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Mental Health (Expert Forum)
Was my husband prescribed the wrong medicine?
Answered by
Roger Gould, M.D. - Mental Health, Wellness
Questions posted in the Mental Health forum are being answered by Dr. Roger L. Gould, author of the Mastering Stress and Depression program and affiliated with the UCLA. Department of Psychiatry. Topics covered include anger, attention deficit disorder (ADD) , bipolar disorder , dementia , electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) , learning disabilities, memory, obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) , panic , personality disorders, phobias , post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) , schizophrenia , stress , transitions, and work problems.
Was my husband prescribed the wrong medicine?
by suej505, Oct 10, 2004 12:00AM
In the early eighties my husband was prescribed diazepam for tension headaches. He is still taking these, but his doctor recently asked him to reduce his 15mg daily to 10mg. We both found this extremely difficult, my husband was left with sleepless nights and feeling extremely edgy and 'delicate'. For the past twenty years my hubby has been out of work due to the way he felt 'ill' and unable to deal with day to day things. I feel that the doctor who prescribed valium, as it was then, in the first place was wrong to do this just for tension headaches, and that all the doctors since who have carried on the prescribing of the diazepam have also been negligent to a certain extent. We are trying to reduce the diazepam still but it is so very hard. Please give advice if you can. Thank you
Doctor's Answer
by Roger Gould, M.D., Oct 11, 2004 12:00AM
, Oct 11, 2004 12:00AM
Being out of work for twenty years is serious business, and means that there is more than a simple headache as cause. If possible, your husband should decrease his dose but do it while getting some counseling about what is going on...then being edgy becomes an opening to understanding.
