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Dreading the days ahead...

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Due to paying some unusually expensive bills, I no longer have enough money to get my meds for this month, so unless I can have a yard sale on Monday (slept thru having one today like an idiot) and make some extra cash, I'm fcked! I see my psych nurse on the 7th and she will be writing out scripts for a couple of meds, and then, i have the scripts at the pharmacy that my nurse practitioner wrote out for me since I had missed my appointment with the psych nurse the first time around. Anyway, I'm in big trouble. Every time I come off my meds like this, I end up in a hospital.

I know I could ask for samples from my psych nurse, but for some stupid reason, I just can't bring myself to do so. I can't admit that I'm broke and can't afford to get my meds...just can't. I wish I could, but it really won't happen. I'll try to ride it out even if it kills me because that's how I am.

So anyway, if I get crazy here in a few days, I'm sorry. I won't be a bitch, but I might be totally out there...WAYYY out there.
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I'm new here, so first of all hello.
I do feel your pain. I was diagnosed in July after years of frantic ups, downs, and overall madness. I'm still trying to get the meds right but my wife couldn't deal with me anymore. She gave me the boot last week. My insurance was under her name so there goes that. No therapy and no meds. I'm a bit afraid of the days ahead, but it is what it is I suppose.
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Ask for samples to get you by!!!!!
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Really sorry, Eric. Is there a community mental health clinic in your area or somewhere nearby? Usually, those are the best places to go if you don't have insurance, and they help you get your medications. Check into that.

Hang in there!
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Get some samples. It will cost a lot more if you go so manic that you have to be hospitalized or put on more additional meds to bring you down. Then that means more meds to be taking.

I've been there. (I never stopped taking my meds...just the ones I was one stopped working for me.)
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I receive SSDI each month, and only qualify for ten dollars a month in food stamps. I know, a lot, huh? For medical insurance, I have Medicare, and something called a Q&B card....I think it's called. It pays for office and ER visits, and the Medicare covers hospital stays. I only have so many hospital days to use for the rest of my life, though...something like four months, and I spent a month in one back in August, so there's one month down. I'm VERY thankful to have insurance now! Much better than doing without, I know.
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I meant to say, BUT I am very thankful to have insurance because I know how much worse it is to be without.
computerbob1
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I agree with others Jill plead poverty and stay on meds. Not worth starting over ...

There are drug assist programs but they take time. Here is some info for later use

http://bipolar.about.com/gi/dynamic/offsite.htm?site=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nami.org%2Fhelpline%2Ffreemed.htm
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Ugh I know...I will be so stupid if I choose to take on the beast of being unmedicated, but I just don't want to sit in front of either Robyn, my LCSW/therapist, or my psych nurse and hear them ask me questions like, "can you afford any of them? can you ask someone to lend you the money? we'll try to get you samples until you can afford them again." Robyn would flip out on me, which I understand, but don't particularly want to see happen. I think I will just warn her that we need to keep a close eye on me for a bit...until I can somehow get the money to buy them. Of course, she'll ask why, but I will simply tell her I don't want to talk about it right now.

I know, I know...I'm screwing up big time.
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Jill sweetie please put your pride in your pocket and get the samples, what is worse your mental health or what Robyn will say?? :))
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:(

I know how wrong I am, but thank you all for the concern.
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