Posted by Quintal on May 3, 2008, at 12:32:17
In reply to Re: Angry at pdoc, posted by med_empowered on May 3, 2008, at 10:59:41
It was the pdoc who diagnosed me with BPD, but he didn't tell me that to my face. He put it in my discharge letter, and my GP took great pleasure in adding it to my list of diagnoses. Once something has been added another doctor can disagree and offer a second opinion, but I don't think the original diagnosis can be deleted.
I ordered clonazepam off the internet for years when they stopped my scripts back in 2004. That is where the allegations of abuse came from - because I was buying them without a prescription. And yes, I ordered some zolpidem, diazepam and lorazepam back in March, but the first parcel went missing, the second one got seized by customs, and I'm still waiting for the third re-shipment. I have an awful feeling it has been seized again. The online pharmacy has been the only one to show a sense of decency and compassion.
I don't know the going rates for private pdocs, but I once saw a hypnotherapist privately and he only charged me £30 a session because I was on benefits. I have a feeling pdoc fees would run at £200-300 per session, but I don't actually know. I could have a look and find out though. I get generous state benefits of ~£190/$374 a week because my Bipolar I was judged to be a severe disability, but I don't think I can stretch to accommodate private pdoc fees. Anyway, there's no guarantee the care would be any better because I've already been through the whole book of medications. I know which ones work, I just need my pdoc to prescribe them for me. They keep quoting the NICE guidelines on benzo prescribing (not to prescribe them at all really) and I think private pdocs are still bound by the same prescribing guidelines.
Actually, my GP has private patients. I don't know what the difference is, maybe they just get priority over the hoi polloi? I don't see how it would improve my care to go private, because she's still the same (bastard of a) person, and that's the problem, not the NHS. They could just give me a month's supply of zopiclone if they wanted to - as did in the past, and as they do to loads of other people, but I think they just get a power trip out of denying me.
Q
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