Chronic Pain - I've Been Thrown Under The Bus
UpdatedFirst I'll just say that I will try to describe this very difficult situation simply as I can. I'm 54 years old I've done construction and maintenance most of my entire adult life. I had spinal fusion surgery in 2005. I had blown out my back way before 2005 but that was a result of my heavy lifting and going up and down stairs a thousand times a day and just doing heavy construction wheelbarrows full of cement. and just all phases of construction. also I had rotator cuff injury which resulted in not one but two arterial bypass surgeries won the first being a plastic type thing that was installed in my arm elbow and shoulder which year later it failed so either cut my arm off because it's not working anymore or remove the arterial vein in my left leg from my knee to my groin. I've been on what I consider heavy pain medication for 10 years MS Contin 100 milligrams 3 times a day to oxycodone twice daily for breakthrough just recently 2 months ago I had this great idea that I would see what life would be like if I didn't take my pain medication anymore and decided that it would be a good idea as a person referred me to detox which was the worst thing that I have ever done in my entire life.
I did complete 7 day detox when they treated me with suboxone for 4 days 5 days and left this facility after the detox portion this was truly the worst decision that I ever made by trying to get off this pain meds that I had been depending on for 10 years came home felt fairly good although I still have chronic pain worse than ever now needless to say the story gets even worse as I was home for probably 10 days after the detox I had gotten cellulitis in my left foot and was extremely ill vomiting diarrhea and I'm here to tell you if you ever had cellulitis in your foot or leg feels like somebody smashed it was it sledge hammer and I couldn't walk at all.I've had a family member which he lives out of state who is my half brother that I've been with maybe a handful of times in my life that was visiting my mother in the same town that we live in and was aware of where he had gone and what I was planning to do let me add that when I left the detox facility I had call my mother and told her what my intentions were my half brother had got on the phone and told me that I would be the biggest effing loser in this world if I left that place and I told him to mind his own business and shut his mouth and it didn't matter what he said. I'd also like to add that this facility that I went to is not the bill of goods that was sold to me by any stretch.
so back to the cellulitis which made me very very ill and I had no choice but to go to the local er here in this fine town that I live in and yes the only person that can give me a ride to the ER at the time was my half brotherI go to the ER I wait my 34 hours to get in I going to the ER room by myself as I lay there after about an hour or two yes my half brother walks in goes right to the desk and very loudly says to the doctor that he thinks I'm crazy and I'm an addict and that I was on oxycontin and that they need to really take a good look at me because that's probably what's wrong with me.and yes when he made that statement in the ER with his big fat mouth for every single person to hear within a hundred feet of that placeI was so shocked and pissed off I can't begin to tell you after his statement he peeked in my room and I just about punched him in his face so this is where my nightmare really begins the doctor finally comes in with his arms folded at his side and wants to ask me is there anything I'd like to tell him and I reply no there's not anything I really like to tell you but what you want to know I will tell you. I said I was so mad flames are coming out of my ears and informed the doctor that I was there for the reasons that I stated earlier cellulitis in my foot and I was terribly sick and ill with this bacteria gets into your body sometimes in your blood and makes you very very sick anyone out there knows.
So I explained to the doctor what I had recently gone through weeks prior to that and that it was my own decision that I went to this place it wasn't doctor order it was ordered by the court or by law or by anyone other than myself. I also explained to this ER doctor that to disregard everything that this person said that I don't know this person they don't know me what you're saying is untrue and that I don't want you to have to do with anything for the reason why I'm there and to have it struck from the record and to believe me that it has nothing to do with why I'm there.needless to say I surely didn't get the pain medication that I received because of my pain in my cellulitis that all people know is very very painful and not only that they admitted me because I was so sick in the hospital I was not only in the hospital one time but twice because the first time they gave me the wrong antibiotics I was there for three days when home for two got even more sick and went back to the hospital and spent another three days and have received 4 doses of strong antibiotics which is made me even more sick as I speak to you now also I spent the first time I went to the hospital I spent two whole days in the ER room waiting for a room and on the second day early in the morning who comes to see me an addiction specialist that this doctor asked to come and see me the first thing I said to him is why are you here, I didn't asked you to come and see me.
I told him the whole story again with much frustration and even being more angry than I was before and sure enough I went ahead and told him the whole story and believe it or not this guy really had sympathy for me and he said to me that I would probably be a very good candidate for a person to just stay on my pain medication as he sees my situation.so yes after all both visit at the hospital being admitted twice it was less than favorable experience.every are in every doctor that I saw while I was there stereotype me like a drug addict that I was not.and yes when you think this nightmare is just about over it isn't I'm scheduled to see my doctor after my second visit from the emergency room in hospital say I'm due to see my doctor within a week after my last.discharged from the hospital.I go to my PC regular appointment and begin to tell my doctor what I've been through and what's going on and yes you can believe it what he sees in front of men is the records from the ER hospital about all this bull crap. Keep in mind I had already contacted this be our hospital and talk to a HEPA official of theirs which I explain to him the situation and they said yes I was seriously violated HIPPA laws and I'm in the process of having all this from the record of my wonderful stay at this place.
So my doctor of 10 years tells me that he can't help me anymore and that he only comes in one day a week now and he's overworked and he doesn't have the resources to help me. He refers me not only till 1 but 2 and also 3 pain management clinics and they all refuse to see me. and now my problem is I've OD'd on these antibiotics that they gave me and as anyone can tell ou that too much antibiotics will really seriously mess a person up so now chronic pain is like a 10. it normally is. so here I am, I cannot find a doctor that would want to see me or help me. I have a real condition and at this point in till I get my records straightened out and I get all my records with me and I fire my GP. I need to find a doctor that's honest and caring and professional and does what they do.I don't consider myself an addict by any means I don't drink I don't use illegal drugs I have real problems that got so screwed up I am just beside myself. can anyone please tell me what in the hell am I supposed to do now? honestly I'm so stressed out I feel like I'm going to have a heart attack over all of this. I truly do need some help. Any advice out there?
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I've recently seen advertisements for an app that connects you to Dr.'s that see you via skype, or other means, then send prescriptions to a pharmacy near you. The ad says the first month is free, so maybe you can do a little research on that?
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