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Originally Posted by ~Christina
I’m sorry that your healthcare works that way. Is there an option to want a second opinion? While keeping your current one ??
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Thank you Christina, like so many things in our health care system, it is theoretically possible but in practise not going to happen. The pdoc would have to decide to give a second opinion and that is just down on their list of priorities when they have months long waiting lists of patients who have no psychiatrist at all.
My pdoc is willing to try any med I would suggest. I learned about Rexulti on this forum and it turned out he had samples in his office he had never given anyone so I got those and have been on this med since.
I've also been in IP many times in the manic phase and have gotten the same meds from them: either olanzapine or oxycarbamazapine, that's it.
I don't get hospitalized when I am depressed, at least not so far.
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Originally Posted by happywoman
Thankyou ticomsin for this thread. Over the last decade I have had more up than down episodes but your post reminds me of the fragility and danger of the down and what goes with depression and suicide.
After an episode of pychosis and hypomania I’m on my way down but I hope the slippery slope reaches a plateau even if it is a new low level line on the graph.
The new podc has offered me the same as the previous pdoc, nothing new so I’ve come to consider that modern psychiatry can offer me no cures and nothing new in 10 years.
I hope that there are new research breakthroughs each day!
I remember the last times I had depression they were must harder to treat and took a lot of medication , different medical opinions, a truckload of patience and much love and support from family and friends.
I wish you care and support as you work towards regaining stability
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I also hope you find a plateau that you can climb your way out of. You are fortunate to have the support and love from family and friends.
There are a few new meds that have come out in the last few years but finding a psychiatrist who prescribes them is a different story. I am on one of these meds, rexulti, which is an AP approved for schizophrenia and in trials for bipolar. This is ok since the main symptom that gets me into trouble are delusions.
Last time I was really depressed my pdoc added wellbutrin, when I asked for it, and it helped lift me out of the worst of the depression but then just made me anxious so I stopped. I have this chronic, anxious depression that is my usual state. Now sleep is disrupted so it is back on olanzapine at night until I stabilize.