After dealing with a major flare over the Holidays, without even asking for any other pain meds, I came down with a NASTY case of Bronchitis for the past couple weeks......of course triggering another flare..Grr. My doctors office actually sent me to the ER for the diagnosis because of how severe my symptoms were... I was told to go to my doc or back to the ER for any worsening symptoms. Well for the past 48 hrs I haven't been able to sleep because my coughing is so bad or I had to blow my nose or something.... the ER doc gave me an inhaler, Mucinex, and a Z Pac to take only if I didn't start getting batter within three days. I had been using the inhaler and mucinex and tons of cough drops, I've the counter cough syrup daytime and night, sitting in my bathroom filled with steam before bed, all in an effort to ease the cough enough to sleep. But it wasnt working. Sooo I called my doc to make an appointment this morning, Friday, to see if I could get some Codinr cough syrup to help me sleep, but he didn't have any available appointment so they told me to go to the urgent care attached to the office because I would have to be "seen" for that type of script......
Let me start by saying I haven been on ANY narcotic pain meds since September....
The doctor who saw me was acting really weird. cold, detached, and kind of suspicious, as well as curt and arrogant. Which was odd as I had heard him with another patient in the next room and he was lively and funny... Now the triage nurse at the urgent care noticed I had pretty high blood pressure and was concerned as i guess it can cause complications with bronchitis. Well the doctor didn't even talk about that, he did "double check" with a crazy to make sure it wasnt moving to my lungs, but then came back after looking at them, and said " well you have a cold" in a very disdainful voice like I should expect to feel this way. when I said I thou chin t I was diagnosed with Acute Bronchitis he said yes you have a cold, again in the same tone. I said well which is it, bronchitis or a cold, to which he tried to say they were the same thing.....NOT. And he proceeds to tell me to do the same things I have been doing but th at he "won't do anything else" for me.... I had been and was being very polite and Caldwell what about codeine cough syrup to help me sleep, and again explained about my doc not having any available appointments to prescribe it hence the reason I'm here... Well he didn't like that apparently because he got all huffy and said I cant you are on a pain contract?!?! I told him no I wasnt that I had been off all narcotics since September. All he said was well " I Dont know about that". This is through the same clinic as my docs office, and you can clearly see what I am currently taking!!! And he just tells me he won't do anything else??
OMG!! I realized as he was leaving, even though I have NO history of abuse, am NO LONGER taking ANY kind of narcotic, I am STILL being treated as a drug seeker/abuser!!! I probably shouldn't have been shocked but I was........
And I knew if I spoke up about how he was acting it would just make it seem like he was right .......and I STILL can't sleep for more than 20-30 min naps without being woken from coughing!!
Well I plan on filing a complaint with the clinics administration on Monday but am still very sick and not sure what to do about it....
like we don't have enough on our plates but we have to deal with pompous, assuming, arrogant, Aholes like him too???
As an after thought I texted my specialist to see off I was still on a pain contract if I'm not taking any narcotics and she said absolutely not btw.....frustrating!!! And extremely INSULTING Mindsets in some people!!