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I'll be seeing a new doctor on Friday, and it's important that he continue to prescribe the sleeping medication my old doctor used to prescribe for me. I'm still taking it, but am almost out of it and have only one more refill. This doctor may try to mess around with my prescription, and I don't need more stress. My sleeping medication works, and I can't sleep without it. This doctor put me on a really horrible medication while I was in the hospital in July, but I had to go back to my old medication. Please, pray for the doctor to keep me on what I'm on now and not mess with things.

I will pray about this for you Erin. I know how changing around meds can mess with your system. I pray they keep you and what works for you.

Erin, I agree with Maddie and I will be praying for you and others when I go to bed...not to much longer from now.

Keep hanging in there my Sister in Christ.

I see the doctor in a little over an hour. Please, keep praying. He's not easy to deal with, but a know-it-all who likes to push the popular medication of the moment. I was trying to get into see a colleague of his, but got stuck w/ him instead. Please, pray he keeps me on Restoryl. If I can't sleep, I wont be able to function.

He will only keep me on my sleeping meds if I take another medication with it, a new expensive one that I don't need or want. He is not the doctor I wanted to see in the practice. The doc I want to see is booked up, but a great doctor. Please, pray that I get an appointment w/ Dr. L., the one I saw in the hospital, the one I want to see. I will just give up and start drinking to get to sleep if my only other choice is to see this idiot doctor I saw today. He is pushy, a know it all, and is big on pushing the newest most expensive drugs. I'm mad as a devil the more I think about it.

Erin- take both perscriptions but only get the one filled that you want. How is he to know?? If the old one is working for you- I don't see any reason to switch. Then when you get in to see the other doc. just tell him you are only taking the one.

Maddie, he said he'd be ordering a blood test to check my liver enzymes; that's how he'll know! He loves to push medication on people, loves it. I've always been diagnosed as probably being bipolar II, which means I have hypomania, which is why I have such bad insomnia. Most doctors don't treat that with anything other than sleep medication, but this guy wants me to try another mood stabilizer. I tried one after the hospital, and it made me sick...they even said it was messing with my heart, wanted to give me an EKG. I'm really doing well with just sleeping medication. This doctor doesn't understand how the family and financial stress of this past year or how all that with all the cancer tests just pushed me over the edge this summer after that guy I was seeing turned out to be a lot like my ex-husband. I was responding to severe, prolonged stress, and have been feeling better. He doesn't care; he just wants to push medication that isn't healthy or affordable. He spent 40 minutes with me, yet wants to change my diagnosis to bipolar I, though doctors are cautioned to see patients for months before changing a diagnosis like that.

I was told while in the hospital that I could see the other doctor, Dr. L, on an outpatient basis, and all I know to do is type up a brief note reminding him of that and asking him to try to fit me in. Please, pray it works. If it doesn't, I give up. Even my therapist moved away to another town, and I've needed to be in therapy since all the domestic abuse stuff I went through w/ my ex, but finding one I can afford around here is nearly impossible. I'm so sick of the healthcare system in this country and my falling through the cracks. This doctor today stressed me out with his know-it-all attitude and treating me like anything I think about my problems isn't valid just because I'm not a doctor.

I really need prayers going up for me. Please, keep praying for me. A friend of mine got so sick on the medication this doctor wants me to take that he couldn't even get to work and had to stop taking it. I really need prayers, please.

I will continue to pray for you Erin. I don't think you should be taking anything more if what you are on now is working for you!

I've talked to others about this doctor, and he is not well liked by more than a few former patients. He is seen as the MD version of a crack pusher; he just deals foe pharmaceutical companies, rather than Columbian drug lords. Please, pray for a solution for me. Poor people always get stuck with such limited options, as there's affordable few doctors.

Dear Lord,
During Erins time of despair, Please rescue her.
Please send Blessings to her and help show her how to strengthen her Faith in You.
Please don't let her slip onto the Devils side.
She Believes in You Lord.
Thank you for giving her not one job but 2 within a month's time.
Thank you for letting her have real life friends that she can talk with.
Thank you for helping her get fed.
Thank you Lord for many more Blessings that will be coming to her as she continues to Serve You.
amen.

I stand in agreement with Robin's prayers for Erin Lord. Amen

Well, I no longer have a doctor at all. Please, pray that I'm able to go back to the old one I had before going into the hospital. They say I must pay off my balance...$75.00, else I can't be seen there again. I only have a small amount of sleeping medication left. I don't know what to do. Please, pray.