Posted by med_empowered on December 6, 2006, at 12:02:53
In reply to Re: Desperately Need Legal/Medical Advice, Please!, posted by liliths on December 6, 2006, at 11:16:17
there are some case studies w/ stronger opiates (oxymorphone, methadone) being used in refractory depression, anxiety, and schizophrenia. Also, there's a whole lot of evidence pointing to opiates for mood disordered people being used up until the mid-1900s. There are also a couple of case studies suggesting that tramadol is helpful for OCD, which is often accompanied by depression and other mood disorders.
Could you maybe get your shrink to drop the opiate just long enough for you to get a license? I don't really understand the system you're working under. It seems like your doc would have the final say over what flies and what doesn't, and that s/he would be the final judge of the effectiveness of any treatment(s) administered.
It seems like if you could drop the opiate(s) for a while and replace them with tramadol, you could get some anti-depressant/anti-anxiety effects AND come up clean on urinalysis. Then, once you've got license in hand, your doc could replace the tramadol w/ your usual med, or leave the tramadol and supplement it.
I'm really sorry this is happening to you...I hope it turns out well.
:-)
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