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elynnor
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cubanlord
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| Posted: Wed Jun 28, 2006 4:45 am Post subject: |
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| I know psychiatrists are "specialized doctors", not your everyday "i have a cold" doctor. The rates may be different. Anyone?!?!?! |
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korian
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| Posted: Wed Jun 28, 2006 4:52 am Post subject: |
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| doesn't exactly solve the doc problem but can't you just order zoloft online and get it delivered? |
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Juregen
Joined: 30 May 2006
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| Posted: Wed Jun 28, 2006 5:02 am Post subject: |
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Did you get a receipt?
If they don't give a receipt you don't pay, if they do, all is normal.
I pay 10.000 won for a doctor visit in my neighbourhood and 30.000 won in the hospital.
so i am no quit sure wether the price is exuberant |
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CoolTeach
Joined: 19 Apr 2006
Location: Back in the USSR
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| Posted: Wed Jun 28, 2006 5:12 am Post subject: |
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elynnor
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alinkorea
Joined: 02 May 2005
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| 45,000 Won seems reasonable to me. Even with insurance such medication is still relatively expensive. Psychiatric illnesses are perceived as long-standing my insurance companies. They therefore don't cover much of the cost |
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Nok Yong
Joined: 05 May 2006
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| Posted: Wed Jun 28, 2006 5:32 am Post subject: |
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Perhaps I'm wrong here, but I think psychiatric treatment is not covered under the Korean national health insurance plan.
In the future I recommend going to your neighborhood 내과 (internal medicine clinic) to fill your prescription under the pretense that you're having trouble sleeping or something. Another suggestion is to seek treatment at a 신경과 (neurology clinic) in a local hospital.
Have you tried tapering yourself off of the zoloft? After four plus years of being on the same medication I would tend to question its effectiveness. I don't know how severe your depression is, but you may want to talk to a good English speaking MD about getting off of it. Typically, bouts of moderate (and even severe) depression last 4-6 months.
There are many alternatives to treating depression, other than taking the standard SSRI's. |
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elynnor
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RACETRAITOR
Joined: 24 Oct 2005
Location: Seoul, South Korea
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| Posted: Wed Jun 28, 2006 5:41 am Post subject: |
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| It sounds reasonable to me. I think they were doing you a favour. Or maybe that's why you need the pills. |
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tzechuk
Joined: 20 Dec 2004
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| Posted: Wed Jun 28, 2006 6:12 am Post subject: |
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| Specialists charge you more. |
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jay-shi
Joined: 09 May 2004
Location: On tour
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| Posted: Wed Jun 28, 2006 6:26 am Post subject: |
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| Nok Yong wrote: |
| Perhaps I'm wrong here, but I think psychiatric treatment is not covered under the Korean national health insurance plan. |
I've been seeing the same doctor at my favorite "neuro-psychiatric" clinic for 2 years. It's covered by the national health insurance plan. The price did go up from 4900won to 5400won in the last 2 years.
If you live in the Daejeon area PM me and I'll hook you up.
Local general medicine clinics do not usually prescribe those types of meds, rather refer you to a specialist, or so it's been in my experience. |
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kermo
Joined: 01 Sep 2004
Location: Eating eggs, with a comb, out of a shoe.
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| Posted: Wed Jun 28, 2006 6:40 am Post subject: |
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| It sounds reasonable to me. I think they were doing you a favour. Or maybe that's why you need the pills. |
Whaaaaat?
OP, I'm sorry you've had a rough go. If I were you, I'd just spend the next 28 days looking for an English-speaking psychiatrist (they sometimes advertise in K-Scene) and write this one off.
Re: weaning yourself off the pills. I had a bit of a chuckle reading that, as I am very vulnerable to depression myself, and have been medicated for the last 13 years, on and off (off with much less success.) The poster who suggested it is evidently not familiar with long-term depression, and anti-depressants (SSRIs or otherwise) as a preventative measure rather than a treatment.
I recently switched to a lower dose, since I haven't had any major triggers, stresses or episodes in quite a while, but I have resigned myself to remaining on this dose until something quite supernatural intervenes.
Without them, I'm walking a tightwire. One of life's typical bumps comes along, and I'm plummeting without a safety net. I hit bottom, and I can't seem to find my way back. The pain is intense, desolate, gut-wrenching. The funk is impermeable, and I become unresponsive to most of life's pleasures. It's just a cranial glitch, but it makes the world seem like a terrible place.
So, for now, I have my mother send my prescription in the mail, and I renew it every six months or so when I visit home. I don't think it's legal to send the pills, but my mother seems to enjoy finding new and interesting ways to smuggle them.
The online option is one I haven't explored. I'd try that before I went to a local clinic.
One more thing-- I wouldn't advise talking about your prescription to Koreans, particularly your co-worker or your boss. Depression is seen is a mental defect, and there's a considerable stigma. You might be looked at as "unstable" and risk your job. If you have friends you trust, test the waters first, and then ask for help. |
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whatever
Joined: 11 Jun 2006
Location: Korea: More fun than jail.
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OP, I don't mean at all to sound insensitive, but that doesn't sound like a particularly expensive visit to a (specialist) doctor to me at all.
...Certainly not enough to necessitate action, in my opinion. Why not just be happy your dosage wasn't interrupted, be glad you have a reliable doctor to go to for future prescription needs and have a nice day? |
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jay-shi
Joined: 09 May 2004
Location: On tour
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| Posted: Wed Jun 28, 2006 7:02 am Post subject: |
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| kermo wrote: |
| One more thing-- I wouldn't advise talking about your prescription to Koreans, particularly your co-worker or your boss. Depression is seen is a mental defect, and there's a considerable stigma. You might be looked at as "unstable" and risk your job. If you have friends you trust, test the waters first, and then ask for help. |
I second that.
First time I tried getting a prescription filled in Korea at my local clinic, the nice doctor there was kind enough to call my place of employment to have THEM tell me I needed to go see a specialist. I got the odd looks from everyone. I had to explain that I was on the meds mostly for insomnia problems (not entirely a lie) and that I did not have any mental problems.
Good luck in your quest, and be discrete. |
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