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New Doctor - no denials leads to better care
Doctors too quick to judge
Date: 5/14/2007 12:49:06 PM ( 17 y ) ... viewed 2161 times Obviously, a better relationship with our personal doctor is going out work out better for the patient.
For me, the difference is really noticable after the previous 13 doctors I either saw once, or had for a period of time, ALL were looking at me suspiciously, and basically called me a liar when I told them of my pain condition. Maybe what is most surprising is that they all prescribed morphine to me despite not believing that I was actually in pain!! [they were assuming I was 'just drug seeking']
The new doctor is not fighting what I say, he has looked for, and found, the evidence for a legitimate diagnosis of pain in my files [that the other doctors all saw those files, and said "there is nothing in here to verify what you are telling me", but they would not let me look at those files].
From there, my new doctor could expand on it and tell me usefull things about my condition. This helped me a lot right away - he told me about my headaches, and how they relate to the basic problem. Others just called my headaches migraines, but they are 'muscular, not vascular' the new doc explained. RIGHT ON!!, now I can work with them in that light instead of trying useless migraine remedies.
How cruel was it that I was not only in pain, but being called a liar and not given the time of day much less any help. And that was just the start of my tortures, which I will not go into here again.
Having a doctor who 'does not assume I am lying about my pain' is having a very positive effect on my mental state. Oddly enough, I am feeling much better about being able to stop taking morphine, something I have been wanting but not able to achieve for about 5 years now. Sure, I will campaign for the rights of drug users and so on, but personally I want to see what my life is like without morphine - it has been 15 years of constant prescription morphine. Its time.
I have been so messed up from dealing with this much physical pain for so long, plus the hardships of addiction. Messed up people tend to use drugs more than well adjusted people do. Doctors over the years have messed me up more than they have helped me, they have done a lot to ensure I stay addicted, not the least of which is to deny that my pains are real.
Karlin
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ASIDE:PS -
I will say it one last time - Isn't that odd to keep prescribing to me all that time while not believing I am in pain? Tragically, I have seen a lot of young people, in their 20s, who are addicted to morphine but are not really in pain, so this is not just going on where older pain patients are concerned. I wonder why those young people all get prescriptions for morphine, and then there is the OxyContin addiction explosion - most of those victims are in their 20s. It sure looks like a concerted effort to create addicts, and that falls right in line with the what I am reading in the "BIG WHITE LIE" book that shows how the CIA imported most of the cocaine into North America since the 1980s. Creating addicts, gambling, and other tactics are done simply to serve the agenda of the wealthy elites of 'concentrating wealth into a few hands'.
They intend to control the world that way, and have it pretty well sown up. I guess I played my role in it by allowing myself to become addicted to prescribed morphine. I have to be more carefull if I am going to save the world for decent people.
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