Posted by cybercafe on September 16, 2003, at 14:09:18
In reply to Re: I need the truth about Dexedrine. (long post), posted by utopizen on September 16, 2003, at 3:15:27
> Well, you can either go looking for another doctor, but I've been there, done that, and found doctors that were actually worse than what I was trying to get away from.
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> Currently, I see a doc who wrote me Desoxyn and Klonopin since April, yet I missed his 7AM appt. on Friday, and hasn't returned any of my calls. I'm out of my meds, even though I've now got Idiopathic Hypersomnolence (very tired) diagnosed since the last time I saw him. This makes not having Desoxyn a living nightmare, I have to actually consider taking the semester off of my Junior year
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> And everything was PERFECT until now... is this what happens when I set my alarm wrong? I end up unable to graduate with my class because I'm so dependent on my doctor to return my calls and he won't?
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> I'm going to the dean at the end of the week, and my uncle's a prominent atty. that is sure to scare the living daylights out of my doc. What I don't understand is why he'd not return my calls. This happened before over the summer, I would call him repeatedly once every day for several consecutive days and never hear back.
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> My old p-doc, he gave me Desoxyn for my ADD. My occassional concern about how sleepy I felt was always dismissed, and I wish he didn't do that, because it takes forever to go through all the tests and appts. and docs and docs and docs just to get started with a treatment. After a year or so, and I might be getting my first shot at a CPAP machine (treatment) in a month. I wish I started sooner. The neurologist I saw took 6 months to schedule. That was just so I could have her rule out things so I could move on to a pulmonary specialist. I've have a sleep-deprived EEG, an overnight PSG. a MSLT, and titiration study this weekend. And 2 different neurologists gave me evaluations. Totalled, I've seen about 12 different docs over the last 6 months, and each has told me to "keep seeing my doc and stay on Desoxyn."
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> Considering this doc doesn't even bother to return my phone calls ever, I doubt it's realistic to expect that he even is aware that I was diagnosed with a sleeping disorder.
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> That would involve receiving the reports that were sent to him, opening them up, and reading them. Calling me on the phone, he can't even do that. My plan is to just laugh in his face if he claims to have not received them. It's better than screaming profanities, and it's a good mind trick anyway. If I'm going to have to not graduate with my class because this guy can't even call me back after repeatedly leaving messages, I may as well enjoy something about it.
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> Of course, the DEA is really the cause for this. In a more reasonable country, you wouldn't have to wait weeks to have doctors send medical records and weeks more to make appts. with docs and weeks more to see them just to get a prescription you've already been given by two other docs before.
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> Or I could explain to my college's infirmary that my doctor is incompetent and ask for them to write me Desoxyn. Ha! I once went there to ask them if I could have a pill called Evoxac for my dry mouth, and they treated me like I was asking them for cocaine. "No, I've never heard of that."
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> Good! Neither did the GP near my home either, but he said that as he wrote the prescription, only with a smile on his face for my phamacological literacy.
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> In America, you can get anything you want, you just need to see 25 doctors first, wait months to just to see some of them, spend months just to realize some of them are wasting your time, and then spend more months taking tests that take hours.
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> I suggest that you get a comprehensive neuropsychological evaluation. It will document your ADD, and any other condition you may have. It takes all day to do, but my file was so tall no doctor would even possibly question my diagnosis of ADD. Have you seen your doc's signature?
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> Think of a guy who's bothered by writing more than one character to sign his name with even spending a second reading something that massive. It intimidates the heck out of them, they'll never question it, b/c then they'd have to have a basis for doing that, and doctors are lazy. That would require a very thorough analysis of the evaluation report, and they'd likely never find anything they could argue against.
utopizen, that's real funny dude :)keep us updated, i would love to hear what an attorney or the dean thinks of the situation
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