Reply To: Meds causing cold hands?

[blackdog]

@wanderquest I know. But he really doesn’t understand what he is doing. He’s completely clueless about how the meds work and doesn’t trust my judgement. I’m just frustrated because he is keeping me on the same dosage way too long and I am completely wasting my money because it isn’t doing anything. And I really need the boost that I could get from an effective medication right now. I have a lot of stuff to deal with.

That’s another thing. He keeps asking me for specific examples of how it’s helping me. Which are hard to come up with because it isn’t really but I try anyway because if I don’t come up with something he will stop prescribing it at all. And it’s also really hard to describe the ways that it does help. So one time I said it was a little easier to organize things as an example. And I read in my notes at the last appointment that I said that it has helped a little with organization but is otherwise ineffective and there has been no significant improvement. Which is not what I said at all.

And the one that really gets me is when I first started it and I said that it was working and I felt a difference right away. And he says “Well, how do you know it’s working? Have you had any opportunity to test yourself cognitively?” Like every day isn’t a cognitive test. It starts the minute it registers vaguely in my mind that the noise I’m hearing is my alarm and I have to figure out why I am hearing my alarm. I made a list of things that test me cognitively, like remembering to put my clothes in the dryer and trying to make a shopping list to give him some examples. But, of course, I forgot about it by the time I saw him again. One more thing to add to the list.

But I digress.

White coat hypertension isn’t the problem in my case. It’s only the one doctor. I’m perfectly fine if any other doctor checks my BP. And usually I can calm myself enough before that one takes it that it registers as normal. But I was too pissed off the last couple of times. I am going to purchase a new BP monitor to use at home because he is convinced the readings I am getting are wrong. Or he just plain doesn’t believe me. I also need to make some notes and try to remember them next time so that I can hopefully get it through to him that things just aren’t going the way they should be.

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