Posted by yxibow on March 1, 2008, at 3:16:52
In reply to Re: FIGURE ME OUT AND YOU ARE SMARTER THAN ANY DOC » obsidian, posted by AMY II on February 29, 2008, at 0:12:39
> Never occured to me until I happened on that book. I always thought of OCD as the extreme cleaning or can't step on cracks sort of thing. I never thought of my gory, tormenting, repetitive thoughts that are happening during "anxiety attacks" as OCD. But I read that book "Tormenting thoughts and Secret Rituals" and it fit perfect as far as those thoughts and the feelings of me going crazy because of them. It fits that perfectly. The question now is what about those physical symptoms? Are those OCD or are they something else all together.
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> Like I said before, I actually got into a fight with the Pdoc today over demanding an eeg. I want to rule out things that could be more serious but because I saw a neurologist in 2002 and had an MRI done and it came back normal, he thinks no other tests need to be done. Whatever!
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> SOMEBODY TELL ME IF YOU KNOW OF ANY TESTS THAT ARE WORTH DOING FOR ME!
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> DID I MENTION THAT I GO TO A TEACHING HOSPITAL (well known and good one) AND THIS IS A 3rd YEAR RESIDENT (my pdoc) that says he has to see 3 different supervisors that go over his clinical work every week? I thought this was a good thing since he was a resident he would have time to work on my case and I would have essentially more than one doctor working on my diagnosis.
You are in extremely good hands at a teaching hospital. The only issue, and I don't know your PDOC, is that he/she is a 3rd year resident. They have to pick their specialty and go through a 4th year and do rotations in the hospital.So yes, they do go through their supervising Physician ("doctor G-d" sometimes I find in ERs, but thats another story, if you want to call it -- not meaning to be offensive to any religion) and they do have to -- its state laws, assuming you're in the US and I'm sure the same in Canada and most western European countries to some degree.
If you don't want to wait for the resident availability and time constraints, then there's only the solution of choosing a clinician who has been through residency and psychiatric/psychopharmacology specialization.I'm not sure what to say other on that -- and please dont take this as a "dump your doctor" thing. There are a lot of posts I've seen in the past that can be inflammatory and lead people to believe that they should do so. It is up to you. You have free will, as much as the better part of North America provides, which is the hallmark of it.
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