NP Psychiatrist Appt

I am so relieved that the appt with my NP psyicatruist went well. My GYN yesterday told me that all my psych medications I am taking increased my Prolactin which stopped my period for 9 months and also causes weight gain and can decrease sex drive. I am okay without a period but it is not healthy to be on all these meds. Luckily he agreed to get me off the Depakote. He just said I need to take 500mg instead of 1250mg for 2 weeks. I really don’t even want to do that, because after taking it as subscribed at 1250 mg a day and finding out it wasn’t a theaupetic level anyway, I started just taking 500 or 750mg a day. If you decrease too fast you can have a seizure. I was just going to stop taking it now though to be honest, because I don’t want my hair to keep falling out, but the caseworker just called and said my NP wants to see me in 3 weeks and wants blood work taken before that. I don’t know why he wants to take blood work. I don’t think he will be checking my Prolactin yet, because he is making some changes for that but I am not even staring the new meds until 2 weeks, because he needs to get a prior authorization from insurance. He is changing my antipsychotic and anti depressant to meds that should not cause weight gain and should not increase Prolactin. I think he may want to see that I am still taking the depakote as prescribed. If he sends the order soon tho, I’ll just go get the blood work next week and then stop the Depakote. Some of you may think I am dumb and I definitely don’t recommend anyone else do this. I am thankful that I do not need to take another mood stabilizer though. I let him know that when I was married and in NY I was on Lithium then Lamictal and had “episodes” on both. I won’t even call them episodes, because they were trauma flashbacks. I let him know I have PTSD and the NP I saw before I was court ordered to this government funded facility a year and a half ago believed I had PTSD and let me be on just Wellbutrin for depression for 3 and a half years before I was triggered, forced to go to the hospital and forced to be on Lithium. My NP now said he can’t change my diagnosis without me having an hour medical evaluation, and I said that’s fine. That’s what I want eventually when I am off court ordered treatment hopefully in 3 months. I want to see a psychiatrist of my own picking with my own insurance. I will hopefully be able to get off the antipsychotic and maybe even the depression meds too. Hopefully the NP will recommend to the judge when it is judicial review time in 3 months that I would be okay off court ordered treatment. I told him I will still see a psychiatrist which I will. And I told him I am going to AA, swimming laps, and feeling really good now. If not, I think my court ordered treatment goes until October.