Posted by Alan on November 15, 2002, at 0:45:02
In reply to Re: ADD Med advice and LINK. » Alan, posted by kelranji on November 14, 2002, at 23:33:49
I was a crying mess too from frustration of not being able to handle the overwhelming effects of anxiety. After every med being pushed on me by the commercially driven SSRI's I finally had enough and fired 2 docs before finding a third doc that when asked what was next for me, simply asked, "what what makes you feel better?" That is all I needed to hear after 8 years of taking every drug known to man. I just had simple anxiety disorder and needed bzd monotherapy, that's all.
You need a doctor that will listen to what YOU tell them, not what their idea of what medication fits you. Many times docs are puzzled and blame the patient as if they are wrong for their reactions. Remember YOU are the boss, the doc is the employee. Don't wory about a doc that's afraid about "potentialitiy" of drug abuse. The vast majority of the panic population stay with the same dose or even decrease over time. They do not abuse their medications.
This is the boogey man that big pharmecticals have instilled in their pdocs for the last 10 -12 years to push the AD's at the expense of offering the patient bzds on equal foooting with the equally dependenence inducing AD's. The World Health Organisation's report on the drugs with the highest complaint from withdrawal were all AD's and the bzds by far trailed up the rear.
Get a doctor that specialises in anxiety disorders in your area and ask up front if they consider bzds and AD's on at LEAST equal footing in their clinical practice.
If they don't, run, don't walk to the next in line of recommendations.
I've been through this BS with Pdocs and their pushing of AD's at the expense of other meds on an equal footing until I finally found the right person thank God. YOU can do it too. They aren't God's after all, and many are just too lazy or overburdenened with caseloads to find out for themselves how snookered they are by pharm reps and the like.
Please, second and third opinions are common practice everyday in medicine. Why should it be any different in the area of psychotropic drugs - the very drugs that are known the least about and are highly idiosyncratic in people's response to them
The key is proper diagnosis, treatment, and followthrogh. Any doc worth their salt knows this and the ones that have your best interest at heart as an INDIVIDUAL will show you the respect that you deserve.
Best to you,
Alan
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