My doctor has never once asked me what it actually feels like to be on these drugs
This is not at all a critique or complaint about her competence since she monitors my labs, renews prior authentication, adjusts the dose I take when needed, so clinically she’s doing her job. But in the two years we’ve been together she has never asked me what my relationship with food is like now, whether the appetite suppression feels the same as it did in month three, how I’m handling the social and emotional side of significant weight loss, or what I think is working versus what isn’t. Just really thought she’d be more involved with the drug like just outside of the clinical stuff yknow? I've started wondering whether the appointments are managing the medication or managing me as a patient. Those are different things and I'm not sure she knows the distinction matters.