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Tucson, AZ
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Your story is as awful as any and I just have so much compassion and empathy I see people far worse off than me and it's just so tragic that other humans do this whether by ignorance, lack of empathy, greed, and sometimes sadistic and malicious intent to purposely hurt others.
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The VA is 92 today. A terribly underfunded agency working to help veterans who have served to protect the most privileged by coercion, draft, or choice. our military is filled with poor, ethnic, often not well educated young people we maim, harm and kill believing it righteous.
Originally known as the Veterans Administration, The @DeptVetAffairs turns 92 today! Thank you to the millions of employees and #Veterans that have served our nation and its VA facilities for nearly a century!#WorkAtVA and help us continue the legacy today:bit.ly/3kzyXft
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It's criminal and it's even more criminal as malpractice attorneys , lawsuits difficult and time consuming. Even worse? The US statute of limitations on malpractice is only 6 months. Patients rarely know until much later! It can be appealed. For more money and more time spent.
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There's a long tail problem with medical records. I do not have MDD. I do not have clinical panic disorder I do not have clinical anxiety. I display subclinical mood swings, hyperactive hyperfocused. I do have severe complex trauma, atypical rumination, and trichotillomania.
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She prescribed them I'm not taking them. I have been on 47 Pharmaceuticals for this. 2 worked. the Red Cell stimulant EPO and the white cell stimulant neupogen. Whole blood and irradiated platelet transfusions. Our conditions are difficult enough. The suffering caused? Criminal.
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I would not hesitate to buy illegal Xanax which is everywhere in Tucson but guess what they contain little to no benzodiazepine and are actually Fentanyl. This is a medical, pharmaceutical, and social disaster, negligent form of assault and even homicide. We call this Healthcare.
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The tragedy is my story is one of countless and even worse others. Healthcare professionals are turning their backs on us. I have no suicidal ideation, no self- harm, platelets and neutrophils improved since off of Prozac and Seroquel. Was 235 lb now 125. Who is crazy here?
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The only place I can find to help requires 5,000 to $10,000 out of pocket no insurance allowed. Or illegally or I suffer through and risk dying I am really not sure what to do at this point. @UHC is trying no success. Shame on health "care" shame on big Pharma Shame Shame Shame.
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So here I am alive 9 years past terminal diagnosis got off of every prescription but the benzo on my own. This one I've taken from 5 mg of clonazepam down to 1 mg per day. But how do I do that on my own if I can't access the prescription in the first place to taper slowly.
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I was in so much pain and so sick from other drugs as well I was on EPO the Lance Armstrong drug, many other support medications and now enter the opiate era. I got the hell off of those and exchanged it for a medical marijuana card and it worked. Got off of everything but benzo.
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There had also been intermittent use of chlorpromazine for severe nausea which is a first gen anti-psychotic. This caused the already existing neutropenia to become so severe I was down to almost 500 increasing neupogen, bone marrow stem cell stimulant. Very painful side effects.
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I also showed non-alcoholic cirrhosis of the liver decompensated with no other symptoms then heavy scarring from Nash. I was given chemotherapy and immunotherapy including interferon which cause psychiatric symptoms. Now I had a subclinical mood disorder. Prescribed Quetiapine.
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So by now not only did I have what was called CFS for lack of a better way to describe my medical issues along with panic disorder severe anxiety and major depressive disorder with dysthymia along with photosensitive epilepsy and absence seizures. In 2013 my bone marrow failed.
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I became actively suicidal and began acts of self harm. So what did they do raised my dosage to 40 mg from 20 I was in my thirties already and for one day had SSRI induced psychosis with disorientation disassociation and bizarre thoughts I was immediately dropped to 20 mg.
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I was told this was the miracle cure for women with severe PMS. It was Fluoxetine of course package just for women like me. Within hours a strange feeling came over me within 6 months I was bleeding almost 30 days a month and no relief from depression at all in fact the opposite.
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Several years into medical illness I experienced a major depressive episode I had self-reported those feelings of depression no suicidal ideation no self harm those feelings began 10 days prior to menstruation when it started within minutes no symptoms. I was prescribed Sarafem.
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So instead of believing me she now wants me on gabapentin, hydroxyzine, and an SSRI all of which I've taken at some point in my life and will not do I am down to one prescription, the benzo. I'm a long- term Survivor of terminal illness who might actually die of benzo withdrawals
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Tell me about it. I'm looking for safe tapering for 38 years of benzos. I was not anxious. doctors could not diagnose my medical illness which revealed itself later to be bone marrow aplasia. Doctor insists anxiety panic and seizures now are symptoms returning not withdrawals
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Another day another revelation of the horrors of Pharmaceuticals used by psychiatrists. Benzo withdrawal is the most dangerous of all with potential seizures that can lead to death. After withdrawal there can be long-term or permanent damage. Mother's Little Helper my ass.
New benzodiazepines and pregnancy warnings:
A @US_FDA review found withdrawal symptoms in newborns, infants with low muscle tone, sedation, and respiratory symptoms exposed to benzodiazepines late in pregnancy or during labor. New warnings will be issued. benzoinfo.com/2022/08/04/fda…
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