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Originally Posted by sugahorse
Hey there. Pleasae understand that while hospitalisation was against your will, I really believe it was for the better and for your safety.
Maybe do your own research into psychiatric meds, and present some ideas to your p-doc. I'm sorry you feel he is not helping and that you have no-one else to go to. When you were hospitalised, did you not have access to other doctors? Speak to your insurance that they are wasting their money with this pdoc and u want to go to another one.
Maybe you can travel a bit to another pdoc? I have a friend who stays in town, and has access to probably 100 different pdoc's, but she chooses to travel 1.5 hours to the one she helps her the most. You need to step out of your comfort zone (Easier said than done, I know) and put your health first
(HUGS)
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I have basic Medicare, and thanks to that wonderful new bill that was passed, even my primary care physician dropped me because everything came back from medicare completely unpaid. I have lost my access to most medical care, well, good medical care. I have Muscular Dystrophy, Fibromyalgia, Bipolar1, depressive severe with psychotic features, Anxiety NOS, and more, and right now I receive little medical care. I can get my 3 main scripts I need filled called in, that's about all. I can go to the hospital if I have an emergency. Trying to talk to Medicare is like asking a mountain to move. I have no problem going out of my "comfort zone", I am just running face first into brick walls every which way I turn. It's frustrating as hell!
And I had to sign a form saying that I would see this specific pdoc when I was in the psych hospital, or they wouldn't discharge me. If I miss an appointment or don't follow this pdocs' plan, I go straight back to the psych ward until I comply. And her plan is to do not much of anything, except take my anxiety medication away from me, and come back in a month. I told her what meds had helped during past episodes (I have been dealing with this for 18 years now), she just wrote them down. So I'm on Welbutrin and Topamax, which is what I was on when I had both of these episodes. Both at low doses that haven't been changed in a year, and I told the pdoc that. Might as well be sugar pills. That's the kind of crooked psych hospital I was thrown into. These places are not all helpful and healing places.
I'm just going to play their "game" and lie my way out. And when I'm finally out of their hands, I will get help. I thought maybe here I could just vent a little anonymously in the meantime.