Posted by garnet71 on May 29, 2009, at 22:40:24
In reply to Re: Need an alternative to Abilify » garnet71, posted by jerrypharmstudent on May 29, 2009, at 22:19:11
I'm suspecting my PDoc was recently sued for scribing "controversial" meds. He always was a pretty resonable guy. I mean, if he didn't want to prescribe me d-amp, he wouldn't have done it-he could have easily said no. Instead, he asked me why I wanted it, I told him and he listened carefully; then he let me have it for a month and referred me to malpractice insurance guy-friend of his. I was going to talk to him about this in more detail, about malpractice, but never really found a good opportunity to.
Plus, they have the DEA breathing down their back. It's insane. I also think last PDoc was the same-thinking he was sued, or maybe even lost his license temporarily, sanctioned by a medical board, or almost lost his license. Just guessing...There's was never any other patient in his office, the phone never rang, and could get an appt. w/him any day, anytime I wanted. It could be that he just moved here for all I know, but he had that cynicism about him, with my treatment--the same new attitude I noticed with the other PDoc.
When my PDoc asked me who i tried for a second opinion, I told him the name of empty office guy-he got real quiet like he immediately knew why....and nodded and paused for a long time..it was the one i tried for a few months before going back to that one. He would only give me SSRIs or Wellbutrin. When I told him they made me depressed and unable to function, and almost totally nonfunctional due to amotivation, he said 'what do you want me to do?" This was after I asked for Wellbutrin and found out it didn't work anymore. Meanwhile, I find out a few months ago there's tons of other stuff that can be prescribed to make me better. There were very few doctors who wanted to be on my insurance list, and I wonder why these particular doctors wanted to go through all the red tape to be approved.
I also think doctors who would be willing to prescribe these drugs that work for people like me would appear to be suspicious by the DEA. Say, if one Doc was prescribing d-amp to 10 patients, while others only prescribe it to 1. You'd wonder if they'd get investigated. I'm going to ask some of the doctors I'm shopping for about that, because I'm really curious. Not fact, just my intuition/suspicion.
Plus all states are different with medical malpractice laws. Maybe I live in one of the worst states for that.
I'm really curious now about all this, will have to find out more and "report" back. I thought I was the only one who experienced this, sorry you had to as well.
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