Posted by willyee on January 9, 2006, at 17:51:15
In reply to Re: STOP, posted by vbAgent on January 9, 2006, at 16:34:32
It`s not that i do not choose to have a porfessional help me,but lets look at what we have.......
You have to wait for youre med check,usualy 2 weeks is typical,you sit in an office and watch as your doctoer frantcly handles patient by patient.
Now you get called,and u have a 20 min session,your docter now how to remeber where you and her are,find out how you are doingmand discuss a new plan,thats quite a lot for a 20 mintute session.
Not only that but it was important to refer to your docter when all we had were books,youre average libary had no comparison with a PDR.In this day and age,you have very reliable web sites such as remedyfind,.com crazymeds.com and usualy companies themselves offer online data sheets.
You have access to people who are in the same boat as you,you can get and idea of a medication simply by asking.Now you can take all this with u and go to your docter with something,prepared for your visit.
My only disappoint is my docter doesent seem to value any thing i bring in,especialy when i normaly tell her medication doses ranges while before she even finds it in the pdr pages.
I dont wanna play docter,but with all the resources we have now that we did not have less than a decade ago,its hard to sit around and let a 20 min session be the only viable option to your mental health.
I will agree its essential people understand a group like this,and stand back and relaise its a MASS foroum and to do everything in their power to control how they use it,i personaly try to stay involved only in what relates to me,not cause im selfish,but because i dont wanna get caught up being more obsessed with medicatio than i already am.But last example,in a case of someone going on a maoi,its very unlikly that doc in that 20 min sesssion will provide you with the ENORMOUS amount of info you can obtain here,the doc will give u general info which is great,
but here you will hear from people actualy on the medication,and get a more clear idea of what it holds in store for you.I believe the phrase keep ur doc invovled was much more important in the days when we dident have many resources.
poster:willyee
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