Posted by concerneddude on May 11, 2005, at 20:06:06
My wife had a bout of pleurisy. She was prescribed Oxycontin and Oxycodone. Also with in the same time, give or take a month she was started on Xanax for anxiety and panic attacks.
Her pleurisy is gone but she still feels pain. Except for the one period where she worked her self off the Oxy's she has continually had to take higher and higher doses of them.
Also she has run out of her Xanax early once and get's very high strung that something might go wrong and she might run out.
She said that she is still having problems sleeping and that the psychiatrist said she could take benydryl
Lately she has started slurring her speech 5 out of 7 nights a week and her eyelids also droop. It's almost as if she is drunk.
She previously self medicated w/ alcohol and spend the better part of a month in treatment and in a MICA outpatient program.
She get's very defense when ever we discuss the meds, even when she first started. Which appears to be addict behavior based on the experiences I had w/ the alcohol before.
In the evenings now, if she isn't all sleepy and slurring she is agressive. She did something recently which reminded me exactly of the alcohol incidents. After I fall asleep she starts yelling and screaming at me.
Another thing of interest is before when the alcohol abuse started to beging to get worse she had a period of high sexual arousal. That has happened now too.
If I try to talk to one of her doctors they will tell her I spoke to them and my life at home will be a living hell. I don't know which is worse dealing w/ the addicition or dealing w/ the fallout when I try to make sure all is well and get her help if she needs it.
I have 2 children in the household and my job has been very supportive over the years but I fear if another episode occurs that it will stop.
Am I blowing this out of proportion for my own fears or am I witnessing a new addiction?
She tends not to tell Drs she was inpatient because she says she gets treated differently and a few phsycologists and psychiatrists refused to see her.
Thanks,
Concerned and scared
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