Archive for the ‘Drug-Abuse-Medication’ Category
Monday, October 26th, 2009
Background: "Mrs. A" is a 37 year old Somali woman. She has no significant medical or surgical history, took no medications during pregnancy, and remained well throughout. She does not smoke or drink alcohol and has never abused drugs.
At presentation she was gravida 11, para 7, with 3 prior ...
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Monday, October 26th, 2009
I have extreme panic attacks that mimic heart-attacks. I have been prescribed a pill called alprazolam which is a generic form of xanax. So here's the deal. These pills get me high; however, they take the panic away. I've tried other medications that have enhanced my panic ...
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Friday, October 23rd, 2009
how do i explain to people the munchausens disease by proxy my parents have? they victimized me most of my life and put me through some very crazy things.
if your not aware of what munchausens disease by proxy is, its when parents or a parent or caregiver pretends their child ...
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Friday, October 23rd, 2009
I have been given a case worker from a local mental health place that tries to rehabilitate people. This case worker had me sign a ton of papers giving her access to all of my hospital records, and to my family practitioner. She also said she will be present when ...
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Wednesday, October 21st, 2009
My mother has a long history of addiction from alcohol to pain meds..(not drugs as in crack or heroin ect.) she was stepped on by her hourse when she was 13 & now she is 47 and has had over 10 surgaries on her lower back she has a cage ...
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Sunday, October 18th, 2009
first of all, let it be known that i have no intention to abuse these drugs.
over the past few years i have suffered from anxiety attacks and mild depression.
I never go to doctors, so im not sure how to ask for medication.
how do they evaluate a person to ...
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Wednesday, October 14th, 2009
I took a Mersyndol tablet last night and had already had 3 glasses of wine when I realised it said on the label that alcohol usage may affect the medication.
Just curious what they mean by that....does that mean the alcohol would make me feel even groggier (mersyndol has about 50mg ...
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Wednesday, October 14th, 2009
We have been waging a "war on drugs" since the 1980s on users and dealers of weed, coke, heroin, etc., yet at the same time prescription drug use in this country has skyrocketed. Antidepressant use has doubled from a decade ago. Parents are so eager to place their children on ...
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Monday, October 12th, 2009
I'm in the situation where dexamphetamine (prescribed by a psychiatrist) is the most beneficial medication I have ever used, and I plan to never stop using it, unless something better is created. It basically 'fixes' my life, like a hole in my brain has been mended and I'm free to ...
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Monday, October 12th, 2009
So I have had ADHD all my life but I had no idea majority of it because my mother felt it best I just go on living as normal as can be without making me worry or think too much into it. In high school I abused meth for 2 ...
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