Bipolar Disorder? General doc. made new diagnosis without telling me?!

Bipolar Disorder? General doc. made new diagnosis without telling me?

I have bipolar disorder. I sometimes hear voices when I'm manic or depressed. I haven't been manic or depressed lately, pretty stable. Two weeks ago, I had a visual hallucination. I saw maggots all over my living/kitchen and they were eating my dead cat-She's alive in real life-I called my doc and left a message with his nurse. I had to reschedule an appt. w/ a new psych. b/c they had no info on me after I waited a mth. and a half to see him, they lost info on me. I went to my gen. doc. to tell him what happened. He put me on 80mg of Geodon and 200mg of Lamictal, that's all I'm taking along w/ thyroid horm. He said what happened to me was an "episode". On the med. form that u give to the receptionist, "acute psychosis" and the presc. had "for BAD/Schizo Affective Disorder". Who knows what this means? Did he change my diagnosis w/out telling me? This episode scared my husband. I was screaming at him to kill the maggots. He didn't know what to do. Call 911 if this happens again?Advice?

Yes if it happens again go to the ER and tell them whats going, as for the new dx that kind of stuff can happen when you have bipolar (I have bipolar) the doctors tend not to give you a new dx just add another one to the list you already have. Do you know you have the right to read your medical files?? If you are worried go in and say you want to read them you might have to write off to get a copy but you do have the right to read them. good luck