My doctors have been pretty ok here in the UK. Well, they're refusing to give me new meds now because I'm stupidly sensitive to anything with a sedative effect and just sleep all the time, and am intolerant to SSRIs, and with all my other meds for migraines with aura, they can't give me anything else (apparently).
When I had the reaction to the SSRI I was given, I just stopped taking them and phoned my psych a week later, who told me not to touch the things again. It was just accepted as an intolerance and I was given a different pill to try next time - another disaster due to the sedative effect.
The only time I've had a really bad reaction lasting any significant length of time was where my mood went scarily high and I lost all inhibitions after they put me on mood stabilisers for my migraines. My psychologist rang my GP after seeing me 2 weeks after I'd started them because I was totally unable to sit still and I apparently talked about engaging in potentially dangerous things without seeming to realise that there would be consequences for it. But I had no recollection of most of the time I was on the tablets after a GP rang me in a state as soon as I got home and told me to stop taking the things because the psychologist thought I wasn't safe on them. Again though, it was recognised that it was the tablets.
I'm constantly being told I can't be 'that' tired on my tablets, when I feel like I've not slept in weeks, it doesn't matter how low they keep the dose, it just seems to happen, even if I don't know that there is any possibility of even slight sedation. My body sucks in that sense. I slept for 13 hours on the lowest dose of a sleeping tablet, my psych refused to believe me.
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