Posted by refluxxrabbit on December 21, 2007, at 21:14:05
Hello this is my 1st post so I'd like to say greetings to those of you who've kept me interested enough with your posts to ask a question of my own.
After 16 years of heavy methamphetamine usage
I have come to the end of that dirt road a year and several months back. But alas, this drug has changed my entire outlook on the way I relate to certain people/places/things. After quitting my recreational drug usage, I began to suffer from several phobias that may have bad enough effects to see a Dr. or a shrink...The first time I noticed it was that every time the wife or friends invite me out to different occassions where I'd have to be around anyone I didnt know I'd do just short of anything to not go along.
My brother who's a highway patrolman termed my avoidance of public places to be agorophobia(<-?).
That or I'd turned part hermit crab. YukYuk!!Real funny. I asked him if he knows a good Doctor who treats whatever his hermit crab phobia he diagnosed me with, and he laughed at me and said to just get online and look up anxiety and phobia social situations.
His final tidbit of help was to shoot me a few .25mg Alprazolam for the night and the next morning.I took the pills at night and nothing happened. The next day the flea market was open and since I'd been avoiding public places I took 2 / .25mg Alprazolam tablets and 20 minutes later I was down at the market completely relaxed and for the most part not caring about what anyone was thinking about me. It lasted long enough to shop and I now need to seriously find a Doctor who takes Medi-Cal and wont try and put me on zoloft or prozac.
See my brother gets them for anxiety from stress incurred on the job. Not to mention CHP medical benifits plan hes under allows for alot of stuff my Medi-Cal coverage doesnt.
Is there a way to ask a doctor for a specific medicine without seeming pushy/rude/ect??
And I know the SSRI's are all theyve ever tried throwing at me for this affliction I've found myself dealing with.Any help will be appreciated . Cuzz I havent the foggiest notion on how to go about this...HELP?? please?
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