Posted by lymom3 on September 9, 2006, at 9:30:05
In reply to Well.........., posted by willyee on September 8, 2006, at 20:55:08
I really have nothing helpful to add except amazement that there are completely uncaring docs out there like that. My pdoc will knows that I look at these kind of boards, that I do research into what I think might help me and what has helped others so if I go in knowing I need a med change because it's not working, he will listen to me and most times he's does exactly what I've researched.
Most recently when I was crying like a fool all the time and wanted to give up on Topamax, I told him in one sentence that my research online had told me that it is very dose sensitive and that if you are taking too much or too little you might as well not be taking it at all. So instead of letting me quit, he doubled my dosage. I didn't want to, I dragged my feet, but here I am a month later feeling better than I have in 20 years.
His comment to me was that I told him what I needed to do, I just didn't want to take my own advice. That kind of made me feel better like he didn't think that I was mad as a hatter and he did consider my thoughts and I did have input in my own life. To go in with research and be dismissed out of hand would infuriate me...it's your life.
Wish I had some brilliant idea for you but I don't. Good luck though...
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