Purposes:Fasciculations, Anxious mood, and demylinating neuropathy in legs(Started May 07, 1998)
Date
Dosage
Fasciculations
Perceived effectiveness
Anxious mood
Perceived effectiveness
demylinating neuropathy in legs
Perceived effectiveness
Side Effects
Adherence
Burden
Feb 01, 2010
As needed
Side effects:
Frustration, Exhaustion, Fatigue
Date
Feb 01, 2010
Advice & Tips
This drug often causes fatigue but it does well to help with the neuopathy, anxiety, and PTSD. I have now been on it for so long it has become second nature to take it. I take 30+medications per day, so I am not going to get the all list here. I also suffer from severe degenerative arthritis of the spine along with narrowing and neuopathy of the spine. Just to many things to list.
Purposes:Increase effect of another treatment and Anxious mood(Started Feb 15, 2009)
Date
Dosage
Increase effect of another treatment
Perceived effectiveness
Anxious mood
Perceived effectiveness
Side Effects
Adherence
Burden
May 29, 2009
1 mg
Daily
Slight
Slight
None
Usually
Not at all
Mar 25, 2009
As needed
Moderate
Major
None
Sometimes
Not at all
Date
Mar 25, 2009
Advice & Tips
In my opinion this medication is for short term use only, perhaps while going through difficult stages in your therapy. I think using it for years scares me & makes me scared of the thought of needing it for that long. In my treatment plan I've had to create myself (while being bounced around from doctor to doctor in the public health system) In the past 2 years of battling this illness (chronic PTSD) Therapy & Life Changes are the only way to fully recover. And of course these are the hardest solutions to stick with while dealing with very complex problems. Just my thoughts....