Reviews
This review is for the WannaBeShrink Physician's Assistant, Jonette Albright, who Dr. Steven Herzog pawned me off on after a radiologist dismissed my diagnosis of Chiari using old school and invalid criteria. Every appointment I had with the WannaBeShrink was spent partially with her reminding me that Chiari was "nothing" and that I needed to move on from that and deal with the symptoms at hand. She spent the rest of the time trying to get me to explain to her why I was so depressed, crying and anxiety stricken every time I went to see her. I'm not crazy, I'm not depressed... I'm in pain and I'm tired of no one listening to me. Every appointment she would change the amount of Zonegran I was taking and she would give me a prescription for a different anti-depressant. In between each drug, I would reinforce my stance that I wasn't crazy, I wasn't depressed, I was in pain. Zoloft (Sertraline), Effexor, Wellbutrin and Cymbalta (which was the straw that broke this camel's back.) After one day on Cymbalta in February 2007... I had what is called an Transient Ischemic Attack... otherwise known as a "mini stroke". I started sweating, the world started spinning, I was dry heaving, my head felt like it was going to explode, I couldn't talk, my face was spasming. I got completely undressed (TMI, sorry), laid down on the couch and covered myself with beach towels that I soaked in cold water. After 4 minutes of the symptoms not improving... I called 911. I was kept overnight in the hospital. The right side of my bottom lip is paralyzed and crooked (more than it already was from forceps damage when I was born). I went to one more appointment to get new prescriptions of the drugs I knew were helping me and after telling her about the TIA, I refused to try any more anti-depressants. About a year later when those prescriptions were about to expire, I called and asked for all of my medical records (including my MRIs) to be ready for me to pick up. I got there and it was just a paper folder, no MRIs. I had to have a fit before they went back and found my MRIs. Then I realized my MRIs that ThePawn had ordered were not in there, only the written report... so I had to wait longer for them to copy the films onto a CD. And again I said I need my original MRIs from TheBrickWall which they came out without when they brought the CD and I had to get upset before they went and found those. I have no faith in Dr. Herzog, because he pawns off his patients. Dr. Albright because all she wanted was to prove I was crazy. The radiologist who still goes by old school criteria for diagnosing Chiari... thus probably causing an untold number of Chiarians left looking for more answers. And the office staff for being unable to comprehend the definition of ALL OF MY RECORDS AND MRIs... on the first, second or third try. She INSISTED that I had migraines... the same LIE I was given for decades. Oh.. and guess what? I had Chiari decompression surgery and they went away. But thanks for trying to kill me with your drugs and ignorance.