Reply To: My first week on Vyvanse…….an update

[lsdcat]

Thank you for the positive affirmations.  The problems as I see it was that the offending doctors were with a huge nationwide HMO, Kaiser Permanente,  and were treating me for the wrong conditions.  When I ran across an article and became alerted to the possibility of Serotonin Syndrome, the HMO seemed to be more concerned with their liability and everyone from the top to the bottom denied that the combination of drugs they had me on would cause Serotonin toxicity.

Another contributing factor was inconsistency in medical care.  I moved a lot, changed jobs a lot, often didn’t have the means to pay.  By the time I was with the HMO, my employer changed HMOs every time their contract was up. Add all that to my poor communication skills and distractibility and that meant I had no long term established or documented medical history.

I had been thinking about asking my current doctor to take me back to a baseline, but the allergic reaction took that choice out of my hands.  I guess I will see what I see.

Again thank you, all of you, for your feedback.

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