Posted by Dinah on March 21, 2007, at 10:51:30
I see that the facility mentioned above gives them, but I don't suppose my illness qualifies as severe enough to bother them.
The lack of integration in treatment bothers the heck out of me. I strongly suspect that there are any number of factors that play into my mood extremes. Sometimes my problem is anxiety/agitation.
Right now it's grogginess and stupor.
It could have something to do with my diabetes, yet my diabetes doctor says that my A1c's are fine, so I shouldn't worry myself with fluctuations in daily readings. Yet fluctuations in daily readings would have an impact on grogginess, I'm thinking.
My psychiatrist points me to my sleep neurologist for any physical causes and to my therapist for ones that involve my tendency to dissociate.
But not only do I worry about my sleep neurologist's ethics for a few compelling reasons, but my sleep neurologist clings to the idea of narcolepsy despite sleep lab results that don't support that diagnosis, and despite my trying to tell him that I can't help but think that my tendency to dissociate is also at play here.
My therapist thinks that it doesn't matter why I'm groggy, that the important thing is to take medications to combat it so I can do my job, and then work out the causes later.
And then there's the fact that at other times, somnulance and stupor aren't a problem for me at all. I'm wide awake and often overstimulated and anxious. Any medication for sleepiness at that time is wildly out of place, just as any treatment for anxiety is wildly out of place when I'm half dead with tiredness.
I'm sick of dealing with little pieces here and little pieces there.
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