Posted by garnet71 on May 24, 2009, at 18:34:07
In reply to Re: PDoc refused meds - what should I do?, posted by bleauberry on May 24, 2009, at 17:40:39
lol bleauberry lol No press releases; I am writing a letter and faxing it to his office - but it's much more effective to leave the emotional part and threats out. I will mention the ethics and safety part though; and if something happens down the road, well I'll have a fax confirmation sheet saved.....
Maybe this has something to do w/the med school here/where I live. The hosp. he is affilated w/is the same one I took my sister too when she had really bad mania and had to take her there 5 times before they would even prescribe her a drug to stablize her.
Or this has to standard protocol here; if it wasn't within medical protocol, they'd probably get sued, which would deter them from doing this. This happened to me several years ago, I was taking meds, prescribed xanax, anxiety/panic escalated - so I had to take more and called doctor who refused meds and told me I had to go to ER. But when I got to the ER, they wouldn't give me anything; after being in a 4-day panic attack, a GP finally gave me like 7 days worth till my next PDoc appt...This is after 1st GP refused before I went to ER, I just happened to get lucky when I called back and another realized how stupid it was to let me suffer rather than give me 7 days worth of a benzo. I later wrote a letter to the hospital and they dropped the bill, but said my "treatment was w/in standard guidelines" or something like that.
I don't understand what you're supposed to do when you're in between appts. and your anxiety escalates? I mean, when you are having a panic attack, going out of your mind, are you just not supposed to take more when the bottle is sitting right there? Who wouldn't do that? I don't get it. You call to get seen, they can't see you, you can't wait till next appt, and they tell you to go to ER. The .25 a day worked for a couple months, but I cant help it anxiety escalted in between appointments so that .25 is no longer effective.
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That's good you thought of his recommendation - he said he is a friend of his, so I thought that was a good thing. I'm having second thoughts now. And I am getting my ins. back thru school shortly-i just realized this - i have more choices now, i think... All this doctor could do was give me xxRIs, which made me worse, so it's not a loss. This has gone on for years, so I end up quitting meds, getting anxiety again and going back, but I didn't know all the other options unitl a few months ago. I just went by what the PDoc said...trusted his judgement..
I do have hypothyroid, but when I brought the results to them, results of all my tests, they didn't even look at them. They didn't even want the papers, but I told them to keep them in my file, so they just stuck them in there. Then I see here that others' PDocs prescribe cytomel and similar things-i wonder why he wouldn't even consider trying me on a dose of it or even talk about the thyroid issue? I told him I couldn't afford to get the additional tests or more treatment from an endocronologist.
grrr!!!!
Adrenal Cortex Extract - do you have to get this online or do they normally sell this at health stores?
What do the rest of you do when your anxiety goes out of control suddenly, and you don't have a PDoc appt. for weeks?
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