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Originally Posted by finz
Respectfully, songbird, if you really understood that the ER is not the right place for the treatment of a chronic condition, you'd be mad at your docs right now, NOT the ER doc. Your docs are the ones who failed to set you up with a reasonable treatment plan, istructions NOT to do things that you know will trigger a flare, and an emergency plan for when an UNFORSEEN flare happenes.
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I did nothing to trigger it! Nothing different nothing out of the ordinary. Other than a cold going around my household, which I didn't even get. One doctor was out of town at a conference, and the other was doing an EMG in a sterile environment, and could not get me in.
Of course I was upset that my current meds were not handling the situation. And this week it was remedied..well hopefully I've only been on it for 2 days or so. And the reason I got mad at the ER doc is because he made me feel like a street druggie for the medications i was on and the fact that they weren't stopping the extreme flare up and needed something stronger!! He said my chart would be "red flagged" with that kind of "behavior". He was condescending and acted like he was being magnanimous in helping the flare!! I seriously did not expect to get reactions like this from people at this site at all. I don't go rushing to the ER every other day or week. Part of the problem in managing my medications is I am allergic to almost ALL of the non-narcotics used to treat the pain. Again I live in Eastern Washington state so it is hard to get an ongoing prescription of a stronger "opioid". I am also limited as I don't have any INSURANCE either, so the cost has to be kept somewhat low as the hospital who injured me is being very slow in reimbursing me.
I really don't think it's right for you and others to try and admonish me for going to the ER under my doctors orders. It's not like I asked for a 3 months prescription of some kind of pain pill. My doctors office said the ER could call and confer with them that I am a NEWLY diagnosed chronic pain patient, and that my medications were still in a "trial" phase. Even if I WAS able to go to my doctors they don't usually keep things like Dilaudid in injection form to help with that kind of pain. You as well as many others know that getting your medications correct and strong enough to manage your DAILY pain
The flare up was UNFORESEEN as you put it. That's why my doctor sent me to the ER. Anyone one of us who suffered from this that was, last resort, FORCED to go to the ER and treated the way I was would be incensed! Anyways that hospital SHOULD treat me and very well too, THEY were the ones that CAUSED this in this first place!