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I was beginning to wonder if anyone ever visited this board at all!
I have an appointment on Tuesday with my local M.D. (he is just a family practitioner). I am going to see him because he told me once that his wife had terrible PMS and that he understood. He prescribed me a mild Ativan (nerve pill) that I could take when it got really bad. I didn't abuse the prescription...I would make 12 or 15 of them last for 3 months or so. They make me sleepy, but at least I can calm down. When I went to get "evaluated" at the ER, that's all I really wanted them to do...give me something to calm down. I hate taking pills, but I just get out of control!
Anyway, that nice doctor quit taking my insurance, so I had to go elsewhere. I have since changed insurance companies so that I could go back there, but in the mean time, his patient registry got full . I saw another lady MD there, but she thought she felt a cyst on my left ovary and wanted me to see an OB-GYN (my cyst went away before the next appointment). That brings me to my current doctor. When I was freaking out the other day, they were the ones to tell me to keep taking the pill & refused to phone in a sedative for me until I got "evaluated" at the ER.
My follow-up appointment with their clinic is on Wednesday. I want to take my husband along, and print out some things from the web. What will I say? I have no freaking idea. No more birth control pills, definately. Beg for hormone testing, secondly, I suppose.
In the mean-time, the doctor at the mental health center had given me a prescription for Depakote. I didn't want to fill it at first, but I did. I was afraid it would make me feel like a zombie. I started taking it Friday night, and to my surprise, it has had a positive effect. No dizziness or any of that "feeling high" junk. I found myself actually laughing for the first time in months.
I will discuss this with the doctor I trust on Tuesday and ask him how I should handle the GYN appointment. My husband and I will talk about it at lenghths, as well, I am sure.
I wish I had some magic words for you, sweetheart. I'm finding trouble finding my own magic lately. Please feel free to email me anytime you need an understanding, ear, though. I check my mail all the time.
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. I saw another lady MD there, but she thought she felt a cyst on my left ovary and wanted me to see an OB-GYN (my cyst went away before the next appointment). That brings me to my current doctor. When I was freaking out the other day, they were the ones to tell me to keep taking the pill & refused to phone in a sedative for me until I got "evaluated" at the ER.