I saw this post and can relate.
The first neuro, from the first appointment, suggested a prescription for ssris and shrink into the picture. Neuro kept pressing me on it every appointment afterwards and I refused. Then one time, when I was crying in response to being scared of my circumstance feeling like the dr didn't want to press further testing, the neuro said, Would you like me to write you a prescription to feel better.
I stopped cold and told Neuro that normal people cry when they are terrified when they are experiencing symptoms of a disease, a normal response, not something a drug will fix, only answers. Never went back...Then the second Neuro I saw was a big joke neuromuscular specialist, who sided with the last Neuro, who was a colleague in the same group so he wouldn't have to do much work. He was much more interested in my social history, what I did for a living to evaluate in his mind how stupid or smart I was, my private life, and was trying to imply something because I didn't have children. Must be that female hysteria, I thought. He brought up somatization/conversion BS, and I almost went to a psych so dr would get off my back, but then I changed my mind because it was a lie.
Never went back to that one, but went to his senior colleague. I got a better response, but this neuro kept pushing counseling, actually threatened me that no more tests would be done until I saw someone in psych. So I went for a few sessions and vented how disgusted I was with these neuros, never returned back. Then our neuro relationship was terminated, in not so many words other than, we are done he determined and abandoned me. Just sickening, I hope these doctors suffer like what we are going through...so that's my story. I will never go back to that group again, they call themselves specialists, with no compassion at all. The next neuro that suggests this I will decline immediately and tell them to focus on my physical illness, not some imaginary one...
