Re: The Legal Stuff on Pain Meds...&...Model Guidelines for the Use of Controlle
From: cathy:- (anonymous@medispecialty.com)
Tue Apr 30 22:01:54 2002
At Tue, 30 Apr 2002, DANNIEL MCCUTCHAN wrote:
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>I saw pain clinic doc. and nurse practioner today, I get the feeling tha their approach to
>"Multi-disciplinary regiman" is just a way for them to, again, have udde control over what and how much i can do with my own body! Never mind t e fact that the meds arent adequetly releiving the pain, they just, "mus adhere to certain guidelines". So for me the pain suffer that means, t o bad sucker you will have to suffer. And heaven for bid I should have bad day and need to take a few more pills than they want me to, then th t will show up in my blood work and I could be elminated from the progra ! I am only "allowed" 2 Percoset a day! I told doc today that is NOT a equate pain relief, and his response(and nurse pract.) was, "we need you to try one more injection,(in the low back),
>which is relativerly painless, it's like an epidural, and if that does n t work than we are we will not push any further injections on you,." " a d then if you can control the pain on the low dose opiates you can stay n those for a very long time." I just do not like anyone have this much control over me. I have been on and off opitate medication for 2 years ow, due to several surgeries and some chronic pain relapes(adhesions), m tolerance is higher than someone who hasnt gone thru all these surgerie i have. They will not budge!
>I can NOT, at this time take anymore than 2 percoset a day, or I have to make yet ANOTHER APPT! $15.00! to discuss this in detail. Until i get t e stupid injection they want me to do i can not get them to here me!
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>any comments anyone??
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>Gwen(yoonmenam@msn.com)
Sure, I've got a comment... How about you get some steel-toed work
boots, and we'll hold this ***hole down while you kick him in the
*ahem*. Alternate five minute time periods of kicking him, and then you
stop and calmly and earnestly explain to him about having procedures and
how they are for his own good, yadayadaya. (You know in that
condescending, passive-aggressive doctor-voice that they must learn in
med school...)
Ok, it wasn't a very CONSTRUCTIVE comment, but it did make ME feel a
little better -- and I sure hope it did you, too!
--
cathy :-)