We all need to be our own best advocates and research things for ourselves.
I believe a lot of doctors don’t make the extra effort for whatever reason-schooling, kickbacks from pharm companies or just government shills or just plain apathy or confusion.
I have thyroid disease that went untreated for decades because docs are stuck on certain protocol that just doesn’t work for many patients.
It’s much easier to hand out pills for depression or allergies(catchall dianoses for when they are stumped)than to make the extra effort to find out what is causing the symptoms.
I don’t count on docs to tell me everything and I research all meds and potential interactions myself instead of relying on the pharmacist or doctor.
Safer that way.
“We all need to be our own best advocates and research things for ourselves.”
I fully agree. But in my case, taking the opiates for a few weeks, killing time on the sofa, in front of the TV, but under the influence, I wasn’t entirely of “sound mind.”
It was sort of the easiest path each day, to plan to solve things tomorrow or the next day.
Opiates have a wide range of side effects. My doctor was treating them, with two more prescriptions.
I had a glimpse of sanity; why not stop taking the 1st drug, which caused need for two more?
It worked.