Please Help - I'm Falling And Don't See Any Help In My Future (Page 3)

I'm a 50 yr old grandma with end stage renal failure! With that being said I also have chronic pain, slipped disc, a bulging disc, neuropathy, severe nerve damage in my neck and down my shoulder, severe hip pain in not just one but both hips now. I have been on pain meds for about 15 yrs....And always feel like I'm being judged every time I walk in the doctor's office! I figured I would change docs and started with a new clinic. The first few months was ok I guess...Then whammmy, he said I'm discharging you at this time because you came back with a positive drug panel for "6 mam" which I have learned is heroin! I have not ever seen nor do I have a desire to see it or do it!!! But now I am without a doc and my meds have run out. I stretched what I had for as long as I could! Now I'm kinda freaking out! I'm in severe pain, I'm a damn basket case (crying at the drop of a hat) just really depressed and lost! I'm always in pain anyway but my medicine made it easier for me to deal with it! I dont know what to do and need help fast!!!!

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pam i am so sorry for your situation! it sux with what thwse doctors will/ or should i say wont do, becuse they are afraid of losing there license!
i will pray for you, that you hurry and find a doctor! i dont see why they are not treating you for pain!!!

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I can hardly get out of bed let alone do yoga, are you kidding me. I hope one day you will not come to the point that I am at. I was always active until I broke my ankle and after 12 surgeries still am not any better, actually worse because I suffer from RSD because of all the surgeries.

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Try "putting the tail between the legs" and go back to your previous clinic. First ask to speak with the manager of the office....then explain why you felt the need to leave and try a new place. Which I'm not quite sure why you didn't do this first if you felt unsatisfactory treatment of yourself ? Then tell them how your results came back...( provided they were always good at the old clinic ) And then ask to return to your previous doctors care. After all, you left there correct ?
I don't mean to sound harsh..... I really really do not, but to me.. this would seem like a common sense approach , maybe not ?
If you dont want to go that route , then request to have a conference about your results with the doctor at the new clinic...yes you can, they are not God,and you may request access to an appointment, (especially with confusing test results). provided you have never had these results on any other test previous ... or request your records with the test results included, and yes, you can most certainly do that too, they belong to you !
Then take those to your last doctor, that for whatever reason you decided to leave. And another question that puzzles me.... if you were getting your meds on a regular basis from the first clinic, why would you try somewhere else ???? I would think by 90 years old you would be past the phase of "stigma" or "what anyone thought of you"
As long as they gave me the medicines I needed to have a functioning life.... stigma me all you want !!!! Again, I don't want to seem judgmental or question your decisions, but i feel that there is more to this story than what was written. Maybe not....but there are at least three immediate common sense approaches you could have taken long before your meds ran out. Please keep me updated on how things are going.... and if I can be of any help.

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I need to add a correction about the age of 90 that I stated in my below response. I apologize..... and I want to say again (before I might be judged harshly) that I am in NO WAY passing judgement or any ill will in my statements..... but, I just see several "possible" solutions to the problem. And don't forget... you can't go into either office like a raging bull! You need to be calm, and sincerely ask for help and suggestions about where do you go from here... I am in a wheelchair from being crushed by a horse.....so I know pain. I wouldn't be here commenting if I were not living it! Some days, I think it would be easier to just do an amputation from the waist down. I liked the advice from someone below about a malpractice attorney, and I also liked the advice about keeping in touch with your primary care doctor. Although I have just found them to not be comfortable prescribing the medications I need, I would still keep them posted. As for the person that recommended "yoga". That is a good one!!! If it is working for you.... then God bless to the highest. But...for others, it's just not quite a possibly right now.....each person, their own thing, in their own time..... Again, I really wish you the best. I don't know how I got so fortunate to be honored with the pain doctor I have now..(well, I have been going to the same damn place since my first riding fracture at age 9. I am 45 now. And yes, sometimes his assistants can act a little b****y! But, they know nothing of my history except what they see in my records. And quite simply, I just could care less how b****y or judgmental they can be. Let ONE of them live the life we do! I can assure you, they would be walking the same path. And as one of my doctors said "nothing in life is certain...so the people who judge you, just pray that nothing ever happens to put them in this situation". Because one sunny day I walked into the barn, and a trail ride later I was being airlifted to the hospital!!! That certainly wasn't penciled in on my "to do" list that day. Bless, and find comfort soon.

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lucylove... in response to your solutions...yes i did go back to my last clinic and they have since hired a new pa and that is who i saw...everything was going relatively good until the end of the visit when he sd he needed to get my records, and was he going to find anything that i needed to let him know about before he got the records...so i came clean and told him i was not going to lie about it..and i told him what had happened he then sd he could not give me anything because of the positive--regaurdless that i had been a patient in that office for about a year and half and NEVER had any problems(positive test, no missed appt, always had my btls for my count)! they as well gave me a drug screen which of course was negative! the reason i left this clinic was because my main doctor got done and i did not care for the other doctor....my first and last visit with him was about how much he was going to cut my meds!!! and i went along with it for about 7 or 8 months and then just decided it was time for me to find a new doctor...and yes i kick myself in the a** everyday for making the decision! had i not tried another doctor i would not be in this situation now!!
as for the other clinic that i got the positive test from, they did a repeat test which came back negative(no surprise to me)! but will not return my calls ..and all they could say about the positive test is it was positive and thats that!!! they were suppose to recommend other doctors to see and never did! it took my kidney doc to request my records in order to get the second results!! so i last conversation i had with them they told me they could NOT treat me for pain but they would be(yeah kinda comical) i told them NO i was all set, i am NOT a heroin addict never even seen the stuff! dont need to ever see it im all set with that as well!
so yes i have done all that you sd, with no positive outcome!
No other doctor would treat me because i had that positive drug screen....the only person that would remotely do anything to help is another doctor who is in my primary docs office...its not what i want but cant be too picky at this point...for the time i will see him and let all this die down then try to fine another doctor!

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I just went to request my record's, HE GOT SHUT DOWN!!! HE CLOSES THE FIRST OF OCTOBER!!! Still does not help me any, and I have not been able to find another pain doctor. I went to one and he refused to even see me, due to my old doctor! I do not know what I am going to do. I have ANOTHER surgery for major nerve damage in my arm on the 15th, but the surgeon does not seem to know who to recommend me to after the last PM doctor refused to see me ! I DON'T want to go in and lie to a doctor, or anyone as far as that goes, I just still do not know what to do! Thank you very much for being kind, a couple of people that replied were just MEAN!!!

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Best of luck, this nightmare could happen to anyone of us at any time. I will set aside sometime this evening to do a focused prayer for you to have a positive outcome. Keep us posted.
Best Regards,

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My first reply was to to advisde you to get Suboxone for the withdrawals. I don't know how old this message is but if you are going through withdrawals Suboxone does miracles. then three or four days later stop. Again I am in your prayers and I hope your doctor wakes up to his the torture he out you through. HE IS AN A##hole.

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michael h...i did finally get it! i did not initially because i did not want them to use that against me and insinuatr AGAIN that i was on heroin!!
i did find a doc temporarily! he believed me and iritated the same as i had been saying about the false + screen!!!
thank you too everybody that had kind words and prayers!!








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