Buffy ,'First Date'
[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risque (and frisque), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.
And, somewhat unrelated, he will not allow the prescribing of any migraine medications.
Is he talking about preventive stuff? Surely it would be okay to have some of the immediate-action stuff to take, wouldn't it? (There is, theoretically, immediate-action stuff, right? That you take when one hits?)
Is he talking about preventive stuff? Surely it would be okay to have some of the immediate-action stuff to take, wouldn't it? (There is, theoretically, immediate-action stuff, right? That you take when one hits?)
Nope. He's talking about abortives and pain meds. "This one causes mood changes." "This one is dangerous and shouldn't be prescribed outside of the hospital." "This one I just don't like." There aren't any he'll allow me to take. Fortunately, the migraines haven't been bad lately, but still. I'm not in a place where I can just sleep them off. I've got a life! I need to be able to get rid of them when they do come on.
That's the other thing he should be worrying about, vw. If you are in pain and can't get stuff done that you need to get done, you're going to become more anxious and depressed.
His exact words were, “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.”
But...but...how is it not broke?This? Broke. Want us to thwack him for you? See if we can convince him that "not broke" != "shiny"?
I should not be awake yet. Going to go for the first nap of the day before dawn today apparently.
vw, I think he shouldn't be trying to separate the psychological from the physical. I mean, if you can't astral project, what business does he have splitting the two?
What ita said, vw.
It's not okay for him to rule out all the migraine meds, and you shouldn't have to wait 2 months to talk to him about it.
In completely different news,
Hey Suzi, Want Spike?
Hey Suzi, Want Spike?
Tempting.
I'm working from home this morning. At 10 (game time) I hit the road (tune in the radio broadcast) for Sacramento to pick up my mom! She gets to come home today!
She still has a way to go with her recovery, but this is a big first step.
Suzi, that's fantastic! Earlier than previously thought, correct? Wonderful, wonderful news. I'll keep vibing that things continue to improve.
It is earlier than I expected - but she sounds so much better than she did on Sunday - so hopefully it is not too soon. It is a heck of a drive for follow-ups, though.
Nope. He's talking about abortives and pain meds. "This one causes mood changes." "This one is dangerous and shouldn't be prescribed outside of the hospital." "This one I just don't like." There aren't any he'll allow me to take.
Whoa, there. Full stop. "This one I just don't like" is NOT a legitimate medical reason to not prescribe a drug. EVER.
If your psychopharm isn't "allowing" you to take meds for other medical conditions -- what if he wasn't keen on your asthma medications? steroids cause big mood changes, after all -- then I think you need to either switch to a new psychopharm who will actually care for you as a whole patient, or you need to tell him that leaving your migraines untreated is NOT an option, and he'd better figure out what migraine med he can live with you taking.
I don't mean to sound harsh, but I'm so irritated right now from The Boy's pharmaceutical ups and downs. There's this big amount of bullshit around his providers not writing an Rx for his Ritalin, because they think someone else should do it -- like, the NP at his therapist's office thinks his PCP should do it, and his PCP says that the NP needs to do it. I, not surprisingly, flipped my shit and told him that *I'd* call both of them and tell them to get their heads out of their asses and stop denying psychoactive medications to someone who has a legitimate medical diagnosis for which those psychoactive medications are needed. He said no, he'll call today; I told him he'd better be channelling my rage when he calls them.
Sorry. Sidetrack. Anyway, vw, I feel the same way about your psychopharm -- he has NO business denying you access to drugs that you legitimately need.
If you want, I can look up interactions and so forth with potential migraine meds, if you tell me what you're currently taking.