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Originally Posted by *Beth*
Unbelievable experience today. I'm still asking myself if it's real, or did I dream it? Has our health care system degraded THIS badly? I see that Amazon has started a huge health care program, much of it located in and around San Francisco, and I'm keeping it on the back burner as a possibility for health care, including psychiatry.
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I managed to get the phone and call my therapist (same clinic, a different department). I honestly do not recall everything that happened, except that I kept calling and calling numbers. Somehow, there was M.'s voice telling me to breathe, that I was having a panic attack and had to breathe. She said I was hallucinating. I don't know what I said that made her say I was hallucinating. I was unstrung. M. said they had six weeks to tell me this, why had they waited until less than 48 hours, I remember she said that. And I know she asked me to give her until tomorrow (I see her tomorrow) to figure out what's going on, that we will work this out.
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I went to Michigan for a project with a law firm. I ran out of medications, and I did not have a script. So I went to a hospital and explained the situation. They admitted me into the psych ward so I could talk to one of their doctors. I told the doctor the meds and dosages. He filled out the scripts which kept me functional for a few more weeks. Problem solved. Maybe I was lucky. I later received a humungous bill for the two hours I was there, which I did not pay. They probably were charging me for a whole days stay in that psych ward. Please note that In Michigan, a hospital cannot sue for unpaid bills. But this was twenty years ago.
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Dx: Bipolar I, ADD, GAD. Rx: Fluoxetine, Buproprion, Olanzapine, Lamictal, and Strattera.
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