ENDO Messages for November, 2002: Re: endo pain

Re: endo pain - narcotics

From: T. (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Wed Nov 27 08:36:40 2002

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Wow, I feel like I could have written this myself. I just had a horrible encounter yesterday with my doctor. I've had leg pain for quite a while now (in addition to the endo pain), but yesterday it got worse. Its a gnawing pain in my left hip that radiates down my leg. I went to see my doctor and she immediately started off by saying she thought I was a drug seeker. This is my primary doctor who I've had for years, who knew about the trouble I had with my last gyno who wouldn't prescribe any drugs at all. If she had given me a chance to speak, or listened to anything I did get to say, she would have realized I wasn't even there for drugs! I was actually thinking she might be able to recommend something to sit on at work. But she never gave me a chance. Her reasoning was that I was to young too have chronic pain, and that I fit a 'profile' for a drug abuser. The profile was that she's treating me for depression (like I can control that), that NSAIDS don't work for me (I can't help how severe my pain is), and that my usage of pain killers had increased (my pain had increased!). Of course, since I'm coming off the Lupron, my emotions were already erratic. So all I did was start crying. Which she used as one more part of fitting the profile. Finally I told her to call my therapist that she had referred me to, because we have discussed the whole chronic pain issue & she actually believes me, so we'll see what happens. So believe me when I say, I share your frustration! It is enough to drive a person insane!

At Mon, 25 Nov 2002, Katia wrote:

>He doesn't seem to understand that I'm not taking these drugs for fun, I
>wouldn't take them if i didn't absolutely need them and now i'm going
>insane because nothing will make this pain go away. I'm going to start
>to go to the pain treatment center at my hospital, but the wait list is
>rediculous... and i hurt, i need relief NOW. I feel like i have to
>justify that my pain is really as bad as it is to everyone... it would
>be nice to know that i'm not alone...

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