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Medications
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Beautiful Mind, Complex Life
Another sleepless night. It is 1:30 A.M. Restoril is not working for me at all. I need a different sleep medication. Tomorrow I go to the doctor, and I'll be discussing a few things: -Abilify needs to be increased, but it's making me vomit everyday (since I started it) -Klonopin .5 milligrams is not working for the akathesia I have or the anxiety - ...
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Medication Problems
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Lee
... ge my way of thinking if I can't disprove it? My moods were sad and lonely and my thoughts were that I was lonely and would always be alone and that no one needs me or cares about me. Now I can come up with examples of people caring about me, but the rest I am at a loss. I need to take the book and my worksheets to my therapist and get help with ...
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Not self-medication
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Jason Schwartz, LMSW
... cohol led to increased risk of MD as opposed to a self-medication model in which MD led to increased risk of AAD. This is a longitudinal study. I look forward to seeing more about the responses to treatment for alcoholism and depression. Technorati Tags: depression, alcoholism, research
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Medication Vacation
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Julia O.
... joints, that's what. After a few weeks of escalating pain, I 'fessed up to Dr. S., put Inner Julia in a time out, and took my medicine like a big girl. Luckily, I know enough about medications to realize that certain medications should never be stopped without careful management by a health care provider. Prednisone is one of those medications and ...
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The Importance of Medication
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Katherine S.
... taking antidepressants as prescribed, the comments made by a further nine women suggest that compliance may have been poor. This study suggests a need to improve information about medication for postnatal depression. If this information is not provided, women are likely to continue to self-manage medication at a dosage that may be clinically inef ...
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Medications
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Devin H.
... on some type of medication, whether it is for pain, depression, bipolar, insomnia, anxiety, or psychotic symptoms. Some are on more than one medication. So here are some tips about medication use/misuse: Take them as prescribed. Your doctor, psychiatrist, nurse practitioner, or physician assistant prescribed the specific medication and dosage for ...
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Medical Homicide
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Dr. Richard Keller
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I was reading an article on “Medical Homicide and Extreme Negligence” in my recent edition of The American Journal of Forensic Medicine and Pathology (no link). Having had a case of medical neglect found ...
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Medicalization
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Joeymom
... noise problem, and the vestibular issue). But how much does this child need to be medicalized beyond that? It can be great fun to sit in the park and watch the children run about playing, and thinking about them with the labels that bounce around my house. Oh, look, that kid like to push the turnabout- heavy work for propioceptive input. That kid ...
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Self Medication
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Julia O.
FYI:Freshly baked chocolate cake with Auntie Barbie's special vanilla frosting has amazing curative/narcotic properties, specifically for 52 year old female patients with bladder infections.Just sayin'.
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Medical Illiteracy
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Anthony Cirillo
A new study of patients ages 65 and older were more likely to die within six years of receiving written medical instructions than those who easily understood their caregivers, despite the health conditions at the outset. The study was done by a team at Northwestern University's ...
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