Re: daily migraines

[Guest guest]

There is ABSOLUTELY nothing you can do to make them follow another docs orders.

OTHER then ask the doc to prescribe the meds to you to be given at home, which

will most likely never happen. 

Your doc is asking another Dr to take his orders and put his name on them. He

doesn't have to do this as the doctor has gone thru the training etc and it his

that individuals license on the line.  I have only once gone to the ER for

migraine, and that was because I was at work.  The ER would be the last place I

would ever go. with a headache.

Ask your doc to keep the meds on hand,(in his office so you can go there

during office hours) OR if there is a DR of pharmacy or PHARM D at a

Walgreen near you, have your doc call in the orders written for PRN (as

necessary). You can go to the Walgreen or other pharmacy to get the shot.  I had

injectable IM meds at home that I taught my then husband to give me. DHE worked

wonders.

SO, you have had a migraine every day for the last 42 years?

I no longer suffer from them with the exception of about 4 per year, down from 3

to 4 a week.

Deb RN

>Kathy wrote:

>I have good Drs. and several meds. to choose from and orders on file at the ER

if I have to go.  The problem is they (at ER) still treat me so awful every time

I go there that I swear I'll never go back.  I even called a patient liaison who

assured me it wouldn't happen again. 

>They take a part of the instructions on file and make up their own cocktail of

meds which rarely works.  How can I get these people to follow the orders on

file? 

>I want to do something proactively so if I'm in dire need of  help I can't

always be a good advocate for myself right at that time. 

     

[Guest guest]

Kathy,

Have you talked to the medical Director of the hospital that you go to? Maybe

talking to him directly or writing a letter about what happens every time that

you go to their ER will get the ball rolling and he could make sure that

everyone is on the same page.

I know how frustrating it is to go to ER's in pain and then been treated like a

drug seeker, it used to happen to me. I put an end to that by doing the

following:

Any time that I have to run to the ER because my pain is out of control, I call

my Doctor's service and talk to him when he calls me back. I tell him exactly

what's going on and then if he tells me head out to the ER, he goes ahead and

calls them with instructions on what to do with me. Sometimes he will put me in

the hospital in order to control the pain, or sometimes he will just have them

give me some injections, but he is the one that instructs them on what to do.

Try that, talk to your Doc and see if he will agree to do something like that,

if not then talking to the medical director would be your best choice. Good luck

to you,

Millie

--- Kathy wrote:

> They (ER doctors) take a part of the instructions on file and make up their

own cocktail of meds which rarely works.  How can I get these people to follow

the orders on file? 

>

> I want to do something proactively so if I'm in dire need of  help I can't

always be a good advocate for myself right at that time.