Once I had a female social security psychiatrist that was so angry when I was triying to express myself and saying what I believe I had, or if I had sawn some interesting medication for what I thought I had.
She made fun about me saying that I should study Psychiatrist, but at the moment she was the doctor so I haven’t had anything to say or something like this.
Now I’m in another PDOC and I feel shame when I want say him some research I did.
Am I in my right or perhaps they could feel bad and to spoil our relationship doctor-patient ?
My previous psychiatrist use to tell me about all the available meds. Then she asked me what do I prefer. She even let me choose my own dosage depending on how I was doing. Although she gave me free range she did give me a little nudge in the right direction.
Your psychiatrist should value and respect your input as a pasient
There are only a limited variety of AP’s available therefor I feel we should have a choice in what we use. Knowing the side effects etc of meds help us to have insight into our treatment and this illness.
That’s a bunch of crap. We are the only ones that know how we feel ,I’m finally on the meds I want,. Maybe luck but I’m way better of than if I just had kepty mouth shut . Some of the reason I asked was price,. But my doctor put me on Zoloft just to pacify me but it helps tremendously. He said it wouldn’t help but we can try it. We need doctor’s that know how the drugs react but they need our input and the ability to just try something else if we’re in need of improvement and willing to take the risk. Don’t feel bad and keep pushing for other drugs if you want to take the chance of possibly getting worse or improvement.
I think it is the right of the patient to be informed of their choices…Im a neuroscience major psych minor and learned a lot about different medications via several of my courses, thus I was able to talk with my prescribers about what meds I would try which I wouldn’t and why. I wasn’t given any trouble for it. I have also asked for certain meds before, like when I learned prazosin was good for nightmares. Some doctors I imagine will be arrogant and only prescribe what they want to, but a good one will listen to their patients concerns.
Some worked, some didn’t. I proposed abilify and it turned out to be the med for me. Modafinal…made me psychotic. I asked for OxyContin once before I wanted to take meds and when I was a bad substance abuser and he said “Nah that stuffs too strong”…Only thing he really proposed to me was naltrexone…that was 100% his idea and it changed my life. Although I was one of the first person he prescribed it to. Later he asked me “How does it work?” cuz he could see how good it was effecting me and I said “Idk you’re the doctor”. In the future I may ask to go down to 5 mg of abilify because I don’t think I need 10. But not yet.
Lol Nah I was just very delusional at the time and he’s a very empathetic guy. I was joking too and he knew it. Thank god I never got into opiates because they’re deadly and addictive.
I gave him a sandwich for his birthday last week and he was very thankful. I think I’m his favorite patient now.
@Goyankees yeah sounds like there’s an abundance of medical marijuana in the US. It’s only just been made legal for cancer patients and people with epilepsy here in Australia but I’m hoping they make more medical uses available.
