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Hi Doctors!
During my teens I was dealing with anxiety and mild depression and I was medicated for this but I was able to come off medication and have stayed off for around 12 years now. Recently I’ve noticed some symptoms surfacing again, so I’m leaning towards medication for help (I’m in therapy but life has been life recently) but with that said with my work/personal life have me pretty busy and the other caveat is I don’t have a doctor but I do have a walk in clinic who does telehealth appointments. So my question is this, can my walk in doctor/lpn see this history and prescribe me medication or will I need to go through a formal diagnosis process again?
TLDR: Can doctors see my health history and prescribe me medication I was on 12 years ago without a formal diagnostic process?
Thank you!
Not a doctor, but experienced in having needed to get this kind of stuff sorted for myself and some of my partners.
So there isn't some general database in regards to your past diagnoses and medication history that any doctor or clinic can access. However, whoever was your original doctor that diagnosed you with anxiety and prescribed you the meds, even if retired should have those records at whatever clinic they worked at last.
If it was a specialist, it would be as easy as contacting the office where they worked, and if it was a regular family doctor clinic, they should hopefully have that as well.
Often these clinic will charge a stupid fee that's upwards of $50 to transfer to documents over to whatever your current clinic is (unless you didn't change locations) because clinics are still a business.
Provided whoever your current / new doctor is open minded and isn't just assuming you're trying to get benzos like an addict (unless it's just SSRIs you want which they prescribe like water), it should be super easy.
Hope this information was useful! <3
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