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Meds Compliance: Looking Beyond, Looking Ahead ...

Over the past two months, we have been discussing the vital issue of meds compliance. So, if we remain compliant we will get well, right? Not so fast. Last year, on my blog, Knowledge is Necessity, I ran a poll through the month of February. "How do you rate your meds in managing your illness?" I asked.Fifty percent responded that meds were their... Read moreChevron
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Meds Compliance: An Addendum

Someone close to me - let's call him Cortex -  had a brain which literally broke down on him. Poof! Up in a puff of smoke, just like that. It was as if his gray matter imploded, just like you see on The Discovery Channel with doomed Vegas hotels that have outlived their purpose. One minute, a standing structure. The next, a cloud of dust.Only... Read moreChevron
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Meds Compliance: Treating the Phantom Menace

Over the last six or seven weeks, we have focussed on the issue of meds compliance. This is a dialogue, a conversation, and thanks to you I am asking questions I never thought I'd find myself asking. Last week, for instance, in response to a comment by Donna, I queried whether in certain instances noncompliance or partial compliance could be... Read moreChevron
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Meds Compliance: Is Noncompliance an Option?

I never thought I would be writing this kind of piece, but one of my readers, Donna, put it right out there:My psychiatrist's opinion is if a certain med at a certain (high) dose is keeping me out of the hospital, then I should be content to take it and live with the unbearable side effects for the rest of my life. Which I have never... Read moreChevron
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Meds Compliance: Problem Meds

This is the fourth in my series on meds compliance. My last two posts looked at "The Problem Patient" and "The Problem Psychiatrist," respectively. Of course, if our meds worked the way the drug industry would have us believe, we would not be talking about problem patients or problem psychiatrists.Today, I received a email with this heading: "Ban... Read moreChevron

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