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Re: Good advice, but not possible » Racer

Posted by Pfinstegg on June 13, 2004, at 20:00:04

In reply to Re: Good advice, but not possible » Pfinstegg, posted by Racer on June 13, 2004, at 14:02:48

We go hiking (and flower and bird-watching) a lot, but our favorite place is the Bernese Oberland in Switzerland. It is very beautiful there, especially early in the season, and there are wonderful walks, ranging from easy ones, aided by chairlifts, to very challenging ones, involving 3000-4000 vertical feet of climbing to a mountain hut. Those are the best, but require us getting into shape for at least a week. You are absolutely right- it's in the German-speaking part of Switzerland- in Grindelwald and surrounding villages. Come with us sometime!

In thinking about these difficult conditions you are facing with Dr. Eyecandy and other members of that team, it seems to me like you have been *scapegoated*. It is just not acceptable for those health-care providers to make you feel like everything is your fault- whether it is because you have some well-founded doubts about whether a particular medication is right for you, or whether you have come to distrust their recommendations. Under good circumstances, you naturally don't want to distrust them. They, ideally, should be respecting all of your doubts, fears and concerns, and not blaming you for not falling right into agreement with their recommendations. You obviously have excellent reasons for being worried and uneasy about medication recommendations. Maybe what would work the best is for you to study up, yourself, about what medications (and dosages) seem best to you, and then go in to your appointment with your own ideas of what would be best for you. I've found the medication board to be immensely valuable in helping me begin to make wiser (and lower dose) recommendations for my own medications. I also had to change pdocs, as the first one blamed me for the side effects I experienced, and also for my unwillingness to go along with his recommendations, which was always for huge doses of things like Effexor, MAOI's and various mood-stabilizers. Luckily, I now have a much more flexible pdoc- and I feel we are working together. That helps so much.

I think we have one other thing in common- riding. I know you have been a riding teacher. I'm not that skilled, but do have a lovely dressage horse, with whom I do (low level) musical freestyle. It's been such a help with the depression- it just gives you a lift to have your horse lie down and, after a big sigh, put his head in your lap!


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