OMG! Is it ever hard to get pain meds these days
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Hurt my back last week, don't know how.
Tylenol and ibuprofen didn't help and after four days I said uncle and went to my doctor.
I asked for pain meds and he basically blew me off giving me a sheet of exercises to do. I can hardly move.
Yesterday I could take no more and called him reading the nurse the riot act. She called back saying he'd give me something, but I had to go to physical therapy and I'd need to watch for their call to set up an appointment. She was snippy about the whole matter.
I'm still angry. I've never in my life asked for pain meds before. Only ever taken them when I had major surgery.
I told her to look at my chart and see how many times I'd done so. That it was outrageous for him to send me home to suffer more when I'd been there asking for help, which by the way is his job.
I felt like I was being treated like a prescription seeking junkie, which I'm not.
I'm seriously thinking of changing doctors.
Tylenol and ibuprofen didn't help and after four days I said uncle and went to my doctor.
I asked for pain meds and he basically blew me off giving me a sheet of exercises to do. I can hardly move.
Yesterday I could take no more and called him reading the nurse the riot act. She called back saying he'd give me something, but I had to go to physical therapy and I'd need to watch for their call to set up an appointment. She was snippy about the whole matter.
I'm still angry. I've never in my life asked for pain meds before. Only ever taken them when I had major surgery.
I told her to look at my chart and see how many times I'd done so. That it was outrageous for him to send me home to suffer more when I'd been there asking for help, which by the way is his job.
I felt like I was being treated like a prescription seeking junkie, which I'm not.
I'm seriously thinking of changing doctors.
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The reality is that so many people go in claiming to have back pain or this and that just to get pain pills to either abuse on their own or to sell to make a quick buck. Does it suck? Sure, but what can you do? It's almost as ridiculous as having to go to a pharmacy to get any cold medicine with pseudoephedrine in it. Need some cold medicine in the middle of the night? Good luck if you want psuedoephedrine.0
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Hurt my back last week, don't know how.
Tylenol and ibuprofen didn't help and after four days I said uncle and went to my doctor.
I asked for pain meds and he basically blew me off giving me a sheet of exercises to do. I can hardly move.
Yesterday I could take no more and called him reading the nurse the riot act. She called back saying he'd give me something, but I had to go to physical therapy and I'd need to watch for their call to set up an appointment. She was snippy about the whole matter.
I'm still angry. I've never in my life asked for pain meds before. Only ever taken them when I had major surgery.
I told her to look at my chart and see how many times I'd done so. That it was outrageous for him to send me home to suffer more when I'd been there asking for help, which by the way is his job.
I felt like I was being treated like a prescription seeking junkie, which I'm not.
I'm seriously thinking of changing doctors.
His job is to give you an rx for pain meds, just called you asked?
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So many people abuse prescription pain medicine that doctor's have to be very careful about writing scrips for them. Maybe some muscle relaxers would have helped you more than pain meds?0
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Are you not at all aware that there is a near epidemic of prescription drug abuse in this country?0
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It is like that because there is such a high instance of addiction and abuse. Did you actually try to do the exercises the doctor gave you to see if it helps? A few years ago my back was so bad that I didn't want to move at all and I thought pain meds would make it all okay. I am so glad my doctor was strict about not giving me pills that just mask the pain.0
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Mystery pain is common for those seeking pills, also sign they may have hurt themselves. So they are going to be on the watch. It doesn't matter how many times you been in there for pain. It also depends on the doctor. My dad got hurt at work, herniated disk, so he went to his l & I doctor and got rx. That night in so much pain went to the er. Dr there was shocked to see no pain meds. Gave him some. After that every new doctor pushed pain pills.
From my experience ibprophen is more effective with pain. Which is why I went through 2 bottles of it and still have 13 out 15 pain pills when I got my Jones fracture.0 -
I'm hearing from a lot of health professionals that they're affraid of the DEA. Prescriptions drugs are more of an abuse issue than illicit drugs are, or so I hear, so the DEA is going after doctors and such.
You are right to seek out another doctor, but I would also chronicle your experience for your elected representatives (especially at the Federal level). The DEA isn't nice, to put it mildly.0 -
Going to a doctor and demanding pain pills instead of asking the doctor to figure out what you did to hurt it and fix it makes you seem like an addict. Calling your doctor and bitching out his nurse because you didn't get any pain pills absolutely screams addict.
Stop acting like an addict and people won't treat you like one.0 -
We must go to the same doctor because my doc won't give me anything for my painful migraines! Yet, my best friend gets tons of pain meds for a hangnail. I don't understand!0
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I know. It seems like those of us that don't abuse anything and really need something when an injury happens have to jump through hoops but the drug seekers just get hand meds.0
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Wow. Way to abuse a nurse, who doesn't have prescriptive privileges, instead of discussing your issues with the actual prescriber. I can't imagine why she would be snippy, or why anyone in the office wouldn't want to help you.
Showing up at a provider's office demanding narcotics is never going to go over well.0 -
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Hurt my back last week, don't know how.
Tylenol and ibuprofen didn't help and after four days I said uncle and went to my doctor.
I asked for pain meds and he basically blew me off giving me a sheet of exercises to do. I can hardly move.
Yesterday I could take no more and called him reading the nurse the riot act. She called back saying he'd give me something, but I had to go to physical therapy and I'd need to watch for their call to set up an appointment. She was snippy about the whole matter.
I'm still angry. I've never in my life asked for pain meds before. Only ever taken them when I had major surgery.
I told her to look at my chart and see how many times I'd done so. That it was outrageous for him to send me home to suffer more when I'd been there asking for help, which by the way is his job.
I felt like I was being treated like a prescription seeking junkie, which I'm not.
I'm seriously thinking of changing doctors.
Doctor shopping will make you look like an addict. Try the exercises first.
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SuperSexyDork wrote: »Going to a doctor and demanding pain pills instead of asking the doctor to figure out what you did to hurt it and fix it makes you seem like an addict. Calling your doctor and bitching out his nurse because you didn't get any pain pills absolutely screams addict.
Stop acting like an addict and people won't treat you like one.
So much this.0 -
Do PT and possibly alleviate pain permanently or take pain meds long term...
Real tough decision.0 -
Hurt my back last week, don't know how.
Tylenol and ibuprofen didn't help and after four days I said uncle and went to my doctor.
I asked for pain meds and he basically blew me off giving me a sheet of exercises to do. I can hardly move.
Yesterday I could take no more and called him reading the nurse the riot act. She called back saying he'd give me something, but I had to go to physical therapy and I'd need to watch for their call to set up an appointment. She was snippy about the whole matter.
I'm still angry. I've never in my life asked for pain meds before. Only ever taken them when I had major surgery.
I told her to look at my chart and see how many times I'd done so. That it was outrageous for him to send me home to suffer more when I'd been there asking for help, which by the way is his job.
I felt like I was being treated like a prescription seeking junkie, which I'm not.
I'm seriously thinking of changing doctors.
His job isn't to just give you pills whenever you want. It just so happened that Dr's got in the habit of doing that and guess what... now people left and right are getting addicted to em. Nontheless, his job is to diagnose your pain and verify the source. How is covering all it up with pain meds doing this? Sure, if it's bad, meds can help, but have you ever thought that he's trying to isolate the issue?
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I know it's frustrating, but the fact that you have a doctor that doesn't just hand out pain meds shows that he's actually a good doctor.0
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