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Originally Posted by cyclelops
It was exactly this kind of big brother behavior that made me go off the stuff....I do have a small script for vic, that is it....and, no, it isn't enough, but, the option is losing my dignity.....and I have a GOOD doc. The problem was the other docs in the clinic!
I felt tied by an invisible umbilical cord, that left me open to abuse from any physician with a bug up their butt....pain seemed a better option.
I don't use MJ....I only used my prescription drugs as ordered....but, historically, I found that as soon as you add a substantial pain med, docs act funny.....you get fewer diagnostics, they don't return calls, etc.
I am not saying this is right....it's not. It simply IS.
I weaned down from substantial fentanyl and oxycodone and I am doing about the same as when on the stuff. I was in pain then and I am still in pain now. A well placed vicodin seems to do as well as fentanyl patches.
Like I have said before....pain management is in hideous shape. If you are stuck with a pain condition in this country....docs seem to feel, 'oh well, better you than me".
As I said, I have a very good primary, who is very willing to prescribe for me and feels I should be on more pain meds, however, if ever she was NOT there, and I got some other dupe from the clinic, it was really hard to get my scripts. Once I sat for 2 hours waiting for a doc to give me my script for oxycontin. On another occasion, I had to sign a contract! I gave up and just use the vicodin.....and no, the tylenol in it is not good for me...
If you are on major pain meds, they have you by a chain around the neck....I got tired of my chain being jerked.
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That is such a shame Cyclelops. It is true, we can be 'labeled' by misinformed docs. I went to a GI doctor a while back who did a colonoscopy. Well, he did not administer enough med during the procedure and it became the procedure from hell. I asked him to give me more sedation but he just kept saying "we are almost finished". I could hear myself crying from the pain. I don't think you are suppose to be alert for such a procedure. After words, he said he was "astounded" that I felt it and then proceeded to tell me... "Well you are on narcotics, that is why it didn't sedate you enough". The tone of voice and way he said it was as though he implied that I was a junkie. And no, I am not overly sensitive about it - it was quite implied. I did not go back to him.
It seems that some docs want to 'label' you when you take narcotics. I don't take a large amount, but nonetheless, he should have adjusted for my tolerance and my "princess and the pea" nervous system perhaps caused by PN and FMS.
What a jerk...
