In my country, the doctors of a province have an overseeing body of doctors restricting and keeping all prescribing doctors in line with the risk of prescribing doctor losing their license to practice if they don’t obey.
A medical degree in the UK involves two terms of pharmacology out of a 5 year degree (my friend, who is a consultant pathologist said most docs are ignorant of modern pharmacology (she did a biochem degree before her medical one, so was aware of all the shortfalls).Wow. I very well could be you. If I am, I'm so sorry. lol
Very similar issues to me.
And you're right, who wants to sit around thinking about their health all the time?
I feel forced to because of the issues, like if I don't feel physically okay, how am I expected to feel mentally okay ontop of it?
I'm so tired of all the SNRIs & antipsychotics. SNRI's have been making me puke & giving me hand tremors & extremely high body temperature.
I tell doctors this and they're like "omg, okay, well we better get you on another SNRI then"... Like.. helllloooooooo.
You're absolutely right. Doctors have no idea wtf they're talking about. Of course they know some thing but they don't know it all & they take it as offensive if their patient tries to educate them on anything.
I'm so frustrated with it that I've stopped even going or making appts, except to get my usual meds.
If I die, I die. At this point, maybe having a terminal illness would be a blessing & a ticket out of here.
Thanks for the suggestion!
I have not unfortunately. I've read about some but I'm not sure.
I've considered fibromyalgia & chronic fatigue. As I did have severe mono as a teenager that gave me bad brain fog & lethargy for awhile, but none of these doctors seem to wanna test for anything of the sort or go any further than xrays & catscans. If those & my bloodwork seem fine, they assume I'm fine, but I know damn well I'm not. Autoimmune or neurological issue does seem very likely though. I've had a few docs say it sounds like fibromyalgia but of course idk how you test for that & they don't seem to care to give me a proper diagnosis.
One issue I've had is severe all body-muscle aching. It feels exactly like how one would feel if they did a hard work out & woke up sore the next day. Except I feel this way everyday (give or a take a good day here or there) and I don't even work out anymore.
I might have had this problem for a long time but covered it up with heroin & tramadol & other drugs for years. I use to exercise a lot & go walking alot all through out my 20's on heroin & tramadol & loved it.
And now that I've been on bupe & had to stay 'clean', I've noticed these physical issues have really come to the forefront. Just getting up to go do normal everyday stuff like go to the store can hurt like hell & rob me of my energy. Not to mention give me anxiety & irritability from having to do it. This is not the quality of life I'd like to have forever. And apparently nobody can tell me what it is.
same here in NZ. Dr's are so anal about prescription pain killers unless you are shacked up in a hospice. I had this experience last week with a locum.
I tried correcting a doctor during my first pregnancy when everyone thought I looked about 15 (I was 25), she had a strange deafness to reason and was very patronising, talking to me like a child. Eventually she asked, "Have you got a partner?" to which I replied, "I'm married", haha, she nearly fell off her chair. Then she checked my details on the file, apologised and started talking normally to me, she was really embarrassed, lol.
Is that in the UK? I didn't know that, there goes plan B if they ever take my buprenorphine off me (prescribed for pain), or if I really can't stick it on a partial agonist, I thought I could just test positive for opiates then get some methadone, but I like my driving license.
The DVLA may wish to inform otherwise...
So it is the normal thing in the UK to lose your driving license if you're on opioid maintenance?
Just methadone afaik. Daftwhen you consider some people are on doses of other opioids that exceed methadone. If methadone is prescribed purely for pain relief, it's acceptable, but not if prescribed for opioid dependence (after a couple of weeks, there is no difference)
Proof that, in the end, socialized medicine is the only civilized way forward. Hope it keeps pain at bay.
What pharmacy can you walk into and get whatever you want for drugs?
If you can get anything, he should get fluoxacillin, or if allergic doxycycline or chlorethromycin, to prevent abscess turning into sepsis (like with my cat triggered abscess)
Putting glycoside polymers, that absorb water by the bucketload, would stop unintended use, if made into big tablets, as you suggest. Trying to extract drug just ends up with this horrible, wobbling lump of wallpaper paste, that you can't even plug.
It's easier to get meds for addiction than those same meds for pain.I couldn't agree more with everyone this form. I suffered from DDD and incurable disease that they can only slow down and for fucking two God damn years told me I was just making up fucking shit because I want to drugs. Oh really yeah that's why I can't lift up my leg in most of my toes sure yeah that makes sense why would person would intentionally not use one of their fucking legs and most of their toes for for several years (in total 11 fucking years) makes sense. I swear to God most of these doctors either got their God damn degree from Devry or Kinko's or they just don't give a fuck about Around the Clock chronic pain patients. If I want to take fentanyl or Dilaudid or Opana or all of them at the same time it's my fucking choice! Anytime there's a doctor that tells you I'm not prescribing you your routine pain medication and you're in my situation remember this there's a law called continuity of care if you were on a medication for 6 months or a year or what have you just a long enough time to say it's your routine maintenance medication and they don't prescribe that medication to you and tell you to screw off they are breaking the law. Mind you that is in the setting of you getting to pain management from your primary care physician and the pain management doctor saying screw off which has happened to me 10,000 times over. Even when I go to a hospital or like again? I'm like yes again I see a pain psychologist and a psychotherapist I've tried every other means not to be on opioids but these dick heads keep telling me to try other things. Even though it's been 10 years on Dilaudid and Opana! My mother works for one of the largest insurance companies in America and the goddamn insurance company is approved my medication till the year 9,999 why God's fucking name am I having any trouble? Dumbass regulations and doctors that would rather care about their license than actually giving a fuck about the patient. I really don't care if you're a drug user or a chronic pain patient it's pretty much the same fucking thing at a certain point so to all the doctors who denied patients access to care whether it was in a hospital outpatient procedure or just routine medication eat Hepatitis B ass and die. That's my rant for today I'm out peace.
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