Mail-order pills from a reputable overseas vendor (have seen them recommended in Ask) turned out to not contain any active ingredient according to a blood test. I switched meds when I found out, but am at a loss as to what to do beyond that.
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posted by tigrrrlily
on May 19, 2013 -
13 answers
I just started taking 5mg of cipralex three days ago and am currently having the worst anxiety attack of my life. It's almost physically painful. Is this normal? I haven't felt like this since I had a seriously bad trip on mushrooms!!
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posted by Dynex
on May 16, 2013 -
29 answers
A year after a run-in with some crazymeds, my emotions still feel numbed out. The meds are out of my system; what gives?
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posted by anonymous
on May 16, 2013 -
10 answers
My aged (but still quite lively!) kitty has had kidney disease as long as we've known him. We've switched him to K/D prescription cat food and we've done everything we can think of to convince the stubborn little dope to drink more water, but on our last vet visit the vet told us that unless he shows signs of improvement soon, we may need to start giving him regular fluid injections. I'm hoping for a little more info about the process, and our options...
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posted by Ursula Hitler
on May 3, 2013 -
35 answers
I've been taking ADD meds for years with the same psychiatrist, but lost my insurance last summer and had to stop taking them. Now I have insurance again and scheduled an appointment with my doctor today, but I'm worried he'll say that I'm doing just fine without the pills. However, I'm also afraid of looking too desperate if I tell him how much I want them! Can I tell him everything without sounding like I'm a junkie? Details follow.
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posted by brisquette
on Mar 14, 2013 -
14 answers
What was your experience coming off of anti-depressants? When you were on them, did you experience blunting of feelings and emotions and when you were tapering or went off cold turkey, did you feel a return to your former self/return of your personality?
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posted by BlueMartini7
on Feb 25, 2013 -
14 answers
Lately I've been having this horrible anxiety/insomnia the night before important presentations or other work events. How can I fix this?
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posted by anonymous
on Feb 25, 2013 -
21 answers
I need advice about the possibility living in Northern Alaska, Kotzebue/Nome/north of the 65th parallel. I have about a million logistical questions, a little disorganized, including questions about mental health problems, medications, getting specialist care. If you needed medical care on a regular basis several hundred miles away, how did you arrange that? Lots of other questions about living in the arctic! Help!
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posted by circle_b
on Jan 3, 2013 -
12 answers
How does a paranoid psychotic episode end? Assuming that someone is on medication that starts working, does it tend to be a sudden thing where they wake up one day and they no longer believe in any of the huge conspiracy their mind had created? Or do they gradually stop believing the least plausible delusions one by one? Or do they stop feeling the terror associated with it first, and maybe even continue to believe that all that stuff DID happen to them, but that it isn't an ongoing threat any more? Or do they maybe just become more open to logical arguments against their beliefs?
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posted by lollusc
on Dec 31, 2012 -
11 answers
Extremely medicated mom: My mom has struggled with intense bipolar disorder for most of her life. She attempted suicide twice and has been hospitalized 3 times. For the past 3 years or so, medication has stabilized her moods, but at what appears to me to be a heavy cost. She's dulled and flattened to the point that she seems like only a small fraction of the person she was. It's hard for me to see her this way, but I don't know what I can do.
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posted by anonymous
on Dec 26, 2012 -
20 answers
Therapy hasn't helped in the past. But I need to do something, FFS. What else should I try?
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posted by indognito
on Nov 2, 2012 -
13 answers
"You can't get over this unless you really want to." Do I not want to? I need to want to, and I'm a self-sabotaging ball of nonsense. Have therapist and group therapy, intake appointment for medication on two days, feeling like I'm maybe just making it all up. Or I'm using my intelligence to pull one over on either my therapist, or myself.
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posted by anonymous
on Sep 26, 2012 -
25 answers
Is there a BEST over-the-counter sleeping pill or do I just need to find the one that is best for me? Or are they all the same?
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posted by anonymous
on Sep 20, 2012 -
30 answers
I am in what seems to be an intractable situation, due to a number of major errors on my part. Help needed for someone on the edge of a precipice.
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posted by anonymous
on Aug 30, 2012 -
20 answers
Name that medication! Vaguely remembered medication from the early to mid-1980s. I was mildly depressed, feeling in a rut. I went to a Kaiser psychiatrist in San Diego, CA. He prescribed a small, white pill that I took for a relatively short time (don't think I refilled the 'scrip)--it was great, no side effects, just elevated my mood enough that I could do other stuff to help myself: started exercising, lost some weight, got out of the house more...just felt better. The records from that time are long gone--I checked. Any ideas about what it might have been?
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posted by agatha_magatha
on Aug 23, 2012 -
19 answers
What is the best place to store my pets' flea medication. I had it in the fridge for the last few weeks. Is it ruined?
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posted by Scientist
on Aug 19, 2012 -
3 answers
My psychiatrist's office is behaving in an incompetent manner and I am furious. Aside from finding another doctor, how should I handle this?
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posted by desjardins
on Aug 14, 2012 -
30 answers
I'm a man in my early 40s with a full head of hair. In its natural state, my hair is completely gray. So why is it turning orange all of a sudden?
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posted by Ratio
on Jul 20, 2012 -
16 answers
Is there help or hope for my situation? Post- manic episode: insomnia, various medication trials, zombie brain state.
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posted by airguitar2
on Jul 4, 2012 -
9 answers
Help with memory loss please! I am taking lithium for my mental illness, and although I've tried numerous other medications, it does the best at managing my symptoms with minimal side effects except this major one: I think I'm having a LOT of memory loss. I'm looking for coping strategies, techniques, etc that might help mitigate this.
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posted by thankyouforyourconsideration
on Jun 8, 2012 -
11 answers
How do i talk to my doctor about switching my prescription from Vicodin(hydrocodone)/Tramadol to oxycodone?
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posted by isopropyl
on Jun 8, 2012 -
17 answers
[PlaylistFilter] Songs about being on, or prescribed with, psychiatric medication.
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posted by Yma
on May 18, 2012 -
52 answers
Why can't duloxetine (cymbalta) be prescribed to me? Is there some kind of restriction in the UK.
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posted by conrad101
on May 17, 2012 -
7 answers
I am too young to be on all this medication. I’m willing to make drastic lifestyle changes to get off of them. Please help me.
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posted by anonymous
on Mar 29, 2012 -
35 answers
An employer decides to update their employee database and distributes a form with the usual name, address, emergency contact stuff on it. There is also a line for "Any medications you are currently taking."
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posted by anonymous
on Feb 16, 2012 -
13 answers
I need to mail prescription medications from the United States to my son, who is doing student exchange in Brazil. How can I best accomplish this?
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posted by SomeTrickPony
on Feb 10, 2012 -
14 answers
I'm taking medication that makes me hungry all the time. Added to this, I work somewhere that often has sweets around and I have not very much willpower at all. How can I deal with the hunger in a way that doesn't lead to a sugar high?
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posted by mippy
on Jan 31, 2012 -
36 answers
I feel that my doctors are overdiagnosing me - psychiatrists, specialists, and even pcps. I feel like a lab rat or a trophy case for them - "here's one of my patients, she encompassed the entire diagnostic manual, ha ha!" What's going on?
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posted by anonymous
on Jan 17, 2012 -
26 answers
I've been prescribed Seroquel (Quetiapine). This is the first antipsychotic I've been given. What can I expect? What helps?
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posted by anonymous
on Dec 29, 2011 -
20 answers
Please help me make a plan to deal with the aftermath of this episode of severe depression. For various reasons I would really prefer not to be enrolled in college
again next semester. It's long, I'm sorry, but I wrote this too quickly to pare things out.
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posted by bilabial
on Nov 30, 2011 -
12 answers
I'm going to a wine tasting, but I have a low-level cold that's probably going to be around until then. Will medication save me?
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posted by themel
on Nov 4, 2011 -
4 answers
How extreme is the price difference between generic antidepressants of various types and their non-generic counterparts in Australia, assuming one has a prescription and a medicare card?
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posted by lollusc
on Oct 27, 2011 -
8 answers
I'm obese and recently went on a new medication that's causing me massive weight loss. I can't handle the other side effects, so I'm unfortunately going to have to switch eventually. I'm looking for tips on how to maintain my lower weight once I'm off the drug, and hopefully lose some more.
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posted by anonymous
on Oct 25, 2011 -
13 answers
I abruptly stopped Risperidone, Effexor XR, and Epival all at once and now I'm feeling like garbage. Is there anything I can do to mitigate the feeling like arse?
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posted by kanata
on Oct 20, 2011 -
23 answers
I am a PhD student 6 weeks from my oral exam. I am also an avid runner. I've just been prescribed beta blockers for recurring migraine - will I screw up both/neither of the above if I take them?
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posted by lxs
on Sep 12, 2011 -
13 answers
Please help me figure out when to take my daily dose of Synthroid. I know it shouldn't be this hard, but none of the options I come up with are working.
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posted by stellaluna
on Sep 12, 2011 -
22 answers
