Question:
I live in Canada were a possession of a few joints for personal use will not
result in a criminal record but a fine (New Law ).
My regular doctor works for a clinic run by an hospital.I always have suffered
from insonmia but nothing like the last
few months .My normal cycle lately is to stay awake all night for 3 nights and
then collapse from exaustion on the
fourth night .My regular doctor does not believe In prescribing
Benzodiazepines like ativan,halcion ,or valium ,etc.
I have bugged my doctor about insomnia for a long time.He suggested drugs
like seroquel for Insomnia.Seroquel (100 mg ) . Seroquel , in larger dosages,
is used to treat schyzophrenics , who see demons in their rooms ,hear
voices ,think they are God ,etc .I suffer none of the delusions
as previously listed . Seroquel works well for insomnia ,but turns you
into vegetable. You lose the ability to cocentrate as far reading technical
books ,following the plot of a " Agatha Christie " like movies .I was reduced
to watching the cartoon channel.
I can't stand seroquel,and have stopped taking it.
A friend who smokes the odd couple of joints on the weekends GAVE me me 2
joints.
I smoked both of them already . In each case I felt my legs go rubbery,and I
went to bed and slept like a baby for about 6 hours.
Last night I woke up and felt very hungry , I ordered a pizza from a late night
pizza store.
Years ago ,Hacion (2 pills ,0.25mg each )worked very well,but now , no doctor
will prescribe it anymore, I tried several docs .
Question : Why the bias against halcion ?I still believe that somebody that
drinks or smokes Marijuana and drives a car after
should be charged fully by the police.What's is your advice ?
Answer:
That doesn't make him too unique. Many docs have that bias. I find a
doctor's reluctance to prescribe a certain widely-used class of drugs is
usually related to experience. I had a doc that refused to write Ritalin
for anyone after having seen the corpse of a fellow med student who had died
from injecting the stuff. Others, I'm sure have had similar experiences.
But your doctor may have seen people "decay" from its use (or valium - you
don't know how disturbed doctors become at patients they label as
drug-seeking - it's a label patients need to work hard to avoid acquiring).
It's a very big world out there. Try something else. Lots of people seem
to like Ambien and none that I know that are on it have grown three heads
yet.
The problem with that is there are some risks. Was the product sprayed with
Paraquat? What's the quality control? What are the long term health risks?
Weed has never been known to promote the eating of a well-balanced diet.
But it's certainly been around for a long time, so it's passed the
three-headed test, at least for me.
Bad stories abounded about Halcion. Halcion (used it for 5 years) had begun
to get a bit of a bad rap by 1991:
http://www.injustice.org/nemo/newsfile/nk910819.html
Today after several hours of driving around, I found a dctor that will treat my
insomnia .I'll going soon to a hospital where there is sleep clinic.
I have to stay there one night with electrodes attached to my head .
My new doctor wasn't very impressed with these sleep clinics, but it is paid by
the Canadian goverment ,therefore I'll go any way .
what the heck ,it's free if a dodtor refers to one.
Otherwise it costsc $600.00 Can or about $ 450.00 U.S.
He also wrote a script for 3 mg of ativan daily for the next two weeks .
Then he wants to kow how it is working for me.
Hey , it beats hanging around bad areas of the city tryig to score some grass.
Good - glad my advice worked out even before you read it! ;-) I have
learned one lesson about doctors. You can't win arguments with them, but
you can ALWAYS find a new one that may not feel as strongly about things as
the doctor giving you grief.
