
Jul 11, 2014, 03:55 PM
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Originally Posted by Ripose
When I quit drinking in 2003 there was something seriously wrong with me. I believe it was serious brain damage from a suicide attempt while very drunk. Shortly after this I went into detox for alcohol and the signs of brain damage should have been obvious to people involved with my care. I did not know where I was, what year it was, severe problems walking and talking and I did not even know that I had a brother and four sisters.
My GP after the alcohol recovery blamed my problems on drinking with no thought given to brain damage, so instead I was sent to a pdoc for depression. He tried pill after pill and nothing seemed to work (due to the brain damage) and the pills only made me worse. He finally said he could do nothing more for me and left me with Risperdal, Ativan, Tegretol, Cymbalta, Nortriptyline, and Baclofen.
From then on no GP would take me seriously about brain damage even though an MRI showed my brain had atrophied and I was having seizures. So the GPs and specialists just passed me back and forth between each other and the pdoc. All of them saying there was nothing wrong me and it was up to another doctor to treat me.
Because of the MI branding I could not get treatment for any physical issues.
So here I am today with COPD, epilepsy, brain damage, Bi-Polar, social avoidance, osteoporosis, and more, yet no doctor will help me, even by just doing a medication review.
I saw my last specialist I will ever see again last week and he had a letter from my GP stating that I was MI and there was nothing wrong with me, so the specialist refused to even to listen to me.
From now on the only doctor I will see will be to get my meds refilled, I've had it!! 
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Ohhh...yeah. It is so frustrating when your doctors don't treat you for something you instinctively know you need to be treated for. I believe that oftentimes, they don't treat things because they don;t know how to, so they aim for the areas they're knowledgeable about and comfortable treating. I always wish real-life MD's were more like TV MD's...doing amazing research and coming up with revolutionary ways to treat certain problems.
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