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<blockquote data-quote="crazymama30" data-source="post: 310291" data-attributes="member: 3184"><p>Well, I really wish I had for sure answers to your questions Janet. He has been ok'd to take 6 percocet a day (1 every 4hrs) I have seen him take too many in the past and never ever act like this. Usually they have a backwards effect on him, they wire him, make him irritatable, and he gets super chatty--almost hypmanic. I asked him if he had taken any other medications, drugs or anything else but he says no. Do I believe him? Not really. He says he had 1 beer, the psychiatrist has oked that, and he did not smell like he had more--it was a very faint odor but I would not swear to that either. </p><p> </p><p>Heather, he is on 2,000mg Depakote at night, 400mg Tegretol, 1800mg neurontin twice a day(can be pscyh but is used for his nerve pain), 1mg Clonazepam every morning. </p><p> </p><p>The fibro fog? That does describe him on a day to day level very well, maybe knowing why will make me more understanding instead of just wanting to kill him.</p><p> </p><p>Later in the evening he became very paranoid, was hallucinating, I am not going into details but he was certainly not in our reality. It was very intense and scary. I almost called the police, in retrospect I should have but it was almost midnight and would have scared the kids so much. I slept on the couch, I do not know if he has slept at all yet and it is 7am. I know he tossed and turned all night, his pain has been really out of control and that seems to correlate to when his BiPolar (BP) is our of whack. I am calling his psychiatrist this morning. I told husband that last night when he cleared a little and he did not argue.</p><p> </p><p>The ER is worthless, I should have taken him last night and then maybe he would have ended up in the psychiatric unit. I have taken husband in to the ER with chest pains radiating into his left arm, very pale and sweating and they did not find anything. Severe bloody diarhea, dehydrated and weak, and they never found anything. Took him several years ago and he had passed out. Tried to do a spinal tap to rule out brain bleed, ER doctor botched it and it was a bloody tap and then had to go through all kinds of other crazy test.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>When we were there they did not check for anything other than blood levels. I was too exhausted to insist on it, I just get so discouraged with them.</p><p>I will check to see if he is asleep before I leave to go work. I hope he is asleep, if he is asleep then he will stay that way as he sleeps like the dead. I have no idea what I am going to do this afternoon as husband has an appointment with his pain doctor at 2:40pm and difficult child has a psychiatrist appointment at 4:00 that takes a 1/2 hr to get to. I now have to take husband to his appts, so that will be tricky--will be ok as long as the pain doctor is on time.</p><p> </p><p>Abby we have insurance, good insurance, but the problem is when you have multiple complicated medical issues managed by more than one doctor no one sees the big picture. And when you have a mental illness everything gets blamed on that.</p><p> </p><p>I really was not ready for this. I have dealt with people having psychotic breaks at work, but it is so different when it is one of your own.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="crazymama30, post: 310291, member: 3184"] Well, I really wish I had for sure answers to your questions Janet. He has been ok'd to take 6 percocet a day (1 every 4hrs) I have seen him take too many in the past and never ever act like this. Usually they have a backwards effect on him, they wire him, make him irritatable, and he gets super chatty--almost hypmanic. I asked him if he had taken any other medications, drugs or anything else but he says no. Do I believe him? Not really. He says he had 1 beer, the psychiatrist has oked that, and he did not smell like he had more--it was a very faint odor but I would not swear to that either. Heather, he is on 2,000mg Depakote at night, 400mg Tegretol, 1800mg neurontin twice a day(can be pscyh but is used for his nerve pain), 1mg Clonazepam every morning. The fibro fog? That does describe him on a day to day level very well, maybe knowing why will make me more understanding instead of just wanting to kill him. Later in the evening he became very paranoid, was hallucinating, I am not going into details but he was certainly not in our reality. It was very intense and scary. I almost called the police, in retrospect I should have but it was almost midnight and would have scared the kids so much. I slept on the couch, I do not know if he has slept at all yet and it is 7am. I know he tossed and turned all night, his pain has been really out of control and that seems to correlate to when his BiPolar (BP) is our of whack. I am calling his psychiatrist this morning. I told husband that last night when he cleared a little and he did not argue. The ER is worthless, I should have taken him last night and then maybe he would have ended up in the psychiatric unit. I have taken husband in to the ER with chest pains radiating into his left arm, very pale and sweating and they did not find anything. Severe bloody diarhea, dehydrated and weak, and they never found anything. Took him several years ago and he had passed out. Tried to do a spinal tap to rule out brain bleed, ER doctor botched it and it was a bloody tap and then had to go through all kinds of other crazy test. When we were there they did not check for anything other than blood levels. I was too exhausted to insist on it, I just get so discouraged with them. I will check to see if he is asleep before I leave to go work. I hope he is asleep, if he is asleep then he will stay that way as he sleeps like the dead. I have no idea what I am going to do this afternoon as husband has an appointment with his pain doctor at 2:40pm and difficult child has a psychiatrist appointment at 4:00 that takes a 1/2 hr to get to. I now have to take husband to his appts, so that will be tricky--will be ok as long as the pain doctor is on time. Abby we have insurance, good insurance, but the problem is when you have multiple complicated medical issues managed by more than one doctor no one sees the big picture. And when you have a mental illness everything gets blamed on that. I really was not ready for this. I have dealt with people having psychotic breaks at work, but it is so different when it is one of your own. [/QUOTE]
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