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Being treated like a drug addict because of migraines!

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I have lived with migraine pain for over 30 years. I'm only 36...

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Thursday, December 18, 2008
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In the past few months, my migraines have progressively gotten worse.  I've started taking Depakote (about 2 months ago) with no relief.  And the severity is unreal.  I've had migraines since I was 3 yrs old, and I never thought anything could hurt so much.  A couple of weeks ago I went to the hospital ER.  My BP was 188/133, sweating, vomiting, the usual.  After waiting in the lobby for about 5 hours, I got to go back to a dark room.  An hour later the dr came in.  I explained my situation.  App 30 min later the nurse came in with 1 mg dilaudid & 25 mg phenergan.  Helped a little with the nausea, but did nothing for the pain.  Every 15-20 minutes we called for someone to come help.  About an hour later, the doctor came in and said "I'm gonna give you 1 (and stuck his finger in my face) more shot, and that's it!"  I knew then what he was thinking.  I called my mother for backup, because I can't think in that condition, and my boyfriend was furious at this point.  When she came, she talked to the nurse and the doctor.  They gave me another 1 mg dilaudid & compazine.  Nothing.  The pain was so bad I laid there and prayed for God to just let me die.  The dr told my mother that if I wasn't already a drug addict, that I would be.  The nurse then came in and told me I was being discharged.  My mother tried to talk to them and ask what we should do now, but they didn't have an answer.  The nurse just said that the dr said I was to be discharged and he wasn't going to "give me any more medicine."  We had even tried the "non-narcotic" cocktail that my neurologist suggested (which never works).  In the end, I had to leave the ER and go to another one.  Try explaining that one to another dr.  I'm trying to hang in there, but things are getting unbearable.

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