Chatgasm

Finding a family doctor here is not only a big hassle but it is also Very Expensive for someone like me - without insurance.

The family doctors don't even prescribe pain meds now...they refer you to pain management. (My info comes from a long time friend.)

Thank goodness and all that is right and holy that my firecrackers (edibles) honest-to-God go a loooong way to help ease my joint, back and ankle pain.

 

Here basic family doctors are covered under our provincial health plans so we do not pay for appointments, unless you miss it then they can bill you for that time slot.

Family doctors here can prescribe but they also have to justify scripts if asked to so usually they will not prescribe to someone they feel is abusing them.. That is when they refer to a pain specialist here or if the pain is not manageable using regular dosages.

 

Narcotics abusers really mess it up for everyone. When it gets more and more difficult to get pain meds, and their sources dry up, they won't be able to afford them.

 

when i start filling out the forms for health care connect it asks about "diagnosed" conditions


when a goof of a doctor sends you for tests then vaguely states "you probably have chronic xxxxxx"...or "you have very abnormal high levels of xxxxxx in your blood but its ok probably" count as <<<diagnosis>>>>?

 

Yes, that's a diagnosis verified by lab tests.

 

That is a big part of the problem. On the form what would happen if you put what he/she states as probably as the condition?

It is hard to find a good family doctor as well, that does not help.

 

maybe i should just go collect my records from the place he sent them and see what they say...see what he's been writting in there all those years

 

You can request those and they have to give them to you. They can charge you (usually 20 or so) for your chart. It might be worth it to do so and take them with you when you have to go in next time. Saves time and testing maybe.

 

I think that technically it is like that here...but only in words. In the last say 4 yrs, I've known and met any number of people that had been on a certain dosage of pain pills for literally years and their doctors suddenly began weaning them off and in a couple of cases stopped the scripts with no warning. period, meds gone. They were all told they would have to seek the pain meds from a pain management clinic. Of course the doc would continue to see them for other problems; but, pain meds would have to be obtained elsewhere.

I think it is because none of the docs here (none I heard of anyway) are willing to have anything he does even slightly scrutinized by the FDA Regarless of the fact that their practice is subject to be reviewed for any reason or because its their time, none is willing to risk drawing one iota of attention. The easiest way to assure that is to not prescribe pain meds and refer the patient to the pain management clinic (put the patient to some more trouble and cost)

 

doing stuff with the magic marker and stuck it in my mouth somehow giving myself a tiny fat lip thats annoying

 

Ouch, Ori.

 

They smell really good, too. lol

 

i have some ice in my red solo cup
these markers smell like xylene

 

sorry to hear about your homeless dude friend/acquaintence Ori

There are a few homeless people I sort of "know" from them having come in restaurants I've worked in over the years around here. There's one that has some mental problems, completely non-voilent...pushes his 2 carts everywhere despite it being known his family wishes he would live with them. I would help him when I could. I may be a silly gullible ass but I genuinely like several "homeless" (lived in tents in the woods) that I got to know during my "tenure" at Mickey D's. They were vets.

 

yeah he was probably a little much my friend.. I liked him enough not to avoid him, give him change if I could. Hes been in mu neighborhood for years.. another homeless dude my cousin calls him manson because he looks like Charles ,, I call him pork chop ,, guy be picking through the ash tray at the gas station and eat and park., I keep the left over tobacco from my rollurowns and give it to him .. dude thinks Im a god . puts his hands together in pray form and thanks me thanks me.. I never seen pork chop drinking tho.. hes a sober homeless dude .

 

doobie time, think Ill go out and play with the dog . she only went out for a minute and come back into eat or just follow me.. dogs misses me like crazy when I come home she makes monkey noises grunting hops in the air off her back legs .. my husky loved me but Julie is out of control with love for me .. if she could jump into my arms she probably would.

 

i hate filling out forms asking personal info...it reminds me that i have so many anxiety problems

cant even do my taxes ffs....cant fill out shit

think i need to go for a drive before my brain short circuits...too much shit going on today

 

I need to run and get lost in errands or something for now....myself.

I am feeling too vulnerable or something at the moment...and i am such a bad ass......lol

 

watered the lawn in the dead spot, trying to bring that back before winter..still much grass growing time left.

 

just love how the news broadcast the heroin bust with pictures of marijuana leafs..