12-04-2006, 09:50 AM
JL,
Although I heartily agree with your sentiment, we deal with the opposite problem - docs who dont believe my SO's ADHD is a very real problem - or who believe just modify behavior or take a supplement and it will be gone. My SO's case is textbook in fact. We fight and fight and fight to get his prescription each and every month... until leibenmoth I need to say..... in the recent past it depended on the docs belief system with regards to ADHD. (And believe me when medication was a distant option - he did all the other holistic and behavior modification and was worn out from the issue.)
Our doc finally said - if this works for you and we review it bi-monthly - I dont see the need for you to conform to what beliefs someone else has with regards to its existance. He said less than 50 years ago we didnt think PTSD, or post partum depression, or other things existed either.
Although I heartily agree with your sentiment, we deal with the opposite problem - docs who dont believe my SO's ADHD is a very real problem - or who believe just modify behavior or take a supplement and it will be gone. My SO's case is textbook in fact. We fight and fight and fight to get his prescription each and every month... until leibenmoth I need to say..... in the recent past it depended on the docs belief system with regards to ADHD. (And believe me when medication was a distant option - he did all the other holistic and behavior modification and was worn out from the issue.)
Our doc finally said - if this works for you and we review it bi-monthly - I dont see the need for you to conform to what beliefs someone else has with regards to its existance. He said less than 50 years ago we didnt think PTSD, or post partum depression, or other things existed either.