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Re: ANGRY & CONFUSED (Long but worth it!)
From: Dawn (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Fri Mar 10 17:26:08 2006
I know how you feel. The Doctor I started seeing in Jan. befor I was
dignossed with endo was giving me pain pills before she knew what I had.
I had a lap 3 weeks ago and an overy removed. She gave me 20 vicodin
500's after surgery. I haven't asked for more. Now I'm in more pain
than befor the lap and I called today left a message. They called back
and left a message for me to go to the ER to see if they can give me
something to get me through the weekend. But before the lap I would
call and ask for a script refill and they would do it within an hour!!!
I havent slept in two days and nothing is helping. Other than a hot
bath, and that only last as long as I'm in it.
At Thu, 9 Mar 2006, JoCee27 wrote:
>
>I called my doctor yesterday to ask about refilling my pain medication
>because I am still hurting. They called and left a message on my
>machine at 4:15 pm asking me to call them back. I call back--thinking
>they close at 5 like every other physicians office--and a recording
>tells me that they closed at 4. I look at my husband and go, "How the
>heck did she expect me to call her back if the darn office is closed?" I
>had my mother-in-law call this morning at 8:30 and speak with the nurse
>because when I talked to her the day before she sounded like she was
>none too happy to hear a request for a pain med refill. My MIL goes
>into detail telling her what's going on with me. The nurse calls me at
>work to hear it from me all the while I had this mental picture of her
>rolling her eyes up to the ceiling while listening to me tell her how
>badly I was hurting. She promises to call back with word from the
>doctor about whether or not they are going to fill my pain meds.
>
>I hadn't heard anything by 2 pm so I called them back. The same nurse
>tells me that the doctor hasn't been able to get to it yet and she will
>call me back as soon as she hears something but she said it very rudely.
>I told her, "I'm not trying to sound impatient here, but I am seriously
>hurting. I called one time yesterday and patiently waited all day for a
>return phone call. This is the second call I've made and you make me
>out to be like a nuisance. If you would have told me at 8:30 this
>morning when we spoke that it might be a while, I would have went on to
>the ER and let them treat me; but you didn't indicate that it would take
>all day for me to hear something back; you said you'd call me right
>back. Now forgive me if I'm being rude but before I'm made to feel bad
>for calling my own doctor you need to understand where I'm coming from
>and I am certainly not calling down there trying to wear out my welcome;
>I've only called because the staff has neglected to call me back." She
>said, "Well it's going to be after she sees her office patients that she
>gets to your request for a refill." I said, "Thank you for telling me
>that now after I've sat here all day expecting a call anytime. If you
>had told me that in the first place I wouldn't have assumed that your
>"call you right back" meant within an hour or so." I HATED HER!!! UGH!!!
>
>Anyway, the doctor finally calls at 4:15 and basically jumps my butt
>about the pain meds. She tells me that she doesn't understand why I am
>having pain when I have a bowel movement, pain in my rectum, pain in my
>ovaries, and pain in my pelvic area when I urinate. I said, "Endo,
>right?" She said, "Endo doesn't cause those problems; you need to see a
>GI doctor." I am thinking at this point, "What the hell?" So I told her
>how almost all of you that have been diagnosed with endo are suffering
>with the same problems I am having and how we all pretty much agree it's
>endo related and she says to me, "That's not possible. Endometriosis
>only affects the reproductive system. Only in extreme cases does it
>carry that far... You need to follow up with a Gastrointerologist and
>see if there's not some evidence of IBS, Chron's disease, or Colitis
>going on. I don't believe pain of that type is endo related."
>
>You would think as a medical doctor that she would put two and two
>together to realize that "hey this is freaking endo we're dealing with"
>but nooooo. She doesn't want to investigate any further than the
>reproductive system!! She didn't even say, "I'll refer you to the GI,"
>she just told me if the pain kept going on in those areas that she would
>no longer be able to prescribe pain medicine for me unless it affected
>the reproductive system and the cause of the pain was NOT coming from
>the body's waste system. She's not offered to remove the 4.5 painful
>ovary that is clustered with cysts. She's not bothered to do anything
>but push me out the door with a pat on the butt saying, "Wait until
>you're 35 and we'll help you." I am not asking for miracles but if she
>isn't trying to perform any and all I'm doing is sitting around hurting
>day in and day out the least she could do is make me comfortable while
>we "wait until I'm freaking 35!!"
>
>Sorry.......I HAD to vent!
>
>JoCee
>
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