PAIN, PAIN, GO AWAY...Come again...well never!! - Fibromyalgia Message Board

Beary Tired · 06-12-2004, 08:21 PM

Well, I recently had a very positive ordeal with my DR. My husband kept telling me I should switch because my DR. would give me 20 tabs of this and 16 tabs of that and it was costing us a small fortune. I was all prepared to go into to my DR get the meds I needed for the month until I could see a R.A. and a Psychiatrist. When I walked in he could tell that I was not a "happy camper". I told him that I was tired of having every single pill I take analyzed (especially since 4 DRs have diagnosed me with fibro) and that I "was and have" been a very responble patient. I told him that I hurt all the da# time and he needed to help me. I also told him that I had made apt. with the Psychiatrist, and explained to him that I thought that that I felt, that he felt uncomfortable about treating my anxiety issues. Then I asked him what he thought about me going back to see the the R.A........slow down. My DR became my DR again, as if magic, I was issued a full month supply of meds and refills with a resonable schedule for visits. I finally realized....I am the client and when I did I think it worked out well for both the DR and myself. I vented about how I felt he had been treating me and he apoligied. I really like my DR and I am glad I don't have to leave him. He prescribed a new medication which he said can help block pain nerves, its called Tomax. I also on Pain Meds, Muscle Relators, Blood Pressure Med (Mitro Valve is Messed up), and Anti-Anxtiety Meds. Each of the the above are low doses but enough to ease the edge of the pain. I also need to be refitted for my CPAP for the Sleep Apnea and he is talking sending back to the Ear, Nose and Throat Speacialist because I keep getting these reacurring ear infections. He's thinking tubes. I in my 30's I thought tubes were for children but I recently got my second case of chicken pox too, so whatever. I am just proud that I stood up for myself and I got to keep a DR that I really do like.

Have a Great and Pain Free Day my Friends!!!

typingterror · 06-13-2004, 07:38 AM

I am proud of you. Thanks for reporting something positive. It goes to show that once in awhile miracles do actually happen. May you continue to get good medical treatment. Right now I am real happy with my rheumatologist even though road was long to get there. (TT)

taurus3 · 06-13-2004, 11:14 AM

Good for you BEARY! I remember reading posts awhile ago where you were frustrated with being treated like an addict. Plus it does add up moneywise. Doctors forget that we have to pay a copay even for one stinking pill, that is if your'e lucky enough to have insurance.

I too had a positive experience with my doctor awhile back. I have been seeing her for over eight years but after I became disable, I kept feeling like she didn't believe me or thought I was a hypochondriac. So finally after 18 months I went in with the attitude that I was confronting her and if I didn't like what her answers were I was firing her.

So I told her how I'd been feeling and asked her flat out once and for all "do you think this is all mental?" She admitted that sometimes she wondered if there was something more going on in my brain that I wasn't aware of that could be making me worse. So I offered for her to talk to my shrink who I knew did not consider me psychosematic at all. She spoke with me, spoke with him and ever since then she has been my champion. She gives me whatever I need that she thinks will help. She fills out the SSI paperwork and is completely supportive.

That old saying is true "you don't get what you don't ask for."

I'm glad to know you have a more reasonable prescription plan now and a better feeling about your doc. We really need that as chronically ill people. I think sometimes doctors go into medicine because they want to cure people and when they can't, they don't know how to deal with it.

mollymadison · 06-13-2004, 12:23 PM

Oh my Goodness! I wish I had the courage to stand up to the Dr's. I just want to go in there and say "I need your help. I need pain management. Are you going to give me that or should I go somewhere else." and I mean none of this 10 or 15 pills. That doesn't work. We DO have to pay a co-pay everytime we get a Rx. Also, when I call for a refill, they suggest aleve. ALEVE is not working! @#$% I'm calling because the pain is severe! Then they act like I'm an addict! Please someone give me some advice! The rhuemy didn't even call me back after 3 messages from Thurs to Fri. So here I am hurting without anything to releive it. I have appt with PCP on Tuesday. HELP

typingterror · 06-13-2004, 12:35 PM

Mollymadison, when I was not receiving doctor's attention/treatment I felt like throwing myself on floor and foaming at mouth to get immediate treatment. Of course, I did not do this as I would have probably broken a bone or be wearing a strait jacket now. After I read fibro book I did become more aggressive with doctor as we have to look at situation that we have hired them for a job and we would surely not accept inferior work had we contracted someone to do work on our home. Thus it is our duty to fire someone who is not living up to their end of the bargin and find someone competent. (TT)