Posted by Phillipa on January 6, 2008, at 11:58:39
In reply to Re: Anyone Know why a Med will Poop out for some?, posted by Justherself54 on January 6, 2008, at 10:43:56
I'm not sure what country you're in but it is rare at least where I am for a pdoc to use an MAOI. These are not excuses my facts of what happened to me. I thought moving to a larger city would open up possibilites to much better health care as I was at the beach. Just recently learned there is not even a pdoc in that area quite large anymore at least there was l when I was there. Found the largest practice in this new area two docs were taking patients. One in particular I thought would be good unfortunately he wasn't taking new patients. So that left me two one you needed a referral for figured must be the best one of the two. Now there are about 20 docs in this practice. Run the psych ward in the biggest psych dept of the hospital here. Well I messed up and picked one that immediately both my husband and I knew was not the right choice. Please no offense intended here but his specialty was eating disorders. I don't have one. He spent as my husband timed it 20minutes first visit and was quite obviously wanting to get the appointment done running behind he said take 30mg cymbalta first week, 60mg second week, 90mg third week, and l20mg. I said I thought the company doesn't recommend over 60mg he said I like high doses better. And it was out of there for a month. Filled the prescription and at that point was so afraid of him I think the reason I couldn't tolerate even the 30mg was lack of trust and inability to call him as they have a fancy answering system where you never talk to a doc always a machine. I say this as back at the beach I took 60mg of cymbalta and felt nothing. This time felt like my head would explode I wanted to cry and couldn't it was horrible thinking of it now. So after l0 days went off it he knew and gave me luvox again. No MAOI's are used by my current pdoc she once when I asked said oh yeah I think I still have one patient on one. Well I wanted to try EMSAM and she did give me two sample boxes. Then she said it would be too activating for me said don't take it. Just up your luvox again. Got to l50mg and didn't feel any different with the 20mg of valium. Meanwhile I had stopped seeing the lets call him scarey pdoc. Oh he also wanted to give me 120mg of geodon to start I said no. And glad I did. A wonderful babbler found me a pdoc that still uses MAOI's up here and he's in that first practice. He went to a lot of trouble for me. But still can't see the one that does use them. As far as GP's go the two I've seen refer you to a specialist for anything but things like flu and colds. I mentioned an ad he said oh I don't do them.Now I'm trying therphy. But I can't cold turkey valium and have to see the poc (old one seeing now) for refills. Now that's an 8 hour drive turn around and back home. She will use conventional meds meaning the SSRI's, trileptal, lamictal, benzos but she says my tiredness and symtoms are high anxiety. So I would love to call Dr. Phil and be sent away by him. But Id be afraid to go. And I was such a non afraid person before. It's the bad painful mental experiences with pdocs that have caused this fear and a horrible fear of dying. This is me and my story. And for the person who is not working I was ( know this sounds horrible) but relieved to know I'm not the only one and wish you the best success possible. I was doing much better til each time I saw a regular doctor they found something wrong with me scarey as I don't want to die. Thanks for listening and I know I got off track but I tried. Love Phillipa may you all have a wonderful day.
poster:Phillipa
thread:804537
URL: http://www.dr-bob.org/babble/20080105/msgs/804636.html