Posted by violette on June 13, 2010, at 21:35:10
In reply to Re: Dr. Bob - question » violette, posted by Conundrum on June 13, 2010, at 19:51:30
Conundrum,
When I had insurance, I saw a neuropsychiatrist, neurologist, neuropsychologist, and neuroptomologist. MRI, cat scan, and more...The costs were well over $10k. The conclusion was that I have some neurological abnormality but no real diagnosis. Besides the neuropsychologist assessment which ruled out of some things, it was mostly a waste of time, money..but who would have known.
Of all these experts, the greatest help was from my general PDoc-due to his observations from his lifetime of experiences with patients, his caring attitude, and time spent together-seeing him for an hour a week for therapy. But he can't perform miracles.
If you go the specialist/testing route, I hope your outcome turns out better than mine has.I'm going to discuss trying 2 more drugs with my pdoc, and then I give up. I can't do this or be like this anymore.
ps - I didn't expect an answer from Dr. Bob. I'm just sick of the fact that people have to complain about the same thing over and over-and can't find adequate help. He obviously reads all these posts since he comparmentalizes/seperates the medication conversations from the psychology, so I didn't think asking his opinion was too much trouble. It doesn't matter anyway because I doubt it would be much different from anyone else's..
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