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Originally Posted by giddykitty
This is kinda to you and WC. Spending all that money for what I can get here is my skeptiscm with "providers". The only really great doc I've experienced is my GP. He even takes emails and refills my prescriptions over that or via a phone call. Did not get that convenience with my former pdoc. Had to keep making appointments, wait hours only then to have just 10 minutes of a session. And the advice I was being given was just repeated every session. And she and the therapist never talked with each other, so I never got that aspect of things. Sigh! So I dunno. I'm very anxious about trying to venture into that sort of help again. Plus, I'd likely have to travel longer distances for a new and more decent specialist. Seems like local healthcare here just plain sucks.
Lucky my urgent care ("ER") visit went well, but they'll give me a big hassle about paying the bill, which will likely be expensive and require me to go pay in person. It's such a pain in the butt!
Did manage to get stuff done today though. Figured out an alternative dinner and I rescheduled my appointment. I'll have to plea for the mercy of my GP to refill my prescriptions one more time though since the new appointment is over a month away. :/
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Well you might like your GP but GP’s simply don’t have enough education to prescribe more than an AD to someone who appears to have garden variety depression.
Sure coming here and receiving enormous amount of responses is all good but .... no one here can diagnose you of course. But with so many threads and posting in the check in thread it is very difficult to follow , hopefully if this is the thread you have decided to use from now on.
You have been reading about struggles that many members and myself included ., have and talk about medications and personal experience. Maybe your learning a lot about BP ..but your not learning about YOUR bipolar
You need a Pdoc. Your GP is not going to be able to Treat Bipolar. He/she just can’t. Yes we all make an appt with a Pdoc and hope we find a good one, thinking your going to just waste money is not a reason to just hop skip and jump along your unstable life certainly isn’t any way to live. Surely you want to enjoy life, find a job you enjoy, have fun times with your husband.., I’m sure he wants you to feel better.. I imagine he’s very concerned about you.
Phone calls are tough for a lot of people but honestly when you need to make necessary calls just grab the phone and it will be over with. Your GP if your worried about your monthly being a problem then call and just say “ I’d like an appt in 2 weeks “ done , no longer a stress.
Anyway I’m glad you have this thread and hopefully you will continue to receive lots of support
