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Originally Posted by newbie
The fear here is which one is likely to say.. (we have all heard this one)
"It's all in your head!"
After they have done all the physical tests eg MRI, cats, lumbers etc etc (You know the ones) and they are all negatives (I am aware of false negatives)
A regular psychiatrist has ALREADY said it is NOT all in the head... I wonder why a 'neuro' psychiatrist is recomemded?
The GP is now accepting the pain levels and is prescribing pain meds well (at long last)
So why the 'neuro psychiatrist'?
I'm not explaining this well am I?
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Hi~
Sounds like the definitions have been worked out, so I'll offer my experience.
My daughter saw a neuropsychologist when she was experiencing some major brain fog symptoms and we were trying to determine if it was seizure symptoms, medication symptoms (depakote), or something else. She had several visits of one or more hours and all sorts of testing cognitive and personality functioning. (intelligence, verbal and non-verbal learning skills, attention capacity, sensory-perceptual functioning, visual-motor intergration, personality and emotional functioning,...looks like about 15 different battery of tests!)
I was referred to a neuropsychiatrist after about 3 years of complaints of neurological and other symptoms, and had seen about six separate specialists, and none of them could find much of any explanation for my many systemic symptoms. I was a little fixated on the 'pyschiatrist' part and thought my PCP had just had enough of me (and I think that part is absolutely true..when I told her my legs were buzzing nonstop,
she assumed I was hearing the buzzing).
BUT... the neuropsych ran EMG's (nerve tests) and all sorts of bloodwork to rule out various autoimmune disease, antibody tests, Lyme disease, and more. He did ask me some questions, I think, looking for anxiety/depression, etc. He had also just about given up, telling me many symptoms were all subjective (things I could feel, but they could not 'see' or 'prove') and that he had very little objective information to go on. He was nice enough to say he didn't doubt I was experiencing it all, but I would just have to wait for more to develop (and to call him if I started falling down!) . But as I was leaving his office from the third visit, empty handed one more time, HE SUDDENLY THOUGHT to test me for B12 deficiency...and that turned out to be what the other eight other doctors had missed!! Within a few months I was well on my way to recovery~ slow but sure over the next couple years. Major improvements occured within 3-6 months.
Don't be afraid...just go. It might be the doctor who actually thinks of something nobody else has thought of. ANd if it isn't.... just keep on that merry-go-round... until you finally get some answers.
Cara