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[sprinklethief]

i called the doctor's office to ask why they didn't give me the phenergen. the surgeon's secretary just kept saying that he NEVER EVER prescribes it. she didn't have an answer for me other than he never prescribes it. i asked her what was so bad about it, what was it for that he didn't want to prescribe it, and she said it's for nausea. but he never prescribes it. well dude, sorry that you have such a hard time putting a pen to a piece of paper, but "he never prescribes it" doesn't fly with me. i started crying on the phone with her because i'm just in hell over here. my pain medication doesn't work very well, i have to take double in order for it to work, but taking it makes me puke. i'm between a rock and a hard place, and just because someone doesn't feel like doing something i have to suffer. she said she's going to talk to the surgeon and his nurses and call me back. i seriously cannot believe these people.


okay, she just called me back. apparently mr. never prescribes phenergen is calling some in for me, but he will not change my dosage on the pain medication. he told her to tell me that what he prescribed for me is enough for the pain i'm in, and that nothing more will be given. i have never - NEVER - been treated with so much disrespect in my whole fucking life. i don't even know who to call, who to talk to. nothing i do is going to change the management of my pain and that's just fucking sick. a man who spent all of 5 minutes post-op with me can tell, over the phone, through his secretary, that i am in exactly enough pain to warrant percocet 5/325 and that is all.

i'm so let down by our medical system. again.

Comments

[ciani.livejournal.com]

I am absolutely serious when I tell you to go to the ER. Go there crying about your intense post-operative pain, that no one is listening to you that the painkillers aren't working and are making you puke.. and for good measure make sure to puke where someone involved has to clean it up. and don't stop crying.. and go a little insane and mention how you can't even take your other prescription drugs without puking them up because you're in so much pain.

I've found that being the worst pain in the ass will get you somewhere. Don't be nice. Don't just take what they tell you.. and make them feel so absolutely terrible for you in the state you are in by making it abundantly obvious what that state is.

Call up your drs office and tell them you are going to the ER because the drugs are not, in fact, enough and you peed yourself because the pain was so bad you couldn't get up. Tell them you want the name and number of the person in charge of complaints.

[transmission00.livejournal.com]

and you peed yourself because the pain was so bad you couldn't get up.

damn, if that doesn't get them, then they are robots in the worst way possible

[paroxysm-cycle.livejournal.com]

lol, thank god its not that bad.

[paroxysm-cycle.livejournal.com]

gabe looked up a number for the patient liaison that i'm gonna call tomorrow. i've just never had a doctor flat out refuse to give me pain killers OR anti-nausea meds. it's incredible.

[ciani.livejournal.com]

I agree. Especially post surgery.. it's absurd.