Too Many Pills

[Bernard003]

I think eating too many pills can cause some bad reactions for our health.
We should avoid too much usage of the medications at the same time. We must go for some natural and herbal remedies to treat some of our weaknesses.

 

[Anglesachse]

Maybe I missed an Intro, but I am pretty sure I didn`t

Rodluf555 How about an Introduction in the Intros sect. I haven`t seen one from you yet and after 4 posts it would be courteous, Especially if giving out Helpful info.

Supprised no one else has said anything.

 

[Jimmy1]

Maybe I missed an Intro, but I am pretty sure I didn`t

Rodluf555 How about an Introduction in the Intros sect. I haven`t seen one from you yet and after 4 posts it would be courteous, Especially if giving out Helpful info.

Supprised no one else has said anything.

Angle, I have already asked and PM'd him, if he continues to ignore I am going to splinter.

 

[vikingr12]

For the record, I tried some herbals and some do help but not like prescribed stuff. PTSD is just too damned unpredictable and there are times when you need to settle down Now.

 

[Bernard003]

I think eating too many pills can cause some bad reactions for our health.
We should avoid too much usage of the medications at the same time. We must go for some natural and herbal remedies to treat some of our weaknesses.

Any comment?

 

[COIN 20Golf]

Hi guys, I'm a UK serving soldier having been diagnosed with PTSD following several tours in AFG and Iraq since 2001. Last tour was frontline Helmand "green zone" 2012 and i'm struggling even after 2 hospital admissions and numerous med changes. Currently in hospital now but its a civvy hospital unlike you guys over in the US with VA access/help. The nurses and doctors want me to talk about things that happened out there but they don't understand. THEY DON'T UNDERSTAND THE EMOTIONS THAT WON'T STOP! They are civilians and they just walk past me as i flashback to some shitty maize field or something else triggers me to dissociate. I've been doing a lot of reading of this and other forums and the US DoD seems so far ahead of the UK in terms of treatment and even accepting vets with PTSD. It's an embarrassment here within our Military. Nobody wants to be broken so you hide it but then BANG, it's no longer a controllable beast and they smash me with EMDR (made it worse) and CBT (i don't engage apparently) so i'm left with masses of meds and after any feedback on any experience you may have had.
Currently daily doses are:
Quitiapene/Seroquel 500mg
Trazodone (AD) 300mg night
Agomelatine (AD) 25mg night
Prazosin (Hypertension which i don't have but has good US VA results to stop nightmares) 25mg night
Tamazepam 30mg night (changed recently to Nitrazepam)
Nitrazapam 15mg night has now replaced Tamazepam

I'm taking 15 tablets a day and i still feel anger, frustration, guilt at making it home and i'm triggered constantly yet i'm on such a lot of meds! What else will help? Reading these forums help me understand my feelings are normal but i feel alone, isolated and stuck in a hospital where nobody understands me.
I lost friends KIA, LNs died in my AO through our/ISAF inaction and leaving it to the ANA/AUP to deal with and I cannot see what good we did. We fought to get home, nothing more!
I'm angry now and have hidden in my garden for the past 15 months whilst my wife and daughter got on with their lives without me and i hate not being able to get involved but the stress anxiety and frustration gets too much.

Best quotes were my wife saying "it was like i never came home from Helmand" and "what happened out there - you are an animal".
Last quote 3 mths ago "I DON'T KNOW WHO YOU ARE - OUR MARRIAGE IS OVER!"

I fought out there just to make it home. Nothing else mattered - nice house, fast cars, nothing - just being with my wife and daughter but she cannot see it and now i'm afraid once i leave hospital i will have lost everything that mattered and kept me going out there...
I'm waiting to be Med discharged just to rub salt into the wounds.

Where the f*ck is the hope???

 

[JarHed]

Hey Coin

Sorry to hear of your predicament Mate. It just seems like you're on way too many drugs and from what you're saying it's not helping.

It sounds like you're being pulled in a dozen different directions at once. Just try to take it one day at a time, sometimes, one hour at a time. Try to think of the single most important thing that you'd like to accomplish right now and work towards that.

You're still you but a different you. You can't be the same after what you've experienced, that will take time to sort out. Try to get with a good psychologist that you can really talk to about what's going on. Also, it's just as hard for you wife and daughter, to them you are a different person. The beginning of it all is the toughest time of all. I can and does get better with time but it takes time.

This is a good place, safe with great people and a ton of info. We'll help in any way we can. My thoughts and prayers are with you.

JarHed

P.S. Welcome to the forums.

 

[COIN 20Golf]

Hey Coin

Sorry to hear of your predicament Mate. It just seems like you're on way too many drugs and from what you're saying it's not helping.

It sounds like you're being pulled in a dozen different directions at once. Just try to take it one day at a time, sometimes, one hour at a time. Try to think of the single most important thing that you'd like to accomplish right now and work towards that.

You're still you but a different you. You can't be the same after what you've experienced, that will take time to sort out. Try to get with a good psychologist that you can really talk to about what's going on. Also, it's just as hard for you wife and daughter, to them you are a different person. The beginning of it all is the toughest time of all. I can and does get better with time but it takes time.

This is a good place, safe with great people and a ton of info. We'll help in any way we can. My thoughts and prayers are with you.

JarHed

P.S. Welcome to the forums.

Thanks JarHed, your words help and just knowing that others on the forum know how lonely & isolating this situation feels encouraging. Little steps I guess, day by day.

COIN

 

[Anglesachse]

Hi guys, I'm a UK serving soldier................Where the f*ck is the hope???

Coin mate, I have put your post in the Intros sect.