Posted by blueberry on April 5, 2006, at 6:06:18
In reply to Re: What kinds of tests for this? » blueberry, posted by SLS on April 4, 2006, at 21:32:11
Scott, no I haven't had any of the suppression tests. Just the 4 times a day saliva cortisol/dhea test. Cortisol curve looked good, but the entire curve was way below normal.
Yeah I had thought about nortriptyline. With very low blood pressure already, and I just can't stand that dry mouth and drugged fogginess, I doubt I could handle it even in small doses. It is a distant maybe though.
I think I need either a neurologist or an endocrinologist. Have them throroughly check me out in detail. At least then if everything looked ok, I would know that this is indeed psychiatric. My gut instincts just tell me this is physical but manifesting itself in psychiatric ways. I could be wrong. I just want to find out. My old doctor and my current doctor both seem very reluctant to pass me off to someone, they just want to throw more drugs at me or say it is going to take many months to slowly recover, and neither one of them is offering a diagnosis. So much time passes and nothing is done. They complain that I don't do what they say...for example start lamictal, take 5htp, take depakote, take clonazepam or xanax...I mean, they aren't even clear about what I should take or why. And exactly how does one find a different doctor when the current ones won't even refer one? Yellow pages? Man.
Years ago I sent a batch of letters shotgun style to psychiatrists in the yellow pages, explaining my situation and asking if they would be interested. Out of 30 letters I got 6 interested responses. Well, a couple weeks ago I sent out 40 letters...zero responses.
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