Posted by shelliR on November 5, 2001, at 22:40:36
In reply to Re: Shelli - are you there? » shelliR, posted by Marie1 on November 4, 2001, at 9:56:50
> Shelli,
> Hi again. Yes, I am no longer seeing my pdoc. I have a long term addiction problem (prescription diet pills) that he wants me to quit and I don't feel capable of doing that right now.Do the diet pills give you energy? Or do you take them to keep thin? I was just wondering if it's at all similar to a lot of us at PB who are taking stimulents like ritalin and adderall as an adjunct to our antidepressant. I'm taking concerta (long term ritalin) to supplement nardil. I don't know much about diet pills. But if it is related then maybe you an talk to your next pdoc about adding them to the prozac.
I've just moved, my kids are changing schools, I lost my job, I quit drinking, need I go on? I just don't need another major stressor right now. He gave me an ultimatum- him or the pills, so I quit. He was gambling that my attachment to him was strong enough to force the issue.
My therapist gave me an ultimatum about stopping taking vicidin. Unless I got them from a pdoc (not even another type of doctor) she would terminate with me. It was a terrible time for make me make a decision, I was totally suicidal and probably would have picked the vicidin. I went into the hospital and got a consultation from a pdoc from another unit and he put me on oxycontin. There was a lot of controversy at the hospital about it, but the director of the unit I was on (dissociative disorders) supported me, as did the therapist assigned to me at the hospital. I wrote down every narcotic drug I had ever taken, how much and why. They decided after reading my list that I did not have addictive tendencies, just a need to control my depression and nothing else was working. It was pretty amazing to me. My therapist about flipped out, but it fit her rules. For a while there was still a lot of tension between us, I wasn't "allowed" to even mention medication in there, but the tension has passed and we are working pretty well together.
Did your therapist just find out about the diet pills, or did he just decide now that you are ready to give them up? Seems like bad time; you just gave up drinking. Did you give you a deadline date? I did feel that if my therapist hated it so much that maybe I should find another therapist because she started blaming everything on the narcotic. But I couldn't imagine starting over again with a new therapist, especially when my concern was really about meds at that point, not therapy.
Apparently it's not. We've been e-mailing back and forth about the prozac, and he's agreed to call in a one month's supply; hopefully by then we'll have a new g.p.
Well, I'm glad he at least gave you the one month. Do you miss him? Do you think he sincerely felt that he felt he couldn't work with you with the diet pills, or do you think it was a control issue?
Sorry you've had to go through this. Is your husband not working now? Congratulations on the drinking though.
Shelli
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