Thread: I am so angry!

I can so relate to your situation - people telling you that you're either drug-seeking or a hypochondriac when nothing is further from the truth. Now that I've gotten onto medications and health routines that help, I'm on less medications than I've been on for years. If I were just a junkie looking for pain and fatiuge meds, that wouldn't be true. In fact, I found that narcotic pain meds were less effective than...

Thank you kaplods- I honestly never thought about it this way- I have had many other tests for things like thyroid and so on- but never thought about anything else. My husband sees a neurologist and through my doctor right now asking to a see a neurologist would probably be like asking to speak to a higher being in her eyes... I will wait till my insurance changes over.

If I read the original post correctly, beerab has sleep apnea-not narcolepsy. The drug may be approved to treat both, but sleep apnea is her issue. Did I miss something here? Narcolepsy is an entirely different disorder and is not weight related. The vast majority of sleep disorders specialists are pulmonologists. I'm sorry if I made an incorrect assumption in this case.

I think it might have been an honest mistake in the physician's office. It might also have been due to his personal feelings about the drug. It sounded like beerab was responding to an ongoing poor experience with this physician and/or office.

I sure would encourage you to find a new doc - one who trusts you rather than one who is suspicious of your motives.

Don't take this the wrong way, and I don't mean to be rude, but maybe you should do more research on this med. Most docs I know are script happy, so I tend to have respect for the ones that don't like to write scripts for meds they think are worrisome. Tricking the body into having energy it didn't get from sleep does not sound good and you may have long term complications with not only rhe addicyion aspect, but other...

DONTTTTTTTTTT BINGEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE - holds you back - I hope you feel better =/ sounds really stressful!

I am really sorry this is happening to you and I hope it all gets straightened out soon

OMG i know its fustrating but DO NOT EAT ANYTHING THAT WILL SET YOU ON A BINGE ... go for a walk call someone play a video game .. idk if you smoke ... but if you do go do that anything to relax you a little bit if you eat and binge you'll feel guilty and hate yourself for it i know this seems irrational but im kind of on the brink now myself im trying to talk myself down off my binge right now ... but seriously DONT DO IT !!!!! please...

Hang in there. Sometimes the MDs just don't get the human aspect of patient treatment.