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Date Posted: 17:50:15 02/14/07 Wed
Author: Mikki
Author Host/IP: 24-180-81-45.dhcp.bycy.mi.charter.com / 24.180.81.45
Subject: My visit to UM

I think I found a place where I am actually going to get some help. Because I had to leave my former psychiatrist, I chose UM because they are the best in the state. My appointment lasted 3 hours. I was tested, interviewed by 4 doctors and given a treatment plan that I think is going to help. Dr. Lopez, who is the attending doctor (the resident sees me first and does all the leg work and then presents to the attending). Dr. Lopez is German I think, his voice sounded that way anyway. When he found out what meds I was on.....he stood up and said "raise up your sleeve"......so I did, and he ripped the MAOI patch right off my arm and told me that I was being poisoned. He said MAOI's have never helped anyone, and if I continue to take it "you will have a stroke" He then took my blood pressure and it was 189/94. Stroke range.....So he gave me some options.....we are going back to effexor at super high doses plus adding Wellbutrin and Geodon. He is going to up my seroquel to 250 mgs, put me on Omega-3 fish oil shit, Magnesium oxide and klonopin. Lots of drugs, lots of homeopathic stuff. He wants me to use my light box again, and suggested that I would be a good candidate for maintenence ECT, which is a session of ECT once a month. He also said that once the transcranial procedure is FDA approved, I'd be a perfect candidate. They also want me in a group therapy thing called DBT. I don't know what it means, but it is for persistant depressives and borderlines. The group meets on Monday nights....which works out good for me since I never work Mondays.

So when God closes a door.....he opens a window. Or opens a major diagnostic research facility to get my ass off the floor and back to having some kind of life. I felt tired after all that.....but very hopeful. My former doctor was too conservative, and these guys are very aggressive.

I have to be without antidepressants for 2 weeks until I can start the effexor. I guess it takes that long for the MAOI to leave your system. So the next two weeks are going to be touchy without anything. The Omega 3 is supposed to help and he told me to start taking that right away. I am just going to keep positive during these 2 weeks...try not to let things get me down.

Oh.....closure on the former therapist front. He apologized for how it was handled, and he did admit that he could have been more aggressive in getting me to be more independent. He said that 10 years was too long. We shook hands, I said thank you for your help, and I wished him well. It was like the world was lifted from me. I'm at peace now.

My former psychiatrist terminated Sarah......made me crazy. I left a really nasty message daring him to put it in writing. It is because of the lawsuit, and I want that SOB to put it in writing. He hasn't even terminated me yet. Mike said he did it to get to me.....So we found another psychiatrist for Sarah. I am so angry at my doctor. I left the message and dared him to call me....he did call, and I told him I didn't have time for him right now and hung up on him. Fuck with me huh?

Anyway, that is where I have been. I hope everyone is ok, seems pretty quiet around here lately. I hope everyone is staying away because they feel ok.......

Love, Mikki

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