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Poohbah
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#1
My last doctor hated to see me because she felt all my ailments were psychosomatic. Not once would she suggest that some of my problems were caused by medication side effects. When I complained about actual physical ailments she actually laughed at me and said it was all in my head. Every time she referred me to another doctor she would also make sure they knew I was bipolar, so the new doctor was already set to not believe anything I said before I even met him/her. some of them even treated me like a child.
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No, but they don't believe the extent of the medication side effects I have had from bipolar. What with the fatty liver issues I have now, they'd better believe it!
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I happened to get a doctor straight out of medical school and pretty much sat him down and told him that I am well-educated about my illness, what I needed in a primary care doctor and asked if he felt he could handle my care. (This was after a horrible doctor I reported to the medical board). He agreed and we spent some time feeling things out. 11 years later we have a great relationship where he trusts me and I trust him and it all works out very well. I often wonder if it would have worked the same if he'd had even a year of experience when I met him. (It also helps that we have a lot in common and probably would be friends in another situation).
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In general, no. In fact for the most part most doctors seem sympathetic to my mental illness.
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I've had docs like that in the past. Right now I'm lucky to have a smart doc that treats me as he does any of his patients.
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No. My doc is level with me on my physical issues. She works in tandem with my pdoc so that meds don't interact, etc. She also knows that I've been doing better on Latuda and she'll work out the physical side effects than say get off of it.
Now Borderline, on the other hand, I get a lot of crap about whenever I go the ER. |
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No doctors have treated me different because of my mental illness. I have became very
Open about it now and quite frankly I don't care about their perception either. __________________ schizoaffective bipolar type PTSD generalized anxiety celexa, prazosin, risperdal and prn klonopin and helpful cogentin |
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Doctors? Well, my official diagnoses is too new to really know how doctors will treat me. Mine really didn't care. All he cared about was my blood work when I went in last time.
My last ER experience, haha. That's a different story. I was a nuisance to their care, apparently. Like, why would I actually need their help, right? I was only in a mixed episode and about take myself off the map. That's not an actual emergency. Until they put me in the psychiatric holding area, the people I dealt with (outside of the on-call medical doctor), the way I was treated made me ashamed for needing help. I wasn't bleeding, so I shouldn't have taken up their time. __________________ "Give him his freedom and he'll remember his humanity." |
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I have had that unlovely situation happen a couple of times. Once I was registering for a thyroid test (my pdoc was curious to see if an imbalance was causing my symptoms) and he'd put "bipolar disorder" as the reason for the testing. The gal who was inputting the orders in the computer was friendly to start with, but the instant she saw my diagnosis she suddenly went silent and didn't speak again until she was done, and then she was curt and obviously wanted me out of her office ASAP. What did she think I was going to do---get violent and throw things at her? Give me a break!
Another time I went to urgent care to have a broken toe looked at. Instead, the doctor wanted to go over my psych history and medications rather than talk about the toe. I was lucky to have it X-rayed. I also got "the look" when he asked me what kind of painkiller I wanted and I said Percocet. Well, Vicodin doesn't help and it makes me stupid on top of that...only Percocet works. But it's hard to explain that when the doc already had an impression of me as a flake and maybe a drug-seeker too. __________________ DX: Bipolar 1 Anxiety Tardive dyskinesia Mild cognitive impairment RX: Celexa 20 mg Gabapentin 1200 mg Geodon 40 mg AM, 60 mg PM Klonopin 0.5 mg PRN Lamictal 500 mg Levothyroxine 125 mcg (rx'd for depression) Trazodone 150 mg Zyprexa 7.5 mg Please come visit me @ http://bpnurse.com |
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My doctor now hardly listens to what I say. He is over critical and a real pain in the ***. At least when I tell him I don't want to be drugged up he listens. No one is perfect, but out of all the docs I have had he is the second to worst one. So not so bad.
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I've had doctors I was tempted to eat
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I hope that my extremely positive experiences with the doctors and physician assistants mean improvements for others in the near future, since I live in Silicon Valley and we generally get good things ahead of other states.
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I am so sorry to hear this has happened to you and others. It's happened to me too over the years and is disgusting! I'm glad to hear it's not a total epidemic and that some people here have not experienced it but I have and it's done me a great deal of harm. I have physical issues and it was assumed by a few doctors that it was all psychosomatic which I went along with and conceded they were right when they weren't. It's caused me a lot of mental anguish, confusion, self hatred and doubt and it's not fair. My heart goes out to you, me and all the others who have suffered unfairly at the hands of those who assume and make unwarranted, erroneous, unfounded diagnosis. Doctors go to school so they can make educated guesses in a lot of cases and it's clear to me they don't leave their bias up their azz where it belongs sometimes. (((Hugs)))
I've had potentially and nearly DEADLY side effects and they don't care at all. This is serious and unacceptable for you, for me....for anyone experiencing it. ![]() |
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I've only had two doctors. One for five years. I know his whole life. He thinks he knows mine.
The other is a lady here in this dead town that we've moved to. The previous doctor wanted me in Adderall Adderall and Adderall. This one does not prescribe it.TG. It doesn't agree with me. Both did more Rxs than talking to me. I could have talk to the wall if I had problems. In fact they bring their problems to me. I'm their shrink. __________________ ]Roses are red. Violets are blue.[ Look for the positive in the negative. PIRILON. If lemons fall from the sky, make lemonade. Unknown. Nothing stronger than habit. Victor Hugo. You are the slave of what you say, and the master of what you keep. Unknown. |
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My mental health issues have pretty much been a non-issue with my other medical doctors. They didn't really have any input in my treatment and I didn't really talk to them about it. They were aware of my diagnosis because of the meds I was on, but they honestly never said a thing about it.
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When I was on geodon it was giving me heart problems, so I went in and saw my primary doctor. She ended up telling me my symptoms were all just anxiety related and not because of the geodon. I knew my problem was not from anxiety. I took myself off geodon and the heart pounding, fluttering in chest, unable to breathe in the afternoon all went away. I know what my anxiety feels like!
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I am treated poorly by drs, not really because of MI, but because i'm in the UK
you know, the country with the best mental health care system in the world where everyone needs to move too (lol) seriously if you've not guessed it sucks the mental health care here sucks |
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My doctors dont seem to care about me being bipolar and are more physical centered.....but they will attribute physical problems to the psych drugs in general like an abnormally low bone density from a bone a scan. They put me on a daily calcium/vit d supplement to take along with my psych meds. But as far as thinking that it's all in my head....I don't see it because I don't get the brush off.
Because of insurance problems like lack of mental health coverage....my doctor is filling my prescriptions but doesn't like it. Once a Little presented at a dr appointment and kept telling him that we were a multiple and talked about doggies....it made him very nervous until one of the guys spoke up to ask about acid reflux meds...the doctor started to grin but we got down to business. It was funny how all that went. But anyways....I'd find a new set of doctors if possible away from them yoyo's. Good luck honny! ![]() |
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Hasn't really been a problem. Great PHP, very real. Seriously, she's a delight.
My med list is right there whenever I've seen anyone. Only recently has a AP been added to it, but I don't really anticipate problems with that. I also personally strive to not give them reason to believe in "problematic" stereotypes and am low maintainence --emotionally, for them, that is. I aim to shatter preconceptions of all sorts. (I'd probably go so far as to cancel if needed to preserve this. Maybe that is wrong, but fighting the stigma means a lot, and I don't want to make future trouble for myself if it can be helped.) There was (arrogant) weirdness one time with a referral doctor, but I don't think it was MI related, so much as he was just being a bit of an asz. (Haha, wouldn't it be great if we had a "donkey" emoticon? ![]() (I did have an outburst one time switching dentists -- they were being jerks about transferring my records -- but that was about 10 years and many hundreds of miles ago. So that's safely in the vault. ![]() |
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Poohbah
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