Thanks, I have my prescription now I'm just waiting for withdrawals to go away.

oh good!

Venlafaxine?

Desvenlafaxine because it allegedly has weaker withdrawals and I keep getting withdrawal symptoms after a manic episode.

Why prescribe something new to treat the symptoms of withdrawals from a psychotropic medication instead of ensuring you don’t experience withdrawl in the first place? What’s going on that you’re consistently unable to maintain a supply of your meds?

It's not to treat symptoms, it was a new medication that is basically the same thing as venlafaxine but with fewer symptoms. He never really suggests anything just says, "well that's weird, what do you want to do about it?" even when I collapsed last month.

I don't get a steady supply because the pharmacy keeps telling me the insurance needs approval from the psychiatrist and they always take a few days to do it instead of just approving it when they order my prescription.

This time the pharmacy lied to me and said they could override it, showed me a bottle of my prescription when I went to pick it up and told me they can't override it, then Weber Human Services told me they don't have the right brand and I have to get it from a different pharmacy.

It also didn't help that I scheduled a phone appointment last Tuesday ahead of time because I'm so used to this happening, but instead of doing it over the phone they scheduled it in person. So I rescheduled a phone appointment on Thursday and they scheduled it in person again. So I scheduled it for this Monday, after I'd be running out and made sure they put in the notes that it's an over the phone appointment.

Jesus, this has been years of them dicking you around now. What a useless system. My psychiatrist approves my scripts for 3 months at a time to avoid running out, after I had trouble with the pharmacy forcing me to get emergency supplies from the ER all the time due to their own internal communication issues. Is that something you could ask for? Don’t wait for the doc to be proactive on your behalf, in my experience they love when you do the problem solving for them and all they need to do is sign off on it.

If all else fails I’ll ****ing mail you my extras because these meds are only effective with consistent long term use.

These issues only started happening after moving to Ogden, and ironically they were talking **** on Valley Behavioral when I first transfered.

I usually do 3 months but because of them not working like they used to it's been a month at a time as I try new things.

As of now, thanks to upgrading the Pristiq I'm now getting strong side effects because I went almost a week without.

Im pretty sure playing stop and go with my medication like this isn't good for me.

finally after nearly two months of artistic stagnation I've created a full blown song.

It's been a long time, but I'm coming back home