Posted by Larry Hoover on April 1, 2007, at 9:06:25
In reply to Betrayed and put into what type of condition?, posted by Phillipa on March 31, 2007, at 15:28:37
I'm trying to get the story straight, so I put two posts together.
> I was betrayed by that new pdoc who said my anxiety was a physical cause. He took me off my luvox switched benzos for two weeks and upped them . Said to see the internist his friend and they would consult afterwards and have a plan.
They would consult *afterwards*. From what you said later, it doesn't look like you allowed that to happen?
> Saw the internist yesterday who had no clue what was going on. I feel betrayed.
Is this the endocrine specialist? (You say internist here, and endo later.) His only concern would be hormone levels, and your correlations with symptoms, non? What were your blood levels? Did he draw more blood? I'd expect that was what the "afterwards" was all about, to see what the changes in blood levels were on "undertreating" your thyroid, and withdrawing the Luvox.
> So called old pdoc expained what happened so back to luvox and valium for now which was okay yesterday after internist. But today twitching of legs and I feel like I weigh l00lbs and am now very depressed. I was hoping that it was my thyroid no. Now how do I get out of this depression it's bad. And anxiety with it. Rubber legs too. And fear. No trust and hope gone. Love Phillipa ps it took until now to be able to write this.
I think you interfered with a process that had not yet run its course. You went back to a doctor you didn't like, because he was familiar?
> I trapped the endo in his office and said you have to call the pdoc and he didn't till that morning and I said to the pdoc what did he say he said he meaning the pdoc had wanted to undertreat my hypothroidism. How stupid can a person be most pdocs' add some sort of thyroid med sometimes to help depression.
Wasn't the whole idea to get you off drugs as much as possible, to find out what your body was like, unmedicated?
BTW, Luvox put me into manic psychosis, so it's not necessarily true that it would help your symptoms. Didn't you already conclude that you were unhappy with that drug regime? Wasn't that why you went to the new doctor?
Lar
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