Has anyone made a trip to the ER for pain?

I was wondering if anyone has had to go to the ER because of your pain. I am seriously considering it because I am just miserably painful right now. I've been to lots of ERs for various issues, and I've never really had a good experience. How can I convince people that I am in horrible pain and not make them think that I am drug seeking?
Anyway, I can't even type anymore. Please help!

I did. They made me sit there for 6 hours to figure out if I was pregnant or not and then sent me away, telling me there was nothing they could do. I got some vicodin after being treated like a drug seeker.
Try to hang in there! If you really need to, go!

I haven't gone to the ER just for pain. The first time I went to the ER with my recent illness, I told them I had fibromyalgia and that I was in a lot of pain but was unable to take my medication because I couldn't keep it down, and they gave me a shot of morphine in my IV. I don't really have much experience with going just for pain. I won't tell you not to go. If you are in that much pain, then you should go. You never know what they will do. I understand not wanting to be treated like a drug seeker. That is a really hard thing that a lot of us go through. I remember when I asked my doctor to up my script from 90 pills a month to 120. I was so afraid he would think I was a drug seeker. But he didn't. He totally understood and was really cool about it. If you go, just be honest with them. Let them know how much pain you are in. If you feel like crying from the pain, then do it. Don't make suggestions on what you want. But, if there are medicines that do not work for you at all, then let them know that. I wish you the best of luck. Hang in there sweetie. *soft hugs*

I once went for a migraine, and this doctor did call me a drug seeker even though I told her no narcotics cause they make my migraine worse, but she wouldnt stop putting me down. she pointed this little red spot I have on my arm thats been there all my life and she asked me if I was injecting myself with drugs. I wanted to cry and scream at her but I was in too much pain (I would never inject myself with a needle, I did that once with imitrex and it made me sick). Since then I have been very scared of doctors at the ER. Actually my cousin was in a very bad car accident a few years ago that messed up her knee, and about a half a year ago she fell down on her hurt knee and scraped it, but the next day her knee swelled up really bad and she could hardly walk so she wen to the ER, and the doctor gave her a tetanus shot and put neosporin on her cut, and told her it was just a scrape and igored the fact that her knee was swelled up 3 times it's size, and she started crying. She finally got in with her ortho doctor who had to drain her knee. I felt really aweful for her, they completly ignored her complaints. But sometimes you will get a great ER doctor, but its really rare to get one, they deal so much with drug seekers and the fact that they cant tell who's faking and who really is in pain, that they just decide to treat everyone as drug seekers unless your bleeding to death or have a bone sticking out. When I was a teenager I had gallstone attacks for a year, and everytime my parents took me a the ER or urgent care they said it was all in my head, or it was just gas, or I wanted attention. I even had the a doctor at a urgent care tell me that I didnt neeed to fake pain to see him, I could just stop by and say hi, and of course my lovely parents beleived them. They didnt realize it was my gallbladder til a doctor who was taking over for my regualuar family doctor ordered an ultrasound and I had to have emergency surgery, my dad cried for not beleiving me and making me suffer in that kind of pain for a year. But if I where you, I would try really hard to get a hold of your regualuar doctor that deals with your pain, and if not, then go to the ER, maybe they can atleast give you something to make you feel better for a few hours. but I hope you find some kind of relief, cause sitting at the ER for hours and being treated like a junkie will make you just feel worse.
-hellokitty

being mom's baby is allowable. I am 33 and call on her for any doc. visits because they just do not believe me, I am also bipolar and that seems to give doc's some excuse. Good luck and try and stay stress, pain free.

If at all possible, see your PCP or Rheumy for pain. Sometimes they will call in a prescription. I have been to the ER three times for pain. Every time I have been told the ER does not give pain meds beyond OTC meds. I also was made to feel like a junkie. The doctor finally saw me after four hours and gave me a script for anti-inflamatories which cause my stomach and bowels to bleed. She seemed not to care one iota about that. Naturally, I didn't bother to fill it. It was a total waste of time and a very bad experience, but this is Canada and they are much less likely to treat pain here. When I told some doctors about the pain they were quite rude and told me to "toughen up", and that I was an addict. Not so nice when you're miserable to boot. I went home in tears (and pain). My PCP has been the most helpful, although now I am beginning to get weakness in my arms, dizziness, confusion, beyond normal fibro and will see a Rheumy eventually (I hope).  

Deadly stomach hemorrages are preferarable to risking losing millions in pharmaceutical sales.

Well, theirs a message board I like to visit (I'm not a member of) thats a nurse board, and the stuff they write about "chronic pain patients" is really sad. it's horrible what they think of us, drug addict or not.

-hellokitty

I had a hysteectomy in 2000. I couldn't take the morphine prescribed, it made me retch. So Day 2 I asked the doc for tylenol 3 every four hours. He wrote it and during the day it was fine. At night theyleft me sit and cry for an additional three hours because "it's ordered prn, and we decide when you need it." I have a very low opinion of night nursing staff.