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[invalidusername]

I need some Valium here! Used all mine at the hospital and am in the middle of a massive anxiety attack - 48 minutes and still going...

[invalidusername]

Hospital is 20 miles away and there would be huge queues to be seen! I am trying to get past this on my own.

 

I am not surprised it has occurred after 2 hospital visits, 1 doctor visit, 2 blood tests and 3 sleepless nights all in the space of a week. It was inevitable.

 

Thank you for your concern NM...

[fishinghat]

NM, I assume you know that valium is very addictive and has a nasty withdrawal of its own. My psych clinic will no longer prescribe a benzo unless they try hydroxyzine first for sleep. Very good for anxiety as well as sleep. Not addictive and no withdrawal. You might consider it.

[invalidusername]

Thank you NM. The prescription is at the Doc's so I can collect tomorrow, but hoping things will have calmed down a bit by then. 

 

Indeed benzos are addictive and really wouldn't want to be one to try a withdrawal from them. Aside from the hospital visits, I barely touch the stuff, but when the wife runs out, she uses my supply rather than sorting her own prescription.. grrrrr.

[invalidusername]

I don’t want to see any member of the mental health profession again to be honest. Not the most helpful bunch here in the UK.

 

Don't get me started. My thread is littered with issues because of the mental health team here in the UK. The even took my duloxetine beads away from me to get me to quit cold turkey from 10mg. Angry doesn't even come close.

[invalidusername]

I don't understand why they are so bad on a national scale. I thought it was just my area until I spoke to others and saw the reviews. 

 

I have calmed a little - around 40% I'd say. Just very sensitised nerves. Just like with noise when there is the smallest thing that will set you off, but for me it is my body and I can't put earplugs in to ignore that!!

[invalidusername]

I was flagged straight away as the first doctor I saw told me to go cold turkey off the Dulox, and I was telling him I didn't want to. He told me the reason for my seizures was because I had not quite them, whereas I was trying to show him the PIL which clearly states that seizures are a part of withdrawal. This led to my beads being taken, so I made a complaint through PALS. After that I have been treated like a piece of sh*t. But from what I gather, that wouldn't have made much of a difference to the treatment I have been given.

 

and....

 

breathe... 2, 3, 4

[fishinghat]

Studies have shown that American drs are one of the groups with the highest use of antidepressants and benzos.

[invalidusername]

NM - a fascinating theory....

 

Hat - what do American p-docs know that we don't?!

 

Going for a bit of a stroll and hope that my brain will behave itself...

[fishinghat]

Mothing IUN. I have spoke to a few of my personal drs and they say that drs often take a couple months off to address their drug usage problems. They suffer too.

[invalidusername]

I'm not surprised! The p-docs over there sound so much better. 

 

As NM said, if the NHS weren't paying those over here, it would be a different ball game. 

 

My great uncle was a doctor when the NHS was set up and he said all those years ago, "mark my words, the NHS will never work". He was right, It never has and it is only a matter of time before it becomes privitised. 

[invalidusername]

Hi NM - sorry to hear that you are enduring issues with your neighbour - such bad luck that your bedroom joins onto the kitchen. I have upstairs neighbours that walk in shoes and have hardwood floors. Fortunately they are not there too often, but when they are, my goodness!

 

Regarding the earplugs, my wife has found Moldex to be very useful;

 

https://www.amazon.c.../dp/B007Q9FAVC/

 

The contour ones are much more comfortable. You squash them between your fingers, put them in your ear and they expand. They might feel odd for the first couple of nights, but you do get used to them. I would also advise changing to a new pair every couple of weeks to avoid infection in the ear. Keep them in a little box or jar when not in use. Do not wash them as they soak the water up and loose their expanding properties!

 

If you are desperate for sleep tonight, find a motorbike shop locally - they will have some as bikers use Moldex all the time to keep the noise of their bikes down.

[fishinghat]

Not myself, good to hear from you. I know Amazon sells sound absorbing blankets that can be mounted on the walls to reduce incoming as well as outgoing sound. I am afraid these may be a little expensive for you but you might check them out.

[invalidusername]

Good suggestion with the blankets. Most noise insulation only works "the kitchen" side as it needs to absorb the sound before it reaches the wall. When it reaches the wall, the noise has already been created, so you need to absorb a different kind of frequency the bedroom side which takes a completely different material.

 

Best solution is to speak to your neighbour, but I know that is not an easy option. My continued sympathies.

[invalidusername]

Yeah - come join me down in the South! You'll start to speak too fast and complain about the immigration a lot more

 

I am sure the plugs will work well for you for now. When you get them, roll each plug into a long thin sausage shape and push carefully into ear canal. If you have odd shape canals like me, you can pull the ear lobe to help ease them in place. 

 

Oh, and make sure you leave enough foam to pull them out again

[invalidusername]

Chin up, dear sausage.

 

It can't rain all the time...

[invalidusername]

That's for today - tomorrow you will be sugar-plum