Maybe she is bipolar?========

Dear Bizi,

I thought of that -- she also seemed more familiar with bipolar meds than other mdocs have.

She asked me if I had tried all the mood stabilzers and named some including Trileptal.

M.

Interesting thought, And really maybe a thought to keep considering.

Donna

ehhhh...

i wouldn't want to jump to too many conclusions. docs are trained to think fast and she may have been thinking aloud...

i daresay, if she IS bipolar tho, and was doing the rapid speech thing... eh, then maybe HERS isn't all that well controlled? but in such a case, she would not probably have been as organized or thorough.

as an internist she is more specialized and many psych drugs affect our glands... esp the thyroid... she may also have an interest in psychiatry, have a bipolar friend or bipolar relatives. lots of possible explanations.

if it were me (which it isn't but if it were), the next time i saw her i would tell her i was impressed by her knowledge of current bipolar treatments which i have not encountered in non-psychiatrists previously, and then ask her point blank how it is that she is so knowledgeable about the dx and the meds?

(i would not venture hypotheses, but rather leave the question open to her.)

my 2 cents.

sorry for wet blanketting the she's bipolar YEAH hypothesis. i do think it's POSSIBLE... but so are many other things.



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Hi,

This is enormously helpful to talk out.

i don't really think she is bipolar. But it was hard to get past the loud voice. I could hear her later when she was talking to other patients down the hall.

Mostly at this point in my medical journey I want someone a little pushy and thorough. I do not want lackadaisical. So she fits most important criteria.

Very important -- she is capable enough to liaison for me with my current pdoc. That is useful. Also I was impressed (used to very lousy doctoring) that she got the ER reports while I was there and read them to me. !!!!!!

They were incomplete as ER tests would be. She wants me to come back for a fasting blood draw for thyroid and cholesterol and whatever would come up on the standard tests she runs.
And she did not bat and eye when I said I would need to come in the middle of the day -- not early am for that. Some offices only do 8:00 - 8:30 m for fasting blood draws.
Even better, she did not make me go to a separate lab for that.

Also, she brought up potential sleep apnea and would try to get a lab to do a sleep study very late for me
(--not likely -- the other guy can accomodate with a 3:00 am appointment time so that I fall asleep pretty close to my almost usual 5:00 am that but she mostly likely cannot).
I might take her up on her office anyway. The sleep specialist I saw in Dec 08 is too far away (an hour plus) and frankly a little annoying -- mostly because he is a guy and I thought I recognized a tendency to bully.

I took her anti-biotic (amoxicil.. . ) for a day and a half or more and got its inconvenient side effect. I called her office earlier today to tell her I had d/c ed it.

M.

I am glad that she seemed to work out and was involved in coordinating, communicating with the other specialist, er visit and such. She sounds very accomidating.
I too prefere to work with women, at least for me and my experiences the women seem to listen better.
hope you are able to get caught up on your rest this weekend.
beth