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It just gets worse and worse

By nannax Friday, September 24, 2010

I am a 29 year old female with five children. I was healthy up until four years ago. I started having low back pain and hip pain, Over the years it has progressed on my whole right side,knee,ankle,foot,shoulder,arm,elbow,and hand. horrible joint pain. I have been to so many doctors and so many tests that dont tell me anything. I fired my doctor because i wanted to find someone who could diagnose me. I got a new on on my first visit she had test ran for ms, they came back normal. On my second visit she told me " if you just want pain pills and your old doctor was giving you vicodine go back to him, I had to beg her not to look at me like a drug user and help me find out why I am having this pain. She ordered mri's that I asked her to but she fired me before I even did the test. I was left with no doctor and because i am in chronic pain and had a doctor fire me no one else would except me. I have been in and out of the hospital with anxiety and pain. I was discharged from one with degenerative joint desease. I found a hip xray my old doctor told me was normal after getting my medical records. It wasn't normal is said I have os acetabuli and mild digeneration. I am now taking an anti inflamatory for arthritis and it is helping with the flare but now i can feel the pain in my joints on the left side of my body as well as the right. I had to go back to my old doctor because I am getting worse and couldn't get a doctor to take me. He filled out my loa papers for work but is refusing to call my disability insurance so that I can still make some money while out of work. I called the orthopedic that the hospital referred me to  and  they told me " we have been looking at your file and we are not going to accept you because we don't give pain pills". I had to call the hospital back and ask them to refer me to someone else. This is crazy. I have nothing on my criminal record nothing on my driving record. I just got custody of my nephew that was taken from a family member by social workers. I have never filled my prescription of vicodine more than two weeks early and thats all i have been taking for 4 years. So I am being treated like this for the simple fact that my old doctor had me on vicodine and couldn't find out what was wrong with me. I have since got my mri's back, I have a tear in my hip and arthritis in my shoulder. I went to the second othorpedic the hospital referred me to so we could talk about my results. He wouldn't tell me anything but " YOU HAVE ARTHRITIS DEAL WITH IT. EVERYONE HAS ARTHRITIS." He couldn't tell me why my hands and feet go numb and cold for no reason, He didn't tell me what to do for the tear in my hip. Isn't he supposed to be the specialist? Well now i am behind in all my bills and getting sued for more hospital bills. I am new to this site and I am not sure how to get people to be able to email me on this account. Can some one email me and tell me how it works please????????????

 

9/30/10 5:30am

You may want to think about getting a financial councelor who can help with the bill issues..Think about making an appt. with your doctor or disability office and ask that they write a leter for you to make copies and send to your places of bills.  Contact your: Electric, Gas, Water companies and ask they work with you..Contact your church and other facilities in your area for help..Get food stamps ..

 

Breathe honey--all doctors don't understand what is going on with Fibro. heck most of the time we don't ourselves..The pain issues with Fibro are horrendous and until a person has the same issues they don't understand..My Rheumatologist says I am outside the box with hypersensitivity  fatigue pain etc.  But, even he understands Fibro only from history not from the disease itself..So every day is a one day at a time for each of us..

 

I hope this helps a little..

 

9/30/10 11:58am

I don't know what to say to you other than , sorry for your situation,still  try to take care of you. You need all your energy to go directly where you will have help. Gentle hug

marie

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By nannax— Last Modified: 05/02/11, First Published: 09/24/10