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Yeeeesh! Yeah. That's.... that's definitely a reason to get a new Dr.
Half my life ago I was doing....alllllll the drugs. At levels and mixes that quite honestly should have killed me. Of the friend group I had at that time, 7 of us, there's myself and one other that aren't dead, or been in the clink for 15 years and looking at a minimum of another 20.
When I saw the way I was headed, after the first of our group had died, and while I was serving a frankly very lenient non-custodial criminal sentence, I detoxed off coke/crack, meth and heroin (smoked not injected) all at the same time.
I can tell you, not exactly how bad or in what way, it's gonna suck. I really really feel for you. Just make sure you follow advice on how to safely come off it, there's a lot of drugs, legal and not, that can easily kill you if you just stop taking them.
Be safe fam.
So I'm in the UK, and while there's a bit of leeway to see a GP that's not in your catchment area, the next closest to where I live is really far. Also it's not really the GP's fault. They're required to follow protocol dictated by the NHS. He walked me through it. There's a program, you punch in the symptoms, follow the questions down the flow chart, it gives you a likely cause. Things like the intensive testing I've been told to try and get? He's really just not authorised to refer me for that. We've had quite a long chat about it, and it really just isn't something that he's able to do. That would have to be something that a specialist sends me for. I've been on the waiting list for 25 weeks, so only 20ish more to go.
The results of decades of underfunded health care systems.....