I have Crohn's Disease, and have had two surgeries in the past for it. For the past year I have been suffering from chronic pain in my abdomen, and the docs I see cannot see a 'flair up' of the Crohn's. I have finally been referred to pain management, but I recently had to move ...
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sick of being sick
Friday, April 25, 2008 at 12:22 AM
Hello,
I suffer with Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy and Fibromyalgia. Like you I moved (from New Mexico to Indiana) and am having a terrible time with finding doctors who will get aggressive with my treatment and not keep wanting to send me to a psych. Its bad enough when you have to face the battle the first time and now a second - then they wonder why we CP patients are depressed. I have been to the ER so many times since moving in July, because I didn't have the proper care I needed.
My advice for you would be to contact your former pain specialist, tell him of your predicament and see if he might be willing to phone your new PCP/specialist or give your PCP his/her number. My pain management doctor from New Mexico told me to have the doctors phone him. Also make sure your new doctors have copies of your medical records. After several months of fighting with this, I told my PCP, "look narcotics are not helping me that much and when I lived in New Mexico I had spinal injections that helped more than anything. Do you really think I would want to go through them again if they didn't? I'm tired of all these doctors pussy footin around and not doing anything but hand me a prescription for yet another pill." He advised maybe it was time for the Mayo Clinic. Anyway hope this might help.
Amy
Hello,
I suffer with Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy and Fibromyalgia. Like you I moved (from New Mexico to Indiana) and am having a terrible time with finding doctors who will get aggressive with my treatment and not keep wanting to send me to a psych. Its bad enough when you have to face the battle the first time and now a second - then they wonder why we CP patients are depressed. I have been to the ER so many times since moving in July, because I didn't have the proper care I needed.
My advice for you would be to contact your former pain specialist, tell him of your predicament and see if he might be willing to phone your new PCP/specialist or give your PCP his/her number. My pain management doctor from New Mexico told me to have the doctors phone him. Also make sure your new doctors have copies of your medical records. After several months of fighting with this, I told my PCP, "look narcotics are not helping me that much and when I lived in New Mexico I had spinal injections that helped more than anything. Do you really think I would want to go through them again if they didn't? I'm tired of all these doctors pussy footin around and not doing anything but hand me a prescription for yet another pill." He advised maybe it was time for the Mayo Clinic. Anyway hope this might help.
Amy