Posted by Marie1 on November 4, 2001, at 9:56:50
In reply to Re: Shelli - are you there? » Marie1, posted by shelliR on November 3, 2001, at 11:46:17
Shelli,
Hi again. Yes, I am no longer seeing my pdoc. I have a long term addiction problem (prescription diet pills) that he wants me to quit and I don't feel capable of doing that right now. I've just moved, my kids are changing schools, I lost my job, I quit drinking, need I go on? I just don't need another major stressor right now. He gave me an ultimatum- him or the pills, so I quit. He was gambling that my attachment to him was strong enough to force the issue. Apparently it's not. We've been e-mailing back and forth about the prozac, and he's agreed to call in a one month's supply; hopefully by then we'll have a new g.p. If not, I'll take your advice and try a clinic. Each time in the past I've gone without Prozac, I've crashed. I really don't need that to happen either.
You know, we've been working on aquiring new health insurance since July, a month before my husband's cobra coverage was up. Can you believe this? And they're probably going to turn us down due to my mental health problems! This situation really sucks. If something catastrophic happened to one of us we'd be sunk. That has to be a better way...
Okay, enough ranting for a beautiful Sunday. I hope you're able to enjoy the day. Take care.Marie
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> My pdoc and I decided to go our separate ways, so he won't be around to remind me how sick I am and what a disfunctional family I have. He's also refused to continue prescribing Prozac for me, so this should be interesting. We've been shopping for health insurance and have no g.p. at the moment, which I pointed out to him, but "The difficulties entailed in the consequences of your choice, of course,will need to be borne by you."
> > He's got a problem with over-wordiness and redundancy.
>
> Wow. I think I must have missed something big. You two have parted? The one who gave you all the trouble about not saying you missed him when he left? What happened? It sounds like you left--you weren't kicked out) (consequences of your choice), but it also sounds almost unethical not to give you prozac until you find another doctor, since it's an insurance matter. The "consequences of your choice" should not leave you even temporarily without your AD. Prozac is not a narcotic. He obviously doesn't want you to go, but this is not
> a game.
>
> You could probably walk into any community mental
> health program and get prozac after explaining the
> circumstances. Actually probably after walking into ANY medical clinic. That is unless you want to stop prozac in keeping with your new "I am completely normal" trial. You also might want to try St. John's Wort. Still, if prozac was working, then it is probably silly to make any med changes right now. You don't want to start slipping down even a little, without a therapist.
>
> Splash,
> Shelli
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