Jen: Re: What pain clinic questions do I need to ask?

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Hi Jen,

I have the paperwork that my disability lawyer sent me but that only goes up

to 2007 (and it is like a bucket full to carry) and the one place I did go

to

for pain meds I wasn't able to get them sent to my PCP's file for some

reason and then I have to pay for all of the copies to have, which on a

disability money is hard to do.

I wanted them to start fresh, not what anyone wrote on me.

Some of the files the doctors wrote I had read and

what they described upset me.

The one doctor I had seen after my husband left me the first time.

He said in my file that when I saw him and described my pain I was smiling

(knowing my luck I was trying not to think of what happened at the time,

otherwise I have no clue why I would be smiling about it, I know I did cry

in his office one time and he had to put me on anti-depressants at the time

but told me it was a situational depression) and the notes my

psychiatrist wrote down she described what I was wearing and a whole bunch

of stuff.that I was amazed at what they wrote down.

The one MRI my PCP had done on me didn't even cover my lower back and I wish

she had done the whole part of my head, neck, shoulders, and back due to I

have a shunt and every time I do an MRI I have to drive 2 hours to the place

they have it and then have to have the neuro surgeons redo my shunt because

of the brain tumor I had. My neurologist had only X-rays done on my neck at

the time before my brain tumor and they couldn't figure out what was wrong

then.

I was seen by a doctor (rheumatologist) when I was 37 and he had told me at

the time I didn't have fibro and that I was on too many medicines for my

age.

But that was before the brain tumor and the radiation and chemotherapy that

I had gone thru in 2007-2008.

Thank you for your advice and I will see what I can do in the next few days

to get some of the records for me to look thru though if I can.

G

N. WI

ps. I did plan on taking what medications I do have. I just didn't want to

take my old methadone which works but I only take it when I appsolutely have

to because of horrid side effects for me and i broke it in half too so I

don't take as much. For some reason why if I say I horde my pain medication

sounds bad because I am just meaning that I don't take my pills as

prescribed because of 3 kids I have to take care of and try to take care of

the house as best as I can.

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> I would take EVERYTHING and ANYTHING you have!! Any old scans, tests,

> results, med reports, etc and medicine. Bring what meds you have that

> work and ad well as what doesn't work, regardless of how often you take

> it. The more info you can give them, the better they can help you

> (helpfully).

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