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[anonniemouse]

Please use this post for discussion of those contentious, murky, triggering issues too complex to discuss/moderate on the main post.

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Re: Peter Pandy

[(Anonymous)]

AYRT

Do you mind if I ask for a link? Because I tried searching for it, and I first came accross this post: http://andythanfiction.tumblr.com/post/88183520079/want-real-information-about-psychiatric-drugs , which couldn't be more weirdly appropriate, especially considering it was posted 10 months ago. But then I found this post: http://andythanfiction.tumblr.com/post/44287839715/19th-nervous-breakdown from "two years ago", which sent me straight into RAGE mode, so I don't think I want to go looking for more.

So, er, link please, if you have one?

Re: Peter Pandy

[(Anonymous)]

http://andythanfiction.tumblr.com/post/50940433420/is-there-a-horseman-in-town

So, in trying to find assistance with/stretch my meds until my health insurance for new job kicks in, I’ve recently gone to an off-brand version of Seroquel. And in the past few days, I have started having the most overwhelming, extreme urges to absolutely binge on carbs. I’m not talking increased appetite…that’s remained stable.

[Bullshit continues for another few paragraphs]

Technically this would not be Seroquel proper since he's taking a generic version, but Seroquel is just a brand/trade name. The actual drug's name is quetiapine, and the generic version should (in theory) be identical to the original.

Re: Peter Pandy

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, there can be slight variations in the mix, but unless you have allergies to any of the fillers, the side-effects of quetiapine will be the same.

Re: Peter Pandy

[(Anonymous)]

AYRT

Thank you! And yeah, I know about generic versions: it's compulsory to use them when available in my country, except for a handful of meds where it's been determined through experience that somehow changing from the brand name to the generic has an actual negative influence on the patients (like my Levothyrox, for example). If you insist on taking the brand name anyway, then the difference in price between the generic and the brand name is on you (ie. it cannot be reimbursed by the state Social Security).

About the rest of the post:

1. Let me roll my eyes at how he describes carb cravings as though they were something nobody else ever had experienced. Even Andy Blake's completely common carb cravings are Speshul Carb-Craving Snowflakes.

2. It makes me angry the way he badmouthes the hotline nurse he supposedly called for help:

I have never had anything remotely like this. This is not a “relapse” or an “episode” (thank you hotline nurse for assuming I’m lying about that ) of an eating disorder because I’ve never had one.

So sorry, poor baby, that the hotline nurse tried to DO HER JOB. People lie all the time about having had an ED, and it often takes several times asking them before they admit to it. Checking to make damn sure that there isn't a history of ED even several years past is what she's supposed to do. But I suppose she should have been able to read Mr Snowflake's mind instead.

3. Mind you, this is the same person who is apparently *appalled* that common side-effects of meds should also apply to him:

I called the pharmacy and the service that’s helping me get the meds and all they say is that “significant weight gain is sometimes a side effect.” And it’s like…ok, no shit, Sherlock, if I gave in to this crap I’d blow up like a fucking Macy’s balloon, but WTF?!?

What "WTF?" ? Which part of "it makes you eat like Hell and gain tons of weight" doesn't he understand, exactly? And what does he expect anyone to do about a side-effect which greatly inconveniences everyone who experiences it, but so far nobody has been able to treat? It's like he thinks that they should find a solution *just for him*. Egocentric like woah.