gizmo Posted December 24, 2009 Share Posted December 24, 2009 I was reading an article about Brittany Murphy's death - http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,581022,00.html and it was talking about all the mental medications she allegedly had in her house at the time of her death. The article talked about polypharmacy and interacting medications. It just made me wonder if anyone else worries about getting prescriptions from multiple doctors... I mean, you have your pdoc, and then you have your GP... but then you may have a specialist you go to. And goodness knows I've found out how unknowledgeable the GP and the specialist may be about mental meds and the interactions they have with traditional meds. And even though you tell each doctor the meds you take, they can (and do) still prescribe you a drug that might have a negative interaction with meds you are already on. So has anyone else thought about an overmedicated situation? And what do you do about it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
helenllama Posted December 24, 2009 Share Posted December 24, 2009 My psychiatrist tends to put in writing something to the GP Then the GP prescribes for me on their system. And any poss interaction will come up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
celestia Posted December 24, 2009 Share Posted December 24, 2009 I run my meds through the drug interaction calculator. I'm now down to a manageable 5. I don't trust anyone else to monitor possible interactions. And my CRNP knows all the meds I'm on regardless of who is rx'ing them. They ask me everytime I go in if there is a change to any of my meds or any new meds. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
recoverymouse Posted December 24, 2009 Share Posted December 24, 2009 from the NY Daily News: "The drugs included the anti-seizure medicationTopamax, anti-anxiety medicationsKlonopinandAtivan, pain relieversVicoprofenand hydrocodone, depression medication Fluoxetine and hypertension medicationPropranolol, TMZ reported." re Murphy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crtclms Posted December 24, 2009 Share Posted December 24, 2009 Is it clear those were all prescribed to her, and not some of them to her husband? And I have a very similar medicine cabinet, frankly. Except for the painkillers (damn my fucking neurologist). It sounds like she may have been bipolar and a migraineur. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
recoverymouse Posted December 24, 2009 Share Posted December 24, 2009 the coronor's report said the bottles they found at the scene were all in her name. my first reaction was "that looks like it could be somebody's signature on crazyboards"! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lostinthoughtandjaded Posted December 24, 2009 Share Posted December 24, 2009 yeah, those were my exact thoughts too... I'm like, "hmmm... 1 anticonvulsant, 2 anti-anxiety drugs, 1 anti-depressant, hypertension medication and painkillers.... wow, take out the hypertension med you have precisely what's in my medicine drawer......" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alien. Posted December 24, 2009 Share Posted December 24, 2009 My brain is elsewhere, sorry.. so, I'm just gonna give a simple answer.. and if I may, embellish when I'm feeling a little "more myself". I'm really knackered at the moment. Flouxetine doesn't interact with a great deal of other medications, (I shouldn't take NSAIDs but I still take ibuprofen and I've never had any problems?! I didn't know it would "interact", so I continued with the usual pain-killers/anti-depressants (not for the same thing!) and thought nothing of it. One day, when re-reading the little pamphlet inside the prescription box, I found it advised me not to take NSAIDs... There's obviously a chemical/scientific reason for that, and if anyone likes, I'll dig it up for them. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antidepressant ... urgh Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MelancholyBunny Posted December 25, 2009 Share Posted December 25, 2009 the coronor's report said the bottles they found at the scene were all in her name. my first reaction was "that looks like it could be somebody's signature on crazyboards"! I know! That's exactly what I thought! And a whole bunch of it is stuff in my own bedside drawers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
liveoak Posted December 26, 2009 Share Posted December 26, 2009 someone asked what you do about docs prescribing meds that might interact. There are sites online where you can check for interactions yourself. I don't remember the sites. let me go look. http://www.drugs.com/drug_interactions.php Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kdbee Posted December 31, 2009 Share Posted December 31, 2009 It just made me wonder if anyone else worries about getting prescriptions from multiple doctors... I mean, you have your pdoc, and then you have your GP... but then you may have a specialist you go to. And goodness knows I've found out how unknowledgeable the GP and the specialist may be about mental meds and the interactions they have with traditional meds. And even though you tell each doctor the meds you take, they can (and do) still prescribe you a drug that might have a negative interaction with meds you are already on. So has anyone else thought about an overmedicated situation? And what do you do about it? Anytime I go to a doc that isn't my Pdoc obviously I tell them what drugs i'm on. If they were to prescribe anything for me I wouldn't take it until first checking for interactions myself and then calling my Pdoc. I wouldn't trust just checking the interactions myself because whatever drug combo i'm on always has at least one, usu more, interactions. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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