Friday, September 23, 2016

Ugh Neurologist

I went to the new neurologist on 14 Sep. The day starts out horrid as I miss 2 buses and hurt myself to get there (car was not working at this point), barely making it. I pay, fill out this intricate form, and have my medical history. The form has many symtpoms that are not even neurological so he appears to be like my previous one, expert in many systems and treatments. He sees there is nothing wrong with my head via MRI and CT. He tests my muscles for strength, reflex, and the ability to grab a pen (which I almost failed). He looks at the symptoms and calls it chronic fatigue syndrome. Then gives me a script for cymbalta even after I tell him I could not take antidepressants. I told him I did not react well when I was a teen, esp SSRI. I would rather something else. "Take my help or not" was his advice. Then I get a write up for some labs and wants me back in Dec, which he fought me for which lab my new insurance uses based on my previous insurance. I kindly went "if I was still with the old insurance I would be with my old neurologist, the new one deals with a different lab as well as different doctors." I look at the antidepressant he wants me on, SSRI (dangerous for hashimoto's patients), and the side effects are everything I'm already dealing with (low bp, salt wasting, bad liver, bad kidney, etc) so it could get dangerous for me. Why would any doctor give the damned thing without even bothering testing first?!

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