oh thank you katie rose. and yes, i will email you after i am here for a bit.
yes, the dr.s idea , her "plan" for me, was to make me taper off all pain meds.....and she had no plan beyond that for me. she just had it stuck in her head that SOMEONE had put me on narcotic pain meds for FIBROMYALGIA, which she referred to as "JUST fibromyalgia".......see, i've been with her for three years; prior to her, i was with another woman doc who closed her practice after the birth of her third child; realized she COULDN"T do it all! when records from that doc's office were transferred to the present one who has fired me, for some reason NONE of the records pertinent to my bout of shoulder surgeries, neck MRIs, visits with the spine specialist, referral to the pain management anesthesiologist, etc, NONE of that was in my records!!!
so i DID ask for an appt. to talk with my doctor who has fired me, well over a year ago, to ask her if she DID have any of that information, like did she ever see an MRI of my cervical spine? answer: no did she know i have DDD and cervical stenosis, bone spurs, nerve impingement, etc: answer: no in retrospect i realize i should have left her practice then: she just sat there with no expression on her face, no response at ALL when i said well, THOSE are the reasons i have been takin narcotic pain meds, NOT fibromyalgia! i swear, her face never changed: she never said "oh, i'm sorry...i didn't even realize that" no admission that she might have been WRONG at all.
but no, i wanted to like her, to believe i had gotten through to her, etc. HA! guess THAT never happened! she then began me on the process of "tapering down" on the dose i was taking. i was fine with that; i tapered down by half: the rheumatologist told me that she didn't think anyone could ask any more of me. the internist just kept rolling her eyes at our subsequent appt.s, which are every three months, to keep an eye on my cholesterol and thyroid....rolling her EYES!!! yup.
sheeeeeessh.
but i DID find out late last night, that the new internist whose office i called two days ago, where the secretary asked the name of my last internist and then i didn't hear back from the office, which the sec'y said i WOULD, in just a few hours...well, she HAS accepted me as a new patient. my fear was that the internist who fired me would tell her things that would make the new doc not want to take me on. granted, i cannot imagine anyone stretching this pain med issue THAT far that they could make another doctor quiver in fear of taking me on!!! lol
so. i now have an INTERVIEW with a new internist, and thanks to all of you here, i will be prepared with what i want to say about pain management, what i want...WHAT I WANT....lol.....yes, i CAN look for what i want in a doctor! and the BEST part of all of this is that this new doc is right around the corner, basically, from where i live!
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