[kayray23]

So I told my psychiatrist about my eating disorder, and he just raised my medication. He didn't even recommend that I see a specialist or a dietician. This is so weird. I feel so alone and confused.

[Skeezyks]

Hello kayray23: Why does this not surprise me? I see my pdoc for about 10 minutes every three or four months. He asks me a few general questions about how I'm doing. Sometimes he'll suggest a med I can take if I want to. The last time I saw him, I mentioned that I'm experiencing minor tremors throughout my body. They're not so significant that anyone else would notice them. But I feel them. He offered to write me a prescription for Neurontin. I declined. I don't understand why psychiatrists are that way. But it just seems like they are. If you want anything more than another prescription, you won't get it from your pdoc. I guess the good thing, in my case, is that at least my pdoc doesn't try to push me into anything I don't want. It's just all up to me. I do appreciate that. I think, if you feel that you have an eating disorder, perhaps the best thing to do is to contact an eating disorders program yourself. Good luck with this...

[ComfortablyNumb5]

Some pdocs are like this. They don't give a crap how you're doing. They just rather write the script and send in the next patient. I've had a lot of docs like this actually. I'm very surprised at this though. You admitted something that most docs would offer IP too and he said nothing. Wow. I would be pissed enough to change pdocs.

However what he should of suggested was dietitian and therapy. If it's so out of control that those things won't help, then check into a treatment center for eating disorders. Now I'm sure you already know all that. You took the right step by telling a professional. You just didn't get the right answer.

Dx: BP2, PTSD, bulimia/anorexia
Risperdal 4mg
Trileptal 300mgs
Buspar 45mgs
Ativan 1mg PRN
Vyvance 70mgs PRN

[eskielover]

They don't offer inpatient usually unless your health is in danger. I had lost a huge amount of weight & pdoc didn't notice it until mynah said something to him about it. I was at a dangerously low weight & even though I had no insurance to cover it....he got some grant money to cover the stay he forced me into at an ED treatment facility. It didn't do any good because in reality at the time I wanted to die. Go figure..it was right before thanksgiving around 1996.

The second time I was dealing with bad anorexia, my MD was the one initially caring for me because I was dealing with my mother who was dying of cancer & refused to go into the psych hospital for treatment with my pdoc. MD & pdoc did talk to each other about my care though....ended up in the medical hospital over Christmas then again the night my mom died. In a way that was good because I got support I wouldn't have had at home in my bad marriage.

Pdocs react according to how serious they perceive the problem to be. Last time my pdoc left it up to my MD to monitor.

[ahdm]

My first psychiatrist was like this with me. I told him about my eating disorder behaviours, and he just skipped over it and ignored it as if I hadn't said anything. That was about a year ago, and despite also having told my GP, I've been given no help whatsoever, and I am basically in the dark about my own treatment..

I hope you can get some help soon. Keep pestering them.