02-07-2017, 04:14 PM
I'll take a shot at this.
A little background about me: I'm a terrible insomniac and found a medication that really helps me. Doctors are understandably hesitant to prescribe it longterm to a young(ish) woman. I've gone through a few doctors before finding one that will renew my prescription regularly. It's still not enough (he won't prescribe it to be taken every night, so there is time before I can get a refill where I just don't sleep or order from an iop) but it's better than I have ever gotten before. About once a year he calls me in for an appointment to check how I'm doing.
After floundering with the first few doctors, I tried just complete honesty with the one I see now. I told him my problems with insomnia and how it effects my day-to-day life. I told him about the different tactics I've tried to sleep, and how the specific medication in my experience was the only one that really helped me and I felt like it improved my quality of life dramatically. Thankfully his point of view was that the side effects of not sleeping were worse tong term that the medication.
I'm sure most of this depends on the doctor, but if you are upfront with just how disrupting the issue is for your life (pain, anxiety--or whatever it is) I think a doctor is likely to want to fix it.
A little background about me: I'm a terrible insomniac and found a medication that really helps me. Doctors are understandably hesitant to prescribe it longterm to a young(ish) woman. I've gone through a few doctors before finding one that will renew my prescription regularly. It's still not enough (he won't prescribe it to be taken every night, so there is time before I can get a refill where I just don't sleep or order from an iop) but it's better than I have ever gotten before. About once a year he calls me in for an appointment to check how I'm doing.
After floundering with the first few doctors, I tried just complete honesty with the one I see now. I told him my problems with insomnia and how it effects my day-to-day life. I told him about the different tactics I've tried to sleep, and how the specific medication in my experience was the only one that really helped me and I felt like it improved my quality of life dramatically. Thankfully his point of view was that the side effects of not sleeping were worse tong term that the medication.
I'm sure most of this depends on the doctor, but if you are upfront with just how disrupting the issue is for your life (pain, anxiety--or whatever it is) I think a doctor is likely to want to fix it.