going to a new doc can be scary, but those first appts are usually the times the doc is getting your history so he has lots of questions to ask. you may leave feeling disappointed that you didnt get to say what you went in there to say. i would go to the doc with a list of my concerns. i always wrote down everything i wanted to tell him because docs may latch onto one thing and get on a tangent and then the three or four other concerns get lost. if i hand him the paper with my concerns he has read them all. my doctor loved that i did this. i wrote him my history and he whipped threw it marking off all the things he thought were pertinent. go in there with a plan. what are you willing to do, be prepared to advocate for yourself. some docs what to slap you with med cocktails right away, are you willing to do this or will you only be willing totry one med at a time? dont let him push you to do more than youre willing to do.
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