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| Tue, 12-13-2005 - 9:25pm |
Ok I know I've been MIA. Its been a very very long few days. Christine is NOT sleeping. I'm not kidding. Today she has been awake since 5:45 am with a couple of 20 min. naps. Makes it rather hard to get online.
Anyways, saw my new pdoc today and quite unhappy with the experience. He talked about himself most of the time, I'm not kidding.. I know more about him than I ever cared to.. I don't know maybe he was trying to gauge my reaction. He didn't ask about what was going on that was worse than usual. Without really talking about it at all he asked about compulsive behaviour.. yeah well I'm extremely OCD, no secret about that. He says that OCD is many times misdiagnosed as bi-polar, so he thinks I'm OCD and depressed and not bi-polar. Yeah OCD explains my inability to sleep from not being able to put my thoughts to rest, but what about the rest?!??!
So, he put me on Lexapro to control the OCD and that's all he's doing. I'm at my wit's end. Life is going completely wrong here and he doesn't care.. I'm getting no help. I'm not coping well, having anxiety attacks, getting very angry very easily, very depressed. *sigh* I don't know...
HELP!





I am so sorry you had a bad doctor visit. It really sucks when you feel like someone isn't hearing you... especially when you really need their help.
Has your doctor ever heard that giving someone who is Bipolar a serotonin medication without a mood stabalizer can result in a manic episode? I am no doctor.. just something that I have heard along the way. You might want to ask him this.
Anyway... (((HUGS))) and I hope you feel better soon!
Kris
Thanks for the support.
Luckily, I do have to stay on my Lamictal since I'm also epileptic and its my epilepsy medication.