Also I have a doctor’s appointment this morning, the second time this week. Hugs
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I hope the appointment brought you some answers, Scottie.
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Hi Ali. Not yet. More questions and more tests. Which means more appointments. Hugs
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Let me guess: two weeks between the appointments, too. That seem interminable with the waiting. I remember we went through that a couple of years ago. You can keep it together-I know you can!
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Hi Ali. Oh it is worse. She needed time to talk to the real doctor about me. She offered me an appointment on December 5th but I already had a doctor’s appointment on that day so my appointment is for December 10th. It simply was her asking me questions and me giving brief answers that was it. If I started to go into any detail she said we had to stay on track because she had limited time. She was nice, young, and I think she is not able to handle my abuse. She talked about us setting up a life plan for better living to help me. ???? What the dog days is that. I need something or someone to help me deal with the abuse and how it harmed my mind / emotions. I don’t want a life plan for better living. She was really into if I was a loner. How can I ever be a loner I have a blog and computers that that keep me forever plugged into a world community. Hugs
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You know, I bet the group/company with whom she works requires a certain number of face-to-face appointments every day, and gives their providers guidelines for what to say and how to do what the company allows them to do. Please don’t take it personally; she probably can’t help because her position with her firm only allows what it allows.
A life plan sounds like a company-recommended treatment plan. Maybe you can talk to your real doctor-I guess your primary care doctor?- about it, and how to go about getting what you need from this other group.
It’s tough to find good people to work with mental health these days! I remember when I was first working with the anxiety; I needed a diagnosis from a therapist to go to my primary care provider so they could work together on any medication that might be indicated. The therapist wasn’t interested in talking about anything but medication management, once she saw I wasn’t a danger to myself or others. The first time I went, she re-upped the xanax I’d received, so I had a scrip for .25 mg, taking a half-tablet per day, at night. Worked great. The second time, she said she’d send a rec to my doc for some antidepressant or another. She never did. Each time I went-I got 6 appointments under our coverage-she recommended a different antidepressant, but didn’t follow through with my provider. Fine with me; what we were doing worked for me, and I learned ways to ward off panic attacks from blogs and threads with people who also have bad anxiety, and how to keep the butterflies level low. My primary care provider asked me one time if I wanted antidepressants, and I told her honestly I was a little afraid of them. She thought we should just stick with what we were doing, and we’d look at it again at my next wellness exam. I’ve been fortunate with primary care providers, for sure! A year later, I was off the med., and things are still going all right. I can recognize when something may be coming on, and beat it before it does. The therapist was not worthwhile, although I did at least get a diagnosis. Here’s hoping your situation works out well, too.
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Hi Ali. I am so happy your anxiety situation worked out and that you do not need the medications anymore. Antidepressants and anxiety medications can have serious side effects.
My primary care provider and the therapist work for the same group. They are supposed to work as a team together for my needs. I am willing to give her time to get things worked out. I just have had doctors that are D.O. doctors instead of MDs. I don’t care for them and her language at the end struck me as how they talk. Life plans and healthy living cores. The self healing and healthy living new age stuff. But I will give her time to show what she plans to do to help me. I told her I was there for help with my intrusive thoughts issue mostly, not dealing with my past or my PSTD / OCD / and attention deficet issues. I just need to stop the voices in my head that hate me. Hugs
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Yep, that strikes me as D.O., too. They do things like make a woman wait for an epidural to be sure she can’t take the pain, but then it’s too late for an epidural, being in a different stage. They can be very good, and I know they work just as hard in school. But I’d rather have an MD. Sometimes a person needs medicine.
And I shared that not so much about me, but to give an experience that sounds similar to yours as to working within US medicine. If they’re both with the same group, well, there you go. They’ll each and both be restrained by what the group allows.
It will be time for you to be very assertive so that they will give you the care you need. Use their valuable time to be very assertive about what you need.
I wish things didn’t have to be so hard down there, Scottie.
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