Re: How do you get them to prescribe the med you want?

Posted by stargazer2 on May 13, 2010, at 22:56:17

In reply to How do you get them to prescribe the med you want?, posted by conundrum on May 12, 2010, at 12:47:40

I never heard of post-SSRI syndrome, what is that? Is it a standard diagnosis? And what is iatrogenic anhedonia...induced by medical causes?
Just curious about those things you list for your condition.
As I skim the posts related to your questions about getting a med you want, I am amazed by the number of different posts and advice on what meds might work, etc.
It tells me that even though depression is a disease of sorts, unlike other diseases, no two doctors will ever appraoch the treatment of depression the same. If you had them in one room answering your questions about different medications, all of their responses would be different.
No wonder it takes years for some of us to get to the root of the problem if we ever do. Nothing about this disease can be measured or scanned to verify a diagnosis or determine the effect of any medication. It relies solely on subjective information, which is never presented as accurately as it needs to be by the patient, and even if it was, the docs all interpret things differently, so the end result would never reach the same conclusion.
No wonder why we are on a search and find mission to come up with answers for ourselves. I wonder if patients do better when they listen and follow their docs advice or only if they push for their own choice of meds.
That is what many of us have resorted to doing in a desparate attempt to get to a solution sooner.
And I'm wondering how successful any of it is since depression is chronic for so many of us and will recur whether you take meds or not. So in the long run, I'm not so sure meds are really the answer, but when I tried to stop meds completely, things have gotten much worse, so you can't even prove this theory.
I'm at a point that my doc will almost prescribe anything I ask him for because we've been on this mission for 20 years together and I do my homework and remind him of my reactions to meds I've taken that he's forgotten, so we respect each others opinion which helps.
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How do you get them to prescribe the med you want? conundrum 5/12/10
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Re: How do you get them to prescribe the med you want? » Phillipa conundrum 5/12/10
Re: How do you get them to prescribe the med you want? linkadge 5/12/10
Re: How do you get them to prescribe the med you want? » conundrum softheprairie 5/13/10
Re: How do you get them to prescribe the med you want? » softheprairie conundrum 5/13/10
Re: How do you get them to prescribe the med you want? g_g_g_unit 5/13/10
Re: How do you get them to prescribe the med you want? » g_g_g_unit conundrum 5/13/10
Re: How do you get them to prescribe the med you want? » conundrum ed_uk2010 5/13/10
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Re: How do you get them to prescribe the med you want? » conundrum bulldog2 5/13/10
Re: How do you get them to prescribe the med you want? linkadge 5/13/10
Re: How do you get them to prescribe the med you want? ed_uk2010 5/13/10
Re: How do you get them to prescribe the med you want? » ed_uk2010 conundrum 5/13/10
Re: How do you get them to prescribe the med you want? stargazer2 5/13/10
Re: How do you get them to prescribe the med you want? g_g_g_unit 5/14/10
Re: How do you get them to prescribe the med you want? » stargazer2 conundrum 5/14/10
Re: How do you get them to prescribe the med you want? » g_g_g_unit conundrum 5/14/10
Re: How do you get them to prescribe the med you want? Dan_MI 5/14/10
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