Iggy...My Doctor makes me feel like Im just trying to get drugs....

[Guest guest]

Iggy, I feel your pain sister and I don't just mean the physical

pain, but the mental anguish that goes along with trying to get the

doctors to understand that we're truly in pain and being made to feel

like we are faking it or like you said, like we are junkies! I was

on the Duragesic patch - 50mg and had one that leaked. When I called

and told the doctor she basically told me too bad! She wouldn't give

me any more until I came in for my next appt which meant I would have

gone 3 days without any pain meds! She said I wouldn't go into

withdrawal and all that b.s. and I told her flat out that she was

wrong and she told me to find another doctor! I cried for days and

didn't know what to do. I tried to find another rheummy and no one

could see me until January and this was at the end of October! I

finally called a pain management clinic and they saw me and for the

first time since I've been sick - 4 years now, I finally got someone

to take me seriously (other than my gyn). I'm on methadone - 5mg

every 12 hours and I'm getting a little bit of relief - not total,

but enough to where I'm not laying on the couch all day crying. Can

you get the pain management place to give you the prescriptions? Why

does your doctor have to put her two cents in? She's not the expert

in pain management, that's why they have doctors who specialize in

it! I'm sure the women here that have gone all natural won't agree

with getting the narcotics, but so far that's all I've known and

after I get explanted I plan on weaning down and going as natural as

possible, but right now I need something strong for pain. And

another good thing that came out of my doctor dumping me - actually

the most awesome thing...after I cried for days I got up and got mad

and decided to take charge of my life and found this group!!

Something good always comes from something bad I truly believe. Hang

in there. I'll be praying for you.

Pam

--- In , " iggyangel7 " <Iggys_girl@m...>

wrote:

> Hi, Im writing this, because if I don't I will get so depressed

over

> this. My Lord, I am made to feel ashamed because I suffer from

> severe pain. Dont these docs know that I have lost my job, my

> health, my bike rides w/my girl, my rollerblading w/ her, my health

> is so bad right now. And what more can I put up with? I am a

mature

> adult, I told the doc before pain management that I will only go on

> these pills until after my explant,(FEB), yet every month when I go

> to get these pills that first of all, nothing gets rid of the pain

it

> helps me function as a mother and housewife, thats it, and hour or

2

> tops of functioning. I have physical therapy, natural supps, I use

> many treatments, lidoderm pain patches that just numb the area, so

> beleive me I do not depend on just narcotics. I see the pain

> specialist who faxes the scripts to my MD, what does she do? she

> says, " this is too much " you will have to turn in your oxycodone

> tablets for the new script, because they interact w/each other.

FIrst

> of all, that is not true, she is lying to me. they do not

interact.

> My scripts are for sustained release oxy and instant release oxy,

> very low doses, but she thinks that she is doing me the biggest

> favor, and makes me feel like a junkie when I go in to get these

> scripts. Ladies, these do not work, they just help take the edge

off

> to function... I was the one who only wanted them short term, so

why

> do I get such treatment? Yes I complain all the time to my doc, I

> tell her the truth that I still am in pain, and I still dont sleep,

> but she says, sorry, I cant do anymore for you. I want the natural

> route 100% after explant, that was my choice... I have to go in

> there tomorrow, and feel humiliated again.... I know this happens

to

> people w/chronic pain, Ive heard many stories, but it hurts so bad,

> that I am made to feel like a junkie. I dont drink, I never even

> took tylenol until all this garbage started cropping up. Please

say

> a prayer for me, I do not have the mental strength to deal w/this.

I

> am so depressed right now, that I just want this all to end....

> Please give me some encouragement, I cant deal w/this anymore, I

dont

> want pills, and all the cra*, I want mylife back............... Im

> crying cuz I feel so much pain and sickness, that I want to give

up.

> Please help. Iggy