What doctors don't know about the drugs they prescribe

hi,
I do not know where to put this post, so I will do it here, even though I know it is a pretty old one.

I began taking again zeroquel, half 25mg, one month,
I am way beyond an early menopause. I started bleeding, like a mega menstruation, it seems that my thyroid is high...I do not know what I means, only that after nine years I am menstruating.

I am not happy...
my psych send me a new one, ...I read the secondary effects, I kow half of them, because I have had them......my God, there is no end to this!! I am thinking if I could go only with homeopathy.

I'm sorry loise that this is happening. Homeopathy is definitely an option that you could look into! Don't feel like you have to write it off. You never know until you try, and perhaps you will find that it does work even better that prescribed medications

Ohh a lot of them know but keep it hush hush.
And the worst part is if you get sick, they will just blame your "mentall illness"

Even if you have physical symptoms such as nausea that they will say your "imagining" it

hi guys, thanks a lot for your replies.
After one day and two nights bleeding profusely, but not so much to want to run to the hospital,
yesterday became a sort of regular menstruation.

but today, that I was so excited, going back to normal, began with pain close to my spine.
this are like cramps, could be muscular contractions, or the nerves, but the pain is deep, and constant, it lasted about 30 minutes. I got pretty afraid, called everybody,
my psych can not be reached, other psychologue that said would called me back, has not done it.
and my house doctor, said about the blood, if twee weeks from now you still have problems, come.

last year the cramps moved to my coxis, and became labor contractions. I was in labor at 51 years old for about a day and a half, without the resting in between that contractions normally have.
one year ago, they made an mri, nothing, but I can not still sit in hard surfaces without having horrible cramps going up my spine.

I took some extra oxazepam, and I am wondering, if better to take again a small dosis of zeroquel,
o full me op with muscle relaxers.

I hope I will not go through the same thing last year.
and the worst is that nobody seems to know about these secondary effects, they read it, and is Chinese to them.

I am in pain and no way out for now.

thanks for writing!!

The mechanism of action of aspirin involves inhibition of the enzyme cyclooxygenase, therefore suppressing the production of prostaglandins and thromboxanes, thereby reducing pain and inflammation.

But try this, search the name of any psychiatric drug + "mechanism of action unknown" and watch what comes up.

www.google.com

This I learned from this video http://youtu.be/KIjOZq_AUeE?t=12s

Cheze2 wrote:So much for peer reviewed journals as being a good source of information...It's things like this that make me just want to hide under a rock and say, "screw the medical world altogether."
http://www.ted.com/talks/ben_goldacre_w ... cribe.html

Thanks for the link. Real food for thought.

Copy_Cat wrote:The mechanism of action of aspirin involves inhibition of the enzyme cyclooxygenase, therefore suppressing the production of prostaglandins and thromboxanes, thereby reducing pain and inflammation.

But try this, search the name of any psychiatric drug + "mechanism of action unknown" and watch what comes up.

http://www.google.com

This I learned from this video http://youtu.be/KIjOZq_AUeE?t=12s

thanks a lot, I will look into it.
on Friday, at the last hour, I was able to reach my family doctor and he prescribed me what they gave last year, diazepam and akineton.
an hour later, called a collega of my psych to offer his assistance, and I would be able to contact him during the weekend...y doc is in another country.

with diazepam the spasms and cramps stopped. I have been a bit knocked out in the weekend, but the pain is under controle....hopefully next is the transition to normality...
thanks so much for your replies, I was panicking.

I have to say that my ears are oversensitive, I am walking around with something in my ears.

oh I hope to be able to stop meds for a while.

l

loise wrote:

Copy_Cat wrote:The mechanism of action of aspirin involves inhibition of the enzyme cyclooxygenase, therefore suppressing the production of prostaglandins and thromboxanes, thereby reducing pain and inflammation.

But try this, search the name of any psychiatric drug + "mechanism of action unknown" and watch what comes up.

http://www.google.com

This I learned from this video http://youtu.be/KIjOZq_AUeE?t=12s

thanks a lot, I will look into it.
on Friday, at the last hour, I was able to reach my family doctor and he prescribed me what they gave last year, diazepam and akineton.
an hour later, called a collega of my psych to offer his assistance, and I would be able to contact him during the weekend...y doc is in another country.

with diazepam the spasms and cramps stopped. I have been a bit knocked out in the weekend, but the pain is under controle....hopefully next is the transition to normality...
thanks so much for your replies, I was panicking.

I have to say that my ears are oversensitive, I am walking around with something in my ears.

oh I hope to be able to stop meds for a while.

l

I take Diazepam (Valium) and Lorazepam (Ativan) sometimes to sleep. Problem is they create addiction and the withdrawl is bad, not as bad as neuroleptics but bad. Their are much better treatmeans ffor spasms then that. Do you happen to live in Colorado, California or Oregon? If so ask your PHYSICIAN not your shrink, if they can recommend a medical cannabis card for you, it will do wonders for the spasms and is NOT addictive.

hi POci, thanks for the advice.
i have considered, sometimes half joking, to smoke cannabis, just to avoid all the secondary effects of medicine. i still have teeners at home and there is no way i want them to feel that they have a green light to do the same....but the truth is at my age i would not mind at all.

i do not live in the US, i live in Europe, anyway, a good advice, but for now out of the question.

i want to withdraw from the diazepam as fast as possible, the only thing is that i have been taking oxazepam since December, small dosis, i wonder if stopping both will bring another surprise,
beside my bad humor and oversensitive ears.

thanks, l

loise wrote:hi POci, thanks for the advice.
i have considered, sometimes half joking, to smoke cannabis, just to avoid all the secondary effects of medicine. i still have teeners at home and there is no way i want them to feel that they have a green light to do the same....but the truth is at my age i would not mind at all.

i do not live in the US, i live in Europe, anyway, a good advice, but for now out of the question.

i want to withdraw from the diazepam as fast as possible, the only thing is that i have been taking oxazepam since December, small dosis, i wonder if stopping both will bring another surprise,
beside my bad humor and oversensitive ears.

thanks, l

Yes that is understandable, underage of 18 shouldn't smoke cannabis due to frontal lobes of brain now being developed yet.

In any case if you are in Europe you might have medical cannabis available. I know in certain autonomous regions of Spain they do and in Germany