Awesome Babe! I'm going to start anew on Thursday... the day after school lets out for the summer. And Yes, I know exactly what you're talking about... I stopped taking all medication a couple of years ago... I was only on migraine meds and anti-depressants, but those meds ran my blood pressure up a bit (side effect) and so I had to start taking high blood pressure meds. I got tired of taking the pills and so I stopped. Since the anti-depressants and the migraine meds ran my bp up I figured once I stopped taking them, I could stop taking the blood pressure meds. I was wrong. I went for about 8 or so months... and suffered a brain aneurysm and almost (and according to the doctor, should have) died.

I had changed GP's about a month before I stopped taking my meds... my doctor moved away and had to change... so I just went to another one in the clinic... I wasn't real impressed with him (I only saw him once)... so I just quit going to him and stopped taking my meds. After my hospital stay, I had to go see him for a follow up... I expected to be blessed out big time... You know what he did? He took partial responsibility for what I did because he new I was very attached to my former doctor (we were also friends, I know his wife as well) and he thought he should have followed up with me better when I stopped showing up for check ups. He had missed me and wondered what was up. I about fell over... I just knew I was going to get yelled/fussed at, but he didn't. He did tell me that if I ever felt like just stopping my meds again, to come talk to him and we would deal with it together...

He has been very pro-active about my health and well being. I didn't really need to be on medication for diabetes or cholestorol yet... but he knew my family history was horrible in both areas...and started me out on meds for maintenance. He pulls other little tricks on me too, making sure he sees me regularly... he just pulled one on me about a week ago on one of my refills... he usually gives me 5 months on a refill, but he knew it was time for my check up in to... so that's what he gave me... 2 months.

There are good GP's out there... sometimes you have to look for them... and sometimes you have them dropped into your lap...

On Thursday, I start again... 2 months away from the road to work... Lord help me.