Posted by yxibow on January 24, 2007, at 19:05:12
In reply to Re: Telling your pdoc about this board, posted by notfred on January 24, 2007, at 13:37:49
I've told my doctor about this board, I think he vaguely has heard of it. He wasn't able to attend the session at APA because of conflicts.
Some of the information that I post comes from this psychopharmacologist's practice because he has seen a wide amount of patients in his years and though I have frustration with my disorder as a whole I have trust in him and his competence having been at [institution X] which is one of the leading places in the country. Similar posts come from others I have encountered in consultation at [institution Y], also a known place.
But I also gather information from medical journals which I have access to.
I consider a number of the postings on here to be "case reports" -- that is, they're interesting, they're probably useful to cogitate about, but everybody has a different body and so just because someone has been helped or hindered by BlockbusterdrugXR, doesn't mean that it will do the same thing for me.
When I get a greater number of people who have the same results to various treatments (e.g., a number of people seem to respond in a depressive manner to Klonopin), I take it with more care -- nonetheless, if it hasn't affected me, all I can say is that so many percent of the population will develop such and such side effect.
I often give more into the board than I take back simply because my disorder is so complicated that it is hard to describe what visual Somatiform NOS is. But I don't mind helping people who may be less informed about their treatment than they should be, as I believe in "informed consent", meaning you at least know that a particular medication could develop a side effect and you consent to take it consistently and with free will.
As for my doctors response to what I read on the board, I don't think there is anything particularly negative other than the usual reminder that if he hasn't heard much about Drug Z, but person X on the board has taken it, he might prescribe it although with reservation and with low dosage, but he is fairly conservative about things simply because of the sheer number of medications I'm on at the same time and problems we've had adjusting all of them.
And frustrated as I am, I must agree somewhat even though just like everyone else on the board, there is this dichotomy of wanting to know when the next antidepressant, anxiolytic, or other medication to come out, and yet also say at the same time that just released and tried Newdrug X has been known to turn your skin green and grow elves out of your head (humour).-- tidings
Jay
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