Pain Management visit

I can barely walk today from so much arthritis in my hips. My PCP won't refer patients to PM specialists. honestly he doesn't do it because he thinks people are on too many drugs he says. He always brought the oxy up whenever we went through my drug list. he just couldn't understand why i was on it. You see all the diseases i deal with, and no doubt, everybody has a good day now and then and that good day still has it's pain in it.
Thank you for making me feel a little bit better. I have read other patient's issues that had low saturation or malabsorption. there isn't a bone in my body that is not got spurs and joint degeneration in it. I am like a little brittle in the bones as one might say. I don't have a clue how to go about getting a new PM specialist. This is not a good thing. I feel like I am being attacked and it's not fair.

hugs and hope your evening is a good one. God bless you.

I wished you lived near me as well! I have the most amazing PM!!

As I wrote earlier, I just lucked out because I just went online for PMs in my area and made appt. after appt. Of course I was not looking for or accepting pain meds from anyone until I decided they were going to be my long term solution.

I had 4 other terrible appts. and I learned to ask, "Does the Dr. help his/her patients find the best comprehensive pain program that uses all different modalities?" This way you are asking them without really saying if they do medicinal and non medicinal things to help lower pain levels.

So it did take me a few months with filling out tons of paperwork at each place and meeting the different Drs. and I just knew the moment I met my Neurosurgeon and PM that it was a great match!

Sorry to hear your appt. was cancelled:(

Just a suggestion but I would get out that certified letter to your old PM asap so you can get copies of your records and see what is in them before you meet other PMs so you can be prepared of how to word things to counteract what they have written.

And I think you said you already have this, but making sure any new PM gets the medical records that state your absorption/metabolism issues.

Sending you some hugs tonight (( ))

I am sorry that you too have to go through this.  I have letters written and one will be sent certified to my former PM specialist as a request for my records under HIPAA, as the others will be sent to my specialist for copies of my medical records from the record department as a back up to my health issues that could cause me to no have enough of my medicine to show up in a test.

Oh, I am going to suffer for awhile as appts are a month away and she didn't give me but 30 pills to taper off.  I thought you would have had to get  a referral to get another PM doctor.

hugs and hope yur days are much better.  Would n't wish anything like this on anybody. i feel robbed and violated of a 64 year old woman who has never done anything illegal. Wow, I am sick right now to my stomach, but I pray I get through this.  I am fighting for my rights and dignity.  You do the same if you feel well enough to do it, nevertheless, you deserve kindness and respect too.

grannytoo

It's okay. i did get my certified letter out. And I do want to let everybody now that i have an appt with the very doctor that referred me to the pm specialist back in june 2009 . I've had him since 2008, and he is a good Rheumi doctor and compassionate as well. I believe in my heart he will understand and do what he can for my referral or just plain help me. he was my very first doctor when I moved out here. i think this will be okay. i can certainly say that if anything good comes out of this for me to be able to be there for someone else and hold on with them through it all like you all have done for me, then that is a good thing.

Iahaina, pleased to meet you. I thought we had to have referrals to go to pain management doctors. But i see that some people get referral and some don't.Must be about the contract thing, maybe. I get to see my Rheumi doctor in September which isn't too far away and he is a good doctor plus dedicated to his patients. He will help me. My PCP will not by no means prescribe pain drugs like what I was taking.

My certified letter went out today to the pain clinic and a copy is for my files, and her office is only about 5 miles from where I am now staying with my daughter. so she will probably receive it tomorrow and I will have the proof they received it. I want to be able to see the name on the party who accepted it. I am keeping all documentation for my records.

Thank you for posting in my thread. All these posts keep my spirits lifted up. Plus my youngest daughter called me from Illinois today, and that was a refreshing conversation ... she is upset about all this too. She is coming out here for awhile. She misses her mom,,,,,:)

hugs to you have a good night and restful as well. grannytoo. As for your question; I don't know where to put where we live at or even if that is allowed but only in private. Maybe the moderator may see this and tell us. I get foghead and forget sometimes ...I must admit