I have CHRONIC PAIN. I've had pain as long as I can remember. My parents tried to get a doctor to help me when I was in HS, but they all thought I was after drugs. Apparently, they hadn't been IN and American HS for a LONG time.
Then I tried again when I was in my 20s, I was a single mom, trying to keep a job which caused me IMMENSE pain, and I was on medicaid. Same song, you just want drugs. Apparently anyone poor and on Medicaid doesn't care enough about thier child to NOT take drugs for pleasure.
Then, I got remarried, got Private Insurance, and found a Pain Specialist. FINALLY! A doctor who believes I have pain and will help me LIVE with it, not just TOLERATE it.
About a year ago I had my Gallbladder out. A few months later I started having, what I thought were, phantom Gallbladder attacks. In February they became so bad that I made the first of several trips to the ER. I am on my 3rd GI because the first one didn't do the procedure I need done, called an ERCP, properly, then disappeared. The second one told me she couldn't help me and sent me to the third one.
The third one wanted an EUS (endoscopic ultrasound) done, which they did on Thursday. Now, the doctors that treated me after the procedure believe that my pain medication is causing the gastro pain. That if I could/would stop taking them, it would stop the pain. I know this isn't true, as does my pain doctor. I have a "follow up" on Monday with my "actual" GI. I, my hubby, and my pain doctor, need to convince her that my pain meds ARE NOT the problem, that I actually need the ERCP done properly.
IF this doesn't happen, if she tells me they won't help me, I'm going to have to hope that my pain specialist "knows" a GI that he can consult with to have this corrected.
I'm litterally at the end of my rope, and may lose what little sanity I have left if this isn't taken care of soon.
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Hope you have a great day and I gave you a 10!
You are correct about the take and poor people and pain meds. When I had to have a molar pulled a couple of years ago, the dentist at the clinic didn't even offer pain meds. She told me to go to work after the procedure. I tried, but only made it about 2 hours before the stress and anxiety of the morning extraction took its toll. I went home and slept for 3 hours.
But when I had private insurance and went to a dentist for root canals and crowns, he asked me what kind of pain medication I would like! Then he ran down the list of pain meds!
Apparently, poor people do not have pain.
EM JAY-I had this problem years ago. I kept going to the doctor and telling them something was WRONG. It took until February of 2006 and a trip to the ER to learn that I had Gangrenous Appendicitis and Sepsis. By the time they removed my Appendix it was about to burst. They told me it must have been infected for YEARS.
Larry-THIS is one of the reasons I. and my father, advocate so hard for EVERYONE to have equal access to health care.
Cathi-I have now been given three diferent reasons. The doctor told my hubby he wanted to see if a pancreatic stent would work before actually cutting the Sphincter, then one doctor at U of M told me that the doctor couldn't FIND it, and another one at U of M told me that the doctor couldn't GET to it. Apparently, there is no actual conscensus on WHY it wasn't done correctly.
Besides, it now seems the "cut it and hope" approach is no longer the treatment of choice. Now they do a laser ablation, which has apparently not yet reached U of M.
You had it done TWICE? They're threatening Luvly Dotter with every possible complication up to and including death as a HIGH probability.
I think if you do some researc that you will find there are many of us on Gather in this situation. That is one reason I love Gather so much I found others who deal with pain the way I do. Good luck to you
Thank God my chiropractor keeps it from getting that bad again. It always hurts some, but I can usually deal with it, or take Tylenol and get by. Good luck getting help!
my friend Delaney Brammlet just died of a botch gall bladder operation so i know it is something to take care of!
My mom has been experiencing this for years regarding the medications she has to take due to her chronic pain. It doesn't seem to matter what other condition comes up. Apparently, pain medication is responsible for everything from causing the common cold to retroactively injuring areas of her body in which conditions existed long before she needed the medicines. Someday I am sure we will discover that pain medicine was the real culprit behind the extinction of the Dinosaurs, the Black Plague, the Great Depression, the Dust Bowl, the Holocaust, the Swine Flu, the creation of bobbleheads, and the assassination of president Kennedy.
Never, never trust any doctor who is more interested blaming your medicine than in checking the most likely possibilities or looking into avenues of treatment pointed to by clues other doctors have found.
Hopefully your fourth G.I. doc will do the test right so the condition can be treated rather than being the subject of wild guessing.
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