u/Jmacz

Okay so I went to the ER last Wednesday for some really bad tooth pain where they gave me some Hydrocodone for the pain. I have one refill on it and don't see the dentist till this Thursday so went to try and refill that prescription with my primary care doctor today over my patient portal. When I opened up ER notes from the portal to get the specifics of everything I saw something that no one ever told me.

Under my "Past Medical History" it had the following.

History of psychiatric hospitalization

Anxiety

Depression

PTSD (post-traumatic stress disorder)

Epilepsy

Now all of the other ones I was aware of. The psychiatric hospitalization was a voluntary one from 7 years ago. I had thoughts of suicide after a bad breakup where I was cheated on and chose to go to the hospital for 3 days because I also had a bad problem with drinking to help me fall asleep at the time. After meeting with a therapist for the first time she suggested that to me and it seemed like the best idea. I haven't had any problems with drinking or suicidal thoughts since. But in those seven years not ONE doctor has mentioned to me I am marked as having PTSD. I've had 3 different therapists, 2 different psychologists, 2 neurologists, and a epileptologist, and the same primary care doctor. I haven't cycled through doctors from anything stemming with me. It's because one therapist retired, one moved to a different state, one of the psychs wasn't covered by my insurance anymore, and I started going to the epileptologist after the neurologists couldn't figure out what was causing my seizures.

This just seems very odd to me. I assume the PTSD diagnosis comes from when I was hospitalized after the suicidal thoughts and issues with drinking? As far as I know I don't have any symptoms. I've never had a flashback, or at least I don't think I have? Ironically the girl I had the bad breakup with that kinda caused the hospitalization had PTSD and I was with her when she did have flashbacks. And I've never experienced anything like what it seemed like she was going through.

Luckily I have my appointment with my therapist tomorrow, so I'm definitely going to mention this to her. I just thought it was very strange this is on my permanent medical history and not a single one of my doctors has ever mentioned it to me.

Is this something anyone else here has dealt with? Could this be a mistake? Because I can't imagine any reason they would be hiding this from me for 7 years, especially because I seemingly found it so easily. I'm definitely going to ask more about it in my next few appointments. I see my therapist tomorrow, my epileptologist June 1st, and my primary care in August. So hopefully I can get more info on it.

Not sure what kind of info I'm going to get posting this here but I just wanted to hear the opinion of others who do have the same issue. Because maybe some of you have dealt with something similar. I'm just very confused by all of this right now. I'm running to the grocery store shortly after posting this, but will be back in a little over an hour to check any replies.