Is anyone here experiencing issues with pain management doctors dismissing them this year telling them that they can't help them anymore? I was referred by my surgeon's office to pain management earlier this year because they have told me they are "surgeons" and no longer want to handle patients that are not in need of surgery but still require pain medications.
So I went to the pain management doctors they referred me to and my second time in the doctor told me I was going to have to learn how to live without medications and that he couldn't help me anymore. He then proceeded to say that all his patients are responding to him with "I'm just going to have to kill myself" and I was blown away.
I'm now seeing another pain managment doctor that so far has refused to give me the medications that work and help me get through a day. He gave me a new medication, Opama (instead of the hydrocodone that works). I told him that the morphine derivative drugs constipate me - which this one did and lead to a urinary track infection (saw my pcp for antibiotics). I called the pain mgmt office and told them I couldn't take this medication. They told me I needed to bring it in and give it to them (I paid for it at the pharmacy so why should I give it to them?)
The pain management doctor wants to do injections (i've had one series with him already). I've gone the injection route so many times in years past - I get some relief for about a week and then nothing. I'm scheduled for injections again tomorrow - knowing they won't help for long.
Is anyone else experiencing issues with pain management doctors (specifically in Texas)?
Thanks,
Christy
So I went to the pain management doctors they referred me to and my second time in the doctor told me I was going to have to learn how to live without medications and that he couldn't help me anymore. He then proceeded to say that all his patients are responding to him with "I'm just going to have to kill myself" and I was blown away.
I'm now seeing another pain managment doctor that so far has refused to give me the medications that work and help me get through a day. He gave me a new medication, Opama (instead of the hydrocodone that works). I told him that the morphine derivative drugs constipate me - which this one did and lead to a urinary track infection (saw my pcp for antibiotics). I called the pain mgmt office and told them I couldn't take this medication. They told me I needed to bring it in and give it to them (I paid for it at the pharmacy so why should I give it to them?)
The pain management doctor wants to do injections (i've had one series with him already). I've gone the injection route so many times in years past - I get some relief for about a week and then nothing. I'm scheduled for injections again tomorrow - knowing they won't help for long.
Is anyone else experiencing issues with pain management doctors (specifically in Texas)?
Thanks,
Christy
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