Posted by Nickengland on April 20, 2005, at 14:23:33
Had my appointment yesterday with the usual Consultant Psychiatrist to discuss about a change from Tegretol to Trileptal and the possibility of trying Neurontin for anxiety...
Being a so called "Consultant Psychiatrist" you'd think he'd know he's medications??...LOL He had never heard of Oxcarbazepine/Trileptal!
So I had to spell it out to him which he wrote on a piece of paper, he then looked it up in a book to check what its used for and without hessitation prescribed it!.. I was quite amazed at this bearing in mind he'd never used it before, but he didn't seem to care, it was just like asking for a sweet?!
But then when I asked him about the neurontin for anxiety, he refused saying it was new and we know much about its longterm effectiveness blah blah...Which I can understand. Shame though as he doesn't seem to want to give me anything for anxiety.
Anyway english psychiatry, what a joke!...and in the NHS waiting room someone siting there drunk swigging from a bottle of vodka at 11am!...I cant wait to get out of this country! lol
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