Posted by AMenz on August 11, 2001, at 0:41:45
In reply to changing psychiatrist, posted by Doo on August 9, 2001, at 15:52:47
I can empathize with your situation. After being with one psychiatrist for 11 years he made a serious mistake that send me into a severe episode by completely changing all my meds. I went through 5 before becoming restabilized.
If you don't feel well, he doesn't change your meds and gives you an appointment in two months, I would tend to think it might be best to look for another second opinion. I would continue with the old psychiatrist until I found a new one.
Insofar as a mistake, examine whether she merely tried a medication that failed and has corrected it or is she clueless as to your condition. Unfortunately, medications are trial and error. So you have to use your judgment. I knew the negative psychiatrist because of his inability to go back to tried and true medications that needed readjsuting.
Good luck and continue to post during this bad period. These things do get better even if at present it doesn't seems so. Searching for the right medication combo can be very draining
> Hi everyone,
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> I'm in a frustrating position. I was seeing a psychiatrist and since she made a mistake I thought she wasn't that good... So I made some efforts finding another one. And I saw him this morning and I'm not so sure about what to think. With the first one, I could discuss about different meds, and this morning I found myself in a situation where I was answering questions but I didn't detect a great ability to listen... Now I don't know if I should wait until my next appointment before I try to come back to my first doc. I feel bad about all this. I guess I was expecting a great doc who would have talked with me rather than asking me ten times between what month and what month did I take effexor, and serzone, and paxil, etc. Who would have said to me "what you're taking is not appropriate, you have to take this and that". But he did not change anything in my medication.
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> Maybe it will be clearer after I meet him the second time. Which is in two months.
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> Thank's for reading,
> Doo
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