
Feb 23, 2023, 08:00 PM
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Member Since: Jul 2019
Location: Downtown Vibes, California
Posts: 15,701
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Thank you all dearly for your kind support. It means everything...to have the friendship of peers who really understand.
M. (therapist) raised hell in the clinic about what happened with my new pdoc appointment. So the guidance nurse, who is a sweet, caring woman, called me 4 times this morning. She said I sounded "terribly upset" and for some reason she thought I might "hurt myself."
She was very gently, but firmly, grilling me, checking on me, and of course I realized that she was considering calling 911. Uh, NO. I was upset not because I had thoughts of hurting myself. I was upset because I need a reliable pdoc to prescribe my meds.
I called the clinic where S (formerly med dude) is. But I told them I need to see the other prescriber. They HAD to have
*a reason*. So I told the intake chick that S was seeing me as a page in a text: "BIPOLAR DISORDER" - not as an individual, therefore the meds he was prescribing were not effective. The meds I'm on are excellent, but it's me who researched these meds, not S. He just grudgingly agreed to prescribe them.
So I got an appt with the other prescriber, med dudette, for 3/2.
Great. I told my regular clinic to shove it, I won't be seeing their pdoc, after all. Oh, boy. Then the clinic director called me, said they can work it out, dah, dah. NO THANKS.
I also made an appt with ANOTHER pdoc, just in case, but that one doesn't have openings until May. Okay, just as long as I have options.
Meanwhile, the sweet guidance nurse got my GP to prescribe the 40mg Prozac (which is what I've put myself on, so HA). That's the only refill I need until I see med dudette.
SO. There you have it.
The FOUR M's: therapist M., nurse M., clinic director M., and new med dudette M.
And I had a really good therapy session this afternoon.
The wind is howling and it's cold, but certainly not enough for snow. Silly weather people.
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