Nate had an appointment with the neurologist this morning (a follow-up from his original appointment in March... this has been a long time in coming, since they were supposed to see him after 3 months. This office has definitely not earned a high grade in my book for efficiency, timeliness, following up, or generally knowing what the heck is going on.).
It went how I would have predicted: the doctor praised the fact that we have Nate in behavioral therapy and heavily discounted all of the biomedical stuff we're doing. She would barely let me get a sentence in about how I feel the biomedical treatments are helping; she spoke over me repeatedly about how she doesn't believe they work. The only thing I was able to say without interruption was, "If it doesn't hurt my son but might help him, I'm going to do it." I am not surprised or disheartened, but I am sad for all those other families who blindly, hopefully (that is, full of hope) trust what their knowledgeable doctor says and therefore don't try these other treatments. Anyway, Nate had several melt-down moments while we were in the appointment, and the doctor had some really nice and encouraging things to say about how I handled those from a behavioral standpoint.
The doc ordered some more blood work (everything so far has come back normal) and asked for another follow-up appointment in six months.
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It IS frustrating, but at least you know yourself that the treatments seem to be working, and that's the most important part. :) Doctors seem to have a very hard time looking past the textbooks they had to bury their heads in all during medical school (at least we can hope that's what they were doing!)
Not really sure what to comment here... Since I don't know what you're going through, and I haven't seen a doctor roll their eyes at me or totally interrupt everything that I want to say. All I will say... I am sorry your doc doesn't want to hear you. I guess doctor's have their opinions about things just like everyone out there does... I mean about everything... not just autism. Hang in there girl! :) Unfortunately, not everyone is going to be on the same page with everything we decide to do. Doing what you think is best would be the best thing -- I think anyway. :) But, this is just me, trying to step in your shoes for a mere 2 minutes that it's taking me to write this. :]
Checking back in with y'all tonight....good to "hear" what you've been up to. I'm not surprised either about the dr.'s response. Good for you for being a knowledgeable mom!
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