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Originally Posted by BAlive
As far as self diagnosis, I am no doctor but I know what I feel inside and all to often doctors do not listen and are quick to prescribe that latest and greastest medication without further insight into the actual cause of the symptoms. Experimenting on a patient with various medications till "we get it right" can be quite dangerous especially when you can not identify the specific condition. A balance of therapy and medication, I feel, is far more benificial after determining what the actual condition is. Instantly medicating someone is not always the best answer.
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yep. true, true, true, true....
Lexapro isn't exactly latest, though, and greatest and certainly Klonopin is not. they are consistent with this doctor's diagnosis. Your Trileptal (oxcarbazepine) is probably about as new as Lexapro, give or take a year.
what i find most disturbing about your doctor is:
- his readiness to rip you off medication that was helping. whatever happened to "if it ain't broke, don't fix it"
- his insistence that you resume a medication which you suspended due to severe problems, and especially problems that suggest your original diagnosis might have been on or closer to the mark
- his unwillingness to listen to you
- his not calling you back or having another doctor call you back, for a WEEK, when you were on a new med and had problems
really, i think i'd want a new psychiatrist. at very least a second opinion from one. but i'd go to a new person, and if i liked them even a little bit better, i'd try switching. sometimes it takes switching people as well as switching meds.
you seem well informed - it's not as though you are grabbing at diagnoses out of the blue. self-assessment is important. professionals are needed to diagnose, but the way we feel, and our self-assessment count. it is important input.
keep posting. we'll stick with you.
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