Because I am this close to firing mine.
A few months ago I got really sick. Auto-immune hemolytic anemia; basically, my immune system was destroying my red blood cells, making me weak. I was referred to a hematologist, Dr. K. She fixed me right up, and as of right now I'm good as new.
The issue is that, since I originally got sick, I've been in her office probably twenty times for follow-up. That is not an exaggeration; at the beginning I was there twice per week, then every week, then every three weeks, then every month. Now she wants to see me again, next week, and I tried to wiggle out of it. Her nurse just called me and came this close to chewing me out for trying to blow them off.
Dr. K. took me off the medicine she'd prescribed after my blood count came back to normal. Since being off the medicine, I've been back to her office at least twice, probably three times. I feel fine, I'm not taking any medicine, and I have no desire to drive fifty miles and see her yet again.
At this point I think she's just trying to come up with excuses to bill my insurance.
The more anxious I got, the more meds she put me on, the more she increased my dosages. I did not realize at the time that the meds were actually making me worse. Finally, I hit rock bottom & started self harming (cutting). I stopped seeing the therapist, weened myself off all but one of the meds, & my anxiety decreased significantly. I still take the one med, on an as needed basis, but not the others. & I know I made the right decision to cut ties with that therapist.
