Medications are an essential part of treatment for mental disorders. But medications have uncomfortable side effects and can interact badly with other drugs.
Your doctor doesn’t always know of these right off the top of his head. It’s up to you to take charge of your medications to make sure that your medications aren’t making you sicker!
You need to know everything you can about your medications, including what their common and dangerous side effects are, and if you take more than one drug, whether they interact negatively.
If you see more than one doctor, and it’s probable that you do, each one can prescribe medications without taking into account what the others have prescribed if you do not make it your responsibility to ask questions.
And each drug has side effects that indicate that something is going wrong. If you take multiple medications, what is a dangerous side effect for one may be a normal side effect for another. You need to know this information!
In this post I’m going to show you how to:
- Find online information about your medications
- Note each medication’s side effects and drug interactions
- Build a data sheet to take with you to your doctor’s appointments
- Talk to your doctor about your medications
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The cost of prescription medications is sky high and going higher. Many fixed- and low-income people find it an increasingly difficult task to pay for the medications they need to stay healthy. In many cases, it’s a choice between medicine and other necessities, such as food and heat.
If you find yourself or someone you know in this situation, there is help available to provide medications at no cost or low cost. This article discusses the following topics:
- Eligibility for prescription help
- Online assistance with prescription medications from the pharmaceutical companies
- Assistance with prescription medications from the pharmaceutical companies by telephone
- Medicare Rx extra help
- The State Health Insurance Assistance Program (SHIP)
- Samples from your doctor
- Reducing the cost: Mail-order and online medications
- Reducing the cost: Comparisons of pharmacy costs
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Drug Costs,
Low-Income,
Mail-Order,
Medications,
Pharmacy
This has been an interesting week here at Anxiety Central.
