HTT are handing me over

[EnpoTree]

Woop! Just got a call asking if I wanted to be visited today (er, no, ta) and telling me that they're about to call CMHT to hand me over to them. Finally getting off this daily checking up soon I hope

I wish DP would come home, I'm dying to get my paws on the quiche.

No, I know some people with british medical degrees other than MBBS, but I didn't think any non-british schools called it that?

(this chap was perfect example of why the lazy and unambitious should be screened out more effectively at stage of applying to med school, he was there because he couldn't get a job anywhere else)

Ooh, branded medicine. "Lyrica". Sounds expensive. I haven't felt this fancy since I took Lamictal before it went off patent which apparently cost thousands of pounds a year

Love free bnf access. Gone but not forgotten.

Yeah, where people have to start is not really anything the patient should have to think about

It is expensive, it 'a around £70/month.

I wasn't being horrible, he didn't know ANYTHING. Suppose have been spoiled by people who are much more passionate about their careers and have had a long standing interest in the subject.

because you're worth it enpo

talking of prices, chlorpromazine is unlikely subject of price gouging in US at the moment, $hundreds or thousands a month

CHLORPROMAZINE of all things

For chlorpromazine?? The world has gone mad.

(I loved that stuff when I had no idea what it was doing longer term or why I was really taking it used to tell everyone how 'nice and creamy' it made me feel!)

they use it in prisons a lot because, instead of seroquel, abuse I think

£70 a month sounds pretty cheap to me. Once you factor in prescibing, dispensing, whatever, it's not so important short-term.

Lamictal was über-pricey for the first year or so I was on it though.

Seroquel has HUGE abuse potential. We have to be so careful when prescribing it to some patients. Never had chlorpromazine so can't comment but I always imagine it to be as unpleasant as haloperidol.

Does chlorpromazine feel anything like stelazine?

I think it's around £70, I'll double check tomorrow.

nah, it's nice

well I thought so until I came out of hospital about a year later and on the way to doubling in size

had an awesome tan tho

I wish I'd known you could get high apart from your blood sugar on seroquel

It's alright, I have one last day of BNF access; your figure seems about right, or maybe a littlw high, depending on dosage.

Behold my amazing memory for crap facts!

haloperidol I had with lithium in the v early days (which am sure is BAD) and couldn't talk, my lower jaw would just sort of shift from side to side and slurring noises came out

no wonder my children have almost all got severe mental problems (yeah, nothing to do with ME of course not)

have tried stelazine too, and risperidone, and the evil olanzapine of course (like quetiapine today, EVERYONE was on it be they depressed manic otherwise psychotic or just sad) can't really remember what they were like, olanzapine I remember the weird lemony taste of it dissolving in my mouth

but anyway I liked chlorpromazine when I had become unwell

Can I join in to say glad it went ok enpo.

I didn't mind risperidone but hated olanzapine with an all-consuming passion.

you can't get high on it really can you? but is nice with cocaine

I randomly took 300mg of it a couple of months ago and was walking around in a total daze for about 24 hrs yet once upon a time was on 600-800mg a day

as an actual anti-psychotic it is arguably shit but seems to be one of those drugs that has sought out other conditions to treat instead

I take 800mg quetiapine a day with no sleepiness whatsoever. I do doubt how much good it's doing me but whatever.