkey benzos like you can with opiods (oxycontin etc..)

It is simply impossible. If you can, move your appointment up a date, tell them the truth that you abused them, and let the conversion go from there, imho.

 

[millenniumman75]

^Yep - you need to tell your doctors exactly what happened.

 

[Kaotix]

Wow that's kinda what I was hoping to hear and I never hear that lol thanks guys and girls.

 

[Kaotix]

I was on one at the time and after.

 

[swim]

They didn't give you an anti seizure med?

clonazepam is one

 

[Kaotix]

I was thinking of Cymbalta but I don't think I should try and bring anything up.

 

[Kaotix]

I've started out on clonazepam and gabapentin. Then I forget, I've been on Ativan, Clonazepam, Librium, Mild horse tranquilizers(just kidding but I was on heavy heavy sleeping pills for a while there). I'm forgetting a lot of them meaning it was pretty traumatic.

 

[Kaotix]

I have an appointment today with a nurse practitioner(wished it was a psychiatrist). I didn't get to sleep all night because my family forgot to get my temazepam out so I figured I could get it when my grandma wakes up at 4 because I usually only 5 hours sleep a night though the effects last 8 hours.. So I take it and find out I still can't sleep and now I'm an ex druggie going to try and get a prescription not in my right mind to a doctor I've never seen before but probably already knows about my troublesome nature.

 

[Kaotix]

Well I told her everything and got sent packing with a packet about drinking too much coffee. Thanks guys!