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A good, compassionate doctor who recognizes that you have a brain even if it's not medically trained is worth her weight in gold. I'm glad you found someone, sj, and that the gabapentin worked so well for you.
askye, I mean, you're right, it's only one night, but I only ever schedule myself with shit like that when I was managing a store. That's crappy; I'm sorry.
Finding a doctor who realizes you have a brain when you're physically disabled is extra hard in my experience. The Urgent Care doc was convinced I didn't have a uti because the dip test came back negative. Well my dip tests almost always come back negative, but do a culture for a couple days and guess what..
It's so crazy-making when doctors won't believe you know your own body. This has happened before. Yes, the same thing. Yes, in the same way. Yes, even though you have a medical degree.
Preach it, sisters.
The ER doc did not believe me when I said I could only raise my arm when lying flat on my back. He said it wasn’t possible and made me demonstrate several times.
Fuck that guy.
I listen to doctors pretty frequently because of work and my favorite doctors are the ones who say things like 'you know what is normal for you better than I do' or will give flexible instructions on meds like 'if you feel like X take a full dose, and if you feel like Y only take the morning dose'. Some of them really understand that we have a lot more experience with our bodies than they do, others, not so much.
sj, SO glad you've found a good doctor.
I was on Wellbutrin for a few months post-partum, because it isn't prone to transferring via breastfeeding...but it also did exactly nothing for my depression, so I went back to Zoloft and shifted to formula (it's been 15 years and the kid doesn't seem to have suffered).
I was on prozac the whole time I breastfed, ltc seems okay.
Prozac stopped doing anything for me about a year after Francesca was born. So, I switched to zoloft, which takes the edge off but that's about it. I'm hoping the combo, which I've never done a combo of meds before, will really help.