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Future Irene Adler
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For people not prone to seizures, why would this drug be prescribed when there are others available, like Alprazolam, to relieve anxiety?
What would be the reason, if one had anxiety, that a doctor would "up" the drug. If a person needed an aide to mellow out, why would they need a potent anticonvulsant along with it when they had never convulsed before? Is there a particular reason a Doctor would prescribe this drug to a middle aged woman who, understandably so, was having anxiety AND taking Lexapro to fight depression, if the drug is a known trigger of depression? Makes no sense to me why CA would have this particular drug in combination with the others prescribed to her.
That said, if it had not been documented that KC had suffered a seizure in 2007, I could give a rats arse what CA is taking. I'm suspicious that an anti-convulsant is among the drugs found in the home. Could CA be prone to seizures as well as KC?
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I wouldn't read anything into this.
I've been on Klonopin, myself, for migraine prophylaxis. It is often prescribed, for that. It can trigger depression in SOME people. Others do JUST fine on it.
A LOT of drugs have multiple uses, other than the ones for which they were created. And, drugs work differently on different people. For instance, some people can't take ANY benzodiazepine for anxiety. They have to use other drugs.
Beta adrenergic inhibitors, for instance, are used mainly for hypertension. However, they are also used for anxiety, stage-fright, and migraine prophylaxis.
Calcium channel blockers are also used for hypertension and migraine.
Elevil is an anti-depressant. However, it's also prescribed for chronic pain.
Some anti-depressants are prescribed for anxiety. There's one has been used for obsessive compulsive disorder
In fact, antidepressants were discovered serendipitously as a result of ANTIHISTAMINE research.
In addition, many people have a few different drugs in their drug cabinet, because the doctor may have had to try a few before finding the right one. Many drugs have to be "titrated" up or down before the right dosage is found. Antidepressants are ONE example of this. Antihypertensives, anticonvulsants, and any psychotropic are others. There are dozens of others along the pharmaceutical spectrum.
If CA is on an anticonvulsant, that does not mean that she has a convulsive disorder. She may get migraines. They also may be the only drug that is effective for anxiety, for her.
That KC had ONE convulsion does not mean she has a convulsive disorder, either.
There are plenty of suspicious goings on, in that family. But, I see nothing suspicious, whatever, in CA's medicine cabinet.
And, I'm a nurse. I see plenty of medicine cabinet contents.