Ive gone as far as i can go now. Ive spoken to as many people as possible about all this. My doctor called twice yesterday.
First call of my appointment was a whole lot of confusion and more upset. He tried giving me a new plan of 2 different doses of the X. One was 0.5 mg for so many days and the other was .25 mg of the X for the remaining days...i couldnt even understand what the hell he was talking about. Telling me i was going to be going even slower, which isnt what i could understand, and then i asked him if he read the email i gave to the pharmacist there at the clinic from Dr Shipko, psychiatrist. He said he did but i had it handy and read it to him out loud and straight up repeating it, I was at risk of having a stroke or heart attack or even seizure, if this taper rate continued the way he was doing it.
He just kept going on about this new plan, still expecting me to get down to 5 and 4 and 3 etc...with in a few months. He was getting pretty nervous or having his own panic attack or something because he had to go. I told him I'd be out Monday since i couldn't get down to 5 tabs a day or 2.5 mg, so he said he was going to fax this new script, yesterday. I had no options, so again, said fine. I was totally exhausted by this again.
Then he called back about 15 minutes later and in a frantic tone, tells me, ** i cant, i cant do this taper, im not tapering anymore, its too much, and you're obviously unstable, and im leaving this with the psychiatrist to taper you,......im at risk.....stay on your 6 tabs until you see the psychiatrist.....**** , then im still upset, unstable? and trying to wrap my brain around what he just said, then ask ,is he faxing in anymore scripts, like whatever he said previously? He says he faxed in whatever script, not really being clear, and said you will be taking 6 a day, etc.
So i called the pharmacy this morning, found out the script he faxed in was for 6 tabs a day, but only 112 to last for 30 days? And then also telling the pharmacist to make sure i only take 5 tabs most of the days in that month......wtH??? They're 0.5 mg tabs she said, i said hes been screwing me up since last July. Hes got no idea hes doing at all. He doesn't. The way he spoke to me , even though im a little messed up myself at the moment, it seriously sounds like hes discombobulated and screwed up himself.
Ill try to get back on here later, just wanted to update you all.
Edit... Made quite a few changes on this post as I was a little overwhelmed when i wrote it. I posted my rough idea of a plan on the ..plan your taper board.
