Jul 21, 2008 09:33AM
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This is about recent treatments that go unevaluated.
My wife was on a slew of different drugs for her manic depression and her skitzophrenia. Recently the added abilify to the haldol and zypexa and depakote she was taking . They said it would make her loose weight she is upwards of 240 lbs.
Not only did she gain weight but most of her short term memory is gone and the sleep patterns are unpredictable. She is having twice as many auditory hallucinations and has been on a spending and eating spree since they lowered the zyprexa to five mgs. They hope to see her in four months to take her off the zyprexa altogether.
This is basically intolerable for me, I have to pick up behind her three times a day and repeat everything five to ten time before she stops talking to herself long enough to pay attention to what I said.
I want to rip the doctors head off for doing this to her she was barely stable while talking to herself quitely before now it is just rediculess.
Some of these shrinks got to get their personal agendas out of the way and stop messing with what took twenty years to perfect just to push drugs that don't work.
She has repeatedly showed me her tongue at my request to see that it is enlarged, she has put on twenty pounds in a couple months. And what used to be working as a volume control of her hallucinations is now more like an amplifier.
She has a team that comes to the house once or twice a week. They are basically coreman that used to hand out drugs on a daily basis. Now they show up with no appointment other than the day of week and send the Other Doctor to see her every four months. After I get into the Army base for our next shot I am going to deal with my frustration over this matter and it is wearing off on me I have been nearly hearing voices again and sufferring from panic attacks and nightmares.
I don't think the hospital is of much use and at a low point it more likely to eliminate my daily living skills and push shock treatment (ECT). Where I see the only real value is a little sodium penathol to take a two day break from the world. That does nor help the problems may be bad but they are still mine not theirs and will be there when I come out of it.