pain management

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Hi all:

Just a quick question to see if I am being paranoid or not!

My doc wants to refer me to a pain management doc who has been in

four different states in FIVE years! My doc knows nothing about

him, just picking him out of the book as one who is on my

insurance. I am not going. Do you all think I am being paranoid?

I got some of his literature in the mail and I don't like any of

it. Especially since the guy is a very good drive away and he

states that you must come EVERY SINGLE WEEK!

Now what happens when you have meds in your system and cannot

drive? Plus paying a co pay every week is baloney.

I still have a PM doc who is a total idiot but I don't have a

choice. I am the one trying to be legit here and the PM docs as I

have seen them so far are quacks. My current PM doc has down he is

treating me for low back pain and neuritis in the neck area! HE is

doing no such thing! He never examines or even comes in teh room

for that matter. The PAs have questioned why he has down low back

pain and neuralgia. I haven't challenged it because of the lack of

pain management docs.

My doc told me to ask him for something for break through pain.

Well I asked him when I went last month and he threw a fit and

said " if your doc wants to manage your pain let him do it, but I am

not giving you anything else! " He doesn't even give me a 90 day

supply every 90 days. He gives me 60 doses. Most of the time that

is ok. I have run out twice and wound up in the hospital just

because of running out. How easily that could be avoided. The

hospital for me is a disaster with blood clots from midline PICC

lines, etc. As most of you know I cannot have any kind of line,

PICC, PORT, Broviac, etc that goes down to the heart so they have

started putting in PICC lines that end at the shoulder. They go bad

very easily.

Actually I called the medical board and asked about this doctors

practice of putting down wrong diagnoses and not examining

patients. The investigator told me if that was the truth (why

wouldn't it be) then he would be in a lot of trouble and they would

investigate the whole practice. I am leary even reporting him if I

leave that practice because my hubby works for the hospital and that

could cause him a ton of trouble if this idiot wanted to including

losing his job.

Went back to my primary doc and he said he " doesn't feel

comfortable " with managing pain. Haven't we all heard that before.

That is why he wants to send me to a new pain doc. He did give me

30 pills of Oxy-IR to last until I can see someone but I have to

tell the PM doc that when I go back in June. He iwll probably dump

me then.

Also, this new doc he wants to send me to states right on his

literature that his goal is to send you back to your own doc for him

to manage your pain. I am sick of this crap.

Also this " new doc " has only been a doc for eight years and is 57

years old. He use to be an Electrical Engineer for crying out

loud. I know folks change professions but this is ridiculous.

I wish there were a doc who only treated or specialized in treating

the chronic pain of pancreatitis. Most of these docs don't even

know what it is.

I am going to have them get me on the list for a doc who is not

taking new patients but will put you on a waiting list. That could

be forever, but might as well get on the list.

I feel like I have gone back 8 years in time since this first

started. According to the dates, this guy graduated from his

residency about the time I got sick with pancreatitis! Forget it.

Kaye..........NC