Hi guys,
This question is mainly for people here who are on a methadone programme and have chronic illness. I've been on methadone since July, and am rather unhappy with the fact that when I commenced my doctor took me off my anti-seizure and seizure support medicine (I suffer tonic clonic seizures every 2-3 days) and won't restart them for no reason other than "you don't need it", however my body is feeling absolutely fucked over from all these seizures... usually after having one in public I'm taken via ambulance to hospital where they administer the same or similiar medicine anyway while I'm unconcious :-S
Reading the booklets provided, theoretically going on a methadone programme shouldn't automatically make me ineligible for necessary health-care. I can understand that my doctor won't prescribe any pain medicine (not that I have asked, as the methadone works fine for controlling my cancer pain), but the seizures are really messing up my life and making it very emotionally draining for my girlfriend (having to tend to me when I'm having a seizure, have me not come back from a shopping trip, only to get a call from the hospital later to be told I had had a seizure on a bus etc.)
I've gone to a GP behind my methadone prescribers back and got a referral to a neuro, as the methadone GP refused to give me one, to get his opinion on the matter.
But really, my GP is being a dick right? I'm afraid to go elsewhere becuase I don't want it to look like I'm doctor-hopping, and the next methadone prescriber is an extra 2 hours travelling time, ontop of the already 1.5 hours I have to travel.
Another thing, I haven't been given takeaways because I failed a drug test due to having a non-abuseable prescription medicine in my system, administered to me while unconcious at the hospital (I have the paperwork that shows this, and a 'clean' test a couple of days earlier). Another thing that grinds my gears...
Thoughts?
This question is mainly for people here who are on a methadone programme and have chronic illness. I've been on methadone since July, and am rather unhappy with the fact that when I commenced my doctor took me off my anti-seizure and seizure support medicine (I suffer tonic clonic seizures every 2-3 days) and won't restart them for no reason other than "you don't need it", however my body is feeling absolutely fucked over from all these seizures... usually after having one in public I'm taken via ambulance to hospital where they administer the same or similiar medicine anyway while I'm unconcious :-S
Reading the booklets provided, theoretically going on a methadone programme shouldn't automatically make me ineligible for necessary health-care. I can understand that my doctor won't prescribe any pain medicine (not that I have asked, as the methadone works fine for controlling my cancer pain), but the seizures are really messing up my life and making it very emotionally draining for my girlfriend (having to tend to me when I'm having a seizure, have me not come back from a shopping trip, only to get a call from the hospital later to be told I had had a seizure on a bus etc.)
I've gone to a GP behind my methadone prescribers back and got a referral to a neuro, as the methadone GP refused to give me one, to get his opinion on the matter.
But really, my GP is being a dick right? I'm afraid to go elsewhere becuase I don't want it to look like I'm doctor-hopping, and the next methadone prescriber is an extra 2 hours travelling time, ontop of the already 1.5 hours I have to travel.
Another thing, I haven't been given takeaways because I failed a drug test due to having a non-abuseable prescription medicine in my system, administered to me while unconcious at the hospital (I have the paperwork that shows this, and a 'clean' test a couple of days earlier). Another thing that grinds my gears...
Thoughts?