yesterday was pain management. Went in, had to wait for an hour as usual to see my dr. for my scripts. It was a new guy. he was a total beast and bully. Wanted to give me more meds on psych issues, and wanted me to get an xray of my neck so he could "give me a shot" I told him no in a very shaky voice. )After all I was up against the dr. who has the power to take away my pain meds.)
With that he told me if you refuse and you can, I can refuse you your meds.
Well NOW WHAT!!!! I immediately called E and told her what was going on. She tried to calm me down and told me to do what I thought best. I WAS NOT GOING TO GET A SHOT and already have an ortho and psych dr. So I talked to the lady at the desk, she said they had written my scripts,asked her if I could come back for the scripts, she said yes, and I WENT HOME. What a:evil: man he was. Is this really what I want to do for the rest of my life to get my chemical laden pain meds. Please please put me up in prayer while I try to come off those addictive, chemical laden, kill me, pain meds. Please. I will need all the help I can get. I will be just like any other poor soul who is trying to withdraw.

that really sucks Beccie!! Yes i will keep you in my prayers! It is hard to get off the medicine , please be careful it can make you really sick!!! I stopped my morphine because I had had enough and it was HELL!!! but I survived and you can too if that is what you choose to do!! Stay strong honey, maybe one day we can medicate as God intended us to...with herb that doesn't hurt us!!!

Beccie, I have you in my prayers!
What he did to you makes me !!

go bless you , never met you but sound like a very nice lady , dont give up , keep the faith and hope . things will change!!

So sorry to hear this. Keep strong.

Holy %&^#!!! You've got to be kidding! I'd first be annoyed that they felt it was okay to change the person your appt was with. That crap pisses me off. But second, docs have always made it clear to me that if I don't want the implant (which is highly unlikely to work but the only thing I haven't tried), that's completely my call and I'll still continue my pain regimen. I'd be floored right now if I was you, I AM floored for you!

You should speak to the office manager, and then write a letter describing the conversation you had. If they don't correct their crap, get a new doc.

I'm so sorry. It's plain awful.

Call the Dr office and speak to someone about working your dose down.They should assist you in this if you ask. It is cruel to cut someone off pain meds after long term use. They have an obligation to help you do this without serious withdrawel problems. To just cut you off is unprofessional and dangerous to your health. File a complaint if they do not offer help with the Doctors commission in NC. Write a letter to your NC reps and tell them about the roughshod treatment you have been given. Post your letter and I will send your story to my reps and ask them why things are this way. I am sorry to hear of this happening to you.

carolinatom wrote:
^ THIS ^

The DR is not working with you! Sounds like he's trying to make extra money off you. He's not a Psychiatrist or a orthopedic and if you told him you have those areas covered that should be, end of story.

Give a man a little authority and it go's right to his head...

no doctor has the right to sat you have to have a shot for pain. My doctor tried that rutine I told him they dont work so they gave more liver killing pills I told them NO m sick already from these dam things but they said I couldnt bring my self down that I need to check into a re=hab to come off them. WRONG answer, a musturd seed of faith and god given cannabis U be just fine. Will put you on church prayer list Ms. Beccie if you send me last name

Sorry to hear about your bad experience. My pain management team have always been very helpful. At least they've tried their best, anyway. It sounds like maybe you need another doctor.

Some phrases I've found useful in dealing with doctors:

"No."
"I'd like to speak to your supervisor/the hospital ombudsman/the medical director."
"Please explain that again."
and finally...
"You're fired."

As far as withdrawing from opioid analgesics, you may want to look at water titration. The process is a bit tedious, but it will make the withdrawal a LOT more comfortable. What it involves, basically, is grinding up a day's worth of medication with a mortar and pestle, mixing it with water in a small blender, and using a large syringe (without needle) to draw off and discard a small amount of the mixture, with the amount drawn off increasing every day. What's left is consumed during the course of the day. This procedure allows withdrawal to take place slowly and smoothly over a period of weeks or even months. I used this technique several years ago to successfully take myself off clonazepam, which is a violently addictive drug and actively dangerous to stop taking suddenly. It took me about three months to go off of it completely but the technique worked quite well.

Best of luck with your situation.

Peace & Freedom,

Pygar

Pygar wrote:
This sounds like a great method! I take Lorazepam for panic attacks. This might work well for that too. I have been trying to reduce my dosage but you can only half a pill or quarter it at the most without crumbling it to bits!

I think I will start today and see how it works!

Thank you for such a simple suggestion that makes a lot of sense!

You have my Karma for the day!!!

Thank you all for your words of support. I made an emergency appt with my PC, I really like her for my doctor. Wonderful woman who will help me with this.
Like I said in my first post, the man said that HE COULD refuse to give me my meds. But before I left I asked the secretary and she said he filled the scripts including the one that he wanted me to take, BEFORE I left. So with that said, I went in yesterday and picked up another month of pain meds. and handed her back the new script that he wanted me to take. I will ask my PC to help me with the withdrawal. This is something that I have been working on for several months now. I had been taking up to 15 pills and am down to 10. Hadn't worked on my pain meds yet, so it looks like I will. One more thing I want to make absolutely clear is that for those who know me, know that IF I had been given a urine test I would have come up CLEAN. But, because it is random, I didn't even do that. So there was no real reason for me to be treated this way by this dr.
So in the end of this drama, I just want to say thankyou for your support and your prayers, and I know that with help I CAN SUCCEED in getting off some of these chemicals. So thankyou:cheer:

Damn corrupt doctors. If you have experienced a similar event or been wronged by a doctor, hospital, etc... make it known to the world so this matter gets fixed. Don't sit back and just keep taking it. Go to google and type in "Screaming Reviews", click enter, go to the website then just post your complaint, etc... I will post it and watch what happens - things get fixed.

Thanks Walrus, but, i am not going to sit back, I am going to try to get off these flippin chemicals. I see it as the ansswer to my prayers the night before. I wanted a sign to know what to do, and I guess after I had a chance to calm down, I saw the answer. the answer is to start my journey to getting the chemicals out of my body. This is a good thing. I am thinking about journaling it here on site, but, have not followed up with that. It could be an interesting read to someone who is wanting to really take the chemical laden pills out of their system and find something that will work, that has proven to work, and that I am willing to take the chance to let it work. I will be taking a natural, alternative, healthy approach. I want to use eo's and change my diet, and get out of this prison of a chaise that I have been sitting in and the couch I have been sleeping in for years now. It is time to get my mojo on and work towards getting healthy. at the very least healthier. Hey maybe I'll even get my memory back. Please wish me luck. I don't need to fight the doctor but, thank you for the offer.

RXTHC hey you want to work through this rehab together. It might be nice to have support to help us get through the withdrawals. and I would invite any of you who are tired of taking the chemicals that the drs give you and want to make a break from them, I invite you to go through this together. You will want to talk with your PC or whoever is precribing the meds to have their blessing and their help to make it as comfortable as possible to bear. This is another way to stop the madness out their with all our complaining about taking all these chemicals, I'm ready to work on MY end to stop giving the money to the Big Pharms. and put it into the hands of more appropriate beings.

But Beccie, if you don't report it nothing will get fixed with this obviously corrupt doctor. Remember the saying, "Change begins with me." or "If it is to be it is up to me"? It's very true. The systems in America from legal and political to healthcare and financial are all broken and need to be fixed. If we just sit back and think of ourselves and not anyone else nothing gets fixed. They just put bandaids on the problems and pass them off. Look at our current healthcare system. We have non for profit hospitals with bloated executive staff that literally do nothing and earn in excess of millions in compensation per year (i.e. CHS - Carolina Healthcare Systems where the CEO makes over $4.7 million per year and there are over 100 executive personnel in the $900,000 and above range with exclusive country club memberships ($100,000+ to join paid by CHS), multi million dollar homes, etc...) CHS is clearly run like a for-profit company and yet they are a non-for profit. The average nurse that works hard and does the brunt of the work at their hospitals rarely gets a raise and earns on average $35,000 to $50,000 per year. The average do nothing executive (and believe me - I know most of them and they really do just about nothing) at CHS makes $1,400,000 per year and annually receives a raise in excess of 10%. Is this right? No! Something is seriously wrong with healthcare in this country and how does CHS become the second largest hospital system in the US and the most profitable even though they are a non-for-profit? I thought non-for-profit meant no profit. I also can't see how any CEO at a non-for-profit can earn in excess of $500,000. Where does this money come from? They don't use or even offer generic drugs to their patients (hence the $100 per pill price of many pills). Break an arm and go to the hospital? Your bill on average will be $35,000. And that's not including doctors visits and other outside charges. Yes, there is a lot wrong with the systems in our country. We don't need Obamacare - we need a completely revamped healthcare system like they have in Canada or Europe. Doctors should make more money then many other professions, but should they make millions per year? There are doctors out there that retire after only 5 or 10 years of working. There was a heart doctor that was on TV not too long ago that retired after 10 years in his profession because he made over $300 million dollars. How on earth does a heart surgeoun earn anywhere's near $300 million in 10 years? A doctor should earn $100,000 to $200,000. A surgeoun or other specialist $200,000 to $400,000. A CEO of a charityt hospital - no more then $500,000. This is why cities like Stockton California are going broke. We must get involved and fix this system before it implodes and the great depression of 2013 is upon us. Many people don't see how bad things are or they avoid it. I take opportunities like Beccie's instance here with a corrupt doctor as a chance to fix things - to fix America. You have a voice. We all have a voice. If we use our voices we can take back our country from those that are corrupt and fleecing it as we speak (Al Gore and his BS global warming and carbon tax credits cash machine - he has gone from a net worth of less then 2 million to over $500 million in the past few years ddue to these tax credits and he and his investment company are the largest owners of the carbon tax credits market). Whether it is medical marijuana, free healthcare, etc... you will only get things changed if you take the time to get involved. Better then writing to your congressmen or similar is placing your complaint tagged and linked properly on the internet permanently. This makes it so that millions will see and read your reports, opinions and more. With millions of viewers and readers comes serious power - the power to change and fix things. Please rethink this and, even if you don't use the site I mentioned earlier, use a consumer reporting website or similar and make your opinions, complaints, concerns, voice and more heard. Get involved and do your part to get things fixed. Don't take a backseat like everyone else is doing and has done (this is why we are facing the problems we are now). Make a difference and do your part. You can have a lasting impact on this country and our world and you don't have to be rich and have a lastname like Gates to do this. Each and every one of you is far more powerful, smarter and capable then you give yourself credit for. Please, when you see gross corruption, serious issues, etc... get involved and take a stand. We can make the world a better place - it is, in the end, up to us. We can sit back and let things keep going the way they have been or we can make that change and make a difference that will forever impact the world we live in and make it a better place for you and me. Make that change.

Hey Walrus, I went to look up screaming reviews and didn't get what you suggested I would. If you can post a click on site, I will go and tell my story. I want to be sure to be careful of no name drs or where the pm is. You are right, if I don't stand up, who will. This is my experience and needs to be told.
Thankyou for the encouragement to do so. B

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