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Are all doctors nuts?????
It really hasn't been a good week for me--except for 3-4 hours
on Sunday when I really felt great I seem to be walking around sluggish, sleepy,
no energy, with a lack of appetite!!!
I was really looking forward to sitting down with the
psychiatrist and possibly getting help. It started with his being an hour late
for my appointment !! This did not start the session off right. In any case I
told him I did not want anymore pills so what did he do?? He increased the
dosage of the Lorazepam (the tranquillizer) to 1/2 pill in morning, 1/2 pill in
the afternoon and 2 at night for sleep--I have a feeling I will be walking
around like a zombie!!! He then wrote a prescription for 90 pills (which are not
covered on my insurance!!) and said he would see me in thirty days so he could
get to know me!?!?!? 30 days??? That really threw me--I bit my tongue and went
on my way to my primary doctor.
The psychiatrist did tell me to stop 'weaning' off Bupropion and
just stop taking it at all, that that was one of the things making me so
anxious.
He was glad that my heart surgeon agreed to cut out the digoxin
but he didn't know until I told him--the heart doctor was suppose to tell him
and also advise him to keep track of 2 things--what 2 things??? I don't know--I
have to call my heart surgeon so I can tell my primary!!!
I am going to stop taking flomax on my own--it is to stop the
often urination problem and meanwhile I am taking a diuretic so it seems to me
two opposing prescriptions--I will continue the avodart to shrink the prostate
which would slow the fluid problem down.
I am disturbed--and seem to be the only one--by my lack of
appetite and my growing uninterest in food and eating--I don't believe I said
that just as I said to Gino at lunch today that I ate too much--a cheese omelet
and pancakes which I use to gobble down and then want dessert!!! I have also
lost 10 and 1/2 pounds since the operation and no one but me seems concerned
about that!!!
I don't have any doctor's appointments until Oct. 6 with my
ophthalmologist (and that's the one I had to reschedule due to an anxiety attack
the last time I was in the office) so the next 3 weeks should be
interesting.
By the way the psychiatrist said that the anxiety, the
depression, the negativity, etc., is all normal after going through an operation
like I did--for some reason that didn't make me feel better!!!
Oh, by the way, I bought a new 32" HDTV and now I have to figure
out how to get it working right and connecting it to my VHS/DVD
machine!!!
