Holy shity doctors are trying to kill or torture me...

[Midazle]

I've got a herniated disc in my neck which gives me pain I wouldn't wish on anyone. Fucking shooting pain down my left arm and passing out. Well I call in to refill my Oxycodone and my doc isn't in...great. Well the on call is some addiction rehab specialist fucker so me being diplomatic (I have a high level of vocab) I explain to him on a recorded call I don't want shit from him and I just need him to tell my doc to mail my script (yes you can mail CII stuff). The bastard hangs up on me! Great...I get a call on Monday from my doc saying I asked for a script from this guy, he LIED to my doc and said I was drug seeking...she cancels ALL of my scripts..Ive had a herniated disc for 6 months from athletics and degenerative disc disease and another illness that has NO cure (but plenty of pain!)for 3 years. I was on Percocet 5-325 3-4x a day for 2 months...anyways my psychiatrist I see for ADHD couldn't write for opioids and she felt bad since she nearly had to repeat med school from the same things upped my dose of Klonopin from 0.75mg to 2.5mg...I told her I had like one oxy left. I took 2.5mg of Klonopin and 5mg of oxy after literally screaming in pain and I don't feel shit other than slight pain...haven't slept >4 hours in 2 weeks. I took this all 3 hours ago...am I going to stop breathing? I'm so pissed. I was comfortable on the oxy and low dose kpin and I could actually FUNCTION. Now I can't even sit in a chair, hold a pencil, walk for more than 5 minutes. My doctor is nice but now she thinks I'm some massive junky..

Also what are the ethics of this addiction specialist lieing to my doctor on a recorded call? I'm a generally patient and caring person, but all this fucking pain is quite frankly driving me insane and I'd like to know if I can hang the lieing sadist out to dry past his malpractice coverage, then make sure his kids are eating roman noodle tell the end of time in a cardboard box. Anyways wtf do I do for pain? No pain doc tell like 1 month.. Yes this is a rant and a question...

Tldr; some POS doctor lies to my doctor calling me a drug addict and my doc pulls all my pain meds. Can I sue the liar? Also psychiatrist upped my meds to 2.5mg k-pins, wtf is going to happen to me?

 

[shady4091]

Well what exactly did you say to the addiction specialist doc when you called? I mean, I don't mean to be rude but you can't just call and demand a script from some random doctor. Or demand that he call your doctor for a script. You have to understand how that looks on their end. It looks like drug seeking. Maybe he did blow it out of proportion but maybe you should have been a little less demanding and told him exactly what was going on.

Is it not possible to talk to your doctor and just get it sorted out? You're obviously in pain and you're obviously not drug seeking so just be honest.

 

[Midazle]

Well what exactly did you say to the addiction specialist doc when you called? I mean, I don't mean to be rude but you can't just call and demand a script from some random doctor. Or demand that he call your doctor for a script. You have to understand how that looks on their end. It looks like drug seeking. Maybe he did blow it out of proportion but maybe you should have been a little less demanding and told him exactly what was going on.

Is it not possible to talk to your doctor and just get it sorted out? You're obviously in pain and you're obviously not drug seeking so just be honest.

Yeah I was calm unlike in my original post, lol. The withdrawal was inhuman (though I'm sure others have had it worse). I'll quote myself as directly as possible as to what went down when I called:

Friendly Nurse/receptionist: "***** Internists how may I help you?"
Me: "Hi my doctor was supposed to write a prescription and have it sent statim (latin for right away) to the pharmacy closest to me but that never happened. Since I am partially disabled, I can not drive and both my parents work. Is there anyway I can get a message to my prescribing physician to remind her? Its just inconvenient having pain for even one day..."
Nurse: "Yeah I would but I don't have any contact info or your chart so I'll just page you through to Dr. ****** (the addiction specialist).
Me: "Okay thanks! I appreciate it! I know its saturday and this is not a good time..."
*Cheezy elevator music*
Dr. *******: "Dr. ******* what can I help you with" (pretty sure I heard his wife and kids in the back so his haste made sense)
Me: Hi Dr. ****** is it? First off I want to make clear I am NOT asking you for a prescription but a way to get a message to my doctor as she forgot to refill my pain medic---
Dr. *******: Who's your physician?
Me: Doctor ****** I'm sure she just forgot to mail the script since she doesn't work Fridays or Mondays...
Dr. *******: Well I can't write you schedule II narcotics, that's not why I am here!
Me: Yes I understand the whole drug seeking issue, ethics, me breaking contract with my physician I just need you to get a message to my physician as she does not work on Mondays.
Dr. *******: Well whats the problem? Can't you just call your doctor on Monday?
Me: Well you see she doesn't work on Mondays and my parents both work and I can't physically drive..
Dr. *******: Well whats wrong with you?
Me: Well I have severe pain from not only a herniated disc but ***** disease you see...
Dr.*******: Well I'm not writing you any prescriptions, just call your doctor on Monday!
Me: Well maybe I didn't explain it clearly, she doesn't work on mondays
Dr. *******: Just call her on Monday *Click* (He hangs up on me)

Well my thoughts were, okay he's a typical deuce bag that thinks that since Im 18 I must be a drug addict if Im on oxycodone even for legitimate SEVERE pain. I mean 5mg percs 3x a day? C'mon that's kiddy doses..I just brushed it off.

On monday during school well nearly throwing up from a combination of pain, a cold and possibly early withdrawal I get a call on my mobile. Its not my doctors nurse. Its her, this was surprising since I've never had a physician actually talk to me on the phone! She says:

"I just heard from one of my partners that you called him over the weekend asking for narcotics, he said you had pain from the disc and ***** disease. I just feel like you are totally misusing this drug and I will not refill your script. Sorry."

I was shocked. My doctor has been very good to me for years, and always respects my word. I have called in and told her my discomfort and she was always hesitant to call in any meds but would always have me seen ASAP which I was content with. This time her tone of voice was condescending, flighty and just weird. I went in to see her 3 days later with bronchitis and she and her staff were so "concerned" about it. When I tried to talk to her about what happened she said "I can't talk about this right now I have another patient sorry, and ran off". Now she was a Lieutenant Colonel in the Airforce and chief of Internal medicine as well as a psychiatrist for solders for some time and she doesn't have the balls to be candid with me or even treat me like a human being?

I gave her my word that I was not lying, on top of the fact that she believes I have pain! She knows I'm an honorable person and I've served my community and she is treating my like some scum bag...I could easily go to the ER and get a supply of oxycodone or even oxymorphone as last time I went the ER physician was super nice and had a kid that went to my school (preppy school) so he knew I wasn't some addict, but if you do that enough then well you'll get labeled for sure. Plus the ER sucks..

EDIT: Sorry for the terrible grammar and scatter brained posts but bear with me...I'm on 3mg of klonopin and while it doesn't seam to be doing anything, I'm sure its effecting my typing skills..

 

[effie]

I'm really sorry you ar having such a hard time at the moment, it sounds incredibly frustrating..

Unfortunately I don't really know what help we can give you here. We can't give you any legal advice on whether or not you can sue your doctor I'm afraid, BL's not a legal site and it's quite a complicated area.. all I can suggest really is going back to your doctor and trying to explain the situation. You may have to bite your tongue and hold back the frustration.. or would you be able to see a different doctor? If you are legitimately in pain then it is completely wrong that you shouldn't be allowed your painkillers.

I know the ER isn't ideal but at least it is somewhere you can get some painkillers while you are desperate..

I'm going to close this as I really don't see what help we can give, but if you need to vent there is a thread for that here in The Dark Side forum - you can get a lot of support there too - or feel free to get it all out in a blog.

If you have any questions feel free to shoot me a pm if you have any questions and I really hope you get your pain meds sorted out soon