Doctors Don't Get It

[Mrscrochet]

In the 1990s I was finally diagnosed by a psychiatrist as having ADD and put on medication. It has improved my life considerably. After 25 years of being on medication, my doctor told me that he is going to stop giving me my medication. I told him that I wasn't going to accept his decision and he said that he wasn't going to change his mind. I do not abuse my Vyvance. I take just one pill a day. Have doctors gone paranoid because the opiad scare. I fired my doctor. Do you think he abused my civil rights?

[Hartling143]

I don't know about your civil rights but what was the reason to stop a medication of any kind after all the years you were on it and it was successful.

I kinda know how you feel my meds were stopped after my psychiatrist died.My new doctor would not give me what I had been taking and like yourself I never abused them.In my mind for my doctor it was a personal reason and today I can not even get a psychiatrist that will deal with ADHD.

I told my doctor because of our laws they are to give you the best AVAILABLE meds or treatment there is.Their personal opinions are NOT to come in to play when they are treating you just their medical knowledge.So I told her I would call the college that governs them.I also took a family member to my next appointment and everyone there since.She really turned her attitude around then.

Did he tell you why he was going to stop something that was working for you if not ask him but bring someone with you when you do.Maybe even recorder it if allowed to.Get in touch with an ADHD associations and maybe they can back you or at least give you better advice then I can.Explain to him how you feel he should not be doing this and that if he does you will have to report him to the people that governs the doctors where you live.

Doctors today or most of them think they can do whatever they want and get away with it.It is time the patients stand up and tell them no way.

I hope you get this straighten up for yourself.

He has no idea what that will do to you and how bad it will set you back and mess with most areas of your life.Like really what gives him the right as a doctor to make you suffer more when there is help you were getting in the first place.They are to help you get better not help you get worse.

[Mrscrochet in reply to Hartling143]

Thank you for validating me. People who have the problem do not abuse their meds. The research shows that when they take their meds it helps them calm down. They like feeling normal. They don't want to be abusive with their meds to get high. Feeling normal for once in their life, is their high.

[Hartling143 in reply to Mrscrochet]

You are so right about ADHD patients not getting high of their meds.We deserve to feel "normal"(I grew to hate that word) just like the majority in this world.Good luck and I hope you get everything worked out for the best of you.Hang in there.

[HadEnuf]

Unfortunately, in many places, this has been forced on doctors by politicians; and ADHD treatment has been a casualty of the shared, legal status (despite much lower abuse risk in actual *patients*) of CNS stimulants and opiods.

My own treatment became problematic when my prescription stopped showing up in mandated urine tests (despite having taken the medication). Sadly, this was for the sake of their legal safety rather than my health, which is frightening, considering the results indicate either an absorption problem or an atypical (possibly harmful) elimination path—and the efficacy has been slipping.

I've been stuck trying to find an alternative “in my copious, free time” while working sixty-to-eighty hour weeks, and now while preparing for an interstate move to take a job that became available just as that one feel through.

[Hartling143 in reply to HadEnuf]

They have to come up with a better way of testing patients for drugs.There is WAY to many things that can alter the test to go either way.It has happened to me.The doctors put 100% of their faith into these test.The patient is left to prove the test wrong.Now how does a patient with no medical or scientic background prove themselves.These doctors also realize these tests are not a 100% either but yet they put all their trust in them.One of these days if it hasn't happened yet someone is going to die because of it.A patient will end up with the wrong or no treatment for their condition which could kill them in some circumstances.It is not good or fair to the patients who are honest and trying to tell the doctor it is wrong.Whatever happen to a trusting relationship between a doctor and patient.They want us to trust them yet when we are telling the truth they don't believe because of a test that can not be fully trusted.Good luck with your issue and move.