Posted by Racer on July 13, 2007, at 22:38:49
In reply to Doctor gone for a year - 1 year of refills (wtf ?), posted by linkadge on July 13, 2007, at 20:40:51
Well, isn't that just special? Glad he's getting the rest and recreation he obviously needs...
I don't remember if you have posted before about whether there are alternatives available to you for psychiatric care. If not, though, I found myself in a similar situation here when I first found PsychoBabble. I didn't have insurance, wasn't making enough money to see a private doctor, and ended up being treated by a county psychiatrist. It was terrible -- she was abysmal. In the end, she told me that I was fine -- "I'm satisfied that the drugs are working just fine -- you're just not responding appropriately." (WTF does that mean, anyway?) She cut me loose to the medical side to get my meds refilled -- the meds that left me lying in bed and crying all day most days, too anxious to open the window blinds, etc.
Turned out, that was the very best thing she could have done for me. The medical side changed my meds, and got me stabilized again. Huh, whaddaya know?
The reason I tell you this long story which I know you care about so much, is that it might just be that your GP will be able to offer you some improvements that the pdoc wasn't able to. You've done enough homework that you can probably walk in with some ideas, and maybe the GP will be more amenable to them. I hope so, at any rate.
Good luck.
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