Involuntary Drug Treatments?

[ptrinkl108]

I have something that I have been wondering about. When I was about twelve years old, I remember having an argument with my mom while we were driving in a car. My mom said something like, "It's time to take your special vitamins". I got mad at my mom, and said something about "Why do I have to take special vitamins, what's wrong with regular vitamins?". My mom got upset and said something like "You have to take special vitamins, because of who you are". "Who you are", was often special code in our dysfunctional family for "intersex". My being intersex, was rarely referred to as such, and was usually referred to with terms like "your condition" or "who you are". Finally, I gave up my protest, and took the special vitamins as I was told. My memory is not very good at this point. I seem to remember taking the special vitamins for only a short period of time. Anyway, I am now wondering if the "special vitamins" that I took could have been some type of hormones or other drug. Does anyone have any similar experiences of taking drugs around the time of puberty, and not being told the real nature of the drugs?

Peter

[Jules]

I remember taking as many as five different pills as a child, in fact

I can’t ever remember not taking pills Peter. When I went on

hormones, they told me what they were, and I took them willingly

because I wanted my breasts to grow. I in fact had been asking

for them when I was as young as ten.

One of the pills I took was Ritalin. I took large amounts of it when

I was young. In one of my doctor visit with Crawford, my mother

blasted me in front of him saying, “She only takes her pills when

she feels like it!” I blasted back, “Of course I take my pills!” My

mother and me would argue back and forth about what

medication I was taking and what I wasn’t. Years later, reading

about that episode in my medical records, my doctor admitted

that he thought I was very manipulative with the medications.

Was I? I had days when I would forget, or I had days when I

would get mad at my mother and hide the pills just to spite her.

As I got older I got off the Ritalin, but I was so animalistically wild

as a child when off my medications that I knew, even as a child,

that I needed them.

You see I was hyperactive. It was so severe that even at age

three you could not understand what I was saying when I spoke.

My records have it stated that within a few days of going on

Ritalin my speech became understandable. I know that some pills

were for my bone density, one pill was a growth hormone, and a

needed to take sleeping pills so that I would sleep more then

four hours a night. I also know that I took a anti-depressant to

counter the Ritalin.

SO yea, I took pills, now I smoke pot :eek: Go figure.

I'm trying to quit :rolleyes:

[Sofie]

At age 12 or 13 I was given yellow pills. That was after I started bleeding.
I didn't tolerate them, they took my appetite and caused nausea. The smell of food or coffee would almost make me vomit. I was then given some other pills, they were yellow too and caused the same symptoms. Someone later told me it may have been cortisone or prednisone. Or something like that. :confused:

Sofie

[Rudy]

from 13-15 i took Gerital hehe. Well at least at the time i thought it was gerital. That is until i caught my father putting spironolactone in a almost empty bottle. And oh boy did i blow up. That was one hell of an argument. Its hard to accept sometimes, for me at least because well im not exactly sure why i was taking it. was told initially that i needed vitamins because i was iron dificient. and well geritol is ok i guess, it didnt bother me much back then. at least it didn't until i caught me dad dumping pills in the Gerital bottle. My parents tried so hard to get me take them after that but i refused. Only because i didnt know what it was and they wouldnt tell me. They just kept saying that i needed it. And well i happen to be perhaps one of the most stubborn person's living on this place we call a planet. And well while i know what spironolactone is now back then knowone would tell me. Might of been taking it for salt/potassium deficiency(having only one adrenal gland/CAH), or maybe even for the hair growth(which sucks as im a bear nowadays). who knows.
My parents happen to be denying alot when it comes to me, my medical history, and what not. I'd imagine that alot of it has to do with the hospitals and well also the Citys that we are raised in. Unfortunately for me well i live in a very small city with a pop of about 30,000. and well seems just to damn small. and well who knows, sometimes i think its the meds that is well being prescribed by some very backward thinking Doctors. They dont really think about the people it affects, So far it seems that The Parents are what the doctors are concerned about. Sorry if i affended any Docs andd well medical professionals. Im 33 yrs old and havent been too impressed with my Doctors so far.

Rudy A. Alaniz

[Tiffanie]

I was started on estrogen/progesterone at age 12.

I was told by my doctor what medication I was taking and how it would cause my body to mature. (Good.)

I wasn't told the "you need these because" story. (Bad-sad-mad.)

At one point in the many years of my adolescent medical treatment, I was given a big bottle of pills by my doctor. I remember thinking, "This is weird, usually I get a prescription, then my mom fills it at the pharmacy. Hmmm." Well, I just didn't say anything, and I took the pills like I was told to.

Many years later when I was able to obtain some of my medical records from that period of my life, I found that at one point in my treatment I was given a placebo (sugar pills) to take instead of hormones. I am guessing the doctor didn't want me to take the hormones for a while so she could later do blood work and see what hormones my body was producing on it's own.

What troubles me is that two things were being hidden from me:
1. I thought I was taking a drug to "help" me when I wasn't.
2. I likely wasn't told about the placebo because what the doctor wanted to see was my free testosterone level without the effects of the estrogen/progesterone pills I had been taking.

The doctor was not willing to say "we need to check your free testosterone levels." Because then I would say, "Why would a teen-age girl need her testosterone levels checked?"

Is it perhaps because she is genetically male and the whole world is hiding it from her? Yes, indeed.

I guess that's really 3 things that were being hidden from me. Aaargh! Thanks for letting me blow off some bad-sad-mad steam.

Tiffanie

[Shodan]

I got the:

You need these because u were born without ovaries story, (can I swear on this forum cuz I have a lot of F words to let out, Lol)

Not the:
Oh sorry, u were actually edging towards being a boy story, crap I hate doctors, does everyone hate them as much as me.

Does anyone get over hating their parents this much?

So Tiffanie wanna chat, sounds like we got a fair bit in common?

shodan007@hotmail.com
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