"Ahem, excuse me, but can I have the attention of the class, for one second?"~Eminmen

As reported, I saw Dr. T on Friday. We discussed going up on the Klonopin to 8 mg a day. This was twice what the ER had recommended, but this is what she saw fit. This is why I've been stoned since.

The ER {a neuromuscular specialist who had been paged and was on the telephone, it was Labor Day weekend} had also recommended going up on my tizanidine {aka Zanaflex} to 32 mg a day. I LAUGHED at this amount. I was previously taking 8 mg a day, divided into 4 mg b.i.d. That dosage was enough to require a nap many days. "32 mg are they out of their g.d. minds?" I asked myself and my husband as the Neuro Resident walked away.

I also asked Dr. T that. So at first, we agreed we were going, well, I was going up on the Klonopin and the Zanaflex. So we discussed the dosing schedule for how I was going to arrive at  8 mg of Klonopin in 15 days time {trust me, it's day 5 and that's NOT going to happen on schedule-- I do NOT like being stoned out of my mind. It's going to have to be a little slower than that!!}

We then discussed, among other things, that I was going to arrive at 16 mg of Zanaflex. She did not give  me a dosing schedule. When I was ready to leave, I asked again, how do you want me to go up on that? "No change in that for now." I asked A, my favorite medical secretary in the whole wide world, "Can you ask her again how she wants to me to go up on that?" A again reported there was to be no change.

OK..... I thought.. Whatever.....

And I went about my miserable, terrible Friday and weekend, being clueless as to why Dr, T changed her mind.

Alas, tonight I get a phone call from Rite Aid's auto-reminder, telling me I had an Rx to pick up.  As I had a migraine and my neck was sore, I sent hubs. He comes back with the Rx, it's for Zanaflex, 4mg tabs to be taken 4 times a day........


Whatever!!!! Let the continued coma commence!