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My pdoc almost killed me
| Mon, 08-06-2007 - 1:09pm |
My pdoc adjusted my meds and almost killed me.
I was taking klonopin for five years and became addicted to it .
It wasn't working so I took more and ended up taking hand fulls of pills whenever.
I complained many times about the med.
So what does she do she cuts me right off.
I asked her If I would with drawl she said no because she prescribed Valium.
Well 24 hrs into my change I started having severe with-drawls.
I also was hearing voices and having bizarre thoughts.
It was a weekend and I called the pharmacist( my husband) .
They said to take me off the Valium and put me back on klonopin.
I was very sick so he did three days later I went to see my pdoc.
She said that the Valium was not creating the pchycotic thoughts even tough its listed as a side effect.
Then she yelled at me and said the withdrawals were in my head.
I am a ex addict I know what withdrawals are.
I have two kids to take care of and this b***h wants to argue.
I reported her and now she is trying to say I have multiple personalities to cover her butt.
What do you guys think of that?
I was taking klonopin for five years and became addicted to it .
It wasn't working so I took more and ended up taking hand fulls of pills whenever.
I complained many times about the med.
So what does she do she cuts me right off.
I asked her If I would with drawl she said no because she prescribed Valium.
Well 24 hrs into my change I started having severe with-drawls.
I also was hearing voices and having bizarre thoughts.
It was a weekend and I called the pharmacist( my husband) .
They said to take me off the Valium and put me back on klonopin.
I was very sick so he did three days later I went to see my pdoc.
She said that the Valium was not creating the pchycotic thoughts even tough its listed as a side effect.
Then she yelled at me and said the withdrawals were in my head.
I am a ex addict I know what withdrawals are.
I have two kids to take care of and this b***h wants to argue.
I reported her and now she is trying to say I have multiple personalities to cover her butt.
What do you guys think of that?

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First off, I am sorry you had this experience.
My one question would be why did she keep giving you Klonopin for "5" freakin years with increases? I guess you were addicted/dependant on them.
Did she know you were and addict???? Most docs will not Rx these meds long term to any addict or may not Rx them at all because of the addiction they can cause even someone who hasn't had past addiction problems. I have seen people get addicted to these meds time after time and docs don't watch what is happening.
The Valium may or may not have caused the hallucinations but I am sure the withdrawals did.
She should have weened you off the Klonopin. Cutting the dosage for one thing and only giving you enough to last a couple weeks. It only takes a week or 2 to ween someone off a med. This would have probably prevented your withdrawals being so bad.
Don't return to this lunatic. Anyone with common sense would have known how to get you off the Klonopin properly.
I hope you are feeling better and get an new doc soon.
Tina
~ Tina ~
Your situation reminds me of the time I was manic and my psychiatric FNP at the time wanted me to take 100 mg of Thorazine daily at least until the mania went away. I had had some experience with that drug, at least enough to know and tell her I didn't want to take ANY let alone 100 mg, but she said I "had to." I only took 50 mg., and even on that dosage, I couldn't get out of bed 'til 5P. I think if I had taken the whole 100 I would have died and my family would've had a huge lawsuit on their hands.
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Beth "Petrouchka"
Great plan!!!!!
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Beth "Petrouchka"
Good LORD! Somebody shake that therapist! I am chemically dependent on benzos; have been since the early 1980s when an MIT shrink (I was working there at the time) prescribed Valium for me. He ASSURED me they weren't "addictive." And he was the SAME guy who was the "psychological consultant" on the very depressing and horrific British post-nuke movie "Threads!" Bet he took the stuff himself!
Well, it's 25 years later and I'm off the "lovely V's" as I called them (the blue ones were my favorite), but take Klonopin, .5 mg, three times a day. DH was doling them out, but, as I mention in another post on the board, he's disgusted with me having a mental illness, and gave me the pills (hoping I'd overdose, maybe?). He and my daughter (he's talked her into it) want me to move out, because they can't "stand my behavior anymore." Who can blame them? I'm either in bed, or suffering a severe migraine, or too wild and manic to hold a conversation with anybody.
ANY GOOD DOCTOR WORTH HIS/HER SALT KNOWS YOU CANNOT JUST STOP THE BENZOS COLD TURKEY! The only exception MAY be with the discovery of a pregnancy, which was my case back in April 1996. My doctor weaned me down from 1 mg a day to .5 at night. I totally stopped my tricyclic antidepressant, which made me sick as a dog!
I know the horrors of detoxing off Valium, Xanax, Ativan, but mostly Klonopin. You can't sleep. You can't eat (a GREAT way to lose 15 pounds, quick!) You feel like you are going insane. It's almost like being in an out-of-body experience, but worse. You are SURE you are going to do. The times they tried taking me off, I became psychotic in five days.
Good luck to you, sweetheart. Find a GOOD doctor! During my appointment yesterday, my doctor just laughed when my husband suggested maybe if I went down to one or two .5 a day. He said he had a lot of patients on FIVE TIMES that amount, and he considered my dose to be extremely low.
Well it's good that you came out of it okay.
Sparkleeyes..........
Live life well & Always look ahead.
Thanks for your advice much appreciated.
Sparkleeyes..........
Live life well & Always look ahead.
I was a addict at a very young age.
I never wanted to take the klonopin in the first place but,
I have ptsd and my anxiety is and has been out of control.
She is one of the most uncaring people I ever met.
As far as profession goes she is a uneducated wacko,
I don't know what med school she attended.
Sparkleeyes..........
Live life well & Always look ahead.
My little sister was addicted to benzos,
She was one of the first people I called during my episode.
They are just as addictive as any other drug.
Witch is why I wanted off.
Instead she upped my dosage to8mg's a day!
This just is not right it's like going on the street finding a crack addict,
Saying I have something to help, more crack they are drug dealer disguised as a angel.
Oh wait a minute they are just in for the money .
Sparkleeyes..........
Live life well & Always look ahead.
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