Dr. Christy Huff held a community screening and discussion of the documentary Medicating Normal. Medicating Normal is the untold story of what can happen when profit-driven medicine intersects with human beings in distress.
Dr. Christy Huff held a community screening and discussion of the documentary Medicating Normal. Medicating Normal is the untold story of what can happen when profit-driven medicine intersects with human beings in distress.
Nonprofit educating about the potential adverse effects of benzodiazepines taken as prescribed.
Your point is well explained but I find it difficult to believe I can not get any better than to the point
I am now. For two years I have eliminated Clonazepam from my daily routine. That routine consisted of the Clonazepam and B1 vitamins. I am now taking no Clonazepam but 11 other medication. One counter-acts the other so I am now embarrassed to admit I take all these measures to make my life easier but things in that 2 year period have not changed. I have swallowing issues, I have perfect eyesight but blurred vision and a terrible gait. These are all the same symptoms that I had 45 years ago when I had to withdraw from a semester of college because I couldn’t comprehend the engineering and chemistry classes I was taking. Finally went to an excellent doctor who placed me on Valium which I took for a couple of years. He retired and I, over a month decreased the dosage to zero. No problems but I began to suffer from depression and anxiety all over again but now I was married and was with the company I planned on retiring with. I had lost my entire colon due to cancerous polyps. My new doctor recommended to me that I should consider taking the Clonazepam for the rest of my life. I did so until he retired and for one whole year my new doctor tried every SSRI known to mankind sometimes doubling up. I lost weight and had to take a sabbatical from my position and actually took an early retirement to try and find a doctor or solution. Found neither.
I’m now asking for help. I have been diagnosed with PTSD from seeing some horrific images from my younger years when I was in the Peace Corps in a USSR country called Georgia. I am of no help to anyone while in this situation. I had a sister, two years older who shot herself at the young age of 27. I saw what it did to me and my remaining 5 siblings. Won’t consider such an ending in that I was raised Catholic and three buddies who ended their lives prematurely. I’m not suicidal nor homicidal as some have pointed to as a possibility.
Please.