Posted by bob on March 22, 2000, at 18:54:34
In reply to Klonopin or Alcohol?, posted by Raymond on March 22, 2000, at 10:07:07
> One of my problems is I'm too intelligent for my own good sometimes, and I have to keep the tendency to self-educate and self-diagnose in check.
... straddling the fine line. Gotta love it.
Well, no, I guess you don't HAVE to love it....
Glad to hear about the pdoc referrals. If alcohol has been a serious problem -- enough that you think you'd be given a double diagnosis of anxiety disorder + alcohol abuse, then you **really** should check out the info on Dr. Bob's site, as well as the threads here and there, about Naltexone. It's a medication that has been used to treat alcohol abusers and, whadayaknow!, it also can boost the effects of antidepressant medications ... particularly SSRIs if I remember correctly.
You should do some research before you see those pdocs. Research the meds you know about from this site already.
AHEM...
Maybe some other folks who have to deal primarily with anxiety or panic disorders might suggest other issues Ray can look into to prepare for choosing which of these three pdocs would be best for him.
Someone out there has got to have the URL of that list of questions to ask when "interviewing" a pdoc ... was that part of Dr. Ivan's site? I can't recall.
Anyway, the LAST thing you should feel going into those three appointments is worry and unease, as if you're handing the future course of your life into some stranger's hands. Go in informed, go in willing to be honest, and go in knowing that if the first of these pdocs doesn't impress you, you've got two more referrals.
And if those two don't seem to fit, get another one.
... just don't stretch it out TOO long ;^)
good luck,
bob
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