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I just looked back to my first share post. 3 Weeks ago. So much has changed. I quit my primary job. Amazingly(or not) I feel better. The stress of that situation was making me so sick. Now I just have to figure out how to make it work without that paycheck. I better figure out how to work my oven again now that I don't have the work thing as an excuse for not making meals.
I called the Rhummy to get the referral he promised me for pain management. I called PM to schedule an appointment. 6 Weeks. #### Do they figure that if you're really in pain you'll wait that long to get an appointment. I'm starting to feel like a jerk. Asking for medication to make my life better. Hey I'm not asking that they cure me, or even tell me what's wrong. You can't figure it out that's fine, just make it so I can participate in life again. I know there are other PM I can go to, but I just feel...... like they're asking me to go find the relief I need on the streets. It makes me crazy to know that with 1 phone call I can get some relief. But I'm trying to do the right thing. I'm trying to see the doctors, specialists, get the tests and they all pass the buck off to someone else.
OH well, Time to relax before I make myself sick again. Thanks for letting me rant. I'm so glad I found a group that understands what I'm going through.
I have had leg pain for the past 5 years and have been to pm. They gave me 2 epiderals, 2 injections in my groin and a radio therapy where they shock the nerve in my leg. None of this worked but my doctor didnt want to change my pain meds of vicoprofen to something else because he said I was too young. I am 40. But when the pain meds you have been on for 5 years dont work, you have to be able to live. So I started going back to my primary care physician. He made me an appointment with another pm who also does physical therapy. She said I dont need narcotics. My depression is whats causing my pain. My doctor diagnosed me with meralgia paresthetica. She said that is not what I have. She said "I am not giving you narcotics."
My doctor had me on morphine 15 mg. She told me not to fill it. I told her she cant just take me off pain meds. She said since I hadnt had any in 3 days it should be out of my
system. Well like you I can go to the streets but I am trying to get help with doctors, I finally got her to give me tramadol. I made an appointment with my doctor and I am going to tell him I am not going back to that young crackpot who doesnt believe in chronic pain. She said people shouldnt be on narcotics more than 6 months.
Sorry to rant, I myself am so fustrated with pain.
Shannon
Shannon,
Don't be sorry to rant. I'm not. These doctors just don't know what it's like to live in our shoes. I'm very frustrated by the so called experts who haven't got a clue. I've been to more doctors with no two agreeing with the last diagnosis. I just don't know where to turn to next. There is a new PM in our area, he just opened an office. I'm thinking about calling him. I just have a funny gut feeling about it. I know that there are many things that work and I don't discount them for others, but when I see that accupuncture is the high ranking treatment, I balk. I hate needles. That is the one huge problem that I have with most of this. If the meds don't come in pill form I'm not even willing to consider them at this point. I know some day I'll end up with injectables, but I'm just not ready to cross that bridge yet. hopefully I can find a doctor that I feel comfortable with soon.
Tami
Tami,
I went to my primary doctor today and told him I didnt want to go to the pm/therapist. I told him what she had said, and he said he didnt plan on her giving me my meds he just wanted her to check and see if there was anything she could do about my leg pain. Here she was trying to tell me I dont have meralgia peristhetica. The epiderals did not hurt they gave me a valium first, which took the tension away. I told my doctor today I have read up on Spinal Cord Stimulation. I read a doctors case study and he told about a woman who had mp and she had all the shots and pain meds and nothing worked and he tried this scs and she was out of pain in 2 months. I am going to a neurologist next. Wish me luck, I would love to be out of pain 100%. My husband doesnt believe in pain meds, or mental disorders. Boy, you think as crazy as I get sometimes he would come around. But, seriously, it is so fustrating when my husband thinks i am being lazy when I dont feel good. Because I dont look sick on the outside, but feel sick on the inside. Lately I seem to feel bad more than good. I hope you find a doctor, but always know you are the boss of your own body and if you dont like a doctor nothing says that you have to continue to see him. I read that somewhere. We know our bodies more than any doctor and we have a right to our opinions of what may be wrong with us.