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Old Apr 04, 2020, 10:55 AM
Anonymous35014
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Originally Posted by Wild Coyote View Post
Hi Blue,

I am deeply sorry you're still experiencing troublesome symptoms .

In many cases (you're right, not all) clients need to make an additional call to pdocs, especially in very busy practices. I do believe you have known contact with him has never been easy and/or certain.

You've told us about ongoing problems with both your current therapist and your pdoc for longer than I can recall. It's been a long time.

Various members of this community have continued to ask you IF you can negotiate better care with your providers or if you'll put the effort into locating new providers? You are asked because one or the other, or both providers so frequently fall short of meeting your needs and are often subjects of your derogatory remarks.

You've been having major difficulties, again, for weeks now, first with severe depression which had people very concerned about your safety. With a med adjustment, you had very quickly shifted into hypomania, then very quickly started experiencing psychosis. Your psychosis/delusions have caused difficulties in both your job and in your private life.

You have needed ongoing intensive support from a smaller group of members for quite a long time now. And, yes, friends do care and do want to see you not only in less pain, but truly on the road to recovery.

I know I had reminded you of the need to call your pdoc at least twice a day for at least several days now. And we all knew you'd very likely need to contact him/his office more than once. My point being: Certainly by now, you know you are going to have to be much more proactive than placing one call at the beginning of the week and allowing the week to pass by yet again.

You've continuously promised people you'd arrange a consult with your pdoc. and you've not done so. Again, you and everyone involved in your ongoing intensive care know you'd have to call more than once. Again, I have very gently reminded you, twice a day, of your need to arrange a med consult.

I am very puzzled re: what you want for yourself, what you want from other people. Some have taken a lot of time from their own lives to help you through this very difficult time of your life.

As was mentioned to you over a week ago, please take the time to consider what you want, what you need, how you can/will meet your current needs.

Carefully consider and clarify your intention(s) .

This entire effort has been about you, in support of you. What matters here is :what do you want for your life?

The squeaky wheel gets the med consult.

Much Love Always
You're right, WC. I should talk to my pdoc about arranging better care for me.

I think it would be easier to find a new pdoc internally than externally at this time, but I know that I waited 6 months or so just to get a new pdoc *within the same practice*. That's the only reason I don't want to do it right now, not when I'm unstable. While my pdoc is not giving me the level of care I need, and takes a while to get back to me because of his assistant, I don't think right now is a good time to switch internally, at least, if I have to wait 6 months or even a few months. Externally, sure... but I haven't had any luck.

Yesterday, I called up one of the places I had talked to before and they said they were not accepting new patients at this time due to the "situation" and increased needs of their patients.

Another problem is that a lot of pdocs in this area work for the local hospitals, and they don't offer outpatient services. (They only do IOP, PHP, and IP.) I had called two of the doctors' offices and they both said that they do not offer the services I want/need. One of them even said to me that none of the doctors affiliated with the hospitals do regular outpatient services. He said that they are tied up with all t he hospital programs.

Then the other one said that I need to have weekly therapy with one of their own therapists if I wanted a pdoc. I do not always need weekly therapy, and I do not want to get rid of my current therapist. I talked to her about what I needed, and that's when she promised to do a better job. She's been doing better.

I'll call my pdoc's line again on Monday to prod his assistant into responding. Then if no response, I will call the front desk and make his assistant respond, even though I really hope it doesn't get to that point I have to be aggressive like that.
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Anonymous46341, Fuzzybear, Sunflower123
Thanks for this!
~Christina