SpunkySkunk347
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Didn't see any subforum this really fits into; I suppose this is about sober living though since my goal is to not have to keep drinking alcohol for pain.
I'll get right to it: I have a large titanium rod implant going through my femur, held in with titanium bolts at the knee and hip. It was put in 9 years or so ago when I broke my femur in a car crash.
As the number of years its been in there go by, I've been noticing its harder and harder to ignore that it's there. I've got a limp in my walk every other step now; I saw a leg/knee specialist about getting it taken out before my bones shrink with age and it starts to be a major problem, and he denied that it ever would be to avoid being liable to have to take it out.
Doctors do not prescribe me pain medication for it. I've only straight out asked for pain medication 4 times in 9 years, with the last time being more than a year ago. I think one time I did get a prescription for like 18 50mg tramadol, which I had to go to the hospital urgent care for.. which is almost more offensive and insulting to me than if they had just done nothing at all - having to go to the ER to be given little 3 day supply sampler bottles.
There is this discriminatory attitude towards younger men and those with free or cheap insurance.
The next time I have to try, I'm going to try hard, and in a very legally insistent way maybe. It probably wouldn't be too hard to find statistical information that could be used as evidence of wealth discrimination that's blatantly occurring. Looking at the metric tonneage of opioids/opiates consumed annually, its very obvious that they are being prescribed to many people and in excess, and that I'm just being discriminated against based on age wealth and gender.
I don't know what to do, if slamming my foot down, and stating a bunch of actionable legal jargon isn't the right thing to do, then I'm going to have to just grow a damn poppy farm - it's medicine, and I have a right to give myself medical treatment; it's unlawful for that right to be restrained. Treating pain is a part of basic medicine and first aid.
I'll get right to it: I have a large titanium rod implant going through my femur, held in with titanium bolts at the knee and hip. It was put in 9 years or so ago when I broke my femur in a car crash.
As the number of years its been in there go by, I've been noticing its harder and harder to ignore that it's there. I've got a limp in my walk every other step now; I saw a leg/knee specialist about getting it taken out before my bones shrink with age and it starts to be a major problem, and he denied that it ever would be to avoid being liable to have to take it out.
Doctors do not prescribe me pain medication for it. I've only straight out asked for pain medication 4 times in 9 years, with the last time being more than a year ago. I think one time I did get a prescription for like 18 50mg tramadol, which I had to go to the hospital urgent care for.. which is almost more offensive and insulting to me than if they had just done nothing at all - having to go to the ER to be given little 3 day supply sampler bottles.
There is this discriminatory attitude towards younger men and those with free or cheap insurance.
The next time I have to try, I'm going to try hard, and in a very legally insistent way maybe. It probably wouldn't be too hard to find statistical information that could be used as evidence of wealth discrimination that's blatantly occurring. Looking at the metric tonneage of opioids/opiates consumed annually, its very obvious that they are being prescribed to many people and in excess, and that I'm just being discriminated against based on age wealth and gender.
I don't know what to do, if slamming my foot down, and stating a bunch of actionable legal jargon isn't the right thing to do, then I'm going to have to just grow a damn poppy farm - it's medicine, and I have a right to give myself medical treatment; it's unlawful for that right to be restrained. Treating pain is a part of basic medicine and first aid.