I was wondering if Seroquel can cause brain damage such as tardive dyskinesia. I fear that I have been given a Hobson's choice when it comes to medication. Take it or lose your job...
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Polyrhythmia wrote:> I was wondering if Seroquel can cause brain damage such as tardive> dyskinesia. I fear that I have been given a Hobson's choice when it comes> to medication. Take it or lose your job...
Its not in the family of traditional phenothiazines that I can tell...*but* it is basically a neuroleptic. Synonyms for neuroleptic are antipsychotic, traquilizer (heavy duty ones)and FTMP "psychotropic" (heavy duty again). Neuroleptics are dangerous/block nervous system/destroying it. Seroquel is most commonly referred to as a "psychotropic" and not always listed in a list of neuroleptic drugs. Anyhow, neuroleptics are "institution" drugs. They are also used to put polar bears and savannah creatures to sleep for ear tagging IIRC as well.
Seroquel DOES produce tardive dyskinesia...permanent damage at that. So...if you take "tranquilizer darts" long enough, they'll cause major problems yes.
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The V person 14 January 2005 21:02:13 [ permanent link ]
"Polyrhythmia" <daveleaf@LISCO.com> wrote in message news:41e76780$1_2@127.0.0.1...>I was wondering if Seroquel can cause brain damage such as tardive >dyskinesia. I fear that I have been given a Hobson's choice when it comes >to medication. Take it or lose your job...
I don't see how an employer can enforce something as you describe, it strikes me as being illegal.
Polyrhythmia 15 January 2005 10:31:09 [ permanent link ]
Just the thought of having to take meds, which I never had to take before, has me very upset. I am not at all happy about being forced to take Seroquel. I am going to refuse to take it, and going to look for another psych. and when the house is finally sold, look for another job. As the brain is one of the few things I have going for me, I hate to mess it up with such drugs. Managing the situation would have been a far better way to deal with the melting down. So many people put blind faith in what doctors say. Right now, I am in a quandary. I feel trapped. Yep, it's a small company, and basically, the management refuses to believe that I could be autistic. You know the stereotypes, the nonverbal, rocking, *child*. And the thought of losing control over my own life has me really feeling, um, paranoid. But I am sure not psychotic. I am ready to give up this job if that's what it takes to get back my self-determination. DAVE.
"Polyrhythmia" <daveleaf@LISCO.com> wrote in message news:41e76780$1_2@127.0.0.1...> I was wondering if Seroquel can cause brain damage such as tardive> dyskinesia. I fear that I have been given a Hobson's choice when it comes> to medication. Take it or lose your job...> Here is another article about antipsychotics, which discusses their side-effects. If I was on seroquel my main worry would be that I was too sedated to work. Why do you need to take it anyway?
"Polyrhythmia" <daveleaf@LISCO.com> wrote in message news:41e816b4$1_2@127.0.0.1...> I think I may have to do the "buy and lie" approach. There is nothing that> says if I buy the drug that I have to take it, and truthfully the psych> won't know if I have been or not. I just hate the idea of being forced to> take a drug that can cause brain damage. And then there is the cost of the> drugs.
If you're going to do this, why not ask for something cheap and nasty ie one of the old drugs.
I was forced to take seroquel for over 3 months. The doctors told me it would give me a 'natural sleep'. I was getting 0 to 2 hours of sleep at night while being on seroquel. I specifically asked the doctor to let me take trazadone, a pill I came in with, she refused. I asked for Ambien that I came in on, she refused. I told her to change my medication so I could sleep or let me out of their stinking mental hospital, she refused. It was then that the doctor told my family to start looking for a state mental hospital. All the idiot doctor had to do was to prescribe a sleeping pill for me and she refused to do it. I have lost my job, health insurance, my life savings over the past 6 years because of what the Prairie View doctors did to me. Other doctors followed suit and put me on anti-psychotics. I was just depressed and could not sleep AT ALL. I didn't know what the pill was when it was first given to me, I was just told to TAKE IT!!! I read an internet newspaper article today that the same facility I was at forced a 3 year old girl to take serequel, and it killed her. I am intensely angry at those doctors forcing me to take serequel, because it didn't work at all for sleep. I have lost everything because of it. I was told to go to therapists to 'talk it out" all she told me was that I was feeling sorry for myself for losing my job and that the doctor 'knew' what she was doing. I am adimant that the doctor didn't have a clue to what she was doing. I have come to believe it is a standard medication that they like to prescribe, because the out-patient doctor liked it too! I finally thru a two year old tantrum and absolutely refused to keep taking it. That's when the second doctor finally took me off seroquel and allowed me to take trazadone again, which wasn't perfect for sleep, but was certainly better than getting no sleep at all with serequel. After I lost all insurance, job, savings, another doctor put me on Klonazapam, and I actually get 8 hours of sleep at night. Why it took "smart" doctors 3 months to finally come up with a pill that works for me, I'll never know, and I'll never forgive them. All I can do is complain, and if it keeps one other person from losing everything they had because of it, it's worth it. This happened in 2003 to me, and I have not been able to find good work since. After I lost my job, a doctor finally came up with Klonazapam, and now I can successfully drive my car across town and sleep. The doctor at Prairie View told me that I was 'used to' not getting any sleep (in other words, just get used to it). She claimed that no doctor could prescribe medications for sleep. She was so wrong. I'll always regret the day I stepped foot into Prairie View in Newton, Kansas. They are the absolute worst. They actually pinned me down on the bed one night and gave me a shot in my ass, because I had been on the phone talking to my cousin, and hadn't come to the counter for my medications yet. I have never been so mistreated in my life than when I was at Prairie View. Tell everyone you know to get a different doctor if your pills don't start working within a few days to a week. I was forced to stay at Prairie View for 3 weeks, and their serequel never even began to simulate sleep. Then I was contined to be forced to take serequel by a different doctor in out-patient, and he continued to force me to take it, for a total of 3 months or more. It has ruined me financially, it has ruined my career. When I die, just pour a bottle of serequel over my grave, and tell the stinking doctors that they finally 'won'.
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