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Wow, he's been to so many sleep studies.

1. He's clausterphobic.
2. He's stubborn (taurus) and needs to be ordered what to do.
3. He gets cottonmouth badly and can't handle the slightest discomfort. We just got a new humidfier and strap to keep his mouth closed. Slight improvement.
4. He pushes being awake as long as possible. He pushes everything. No discipline, he's a big kid, really.

I'm sorry he won't allow himself to be helped. I wish you luck!

He has a caregiver who comes in twice a week. She and I compared notes today. He's in worse shape than I thought. Also, he's on a heavy dose of Lyrica, which has fried his brain. I hope you can avoid that stuff.

I was prescribed Lyrica last year. I took one dose and my feet and ankles promptly swelled up. I threw the stuff out right away.

Good for you! That stuff works but it makes zombies.

BG, this statement sounds like what DBT calls being willful instead of willing. You are refusing to do what's in your best interest. You might not "want" to pay the $10.00, but as adults, we sometimes have to do things we don't want to do, for our own good. I realize you got the prescription anyway through your sleep dr., but for future reference: How does being willful help you? How does it hurt you?

Last year I took Lyrica for neuralgia for about 3 weeks. Yeah it made me feel SO weird!!

I did not fill the prescription because I did not have to. My Sleep Doctor prescribed something else and said I shouldn't take the Visteril anymore. That would be overkill.

I agree that I was being willful. But while I might have been willful, by waiting I could have either a) gotten another doctor to write the prescription; and b) learned that I did not even need the prescription.

If another doctor did not want to write the prescription for me, I could have walked down the corridor and asked one of the nurses to write the script. So waiting was not a big deal. I do agree that I have to work on willfulness/willingness.

What bothers me more than possibly being wilfull was my reaction in the first place. I reacted pretty badly. That's what I need to talk to my T about. I overreacted, got into some pretty bad thinking and made myself crazy.