“Thanks Again for all of your support and encouragement. When I defeat this “thing” you will be one of the very first people I contact. I know it won’t be an instant type thing, but something that will be on-going, but I will kick this thing to the curb and have victory partly because of your efforts. Have a great year! Looking forward to staying in touch!”
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“My wife had an anxiety disorder. She went to a psychiatrist who prescribed her alprazolam, (a sedative/hypnotic) and zolpidem (a sleep aid). This combination of pills, complicated by the fact that she was medicating herself and using the psychiatrist as a “prescription pad”, I believe ultimately resulted in her recent death.
The path Amy chose and is promoting on this wonderful site, was not chosen by my wife. Instead, she chose the prescription medication path, possibly due to the long term illness her mother had, because medicating is what she knew. Her mother died young and was most likely the source of her anxiety. She was convinced she killed her mom.
My wife also had health problems which complicated her treatment path. She had gastric bypass surgery and was not in the best physical health.
I observed my wife’s mental condition slowly deteriorate over the last two years of her life. She started taking the alprazolam, but took more than the prescription called for and ran out early. After a few days of having none, she had a seizure while holding our 7 month old child and fell flat on her back, hitting the back her head on the concrete. This caused a lesion on the front part of her brain and compounded the anxiety issues she already had. Seizures are a side effect of abruptly terminating usage of this drug.
Six weeks after the head injury she tried to kill herself. She spent some time in a mental hospital, but knew that if she signed herself in voluntarily she could sign herself out. She actually met someone at the hospital who had the same psychiatrist. She ended up going to the mental hospital 2 more times in the next 4 months, once on her own, and once forced by the police. She never spent more than 5 days on any stay, as she knew what to say to get out. Everytime I took her back home, we stopped off at the pharmacy and walked out with new prescriptions. The diagnosis from one of the hospital stays was “severe depression”. She was prescribed anti-depressants but would not take them.
She was also prescribed zolpidem “for sleep”. Over time I can say this drug stops working and resulted in her sleep walking and cooking things while ‘asleep’. I woke up to a burning smell many times, only to find she had put something in the microwave on 60 minutes, or all the burners on the stove on high. After a couple of months of use, it would only last 2 hours max. She even started taking it during the day. When I informed her doctor of her abuse, they did not stop prescribing it. My attempts to hide the medicine and control the dosage resulted in her hiding things I needed, to trade for the pills.
After the seizure due to alprazolam withdrawal, she started taking Quetiapine fumarate, a strong anti-psychotic. This drug would make her slur her speech and many times I found her passed out and barely breathing. After a visit to the doctor, he told us to use a daily pill scheduler, so she would not have to remember if she took the medicine. This did not last more than a week. One time when I hid the medicine for when she was suppose to take it, she hid my work computer until I gave her the medicine.
The addiction got so bad, she was arrested and convicted for altering two prescriptions. At the moment I write this I do not know what ultimately killed her, but after seeing her push the limits of what a human body can take, I suspect it all finally caught up with her. As my 11 year old daughter says, “I guess she is not as invincible as she thought she was.”
I always considered my wife a smart person. But when it came to prescriptions she made many mistakes. I partly blame the doctors for leaving the patient in control of these psychiatric medications. It makes no sense to put the patient in control of the medication when the medication affects the decision making process. In the end, it was really her choice to take this path, and her choice to ignore all the help everyone was trying to give.
I know she is at peace now and no longer suffering the anxiety issues she could never seem to shake. I also pray that people read this testimony and choose a less risky and more permanent solution to the their anxiety problems through the information on this site.
Amy, I wish she would have listened.”
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“Everyone should be prescribed a dose of The Hatched Egg”
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