lostsoul
15-03-09, 18:11
Hi all
I've suffered from gad for just over a year now and i was referred to a phychiatrist by my GP last year. As i am also dependent on a diazepam.
Problem is I do not think that my doctor and social worker are helping me at all - don't want to sound big headed or anything but I've been to university and run my own business. I was also a manager in a bank before I became ill and they sacked me. And I find both of these people to be the most condecending and patronising people I've ever met.
Over the pas few weeks my anxiety has been getting worse and worse I was able to get out the door and do some volunteer work. The the doctor decided that we must reduced my diazepam and since then y anxiety has been through the roof. I feel so dizzy and week legged all the time even when indoors. And I now feel virtually housebound and going backwards.
I asked my docs to put me on a medication called buspirone which he agreed to over the phone but I had to come in and see him before he would prescribe me- anyway long story short went through the ordeal of seeing him and he said he couldnt start me on the new medication untill I was completely off of the diazepam as there is a dangerous intercation between the two and its more than his jobs worth. Now i've done my homework on this one and my partners mum is a consulant doctors secretary and she asked him and he confirmed there is no reaction. My doctor then proceeded to offer me effexor. (which has quite a bad side effect profile and is listed as interacting with the Mirtazapine that I currently take. He said that if I could withdraw from the 8 mg diazepam that I currently take withing two weeks he could put me on the new med.
All this is making me worse and I'm loosing everthing that I've worked so hard for. Is there anyway I can request a second opinion or go back to my normall GP for their opion? as I really feel that these people are not helping me at all. There only concern is to take away the diazepam to make their figures look good they've offered me no other help whatsoever and they are making me worse. The best advice thhey could both give me was I need to learn to manage my anxiety better without drugs - if I could do that life would be dandy but I've been trying for the past year and I'm just getting worse and worse and they just dont seem to care.
Sorry for the long post basically all I'm wondering is can my normall GP overide their opinion (they write to her with a summary of each visit that I have with them)
I wish I had never been referredcin the first place !!!!
I've suffered from gad for just over a year now and i was referred to a phychiatrist by my GP last year. As i am also dependent on a diazepam.
Problem is I do not think that my doctor and social worker are helping me at all - don't want to sound big headed or anything but I've been to university and run my own business. I was also a manager in a bank before I became ill and they sacked me. And I find both of these people to be the most condecending and patronising people I've ever met.
Over the pas few weeks my anxiety has been getting worse and worse I was able to get out the door and do some volunteer work. The the doctor decided that we must reduced my diazepam and since then y anxiety has been through the roof. I feel so dizzy and week legged all the time even when indoors. And I now feel virtually housebound and going backwards.
I asked my docs to put me on a medication called buspirone which he agreed to over the phone but I had to come in and see him before he would prescribe me- anyway long story short went through the ordeal of seeing him and he said he couldnt start me on the new medication untill I was completely off of the diazepam as there is a dangerous intercation between the two and its more than his jobs worth. Now i've done my homework on this one and my partners mum is a consulant doctors secretary and she asked him and he confirmed there is no reaction. My doctor then proceeded to offer me effexor. (which has quite a bad side effect profile and is listed as interacting with the Mirtazapine that I currently take. He said that if I could withdraw from the 8 mg diazepam that I currently take withing two weeks he could put me on the new med.
All this is making me worse and I'm loosing everthing that I've worked so hard for. Is there anyway I can request a second opinion or go back to my normall GP for their opion? as I really feel that these people are not helping me at all. There only concern is to take away the diazepam to make their figures look good they've offered me no other help whatsoever and they are making me worse. The best advice thhey could both give me was I need to learn to manage my anxiety better without drugs - if I could do that life would be dandy but I've been trying for the past year and I'm just getting worse and worse and they just dont seem to care.
Sorry for the long post basically all I'm wondering is can my normall GP overide their opinion (they write to her with a summary of each visit that I have with them)
I wish I had never been referredcin the first place !!!!