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Anti-psychotics to treat BIID?
Written by Sean on Thursday, August 28, 2008
As I said in a recent post, I went to see a psychiatrist, and he basically said he couldn’t help me with BIID. We discussed some help with depression, and he suggested that I might want to try a couse of anti-psychotics to appease the "BIID demons". I’m not particularly keen on trying yet another course of medication, but I’ll probably do it nonetheless.
We know that BIID is not a psychosis, nor is it dellusional. So why would we use an anti-psychotic to treat it? That was my question.
The doctor said that anti-psychotic medication is routinely used to treat other conditions than psychosis. Apparently it’s used to treat some personality disorders, some neurological disorders and severe chronic pain. Heck, it’s even used in some cases to treat severe cases of hiccups!!! He admitted that he had no idea if it would help reduce the anguish caused by BIID, but that he thought it was worth a try.
He did not say "Sean, you’re going to do this", he made a suggestion and asked me to consider.
And I am considering it. I meet him again in three weeks, at which time we shall discuss it a bit more. I absolutely do not believe that it will make one iota of difference. But at this point, I also believe that I will try it.
Why would I try it when I don’t think it would work and I have concerns about side-effects? Simple: I don’t want anyone to be able to accuse me of not having tried everything possible to resolve BIID.
I don’t like being a guinea pig, but whether I like it or not, the fact of the matter is, our generation is one doomed to be tested on. And if I can be part of showing that nothing short of surgery really helps with BIID, then, I will have done something worthwhile with my life. And if the experiment shows that it *does* work, then, I will also have done something worthwhile with my life, and I will not be affected so much by BIID!
When the meds are shown not to work, however, I foresee some unhappiness on my part. I don’t believe it’ll help, but there is always the hope it will, somehow, and when I’m proven right, another bit of hope evaporates into thin air.
Stay tuned, I’ll report when I’ve started on the blasted things!
Tags: BIID, Medication, Psychiatrist
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Be careful! Please! Anti-psychotics are the heavy hitters of the psychotropic world. There can be very bad side effects. Before you even get the Rx filled, research all you can on what you’ve been prescribed.
Don’t sacrifice your health just to prove you went down every avenue.
Just sayin.
3 On 28 August, 2008, Sean said:
Hey Jen, Yes, I’ll be careful. I’ve already researched the proposed medication and have a long list of questions for the shrink when I meet him in a few days. Amongst which is “how long before a result should be seen?”.
4 On 28 August, 2008, Sophie said:
I’ll be thinking of you Sean :)
If the psychiatrist finds some way of helping you please let him know your not the only transabled person in the area, it kills me that I know I can’t trust my doctor with my secret.
Wow, Sean… I second what Jen said. I think I wouldn’t do it because of the side-effects, but then I am very prone to getting all sorts of them. Maybe you’re a bit more “robust” than me.
Please be very, very careful.
Anyway, I’ll keep my fingers crossed.
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1 On 28 August, 2008, Katie said:
Courage! I know the more you try to fight a condition, the less you believe in any new medication, treatments… I see that with a close friend to has been trying to get rid of her backpains for 25 years now. Yet lately she really seems to be on the mend, after going to a doctor who was working with NLP and physiotherapy. Both things together seemed to have made a difference. It was a course of several months though, but that doctor was the first one in all those years to really find out about the psychological component of her pain. He was more successful than the whole lot of psychologists who she had been to before…
Maybe you can bring yourself to giving him a chance to do you something good. I wish you all the best for it!