Do you tell your pDoc what YOU want?

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Registered: 10-05-2003
Do you tell your pDoc what YOU want?
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Wed, 09-20-2006 - 8:56pm

I'm wondering how you conversate and talk to your pdoc about meds and things like that? Do you just sit back and let them decide what's best for you? Do you suggest what you think is best for you? Like increasing or decreasing dosages?


I just wonder what kind of relationship you have or should have with your pdoc and how you know if he/she is working well for you?


My reason I ask, the first pdoc I went to put me on 2 meds right off the bat .. when I went back for my first follow up visit and told her I didn't feel any different from anything .. instead of increasing dosage she tried to put me on a 3rd med! So I freaked and never started the 3rd med, and my therapist helped wean me off the other 2 (lexapro and wellbutrin - both low dosages IMO) ...


...so last month I decided to try meds again ... my first visit he puts me on 2 meds at once again .. I just don't get that .. how do you know which one is working, and which one is doing what ... but anyway .. I do feel "better" in some ways, a lot less anxiety (but which one is doing that?) but not 100% difference ... so when I go back for my first follow up in a couple weeks I wonder if I can just tell him that I would like to increase the dosages and see what that does for me (if he tries to put me on a 3rd med I will quit like I did the first time because that is just NOT right to me!) Right now I'm on 75mgs of Effexor XR and 7.5 twice a day of Tranxene ... so just wanted some opinions and how you work with your pdoc?


Thanks all!

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Registered: 03-22-2003
Thu, 09-21-2006 - 9:23pm

At my last appointment, my pdoc knew NOTHING about me.

Sheri Ann

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Registered: 03-22-2003
Thu, 09-21-2006 - 9:27pm

I guess one of the more frustrating things for me is that I LIKE my pdoc.

Sheri Ann

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Registered: 10-05-2003
Thu, 09-21-2006 - 10:22pm
I think that is one of my more major concerns, is a trust issue. I know he obviously went to school for a very long time and knows things, but he doesn't know ME .. so that is one of the things that makes me .. nervous for lack of a better word I guess.

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