Monday, January 25, 2010

New Doctor - new medication management program

I made an appointment with a new medication management psychiatrist down here in Florida and saw him earlier this month.  I have my reservations about him though.  He changed my medications right away.   My regiment was to include meds for ADD and anxiety and he took me off of them.  I feel uncomfortable about it and tried to explain myself after our short meeting and he wanted me to be off of the drugs as they were contradicting each other.  Well then I let his office know that I may have not told him that I take my ADD medication always but only as needed is my anti-anxiety medication.  Mostly because I have situational anxiety.  He wouldn't give me scripts for either medication.  I was irritated at that.  I have been on this routine for over 4 years now and I don't want to upset the balance of my past treatment which seemed to work.

So my next appointment is for the beginning of February and I have to pay a co-pay of like $45 which I never had to with Manchester mental health...so I am going to let them know to bill me.  I am going to suggest due to cost savings that I want to see this doctor once every 3 months and that my regiment that I have been accustom to for the past 2 years has been working and that I don't have the $45 an office visit to continue according to his process.  I would like to work together as psychiatrist/doctor and patient should.  I want to stay better and not relapse in any fashion.

I have been less focused, it's been hard to concentrate on my research I do online, I get distracted very easily.  When I speak, I lose track of what I am saying and that makes for a difficult situation for me.  I just wish this doctor who is so close to me in distance would just listen to me better.  That's what should happen, instead of his normal, I am gonna get you off from all of these drugs.  That's the doctor's philosophy.  That's not my philosophy however.
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