Help Me With My Asshead Pain Doc PLEASE

All jokes aside, I trust you guys to help me out here. I have my 2nd appointment with this doc in 4 hours; I'm scheduled for an epidural. I'm sure most of you know that 2 weeks ago, he wrote me 5/325 Percocets, #60, one every 12 hours, along with neurontin and flexeril (read: more shit to swallow for no reason).

When I first saw him, I told him the ER docs had put me on dilaudid 2 mg. and he said something about ER's going for the heavy shit right away. Then when he was writing the percs he asked me if I would rather have Vicodin or Percs, and I told him the Perc 10's, and he said those were too strong and wrote the 5's.

In the past two weeks I've been to the ER twice because the pain just got too unbearable - it wakes me up at night, it shoots down my leg and makes me fall...it's really bad. So I need to know how to put it to this doctor that I need REAL pain medicaiton, not jacked up Tylenol. I don't want to go in sounding like I know too much about narcotics and send up a red flag, but honestly? I can't take much more of this. My PCP won't refer me to yet another pain doc (the first one spoke Russian and wanted me to get naked in his office for an exam, and his office was FILTHY). I'm in a real bind here, and I need suggestions pronto.

Thanks!

 

sorry, im not really sure that i can give you any good advice.
im just always straight up with my doc, and she trusts me.
if my tolerance happens to go up before the month is up,
i just take whatever amount of meds i need to kill the pain.
then when i run out, i'll go see her even before the month is up,
and i just tell her that i had to take whatever extra each day.
so ya, i just tell her how much i need, and she trusts me.

so, just be honest with him i guess.
might not work for you though.
maybe somebody else can give you some advice.

 

Yeah, I was thinking just go in and tell him, "Look, I've been to the ER twice in the last two weeks, the percocet isn't even touching the pain, could you please help me." I dunno what else to do but be honest.

 

i think you gave yourself the best advice. tell your doctor the meds arent even touching the pain, that you had to visit the ER, and that you need something stronger. A doctor has a requirement to keep their patients out of pain. Most are skeptical because of all the drug seekers, and reluctant to give you stronger doses. Be honest with him, but be firm about your problem, because your problem is obviously very real. If all else fails, go see a different doctor, one that will listen. You are right about not telling them about how much you know about painkillers, because regardless of the intentions of your knowledge, it seems any knowledge immediately flags you as a junkie. Another option is to ask to be referred to a pain management specialist. I wish the best of luck to you.

As a side note, I liked the picture you chose as your album cover. Maybe you could just show him that and get a script for whatever you feel like

 

LMAO! I think I'll just tell him the truth and see what happens. It's just SUCH a drag to have to get yet another referral - my PCP is only in on Wednesdays and it's a holiday weekend so...

 

Oh.
My.
GAWD.

I got to the office, he's all "Hi there Dilly (not really, he didn't call me Dilly lol) how are you?" I told him how I was. I told him I have been to the ER twice in two weeks. I told him I am not sleeping. I told him I felt like I was getting my back sawed in two with a motherfucking blunt buzzsaw.

He takes me in the room, tells me to undress and put on a gown - THAT'S right, he saw my ass. It didn't help. He gives me a pillow to hold on my lap, tells me to bend forward and arch my back "like a cat" which I do, with much difficulty. He then goes to give me the epidural - with no local, so I jumped when he jammed the five foot needle into my lumbar spine. Next thing I know I'm on the fucking floor - my bp bottomed out and I passed out.

So he decided to do four trigger point injections instead. And he sent me home with.....



....wait for it......







......ULTRAM.

Fucker.

I foresee a trip to the ER in my future this weekend. He's in the office tomorrow, I'm going to call him and tell him that no, the ultram does NOT make the 5 mg percocet work better.

WHAT kind of PAIN MANAGEMENT doctor DOES that? Asshat.

 

God dam him. Here what you do
ON MONDAY YOU CALL HIS OFFICE AT OPENING. TELL THEM YOUR IN SO MUCH PAIN AND READY TO GO TO THE HOSPITAL.aND THAT YOU ARE TAKING 10 50MG ULTRAMS AND ITS DOING NOTHING AT ALL.

 

Fuck I'm pissed, that mother fucker.
Ok yes you see him tomorrow and tell him that you are taking 10 50mg tabs. he will shit if he knows anything.And insist, and even start crying a little to get your point accros. It will work but you really have to lay it on him.
Dam it I' m just sick. He isn't a true pm. no pm would give you 5mg pecs

I was just looking at what you said to him..
Did you tell him what I told you to say??let me know

 

Oh believe me, I will be calling him in the morning and laying it on him fully. If I didn't have the kratom I'd be seriously fucked today - and I will def be fucked tomorrow. He's a dick. I swear, I felt like punching him in the neck except I was busy fainting.

 

Oh and he didn't give me any more percocet, just the Ultram, even though I told him I'd been doubling the dose and it wasn't working. It's like all he wants to do is the fucking injections and he doesn't even hear what I'm saying to him. Tomorrow's my kid's 13th birthday, and I do NOT want to spend it in pain like this. I fucking feel like crying right now.

 

damn dilly, that blows.
and i agree with oxyrisin, this guy is a terrible pm.
if you told him you were taking double the dose of the percs, plus going to the er for dilaudid.
and the fuck gives you ULTRAM! wtf
this dude must be a fuckin retard.
i strongly suggest that you look into seeing somebody else.
a pm is suppose to be there to help you, not torture you.

 

Yeah, I'm gonna have to get my PCP to refer me out of network. I just don't want to have to start over YET AGAIN.

 

Get a new pain doctor....

Ask around...it's not hard to find a doctor who is known for actually helping people....

 

The problem is finding one who takes my shitty ass insurance. I'm not in the position to pay cash right now.

 

I had the worst pain doc ever last year, I was hospitalized 3 times for pain control under his "care" and had a couple more ER visits. My doctors and surgeons along with this pain doc all work out of the same hospital which shares all records so he knew but didnt care. My last time there I came close to placing my fist through his face. Luckily in my last hospital stay I was recommended to a PCP from the same hospital who has basically saved my life, especially after being deemed inoperable after my 6th time being cut on.

There really isnt anything you can say, how many different ways can you tell the doc you are still in tremendous pain? With certain doc's you might as well say nothing. The best thing to do is see different doctors until you find one that helps you. After the ER visits if you are scheduled with a followup with a doc, go to it. This is all you can do because more than likely your current doc s not going to do much more for you than he has.

 

My fucking back is KILLING ME right now. I am SO fully pissed. Maybe I'll ask the ER for a referral to a pain doc then get my PCP to write the referral.

 

wow that really sucks.... I could not even imagine trying to live a normal life in serious pain. I just take the pills for fun, I pray that I will never "need" them. Seriously tho honesty has always worked for me. Its the easiest route to take so try that first and if he does not respond use your other tactics.

 

Yeah, I have to do all my stuff without insurance as well.

 

I've left 4 messages for him so far this morning, he hasn't called back. Asshole.

 

lol I get back pain so bad sometimes it wakes me up in the middle of the night. they gave me an herbal fucking supplement.