Uncontrolled Pain

[Guest guest]

Hello to the group. I have not been reading all the posts because I

am in so much pain along with stress.

I have been in excruciating pain for about a month now and it was

off the scale when I visited my son because of all the things Maureen

and her husband were doing to me on my supervised visit. If you want

to know I will tell you about it but I may have already, I am so

confused. I know for a fact and by experience that stress causes pain

and I have had to take more of the meds than are prescribed. I don't

know what to do. Now I am going to run out before my Dr visit. I am

feeling depressed and very anxious.

I have a referral for a surgeon that was supposed to already have been

made. It was put in my PCP's chart March 28 and I called them

yesterday and they said it wasn't even in the referral file. So I've

been waiting all this time thinking they had already set one up. They

said they would put it in the referrals yesterday when I called them.

If I hadn't called them it probably wouldn't have ever gotten in.

I like my Dr, he believes me about my pain and anxiety, and I don't

want to go through the hassle of finding another one who thinks I'm a

drug seeker like most do. And like all Dr's they are very busy and

have too many patients. I told him maybe I could go to pain management

and he said all they do is give stronger meds and epidural injections

so to wait and see what the surgeon says. He said that pain clinis

want to do epidural injections because it' a lot more money and

insurances always accept them. But right now I need something stronger.

But I am in so much pain and have so much anxiety I am thinking about

going to a pain clinic Monday. The lortab 7.5 is not working hardly

at all and when it does it's only for an hour or so. It never has

worked that good but I'm afraid if I ask for something stronger he

will think I am a drug seeker. What should I do? Thanks