Posted by katekite on April 14, 2002, at 14:41:28
In reply to remeron and diazepam, posted by gregm2 on April 14, 2002, at 9:07:40
Hi,
Your father sounds pretty complicated. I guess I would have to recommend not paying too much attention to long distance opinions. It sounds like a neurologist is the right place to be, perhaps you could get one or two more neurologists as second and third opinions. Lastly if you have any specialty psychopharmacologists in the area that would be another specialist to consider seeing. Entering psych world is like going to a foreign country: always ask directions from three different people.
Another thing to do might be to ask for a new set of testing: there are good (and expensive, probably) cognitive function, memory and 'personality' (more like variety of depression test) tests, screening for anything that may have subtly changed over the last year.
Also, since he's been on this combination for so long and just now experiencing more anxiety, is there any chance he has started to eat anything different with his pills, changed the timing, or anything different that could affect absorbtion or metabolism? For example a stomach bug a few weeks back, anything like that? There's always the chance of a separate medical condition coming into play, make sure he's had a recent physical, that his blood pressure is the same as always, etc.
Good luck. Hope he feels better soon.
kate
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