Over the years, I have tried tons and tons of prescriptions. I've had some that were supposed to wake me up, some to control my moods, and some anti depressants.
Currently I am taking 7 pills a day and don't think that they are working at all. My psychiatrist tells me it takes time and blah blah blah. If I haven't noticed a slight difference by now, i doubt that they are going to work. I've been on some of them for about a month and a half to two months. What I'm currently taking: 7 am- Take 2 Provigil (100 mg each) and 1 Ritalin (50 mg). When I wake up I take 1 Sertraline (50 mg) At 2pm I take another Provigil (100 mg) and at 8:30pm I take 2 Seroquel (150 mg total). Provigil and the Ritalin are supposed to wake me up. I always go back to sleep after I take them and wake up about noon. Somedays I will sleep until 1 or 2 in the afternoon. My take is that if I take the same medication, same dosage at the same time everyday. Shouldn't I wake up at the same time everyday? I mean that's what it's for. But its not working. The Sertraline is an anti- depressant. I've been on this for atleast 2 months and they haven't changed the dosage. It wasn't working even slightly the first month but when I told them that, they just added more pills. Wouldn't you think that if a medication isn't working, you would up the dosage to see if that helps, or switch to something else? Well not my psychiatrist. He sucks at his job. He doesn't listen to a word I say and he doesn't really care. After I take the Provigil at 2pm I shouldn't be able to take a nap. But some days I do. And remember.. the Provigil is supposed to wake me up and keep me awake. Finally the Seroquel. They gave me that because it is supposed to be a "miracle drug". It's supposed to help my depression, and bipolar. I take it at night because it's extended release so it's supposed to work the next day. I haven't noticed a difference with that except that about 2 hours after I take it, I get really dizzy!! I'm not just talking a little dizzy where I need to sit down. I get so dizzy that I need to like hold on to the wall and then I black out for a few seconds and get a really loud ringing in my ear so I can't hear anything. I used to take that at 6pm and it was only 100 mg. But when I told them about it, they told me to take it at 8 pm and then they bumped up the dose. And they said that I should be sitting in bed about 2 hours after I take it so I don't feel the dizziness. I'm so glad that they don't care that I have things to do after 10 pm somedays and they just decided to make it worse. My psychiatrist should really get another job because he sucks at what he does. And as my final proof for the day: Yesterday I actually went out of the house and socialized with people. It was at night and I had lots of fun!! But today, all I want to do is lay on the couch and take a nap because I'm SO tired. It's not because I was out at night because I got back here by like 10:45 and I normally don't go to bed til around 11:30 ish. But it's because it took a lot of energy for me to actually go out and do something. With all the pills that I'm on, I should be living a normal life and go do things everyday. But the anti depressants and everything are not working if I have to lay around all day catching up on my energy. I've also told my psychiatrist this but he doesn't seem to think this is a problem. He needs to try being me for a day! It's not as easy at it looks!
So my final statement for the day is that my medications are not working and my psychiatrist sucks because he isn't doing anything to help change that.
**Correction**: I take 10mg of Ritalin in the morning.
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