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Old Apr 06, 2011, 04:34 PM
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I have a green light from my psychiatrist to take extra meds during times of increased stress. If you were to speak (call?) your current caretakers, would they OK a temporary dosage increase?
Thank you for writing, Rohag. I am actually not on any meds right now. Both my T and pdoc know this. Meds got to be such a hassle toward the end of last semester that I gave up on them. I get coverage through my wife's insurance, and when she switched jobs, the new insurer raised the copay on one of them from $10 to $80, and said I had to get a sleep test for another, which was Provigil.

I just don't know about meds. It seems like every time I switched psychopharmacologists, they would switch my meds. And it never seemed to make any difference in how I felt, anyway. The only one that ever seemed to help was Ritalin, and my current pdoc took me off of that.

My current pdoc also cannot seem to handle billing issues very well. I told him months ago that my wife's insurance had changed, and I gave him my new ID number and the group number, but he billed the old insurance and then complained when he got denied. And now he's done it again. The whole system just seems designed to prevent me from getting help--just keep my wife and I tied up in paperwork and phone call. But now I'm getting negative again. Sorry.

I may look into going back on meds if I don't improve soon. I have so much more to say, but I have to leave for class in less than an hour.

Thank you again.