Question by Lane: Does every NEW psychiatrist have EVERY information about you or no?
I new psychiatrist who had prescribed me klonopin for severe anxiety that i have been dealing with for years. During my visit today he said if my blood pressure and pulse rate was low he could start me on adhd medications (amphetamines). For both these disorders he did a proper diagnosis and things were improving a lot after the anxiety medicine. However i had a meltdown one day, and the hospital sent me to a “psych ward” (they keep you in their for 3-20 days to get “stabalized”. I am only 21 but have gone their 3 times in different states and times in my life and i always feel like i’m going more crazy in their. Needless to say i was shocked that the psychiatrist whose patient i was in the psych unit took off my klonopin, and specifically wrote no benzos or opiates/amphetamines (never been prescribed any in my life or abuse history). The reason i was shocked was because MAJORITY of the 40 other people in the psych ward were on ativan or xanax (in my opinion even more dangerous than klonopin). And the very odd thing about it is that even though i’m 21 my parents distribute my medications even the ones i don’t find helpful so there were so signs of abuse. Anyways so i got out of the psych ward last week (my real psychiatrist actually works their too 2 days out of the week, but he didn’t know i was their at the time). Finally i was ready to address my adhd today because my blood pressure has lowered along with my heart rate, and OH MY GOD! Let’s just say i explained to him that I flipped out in the psych ward a few times because i was withdrawing from my meds especially the only one that stopped most my symptoms. I’m assuming the psychiatrist from the psych ward passed on the notes to my psychiatrist and my psychiatrist being newer probably felt that he should not prescribe me anymore controlled substances because of the psychiatrist from the psych ward. We had a long discussion and the only medication he was willing to put me on was the ones I have already tried (seroquel, and other ineffective meds) and “therapy” which i was in for 3 months. I almost had a panic attack because we were making so much progress for the first time since i was like 4 years old but everything went backwards. I had to angrily tell him that this isn’t going to work and we had to discontinue our treatment. I told my dad about it, because i am also on the klonopin,seroquel,gabapentin, and blood pressure medication, and that i would have to withdraw from all! My father who doesn’t believe much in depression and anxiety was being rude and saying he doesn’t give a f*** at this point, and it escalated and after so many months later we were about to get physical again because him telling me it’s fine if i die, and i mean screaming, and things were being brought up from the past. I called an ambulance and of course in this new city they don’t do anything for you, or even write you prescriptions.
Now sorry i got a little off track i just hope that i don’t wake up to my dad throwing me out the house and that we move past forward real quick because i NEED to find a new psychiatrist before my deadly withdrawals kick in. If i don’t take one of my meds for one day i feel like so sick and even more nervous than i already am, but this will be far worse and i don’t want to or should have to go through that unbearable pain. I already cut my all my arms with a razor blade after the hospital because i feel like things were getting better and suddenly BOOM! So my main concern is that i get to a point with my dad where he is fine with me scheduling to see a new psychiatrist (seriously) and to get stable again before things just get even worse.-However my question was that, is it necessarily going to be in every NEW psychiatrist that i see that a previous psychiatrist didn’t want me on benzos with no logical reason? I believe my current psychiatrist only did this is because he works with the psychiatrist who didn’t want me to be on benzos and i am sure he told my psychiatrist to take me off, because if that wasn’t the case he would of never cut me off the klonopin and not treat my adhd. So my question is this something that is like on my every psychiatrist go see can see that specific no benzos thing for the psych ward and because my psychiatrist works for the other one (excluding my medical records, because this psychiatrist didn’t even know some of the meds i tried in the past) i go to or probably not, i don’t think it is, but i could be wrong. I’m terrified i had my first panic attack start again today, and the days are yet to get worse, i’m so scared.1) I want to say if i hopefully see a new understanding psychiatrist nothing about it should pop up, but technology is getting advanced, and i have tried every non anxiety medicine and just want to live a normal life. Thoughts/opinions about the question (sorry for the ramble)

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Answer by M
Due to privacy laws in the US, these medical records are not linked. If you want someone to have access to personal health information, you have to sign paperwork authorizing the release of said information to a certain office or individual. So a new psychiatrist wouldn’t have any information about the “no benzos” order. A new psychiatrist might request your records from your former psychiatrist, but those records don’t necessarily contain the no benzos order either, since that came from the other doctor at the hospital. All records are kept separate, i.e. the records that were kept at the hospital don’t co-mingle with the records kept by your former psychiatrist, even if they work together. You can find a new psychiatrist and tell him what you’ve been taking for anxiety and ADHD, and he might write you a script to last you until you have your records transferred from your former doctor. Then he’ll see that you truly have been on these meds (doctors like hard evidence when dealing with controlled substances) and writing future scripts shouldn’t be a problem.

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