I had a 35 minute pdoc appointment today (lately, they've only been 20 minutes). We spent most of the time talking about meds from other doctors and trying to avoid me losing stability. We acknowledged there aren't many good options, but decided the best option for the steroid for POTs symptoms is to try it over the long weekend and have a low threshold for taking an extra mg of risperidone if I experience symptoms. I'm only going to take the morning dose. He also wants me to message my gynecologist to see if/what other options there might be to suppress my period since the first med isn't going well. The tough part with this one is there isn't info out there about using hormones to manage mood disorders so the psych part is out of my gynecologists typical work and the hormones part is out of my pdoc's typical work.

So, I've got these two factors that could mess with my stability and my pdoc is going to be gone for 3 weeks. He said he will still be watching messages though so I can reach out if needed (thank God!). He just might not get back to me as soon as he typically does.