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Do you have any personal experience on being been labeled as having "drug seeking behaviour"? What happened? What were the consequences?

I have a history of having an anxiety disorder. I have had benefit from Ativan medication. I met this new psychiatrist and told him that Ativan helps. He instantly refused to prescribe it, and told me that he doesn't recommend any medications for me, and that I should just go out and excercise more. Later I read that he wrote to my file that I'm eager on having drugs prescribed for my condition.

This sucks, it's almost the same as having a drug addiction diagnosis.
 
Survival0200 said:
Do you have any personal experience on being been labeled as having "drug seeking behaviour"? What happened? What were the consequences?
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a few months back with a neurologist.
i needed an opinion, nothing more.
but after he asked if and what medications i take ans i answered truthfully, his attitude changed completely. instead of prescribing the exams for the issue i reached out to him, he did some other kind of test and then told me he wasn't going to prescribe me anything.
wtf?
i never asked for any meds because i have all i need and want.
he didn't listen, he just shoved his suspicions at me, and when i tried to explain to him what i wanted (for the third time) he said i was being disrespectful by questioning his diagnosis.

so no more doctor experiments in the near future for me.
 
Survival0200 said:
Do you have any personal experience on being been labeled as having "drug seeking behaviour"? What happened? What were the consequences?

I have a history of having an anxiety disorder. I have had benefit from Ativan medication. I met this new psychiatrist and told him that Ativan helps. He instantly refused to prescribe it, and told me that he doesn't recommend any medications for me, and that I should just go out and excercise more. Later I read that he wrote to my file that I'm eager on having drugs prescribed for my condition.

This sucks, it's almost the same as having a drug addiction diagnosis.
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I would get a new psychiatrist, thats bullshit. I personally don't really think benzos are great, particularly long term, but some people need them, and that's fine, doctors should understand that too.

I've definitely dealt with this kind of mindset, but now if I go to a psychiatrist, and I'm not able to get the medication I know I need and have been taking, I just cut my losses and find another one. There's a record of the meds you've taken that they can look at. If they're giving you a hard time, and standing up for yourself doesn't work, there's hundreds of other doctors.
 
You go to the doctor to get help. Doctors are there to give help. With psychological 'problems' you have to be prepared for the fact that the help is often not what you expect. As is often the case in life. I think your doctor has experience with Ativan and similar medications and has decided as he did. Namely in your favor and of course in accordance with his conscience.

I don't think it's fair to come to the doctor, ask for something, not get it and then complain. Doctors are educated people and know what they are doing. They have studied long enough for that.
 
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aokorn said:
You go to the doctor to get help. Doctors are there to give help. With psychological 'problems' you have to be prepared for the fact that the help is often not what you expect. As is often the case in life. I think your doctor has experience with Ativan and similar medications and has decided as he did. Namely in your favor and of course in accordance with his conscience.

I don't think it's fair to come to the doctor, ask for something, not get it and then complain. Doctors are educated people and know what they are doing. They have studied long enough for that.
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Some things I have been told by/heard from these "educated people" who "know what they are doing":
"He's just a junky get rid of him" while I'm sat in the emergency room with a broken ankle the size of a basketball
"This will not interact with any of your medication" it interacted with 7/8 meds the person was taking and made them violently sick
"Nobody needs more than 10mg of morphine"
"Ecstacy eats holes in your brain"
"I know you've stopped smoking it recently but have you considered medical cannabis? It's completely different to the street stuff, it doesn't get you high"
"The pain is all in your head" told to a woman with spinal channel narrowing and fucked up spine
"I have no idea what that rash is" it was pityriasis versicolor. The doctor was a dermatologist
"You don't know its broken, we'll decide that" while my hand is practically hanging limp off the end of my forearm

Soooo... ymmv
 
Survival0200 said:
Do you have any personal experience on being been labeled as having "drug seeking behaviour"? What happened? What were the consequences?

I have a history of having an anxiety disorder. I have had benefit from Ativan medication. I met this new psychiatrist and told him that Ativan helps. He instantly refused to prescribe it, and told me that he doesn't recommend any medications for me, and that I should just go out and excercise more. Later I read that he wrote to my file that I'm eager on having drugs prescribed for my condition.

This sucks, it's almost the same as having a drug addiction diagnosis.
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What country. Oh shit was the guy a young doctor?
 
reverse cosmosis said:
Some things I have been told by/heard from these "educated people" who "know what they are doing":
"He's just a junky get rid of him" while I'm sat in the emergency room with a broken ankle the size of a basketball
"This will not interact with any of your medication" it interacted with 7/8 meds the person was taking and made them violently sick
"Nobody needs more than 10mg of morphine"
"Ecstacy eats holes in your brain"
"I know you've stopped smoking it recently but have you considered medical cannabis? It's completely different to the street stuff, it doesn't get you high"
"The pain is all in your head" told to a woman with spinal channel narrowing and fucked up spine
"I have no idea what that rash is" it was pityriasis versicolor. The doctor was a dermatologist
"You don't know its broken, we'll decide that" while my hand is practically hanging limp off the end of my forearm

Soooo... ymmv
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You had a broken waist like that too?
 
Survival0200 said:
Do you have any personal experience on being been labeled as having "drug seeking behaviour"? What happened? What were the consequences?

I have a history of having an anxiety disorder. I have had benefit from Ativan medication. I met this new psychiatrist and told him that Ativan helps. He instantly refused to prescribe it, and told me that he doesn't recommend any medications for me, and that I should just go out and excercise more. Later I read that he wrote to my file that I'm eager on having drugs prescribed for my condition.

This sucks, it's almost the same as having a drug addiction diagnosis.
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I don’t want to get this thread off topic but could you tell me how you were able to see what your doctor wrote in your files?
 
Survival0200 said:
Do you have any personal experience on being been labeled as having "drug seeking behaviour"? What happened? What were the consequences?

I have a history of having an anxiety disorder. I have had benefit from Ativan medication. I met this new psychiatrist and told him that Ativan helps. He instantly refused to prescribe it, and told me that he doesn't recommend any medications for me, and that I should just go out and excercise more. Later I read that he wrote to my file that I'm eager on having drugs prescribed for my condition.

This sucks, it's almost the same as having a drug addiction diagnosis.
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Not a direct answer to your question but the updated CDC guidelines and many state medical board guidelines explicitly advise against removing patients from benzodiazepines and state that suicide and poisoning from illicit substances are a likely result.

You could simply highlight the relevant portions of these guidlines and have them ready if you need them.
 
aokorn said:
Doctors are educated people and know what they are doing. They have studied long enough for that.
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You’d be surprised how clueless many of them are. Some of them just cheated off me through their entire undergraduate tenure, they were completely retarded; I couldn’t beleieve they actually passed their board exams somehow how years later after going to medical school in some 3rd world hell hole because they couldn’t get into a US school.

Many of them do not care about continuing education.

I’ve had a doctor tell me methadone wasn’t an opioid and wasn’t addictive. This is just one example.
 
i have schizophrenia.. i've been watching what i say to doctors to not get labeled as drug seeking.

i was telling them i want to go on ativan or a benzo when i move to smoke free housing. i was telling them i want to switch up between taking thc edibles and using the ativan every couple days to not get addicted.. i might be in a pretty shitty place if they don't want to prescribe me them, but every time i get out of the hospital they always give me an ativan prescription despite not really asking for it, and i'm 39 and got prescribed benzos as a teen, so i'm hoping they don't cut them not.. i'm thinking cause i'm not on any anti-psychotics they might not want to prescribe the ativan, but honestly if my anxiety and insomnia kicks in, it's probably just better for me to have some downers. ime i've been pretty good not getting addicted to them because of weed, and i'm still gonna be able to smoke when it's not snowing at smoke free housing, so i think i'll be good only use them part of the year and not everyday.. i've always been prescribed "take as needed" idk if the doctors are gonna be down with me using how i want to though. it doesn't really seem that common of a method of dosing.

i'd honestly love an adderall prescription, but i'm worried about trying to get it and being deemed drug seeking... plus i think they only prescribe that to schizos when they are medicated on anti-psychotics as well.. idk. prob never get an adderall prescription. hoping they make some other type of legal stimulant some day or legalize addy or coke.. but yeah. that's me and drug seeking behavior with the docs.
 
reverse cosmosis said:
Some things I have been told by/heard from these "educated people" who "know what they are doing":
"He's just a junky get rid of him" while I'm sat in the emergency room with a broken ankle the size of a basketball
"This will not interact with any of your medication" it interacted with 7/8 meds the person was taking and made them violently sick
"Nobody needs more than 10mg of morphine"
"Ecstacy eats holes in your brain"
"I know you've stopped smoking it recently but have you considered medical cannabis? It's completely different to the street stuff, it doesn't get you high"
"The pain is all in your head" told to a woman with spinal channel narrowing and fucked up spine
"I have no idea what that rash is" it was pityriasis versicolor. The doctor was a dermatologist
"You don't know its broken, we'll decide that" while my hand is practically hanging limp off the end of my forearm

Soooo... ymmv
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Then why do you go to the doctor?
Why don't you go to a healer?
 
aokorn said:
Then why do you go to the doctor?
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Sick notes and surgery these days are about it. Sometimes I don't have the tools to put myself back together. And some places are fuckin awkward to do your own stitches
aokorn said:
Why don't you go to a healer?
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If I knew one I probably would.

But keep suckin them quacks' cocks
 
aokorn said:
You go to the doctor to get help. Doctors are there to give help. With psychological 'problems' you have to be prepared for the fact that the help is often not what you expect. As is often the case in life. I think your doctor has experience with Ativan and similar medications and has decided as he did. Namely in your favor and of course in accordance with his conscience.

I don't think it's fair to come to the doctor, ask for something, not get it and then complain. Doctors are educated people and know what they are doing. They have studied long enough for that.
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Doctors in America literally believed Extended-Release Oxycodone (OxyContin) would only cause 1% of the users to become addicted to opioids.

If you call that educated[about opioids] then I don't know what to tell you.
 
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