i'm going out of my mind!
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| Fri, 12-08-2006 - 10:20am |
tdoc told me to call pdoc to discuss ect. pdoc refers me to an ect specialist and gives me the number to call. tdoc makes me promise to call him today and for me to call her when i have done so. i get home from my morning bus run and call the number pdoc gave me and guess what? the number has been disconnected! so i looked up the number in the phone book to see if i wrote it down wrong or if he changed his number and the number pdoc gave me was the one in the book. so i called pdoc and left her a message to that effect and am waiting for her to call me back with another specialist. i'm so sick of all of this. so now i have to call tdoc and tell her what's going on. and on top of all this i had to sign a contract of safety last night with tdoc. i just want to feel better. i've been here for so long now and i told tdoc last night that i feel like i'm a waste of time to everyone i know. she says its the depression talking but i'm not convinced. anyway, that's my update. thanks for listening.
traci

I'm sorry, but at this point....why can't the tdoc/pdoc get a hold of the darn specialist themselves and get this worked out already?
God could not be everywhere, so
it just got better.........not. i called pdoc and left the message about the disconnected number, she called me back and gave me the new number. so i called the number only to get a voice mail stating (a) that they are only open on monday's, wednesday's and thursday's and (b) they're only taking new patients age 65 and older! so i don't even bother to leave a message and call pdoc back. she says call back and leave a message anyway because the ect is a separate practice from his "normal" practice which happens to be geriatric. so i called back and left a voice mail so i'm hoping that they call back on monday and tell me they can set me up with an appointment soon. but the way my luck runs they'll say they won't see me 'cause i'm not 65. did i mention this sucks??? thanks for listening.
traci
First off traci, it IS the depression talking....don't psych yourself into thinking it is something else. Secondly I have to echo Donna on this....after dealing with DW during her severe depression, I don't understand why your pdoc and tdoc don't compare notes, call someone and make the appointment themselves. When DW was told point blank by a MC that she needed to see a pdoc and get meds before the MC could do much more, she told me I needed to do all the calling and appointment setting because she couldn't handle the run around. When I say all the calling, I had to call pdocs, see if they took our insurance, then call insurance and get pre-approval, then find out FINALLY after calling around half a day, that the actual mental health was provided by one company and our main insurance was just the paper pusher and that several of the earlier pdocs I had called that said they DIDN'T take our insurance would accept us under the mental health providers name.....call some more....GRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!!!!!!!!!!!!
The proverbial THEY can't make the system MORE complicated for a depressed person to try and muddle through when that person doesn't even feel like opening their eyes in the morning.
tk
Yes, I agree...pdocs seem to make it SO freaking difficult these days...they just write a stupid rx and send you on your way...sorry, i'm venting again...
i hate my pdoc...and i can't see anyone else. Lovely.
You can vent to me all day long about that issue Keli....if you've seen many of my other posts you know I feel like all the pdoc does anymore is go "Humm" a couple of times, then "O.K., here's your rx see ya in a mo. That'll be $350. Please pay as you make your next (worthless) appointment." Worthless added by me obviously.
tk
exactly...i called my stupid pdoc (stupid being used literally here) on Thursday and told her how badly i was doing, that i was going through classic withdrawal symptoms from lexapro -- the brain zaps, nausea, vomiting, dizziness, severe depression...and from Ativan -- heart palpitations, feeling like i can't breathe, panic attacks...she had the nerve to tell me i shouldn't be going through withdrawal because "its been a week off them" WHATEVER. That I should INCREASE Risperdal (i gained 10 pounds since LAST MONDAY). But that I should watch it, and monitor it, and if it gets worse, to let her know.
I was so angry. She doesn't know me from Adam...my old pdoc however, knew me VERY well, and even told me once that i know more about my bp than she did at this point, and she let me pretty much rx myself if i needed to. This chick sees me for 3 minutes, says how are you, and takes me off all my meds, since i'd been off them for a few days due to scheduling issues, that i must not need them. I have been on Ativan for over 5 years, NEVER once did i abuse them, or ask to increase it, or get more of them...since being off, I've had anxiety attacks constantly.
OMG.
The way it is here, there is a huge shortage of pdocs, and NONE of them are taking new patients til sometime after April or May of 2007. I'm getting on that list.
U G H ! ! ! ! ! !
So, this is the reason i hesitate to put my 16 y/o kid on meds...
I think we may have officialy "hi-jacked" a thread, but what the hey.
The shortage of pdocs is critical just about nation wide from what I have been reading in articles. Same problem my family and I have every time we move (which seems to be about every 3 to 5 yrs LOL), we have to wait 3 to 6 mo to get in to see a pdoc. Makes it a pain. We have gotten to where we make sure we have a yrs rx before we leave a place/pdoc.
tk