Though, just remembering that one psychiatrist who tried to put my suddenly sleeping like 20 hours a day off on sleep apnea from being fat. When that had never been a problem before, and I never showed any signs of apnea.
He didn’t even seem remotely concerned that sleep apnea might be dangerous and I should maybe check into that, just to use as a brushoff.
It couldn’t have been a medication side effect, not at all. (Along with gaining 40 lbs. in a month while hardly awake to eat much…) So then of course he tried to increase the dosage again 😵
That was the appointment where my mother eventually lost it and started yelling at him, so he called security to escort us out. At least the hospital security guy was rolling his eyes. Wouldn’t be surprised at some previous experience dealing with the jerk.
That was also the medication where, less than a week later, we got a call from the GP flipping out and screeching about liver failure. Good thing he had automatically been sent copies of the lab results. Because that was indeed a prescription which called for regular liver panels, and Psych Dude had apparently just been ignoring some really worrying results. The GP had only just seen the last set, and was concerned enough to call personally to tell me to stop taking the stuff right away.
No idea if that might have also had something to do with barely being able to stay awake, but yeah. The “sleep apnea” also stopped after maybe a week off those meds! 🙄
After that, I might resist the very idea of looking into it even if I did start showing apnea symptoms. Which is maybe another way assholes like that can endanger people’s health.
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