I have tried talking about side effects to various gps. If the leaflet says a side effect is common, they say it wears off with time. If it is rare, then they do not believe you have it.
I was given
Risperodine once. I stopped sleeping completely and stopped taking it and went back to the gp with the leaflet and told him which reactions I had. He laughed and said that I probably did not need medication at that time, and I felt dismissed and left. As I walked around, at first I felt elated because he had said I did not need meds. Gradually, I remembered that I had had no sleep for 2 days and he had ignored the detail of side effects that I had painstakingly recorded and explained to him. He had just assumed that I did not want to take it.
After another miserable sleepless night, I rang the surgery and spoke to the duty dr and explained that I needed sleeping pills until the side effect wore off. As I had only had sleeping pills once before, many years earlier, I was allowed one small weak pack of tablets to help me over the problem.
This sort of thing always happens to me when I see a medical professional. I go when I am below par, and fail to get my point accross because I get diverted from my aim. I do not have the mental stamina to argue my case, when I am ill.
I have tried talking about side effects to various gps. If the leaflet says a side effect is common, they say it wears off with time. If it is rare, then they do not believe you have it.
I was given
Risperodine once. I stopped sleeping completely and stopped taking it and went back to the gp with the leaflet and told him which reactions I had. He laughed and said that I probably did not need medication at that time, and I felt dismissed and left. As I walked around, at first I felt elated because he had said I did not need meds. Gradually, I remembered that I had had no sleep for 2 days and he had ignored the detail of side effects that I had painstakingly recorded and explained to him. He had just assumed that I did not want to take it.
After another miserable sleepless night, I rang the surgery and spoke to the duty dr and explained that I needed sleeping pills until the side effect wore off. As I had only had sleeping pills once before, many years earlier, I was allowed one small weak pack of tablets to help me over the problem.
This sort of thing always happens to me when I see a medical professional. I go when I am below par, and fail to get my point accross because I get diverted from my aim. I do not have the mental stamina to argue my case, when I am ill.
