>From: Roger Cole <rco...@sbcglobal.net>
>Reply-To: Anxiety-and-Panic@googlegroups.com
>To: Anxiety-and-Panic@googlegroups.com
>Subject: Re: How do you get a doctor to listen?
>Date: Mon, 7 Nov 2005 18:11:51 -0800 (PST)

>The good thing is that you are seeking help.....just remember that take
>things one day at a time.....everything takes time.... it will make you
>stronger in the end.

>WVDebbie <debbier...@charter.net> wrote:
>I have been suffering from panic attacks for twelve years, sometimes
>worse than others. I am definitly at the worse end now.

>I am afraid of new meds, I can't take anything unless I have cut it
>into very tiny pieces or unless I have experience with it in the past.
>Right now, I am so bad with my panic attacks (two yesterday) that I
>need to be back on meds.

>So my regular family doctor put me on Lexapro. She knows I have taken
>Celexa in the past, but to me they are two different drugs. I felt my
>family doc doesn't have time for my problems, so I started to see a
>psyciatrist.

>I told her I am afraid of the Lexapro, told her what SSRI I would feel
>"safe" with, and what does she presribe me? Lexapro, of course. She
>also said, "Why do you come to me if you are afraid to take medicine,
>that is what I do, prescribe medicine"

>I feel so hopeless. I used to take Klonopin with my meds when I had a
>different psyciatrist, and good insurance. What is going on that I am
>being "forced" to take something I don't feel comfortable with? Without
>a benzo at that!

>Can anyone explain this to me? I can see how one would become suicidal
>when the doctors refuse to help, you just don't see a light at the end
>of the tunnel. I'm not saying I am suicidal (because I'm not, my whole
>deal is to stay alive), but I can see how it could happen.
>Thanks, and this is my first post.