Hello,

This is my first post to this forum. Right now I am extremely angry. I just got back from my first appointment with my new psychiatrist. I have been on three medications to treat my Bipolar disorder for several years and they work extremely well for me.

After taking my history she said "you don't need to be on all this stuff." One of the meds I take is Lamictal 350mg QD. She said "I'm going to cut that in half." I also take Klonopin for a severe anxiety disorder, 2mg BID. She said I not going to prescribe that for you any more. She said you'll have to taper off. I said that takes a long time and besides I don't have any refills so there would not be enough to taper off. Well, she said " you'll just have to tough it out." "If things get bad just go to a hospital."

Gee, thanks Doc!!!

On that note I said to her "in that case I think I'll go out and treat myself to a couple of beers" and walked out.

Gwaredd