Unbelievable! Everytime my cardiologist tells me I'm fine and they treat me like an irrelevant patient with no REAL issues, something dangerous and life threatening happens.
You know, I thought I was getting tired of doctors who know nothing and pretend to know everything about me, my conditions, my habits, what is right and wrong and what helps and hurts me, and then they hit newer, lower levels that leave me man who again wants to SUE THE WORLD!!
I thought that my heart was in crisis all along and I kept telling them the angina was real and only abated by use of opiates, especially morphine but can be tempered to a degree with other opiods. Also, Xanax works great. I read a recent medical article from Cambridge, I believe, which talked about a study where patients were given up to 9 and 10 mgs of Xanax a day before they reached a level where there was any efficacy at all.
The patients were still able to function and had finally reached a level where the drug worked.
Most patients were around the 4 to 5 mgs per day area and it seems the standard dosage given tends to top out around 4 mgs, even if 5 mgs is better, doctors in most will never give more than 4 mgs daily regardless of need or ability to increase health. Then again, I've met people who were given 6 to 8 2mg Xanax tabs daily. This is up there and yet, HOW DID HE GET THEM?
I suffer from anxiety and panic disorder causing terrible attacks on a daily basis sometimes great than others, meanwhile, I also experience painful angina from a heart condition and possible other issues as yet unknown to the professionals caring for me. This is completely overlooked because 22 years ago, I was called Bipolar II and hospitalized. Since that happened, I have been labeled a drug seeker and after 8 years of Xanax to help my condition, they've decided to END my use of this medicine with nothing in it's place which means a wall of pain and fear that would cripple Stalin.
Do no harm is number one on their oath, and apparently number one in their fear and the ability to choose pain over relief if it so pleases them to do so or they as I said, fear reprisal of some kind. No changes were even considered until I was analyzed by a psychopharmacologist. Now, after her 'scathing' report, given to me by staff directly, they are shuffling like nuns in a cucumber patch. I was instantly decreased to 2 a day and have even been short dosed to be sure I don't get any Xanax. I was even shorted by a few days prior to my appointment date so I will have nothing for 3 days prior to the visit which may be impossible for me to attend.
I informed them of my a-fib even and still they didn't budge in their decision. 2 a day, no more. If you ask me, I should be taking around 6 mgs a day. 2mgs as needed for each event in a day if I feel needed. The stoppage and decrease of this drug in specific, I even warned them via recorded voice mail that will be documented, that it could cause arrhytmia and many other problems, still no respite.
I will be seeing this doctor who did all of this without even calling me and didn't mention anything like it in our last visit and the whole matter was to be revisited 4 months from that date which is coming up. And yet, his cowardice kept him from speaking directly to me.
We will see how things go and if another rhythm issue happens, I guess I won't worry about money for a while because I will sue these jerks for treating me without regard because they're afraid I might be enjoying the medication over the line of needing it.
I will let you know how it goes after seeing him and letting him know how I feel. If he doesn't change my meds back up to 3 and 4 if I have my way of Xanax, I will be pursuing actions against them allowing me to suffer for over 2 years in pain and anxiety.
The Patient without Patience
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