As many of you know, I work psych as a medicine person, not a psych person (believe me, you need to differentiate in psych). I have spent a great deal of time hearing that the patient has a somatic disorder in my career. Somatic symptom disorder involves a significant focus on physical symptoms, such as …
Category: Medications
Under pressure…
Credit. CDC A new study out in the European Heart Journal. Routine ingestion by hypertensive patients of ≥1 prescribed BP-lowering medications at bedtime, as opposed to upon waking, results in improved ABP control (significantly enhanced decrease in asleep BP and increased sleep-time relative BP decline, i.e., BP dipping) and, most importantly, markedly diminished occurrence …
Podcast Antidepressants are depressing
This weeks podcast is solo by my own fault. I slept past Chris' message for many reasons. This week I will be talking my fool head off about anti-depressants both being on them and then hopefully coming off of them. This is my personal experience with doing this and may provide some insight into when …
Podcast
Chris is back, not that he left I have been a tad lazy with my foot and all. Today we talk about opiates and the problems those have created. We are also going to be talking to some other folks down the road. Yeah we are back