**** Retentive New Primary Care Doctor

My primary care doctor moved to South Dakota, and my friends joked that it was to escape me. The new one is coming to my home; I am in the Home Hospice care now. I take a medication as an antihistamine called Hydroxyzine Hydrochloride, brand name Atarax. It is very chemically similar to Benadryl. If I

take Benadryl. I feel like the molecules in my body could vibrate through a wall. Hydroxyzine works well for me. It was not being brought in, so I called the PCP and talked to his nurse. She tells me Dr. X is concerned as it is for anxiety. I reply that it has an off-label use for anxiety; it is classified as an antihistamine and a

good one. It is for anxiety. I am on 12 mg of Xanax a day, and I hardly need Hydroxyzine for anxiety; if you live in my state, you will have allergy problems. I just got a call from my psychiatrist; this nurse had called her and told her they needed permission to prescribe Hydroxyzine to a Stage 4 cancer patient; she asked me, "Is he crazy?" I was unsure what to say; she electronically sent a 90-day supply with three refills. I don't normally get agitated with people I deal with. When an LPN tries to argue with me, who holds an MD from Vanderbilt Medical, about the class of Benadryl by a different name, that's agitating.

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Good to hear you have a new primary care doctor who will visit you at home.

Yes, it would be very agitating to have to explain yourself, a medical doctor, about the off-label use of Atarax. So frustrating. Good on your pdoc for writing you the script.

I hope you aren't feeling anxiety or experiencing pain ... and that you are sleeping well tonight.

How very annoying. I hope you’re doing well.