How many of you have been misdiagnosed and no one caught it for years?
Or had doctors fighting over what diagnosis to give you? Or taken the wrong meds for years only to find out that your diagnosis was wrong?
I have been there from clinical depression to paranoid schizophrenia to borderline personality dosorder to manic depression and finally to schizo-affective disorder and the bloody medication changing every step of the way.
2006-06-07 23:05:46 · 5 answers · asked by Zholla 7 in Health ➔ Mental Health
Yes, I believe it happens all the time too. My son was diagnosed with ADD. Gave him pills for 4 years. Finally decided he was not going to do any better in school - he just didn't like it. So I took him off meds and saw no change either way. The doctor on the other hand had a fit and called me a bad mother. And there is no real way to diagnose this bogus disorder. A psychologist told me so. What a joke.
But I want to ask you a ? and maybe you could email me. Is there a difference in the brand of chlorella one can use? I was very interested in your discussion on that.
Oh and don't forget to pray for yourself & have others pray for you.
I have a girlfriend that had, the operative word here is HAD, a diseased pancreas & all her friends prayed for her for several years. Guess What!? She is healed and the doctors can't explain it. She has no pain and no problems. Miracles really do happen. I love telling this story. It is true and it is beautiful. So email me please.
Thanks,
CC
2006-06-08 03:23:51 · answer #1 · answered by CC 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Well, I too have seen a dozen doctors and got a dozen opinions. First bipolar, then schizo affective the paranoid schiz and then back to schizo affective. Its frustrating but the doctors I see tell me that the medications that they used to treat mania in bipolar like zyprexa geodon seroquel are the same drugs they use to control psychosis. So in some cases you would be getting the same type of meds regardless of you Dx. Of course the bipolars have their mood stabilizers and I am benefiting from taking one when I am not bipolar.
The way my doctor explains this to me is this: she treats symptoms with medications she knows are effective. The diagnostic code on you chart is primarily for insurance purposes. It Don't really come into play when she decided what meds to give me--its all about what symptoms I am exhibiting.
2006-06-09 06:19:20 · answer #2 · answered by NuCarSmell 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It happens all the time, Sweetie.
My advice to you is to not pay attention to those "labels" anyway. If you find a medicine that helps you, stick with it. If it doesn't, don't be afraid to speak up and say so.
I'm thinking, that by now...you have tried most drugs for mental disorders. Figure out which helped the most, and stick with it.
Every doctor, will have a different opinion.
2006-06-07 23:10:50 · answer #3 · answered by treefrog 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes I have for yeas on Mental Meds I got off them all
2006-06-07 23:08:25 · answer #4 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yea, i had a stroke and they told me i was depressed
2006-06-07 23:32:37 · answer #5 · answered by destiny 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋