Posted by utopizen on January 4, 2003, at 11:16:42
In reply to Re: How much is a lobotomy nowadays? » oracle, posted by TheHermit on January 3, 2003, at 11:58:15
> > It's got a little more 'chic' than a random lobotomy, and has got to be less random than the SSRI's they've been trying me on for the last seven years - whaddya think?
>>It's very odd that a p-doc has been treating you with SSRIs with no benefit for a year. In fact, a year is odd, but not unusual with the more stubborn docs. But 7 years? Most people tend to switch from the SSRI-work-or-you're-not-treatable delusional docs after a year of failed treatments (and that comes from my own p-doc, who's expecting me to leave him soon for this reason).
Have you tried the benzos? Generally, after a year, you're in the make for whatever benzo you want. And if those don't work, you've advanced to the level of barbiturate trials. After 7 years, geez, docs should be on to the stage of giving you injectable Dilaudid or something. Go to a research hospital's psychopharma dept., they'll do whatever they can to treat you. If they don't, it looks bad on them to the students they're teaching there.
They tend not to say "um, yeah, we don't know how to treat this guy, so we just give me Effexor refills every month to make him think it's his fault."
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