Re: Psychiatrists aren't real doctors

[Anonymous]

Wow Curlymoe…sounds like psychiatry is of higher quality in Alberta than down here in Kansas. Of course I’ve been referred by physicians to psychiatry. Yet it seems like once they put me on medication, and I complain on follow-up about some purely physical side effect, there’s just no help out there for managing them. It’s summer, which already feels hot as hell. It doesn’t help when they want me on a combination of Effexor XR + Concerta, with noradrenergic side effects like sweating, flushing, and feeling hot. I swear I can now empathize with women going through menopause…and I’m a man! 27 years old at that…long before women even start thinking about menopause!

Part of it is that I could stand to lose more than just a few pounds. Okay, I’m morbidly obese, as in BMI > 40. But yet I can’t stand being really hot, hotter than the average person, just doing chores around the house. So how am I even supposed to tolerate exercise? The combo already has me feeling like I’m going to have a heart attack *at rest*…it’s so bad that I cold-turkeyed the Effexor without telling my ARNP. I called his clinic the last time I had chest pain on the combo and they didn’t really do anything. Now, I think, despite the fact that cold-turkeying off of Effexor is highly discouraged, I can at least tolerate chores without feeling like I’m going to die of a heart attack.

Not only that, but Effexor is highly analgesic. It literally hid from me a massive sinus headache! I can tell the difference between a tension and a sinus headache, trust me, after 11 years of suffering from allergies. But this was the most massive sinus headache I have ever had! Aleve, Flonase, and rinsing my nose with salt water are all helping.

Normally one wouldn’t complain about analgesia…but seriously, it has hidden MRSA and now sinusitis from me. Thank goodness I’ve had other signs to count on about these serious issues, otherwise I might have been dead from a massive infection.

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