Hi guys,

My general practitioner and I really don't mesh! I've been going to her for maybe 11 years, I haven't really seen her many times but every time I have RECENTLY, she seems agitated. She yelled at me for filling medication from the ER, even tho I called and asked the staff BEFORE I filled it the next day, I was prescribed Loratab 5 mg, Flexeril 10 mg and Voltaren. When I went into my next appt. I told her I went to the ER and that I had called and the staff told me that if you had a problem with them you would've called. She looked through the report and the medications, asked me what I had filled, I told her the Flexeril and Loratab, I didn't fill the Voltaren because it was 45 dollars. She said "They didn't have a generic?" I said "that was the generic"she said "there is no way" and she wrote in my file "Didn't try this medication", and she asked "So, you filled the loratab?" I said yes and she was obviously angry, I told her that did help more than the Ultram and she yelled "Well you don't want to be on those the rest of your life!" I went ahead and filled the Voltaren when I had the funds just to see how it helped, it made me puke so I never took it again.

She was once caring, once she couldn't diagnose me, she thought I was full of it. She refused to refill my ativan and once she referred me to the Neuro, she refused to refill ANY of my medicines. She waited until I ran out of medication to tell me she would no longer be filling my prescriptions. I DID take Lisinopril for high blood pressure, I called and said I need a refill of that and she had the Nurse ask me "The doctor wants to know if you really still need the Lisinopril?" I said "Well why wouldn't I? I've been taking it for months, I would assume that if I didn't my blood pressure would go up again, right?" and she said "Well check your pharmacy by 5" which it was never called in.

So how do I go about switching doctors? I want to switch before I have to go back to her, how do I switch a doctor without a reason to see a doctor? (i.e. visiting the doctor because of a sickness) What do I do? I have NO experience with this, I just refuse to go back to her, I would rather be horribly sick for weeks than to deal with someone that is really rude to me and doesn't believe me. (BTW, my neuro had diagnosed me with Small and Large fiber sensory neuropathy, with obvious proof)

I have a good doctor in mind, where do I go from here?

Thanks guys