Well, they won't even CONSIDER giving me ANY "opioids", the PA said I was "high risk". What exactly is high risk, how am I high risk when I have never had any bad urine tests, never went to the emergency room or got meds elsewhere, was always honest with the doctor (as I'm always honest, anyway)... Just because I take a "high" amount of medicine??
What I don't understand is why they won't even just give me a second opinion. Do we pain patients give up our rights or something? Any other doctor would have no problem giving a second opinion. I thought my ex-doc weaned me off too quickly and/or I didn't even need a wean yet. I figured they could see me and give me their professional opinion and wean me off if they agreed with his opinion and thought it appropriate.
It turns out I was right... I looked up recommendations on "safely discontinuing opioid analgesics" today and it said for someone like me, that was on long-acting pain meds for many years, the doctor should have done it slowly, over a month or more. There was absolutely zero reason for him to do what he did to me, he did it as a punishment for something I really didn't do.
I honestly thought he meant that short acting medicine was two doses. He SAID "a couple". That was exactly two doses and it matched what I WAS taking, so... common sense says it was two doses. (I did explain that in my first post, right?) I took it that way. I shouldn't have been punished for misunderstanding what him, ONCE. It had NEVER happened before, ever. My urine showed the new medicine in it and the old medicine and nothing else, as it should be and always was.
I am thinking I should file a formal complaint against him now that I see how he should have weaned me off slowly, as I thought. How can I do that?
I am not going to that clinic, obviously. I considered seeing the PA to see if he could figure out what's wrong with me, then I realized .. He's just a PA! He's not even a medical doctor! I am just going to cancel the appointment. I'm trying to get in with a neurosurgeon that was recommended by a different doctor.
I went to the urgent care because that was the only other doctor that knew me and told him what the clinic told me, to get meds up until my next appointment (in two weeks, this was yesterday, before they called me to say they wouldn't give me any). He gave me a lecture on the "opioid crisis" AGAIN (he said it to me the last time he saw me, which was for nothing to do with medicine, I never saw him for meds until just now) and said he was uncomfortable giving me that much, even for two weeks. I said well, just give me whatever won't put me in withdrawal, then... I thought 2 a day of the long acting would be fine so he did that. He told me had surgery done on his elbow by that neurosurgeon and that it fixed his problem, so he said I should talk to him about
my issues.
I already know about
"hyperanalgesia", the urgent care doc was talking to me about
it, he was trying to act like I probably have that and it's "all in my head". I KNOW it is not, while the brain can make up phantom pain, it cannot make up nerve issues. But, to prove to everyone that I am #1: Not an addict and #2: Not in fake pain, I am forcing myself to wean down. I don't see why I should have to do this, be in pain for so long just to prove I need medicine? I thought doctors were supposed to "first, do no harm"??? This IS HARM!! They're doing it to soooo many people, too! It's not just me, or you, it's THOUSANDS of people... Because of heroin addicts and an incorrect CDC report.
Politics sucks.
