Posted by HappyGirl on September 8, 2004, at 13:19:05
In reply to Re: PDOC problems, I need help and advice, posted by olysi79 on September 8, 2004, at 12:07:03
Hi:
It's a terrible, difficult question, ... but have you ever thought about yourself? When you visit your pdoc., what sort of conversation do you exchange with your pdoc.? Are you fairly 'cooperative' patient who is willing to work with your pdoc.? You never demanded anything about which your pdoc. seemed NOT to want? I never called my pdoc. over weekends. If I need an E.R.basis-med. change, I usually wait on Monday morning and ask his secretary first before attempting to talk with my pdoc.
In my case, ... I went through four different pdocs. for the past six years after dxed with Bp II. Surprisingly, none of those 'good' pdocs. explanied about what Bp is,... "How does this affect my life?"(then, I was in early 20') and etc., ... not mention about Bp II and such. I found my 'REAL' dx by studying here, in Internet. In addition to this, I did 'research' a *lot* about Bp illness, day and night when I got this illness.Most of pdocs. seem just giving rx slips to get by, although my insurance paying quite a bit of money for a 15 minutes' visit. None of them seems to want to spend the time to talk about my mental illness and mostly importantly, ... no 'kind' words when I often expected and needed due to my condition, mostly major depression, rather manic phrase.
Last time when I asked a brand new med., 'Cybalta(sp?)' about which there are a lot of discussions here, but my pdoc. just shruged off and said, ... 'always new ones coming,' ... that's it! I kinda used to this kind of treatment I've getting from the pdoc., hence NO compalin about it. What I mostly expect on my visit is to get my rx slip accurately without any hassles, for which my pdoc. is VERY competent. However, I can say this is probably, in the past, ... yes my pdoc. helped me a lot about med. change and even 'free' med. from drug companies(plural).
Then, overall I have no compalian about my pdoc.
In my opinion, if you started to suspect her attitude(non-caring), then you may need to find someone who has more compassionate to your health, not mentally also emotionally. But, this is just my personal view, ... you need to listen to others.
H.G.
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