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Re: Having yet another bad day......it's so hard to try and be positive!
From: Stephanie (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Sun Jul 29 14:36:20 2007
Hello Kelly, i know exactly what you are going thru with dealing w/endo
pain and doctors!! My gyn wasnt trying to give me anything for the first
two weeks of lupron, so i went to my PCP and exlained to him my
situation and he went ahead and referred me to pain managment. He
doesnt like prescribing narcotics either, but he did he gave me 40
darvocets(back on July 2), which just dont do anything, but hey at least
they help! Well two weeks later i find out that i was denied pain
mangmnt because my second opinion doc had written in his report that he
strongly recommended me to go see a urologist. So now here i am ran out
of pain medication with doctors who wont or dont like to prescribe it
and me w/out anything till Aug 13th!! Trust me i know you are feeling i
felt like this last month when my gyn denied my refill because she
wanted me to wait till two weeks on lupron. I hung up the phone crying
and so angry! So far iv been able to get a few from a friend who didnt
need them, so im able to at least take one when i get home from work
when im in SOO much pain! Otherwise, i would end up at a hospital! I
wish you good luck in everything and know that many of us are going thru
the same problems as you so dont feel alone! And vent all you need, we
all understand!! Take Care, Steph :)
At Sat, 28 Jul 2007, kelly wrote:
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>Hey all, sorry I'm about to whine and rant. I saw my new OB, he seems
>pretty good. Everything he said made sense to me. We discussed my
>pain, he did an exam, and we talked for a while longer. Since I'm
>having such bad endo pain, I was thinking another lap. He brought up
>that since my hubby+me are seeing a fertility Dr.a lap would not be the
>best choice.He said that doing another lap might give me some relief for
>a little while, but my pain will most likely come back as it did before.
>Also, doing another lap right now would create more scar tissue and
>potentially hurt my chances of carrying a pregnancy. So I am to start
>Yaz when my period starts and see if that will help. He said to
>continue going to my pain doc (who i've only seen once) till the pain
>becomes tolerable. Here is the problem: almost a month ago I had the
>first visit with pain doc. She gave me 80 lowest strength percs.
>Fine...all she said to me was to let her know what was going on, whether
>I was having another surgery, etc. She said to call if I needed more,
>whatever. I called a couple days ago leaving the message that I only
>had a few days left of my meds, and asked if she could maybe call in a
>partial refill. No call back that day, so I called back the next day.
>The receptionist said she would see what Dr. has to say. Sorry, that
>was the script for a month. I did not know that. I always used them as
>directed and never even took the max allowed for a day. So, I wish I
>would have known that, I would have tried to be more conservative. It's
>not as if I was taking them for fun...I took them because I HURT! Now I
>have 4 days with nothing to take for pain and my period is starting to
>come on. I hope she can look past 4 days and give me another refill. I
>am just so mad at this disease, the pain, the doctors, our fertility
>problems. It just feels like it will never stop. I thought at least
>the pain doc will be sympathetic...now I am starting to wonder. Thanks,
>I would appreciate any feedback, suggestions...
>
>Much Love To All,
>
>KellyBell
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