November 20, 2021 Dear Dr. Meyer: 60 tablets were ordered (coming in two bottles). The instructions are: Take 1 tab by mouth (25 mg) daily for 2 weeks, then take 2 tabs by mouth (50 mg) daily thereafter. I won't be able to get it tonight in any case. Let's see if my psychiatrist responds tomorrow, and then maybe you could try if he doesn't respond. Thank you so much, Nikola. On Sat, Nov 20, 2021 at 8:12 PM Ernst Meyer wrote: Dear Nikola, I tried unsuccessfully to telephone you. I don't know whether it is possible for me to comply with your request to telephone a prescription for 25 mg. tablets of lamotrigine, but I will try if you e-mail me or tell me by telephone the legend on the one bottle that you have in your possession. I need to know how many 25 mg. tablets were ordered, the number of refills directed, and the instructions on the bottle of how they should be taken. EJM On 11/20/2021 08:08 PM, Nikola Chubrich wrote: > Dear Dr. Meyer: > > I just discovered that one of my Lamotrigine (25mg) bottles is missing; > the other has only one pill left (I am supposed to take four tonight, > for a total of 100mg). I seem not able to find it. > > I called my psychiatrist (whom I increasingly dislike, but that's > neither here nor there) and didn't hear back. > > Would there be any way for you to call in a prescription? I am in Santa > Fe right now, near a Walgreens, whose phone number is: > > (505)-474-3507 > > I don't know if you can call out of state; otherwise you could call a > local Walgreens (albeit an open one) and I could try to have the > prescription transferred. > > It's a royal mess: the medication is dangerous to suddenly withdraw from > (as with nearly all psychiatric medications), and if I miss a day I have > to restart at a low dose because of Stevens-Johnson syndrome. > > If you are able to do this, please give me a call (I tried calling); and > if this is an inappropriate request, please forgive me for making it. > > Thanks, > > Nikola. November 21, 2021 16:00 Dear Nikola, My advice: Wait for your psychiatrist, ?Dr. Alpert, for help with the lamotrizine issue!!! Do NOT go to a nurse practitioner!!! Because of his/her inexperience you would be much more likely to be referred, ultimately for hospitalization. Do NOT discuss your psychiatric issues with the people on the ranch. Join them with whatever they are doing. Try to do whatever they expect of you. Keep in touch with me by e-mail and/or preferably by telephone. EJM On 11/21/2021 03:00 PM, Nikola Chubrich wrote: > It does appear that I ran out, rather than losing the bottle. I took one pill for fourteen days (approximately), two for fourteen days, and 4 for four days, which works out to 58 taken, out of a total of sixty divided into two bottles. > > I do have Topiramate 25mg, which is another anti-seizure medication. > > I haven't heard anything further from Dr. Eyerman. > > The pharmacist was unwilling (claiming unable owing to New Mexico law) to give me an emergency supply. She did encourage me to make an appointment at CVS's "Urgent Care" clinic, where a nurse practitioner could give me a refill. However, at this point I /do /worry about forcible hospitalization. It really depends on what sort of nurse-practitioner one ends up with. They are at least not a hospital, but they could easily call 911. > > I understand it was my responsibility to keep track of how much medication I had, but I would have appreciated it if Dr. Alpert had as well. > > I resent being a ward of this horrible medical system. This is yet another reason I do not want to be on medication. > > There is no compassion, no kindness, no reason in this system. It is, I think, a deadly system. It is one of the reasons why I do believe your assertion that the holocaust continues. Rather than gas chambers, we have a death by a thousand cuts. I certainly saw that happening to David Gonsalves; I see it happening to myself. Certainly I am far worse off than before my extensive context with the psychiatric system. I only became delusional once I was in Cambridge Hospital, and that happened, I think, because I was under such extreme stress----I needed anything I could to get me out of the situation I was in, imaginary or not. > > I believe that the psychiatric system as much as creates the Bipolar condition. I had never been severely depressed before this year. > > One other option remains to me: if I am willing to be open with the people on the ranch, they do know a local psychiatrist. But then, I have to trust that /they /won't forcibly hospitalize me. I do sense they don't much want to deal with my problems. > > Thank you for your help and advice. > > Nikola. > > > On Sat, Nov 20, 2021 at 8:47 PM Nikola Chubrich > wrote: > > Dear Dr. Meyer: > > 60 tablets were ordered (coming in two bottles). The instructions are: > > Take 1 tab by mouth (25 mg) daily for 2 weeks, then take 2 tabs by > mouth (50 mg) daily thereafter. > > I won't be able to get it tonight in any case. Let's see if my > psychiatrist responds tomorrow, and then maybe you could try if he > doesn't respond. > > Thank you so much, > > Nikola. > > On Sat, Nov 20, 2021 at 8:12 PM Ernst Meyer > > wrote: > > Dear Nikola, > > I tried unsuccessfully to telephone you. I don't know whether it is > possible for me to comply with your request to telephone a > prescription > for 25 mg. tablets of lamotrigine, but I will try if you e-mail > me or > tell me by telephone the legend on the one bottle that you have > in your > possession. I need to know how many 25 mg. tablets were ordered, > the > number of refills directed, and the instructions on the bottle > of how > they should be taken. > > EJM > > On 11/20/2021 08:08 PM, Nikola Chubrich wrote: > > Dear Dr. Meyer: > > > > I just discovered that one of my Lamotrigine (25mg) bottles > is missing; > > the other has only one pill left (I am supposed to take four > tonight, > > for a total of 100mg). I seem not able to find it. > > > > I called my psychiatrist (whom I increasingly dislike, but > that's > > neither here nor there) and didn't hear back. > > > > Would there be any way for you to call in a prescription? I > am in Santa > > Fe right now, near a Walgreens, whose phone number is: > > > > (505)-474-3507 > > > > I don't know if you can call out of state; otherwise you > could call a > > local Walgreens (albeit an open one) and I could try to have the > > prescription transferred. > > > > It's a royal mess: the medication is dangerous to suddenly > withdraw from > > (as with nearly all psychiatric medications), and if I miss a > day I have > > to restart at a low dose because of Stevens-Johnson syndrome. > > > > If you are able to do this, please give me a call (I tried > calling); and > > if this is an inappropriate request, please forgive me for > making it. > > > > Thanks, > > > > Nikola. >