Dana that is totally uncool and you should maybe write a letter explaining why you won't be going to their practice anymore.

I also had a doctor appointment today. Am hoping for some bitches knowledge. I've been on Wellbutrin for a few years, but six or so miontbs ago realized it wasn't working so well anymore. A few friends even said I didn't seem like myself, seemed down, etc. so finally in may I made an appointment and told the doc. Rather than switch meds, she added a low dose of Zoloft. I came back a month later and said it had helped some but not enough. She upped the dose. I came back today (about 3 weeks later because she's going on vacation for two weeks) and said it was maybe working better now (I've felt better the past few days but not yet sure if that's coincidence) but I wasn't liking some of the side effects. She said basically "well, you need to go see a psychiatrist, and I can try to refer you to one of ours but your insurance may not pay for it and then you'd have to get an appointment elsewhere and that might take a while". Um, thanks?! We left it at she'd refer me to the internal people who should call and let me know, and I'll keep taking the same dose and see if it is really working and how the side effects go. Anyone have some pharmacology or personal experience they want to suggest?

Dana that is totally uncool and you should maybe write a letter explaining why you won't be going to their practice anymore.

Yes, and review on the doctor sites and with the insurance company. I am so sorry you had to deal with that. Doctors are selling a service and the patient is the customer. Going to the doctor is stressful enough without the doctor being an insensitive clod.

I can't dump the doctor entirely until the tests and stuff are done, but yeah, I need to find someone else.

And I forgot that my insurance company's website has reviews. That's a good idea.

I always read the review sites when I get a new doctor as a customer so I know what I am getting into. You find out quite a lot!

Speaking of doctors, my therapist shamed me into calling the doctor about my stomach pain. She thinks that stabby pain that hasn't gone away over the last 6 weeks probably isn't going to go away with just Pepcid. (She also has a 20-year history of GERD, so she has more than a passing familiarity with gastrointestinal issues.)

So I called, and they can see me at the end of the day today. Maybe an ulcer? Guess I'll find out.

I blame it on Trump. Except I don't think there is a quick fix for that, so I hope the doctor has a faster plan of fixing.

meara, I've found some primary care docs won't prescribe ADs or other mental health drugs beyond a certain point. Point being, if your "cocktail" gets more complicated, she might want you to see a psychiatrist to prescribe it, presumably because they know more about those specific drugs.

Dana, your doctor sounds awful. What on earth is the harm in listening to a patient and working with them to make them more comfortable?

Steph, stomach pain ~ma. Or stomach pain solution, which would be better!

meara, I've found some primary care docs won't prescribe ADs or other mental health drugs beyond a certain point. Point being, if your "cocktail" gets more complicated, she might want you to see a psychiatrist to prescribe it, presumably because they know more about those specific drugs.

Yep. I'm on a delicate balance of meds (pain management, sleep issues, crazybrain, anxiety), and my PCP handed all of that over to my psych.

Dana, I literally said "Oh, no. FUCK no!" on reading your whitefont. I hope you find a better gyn, fast.

meara, what Amy said. I've also had a GP bump me to a psych when I needed to get fancy with the meds.

Thanks for the sanity check. I told him it wasn't possible.

Be careful making judgement calls about how your employees spend their money. Your relationship with them is to exchange a quantity of money for a quantity of work. How they spend that money is completely up to them.

Hey look, it turns out that "separating yourself from the business" is yet another one of those things that is way harder in practice than in theory! Blah.

The doctor thinks it might be my gall bladder, and I have to have more imaging done. If I had planned better, maybe I could have had it done when I had my echocardiogram.

Come on, body! Be healthier!