4 thoughts on “Docs & DID

  1. Sage*

    We haven’t even tried. There are so many things we need to do health wise but just seem too big to try or even to know where to begin. For example, how to go to the dentist. It sounds stupid but it is scary for a few of us, so scary that we can’t be assured that we will follow through with the appointment, much less not switch.

  2. jigsaw analogy--ellis

    yeah. i have GOT to get to the dentist soon. for that reason, i went to a psychiatrist last week, and was up front about DID being one of the issues, and asked for something to cope with anxiety.

    i’m a little concerned that he didn’t seem to have much info on DID, but i can’t find a psychiatrist who has that info and takes my insurance, so oh well. he prescribed xanax, and i’m nervous about that, because he said it works the same way valium does, and i *know* i respond randomly to that depending on which part is out (this may be true of any psych med, but i’ve heard there are anti-anxiety meds that work on physical processes, and those tend to affect me more consistently–pain relievers work equally well regardless of which part takes them, for instance)

    i also need to see a doctor, and if the point is for me to have a doctor i’ll actually go see for checkups, it needs to be someone who can cope with me being multiple. i avoid my current doctor ’cause he’s such an idiot even about other things, so i’m just not getting much medical care.

    i’m lucky, though, because i have a partner who’s willing and able to help by doing things like going to appointments with me.

  3. chariots

    YUCK! The dentist! This was where I had my most recent episode of problems, and later he says to me “why didn’t you put this down on your entry form?” …. the part about having PTSD. I never even said anything about having DID! I figure it’s much safer to stick with PTSD. But seeing how he ended up talking to my T in the process of me dissociating on the dental chair – it’s possible that he knows I have DID.

    Oh well – now it’ll be safer to go in next time, b/c he knows.

    But ya – I should’ve written something about that on my sheet. I scare people when I don’t. …. I just didn’t think I’d have a problem. But I did. Blah.

    I’m not so into telling the whole world that I have DID. Especially if it’s very possible they’ll never see any of it. It seems better to me to stick with saying I have PTSD – and then if things get crazy…. and they’re actually seeing me shift – I won’t have to work hard to explain that I have DID. I mean – unless someone has seen it, they never really believe it anyway.

  4. jigsaw analogy--ellis & co

    ugh. right now i’m pretty much inclined to just tell people straight off. i dont care if they dont understand at least i have done my part. maybe its because i have a few places where i am just open about it and the people roll with it and its just easier that way. like on my non-DID forum i was open about it and different parts post when appropriate and no one has complained about it or thought its weird. probably they dont even really notice because its not like we say we’re different parts but we talk different from each other and have different quirks and stuff.

    but the other reason i posted is cause now it turns out that i am not only going to have to go to the dentist soon i am also going to have to see a doctor about period stuff because i looked online and the information there says that what is going on is at the point where you are supposed to see a doctor about it that is a pain because even though its just associated with stuff i dont like, not like with the dentist where part of the problem is i have had some really bad dentists. but still having someone look at me in that part of my body for the woman type stuff that is hard. but i had probably better go and i dont like that.

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