Absolutely Terrible.
I am writing this survey for my mother, as a witness of what I've seen her go through strictly from this doctor. let's start at the beginning; My mom has had manic Depression since 18 years old, she is 56 this month. With that, she has always been very anxious, worried about the small things. My mother, has never cried a tear in front of her family, and has ALWAYS pushed through the hard times and done whatever she had to, to let us know she will be okay even on the hardest days. She had a doctor who she had been with almost her whole diagnoses, although he was a bit outdated he was great and always took care of my momma! He always listened to her, and although her medicine would fluxuate, he would stay on top of it with her blood tests and always recommended a steady, safe increase or decrease in lithium, and her thyroid. He's retired now, which brought us to Dr. Casey.
Sadly, she is not the same trustworthy story. In early February my mom had severe pneumonia, and then after that a blood infection, which confined her to her bed for a couple months when she wasn't in the hospital. Shortly after this my mom was seeing Dr. Casey, and I have never seen her in worse shape than this time. she grew a little better as the pneumonia left, and as time went on she hit a plateau. Dr. Casey changed some of the medicine my mom had been on since the old doctor, and my mom's condition was almost unbearable.
She could barely walk, consistently gaining unnecessary weight, took the smallest baby steps, an unbelievable gain in shaky hands and extremities when trying to do the most basic things, like sit and stand, drink from a straw, hold a fork. She couldn't eat soup from not being able to steadily hold the spoon to her mouth, her sleeping was off and immune system was down. But worst of all? My 55 year old mom became incontinent, which has never happened before. My family lovingly took care of these hard times, and always stayed by her side, no matter what. she couldn't to much without us at this time honestly.
This all happened because Dr.Casey overmedicated my mom, this is not an exaggeration, I had to tell this story even if it's to help one person. This doctor left after only 6 months of seeing my mom, which means this all happened during that time. She left all of her patients after something to do with Obamacare, thank God. my mom went from seeing her and taking 13 pills...THIRTEEN..down to 5. And this new doctor is such a blessing, he has taken her off Risperdal, Depakote, and Lithium, the biggest pills that caused most of these problems. We later found out Dr.Casey upped her Risperdal while seeing her which made her completely incontinent and gain water weight. Since being rid of the unnecessary torure, my mom has literally never looked better, and she's so active! This is my hallelujah, I am so incredibly happy to have her back, and better than ever. Please don't let anyone you love be put under this stress, or overmedicated, including yourself. I strongly suggest everyone find a good doctor, who cares about the well being of their patients; after all if we're not under good care, who is?
Thank you for reading this lengthy story.