How often do you see psychdoc?

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Registered: 08-30-2002
How often do you see psychdoc?
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Thu, 09-14-2006 - 1:04am

My partner was hospitalized and diagnosed just over a year ago. He is on Zyprexa and Lithium and doing really well. He is doing great at recognizing triggers, adjusting his schedule instead of just driving himself into stress and exhaustion. He really is doing well (after 5 med adjustments.)
He saw his Pdoc yesterday and is having his blood drawn to check his lithium levels. His pdoc still wants to see him every 8 weeks. My partner feels that 3 months would be adequate since we are both getting good at recognizing his symptoms and responding as needed.
How often do you guys see your Pdocs? Did you see them more frequently the first years of your diagnosis and if you were responding well to meds did your visits spread out a bit?

I'm just wondering because he brought it up. His doc has 400 patients and seeing him is sometimes inconvenient. It means missing work, which my partner hates, in fact he is going in early tomorrow to make up for time he missed for his appt. He doesen't HAVE to he just is.



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Thu, 09-14-2006 - 5:44am
my experience has always been...after adjusting of meds & all(which begins w/ every 2 weeks or so)to finally once a month.that's the longest i've ever been "permitted" to go between visits.
8 weeks seems like a dream.
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Thu, 09-14-2006 - 7:41am
oops post repeat


Edited 9/14/2006 12:01 pm ET by suziq.3
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Thu, 09-14-2006 - 11:58am
happened again
i'm sorry


Edited 9/14/2006 12:02 pm ET by suziq.3
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Thu, 09-14-2006 - 12:00pm
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Edited 9/14/2006 12:03 pm ET by suziq.3
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Thu, 09-14-2006 - 1:13pm
I saw mine every month at 1st, then every 2 months for the 1st couple of years, then went to every 3 months until I hit a rough patch, went back to every 2 months for 4-6 months, then back to every 3.
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Registered: 12-20-2004
Thu, 09-14-2006 - 4:12pm

Hi!


First let me say how wonderful it is to love and care about someone enough to come here and ask this for them.

Love,