My Drug History

After receiving my medical records I can now list my drug history over forty years of benzodiazepine Drugs and Antidepressants. At no stage did the prescribing physicians recognise my continuing and escalating symptoms of tiredness, anxiety, depression, panic attacks, arthritic pains, lack of motivation, tachycardia, high blood pressure, twitching and chronic insomnia as caused by the drugs they persisted in prescribing in various combinations over all those years. I'm shocked and angry that such high doses of such dangerous medicines could be given to me in a variety of mixes to 'cure' the various psychiatric disorders which I never had. I'm even angry with myself for trusting these supposedly educated people and suffering throughout my adult lifetime from 27 to 67. How can this equate with 'Thou shalt do no harm' when benzodiazepines should be prescribed for no more than two to four weeks and only when absolutely necessary. It's very scary and I realise now I'm lucky to have lived through all this polydrugging and still be alive to tell the tale.

Below I have divided the drugs into groups that cover the years of my journey gleaned from the records I've received:

1976

1977

1978

1979

1980

1981

1982

1984 to 1985

1986

1987

1994

2003

2007

2011

My Drug History

Below I have divided the drugs into groups that cover the years of my journey gleaned from the records I've received:

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