Shady dr’s?

Anyone encounter a bad doc?? Maybe he hit on you. Maybe he’s giving you narcotics when your file says you have an addictive personality.

Last time I was IP I was also abusing suboxone. I had no reason to be on it. I never had a issue with opiates. But I started to use it recreationaly and got sucked in. I was in hell with suboxone for 4 years. Well I tried to sneak in a sub when on suicide watch. It melted on me. So I knew I’d go into WD in IP. I told the Dr exactly what I just wrote and I said “look if I don’t get 2mg a day I’ll get sick”. He said ok! And when I was leaving he offered me a script!! I refused it, went home, and detoxed. It was pure hell.

I danno, to me that’s pretty wrong since I even admitted that i was abusing the drug and had no medical reason to be on it.

I had one pdoc tell me not to worry about self harming because it was no big deal

Omg that’s horrible!

One dr told me that 900mg of lithium couldn’t possibly be too much and there was no way I was toxic. I was shaking so bad I couldn’t write my name and I was a complete zombie. I ended up IP and got tested and yup, toxic. He was willing to risk my kidneys just because he thought I wanted attention.

Yep same thing happened to me. I had a blood test and the dr never looked at it until I called and asked. I got a call back saying I’ve been toxic the whole time and my thyroid and kidneys were screwed.

There are definitely bad pdocs out there, the profession sometimes attracts narcissists and sometimes worse.

I have been in patient one time, I had a bad reaction to topamax and it made me a danger to myself. There was a horrible pdoc there. Even though I told him I was bipolar he prescribed me an antidepressant (by itself) which is a huge no-no for people with bipolar. He also treated me horribly and made several other patients cry and feel invalidated. Once I got out I went to the patient advocate and filed an official grievance over the conditions of the unit and the treatment of myself and the other patients. They had to take me seriously because of my stable history and my professional background, they couldn't just write me off as a "crazy woman' which sadly happens all the time. It's a huge problem, abusive doctors get away with it because of the stigmas against people with mental illness. My one positive thing out of being hospitalized is that they fired him because of my grievance.

Anyways off my soapbox. Just wanted to chime in, yes there are shady docs out there.

I had a IP Pdoc refuse to give me my asthma inhalers ... why ? He thought I didn’t need them ( eyeroll)

The first time I went IP, the psychiatrist there decided I was on the autism spectrum because I wasn't getting laid. Seriously. He turned a discussion about my not having a girlfriend in particular and having trouble with relationships in general (all normal issues with someone depressed and/or undiagnosed bipolar [which I was at the time]) into proof of sexual dysfunction flying out the wazoo. And he wrote it up in my report. Gee, if I didn't have a complex before.

Once i was IP in the medical hospital for lithium toxicity. They cut my other meds in half (an intern the night I was admitted with no authority to do this). This was a weekend so the psychiatrist was the on-call luck of the draw. I got an old man, old school pdoc who works in pain management and doesn't see psych patients. He's used to being tough and not giving into arguments. I think he has develope the idea that h is always right and challenging this makes him mad.

He absolutely refused to increase my doses. I kept telling him that without my full dose of Seroquel I would easily go manic/mixed and that the lowered doses meant I wasn't sleeping which just would further increase the chances I would implode.

He not only refused to help he walked out while I was talking.

i was there 4 days and nobody ever did get my medx fixed. They were REALLY glad to see me leave.

Omg that is horrible! And definitely crossing boundaries

Do therapists count?

My first therapist said "there was no way you could have experienced depression before" since I didn't know what "depression" really was. (No one ever educated me on mental illness!) I was capable of describing my feelings, but I didn't know it was called depression. I thought it was normal sadness because I had felt that way for so long... I only called it depression because that's what my pdoc said. Then she called my pdoc a liar. Literally, she said, "That's not true. That's a lie." and she told me that I "should just take a stimulant because it's ADHD" and I'll feel better

lol...