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I know what you're going through and it's a double or even triple edged sword. From some of your other posts, I gather you are on medicaid. Correct me if I'm wrong. I have found that the way I was treated on regular insurance versus medicaid, is vastly different. I often feel brushed off, talked down to, rushed, ignored, and selectively treated as someone with medicaid. Doctors are often in a hurry to give me a prescription that conveniently isn't covered by medicaid or is OTC. They also seem to act like I'm not that bad if I don't want narcotics yet they are hesitant to give them to me. It also seems as if they treat medicaid people as drug seekers more than those with regular insurance even though I know of a bunch of incidences where some regular insurance people hop from doc to doc for prescriptions they don't even need to trade with friends. I don't know if this is what you are experiencing, but it kind of sounds like it. Dealing with finding good doctors is difficult, even worse when you have to re-establish with someone new. As for the legal issue. Unfortunately, pain is subjective and difficult to prove which is why Fibro used to be considered a disease needing pschotherapy not physiological intervention. We're still battling that belief. In order to sue, you need to be able to show damages. Pain doesn't show up on medical testing. They can argue that they cannot treat something they cannot see. Ask your regular doc for a referral to another rheumatologist, but first call all the rheum docs on your provider list and ask if they are fibro friendly, if they treat fibro patients, perhaps ask if you can make an appointment to just talk to the doctor in his private office (kind of how we check out pediatricians). Ask on here if anyone knows a good fibro doc in your area or do an internet search for Fibromyalgia doctors (your area). The following links might help in the search. http://www.fmaware.org/site/PageServer http://www.fibrohope.org/home.asp I wish you the best. We're all here for you. Post edited by: Matafleur, at: 03/17/2008 00:27 |
I go to the same Clinic but swithched doctors. The one I ahve now is grest. He really understands what I am going through and isn't afraid to give me narcotics. I was honest with them about having addiction problems many years ago. I was treated like a freak.
I was honest with my new doctor but he watches my med. intake and we work together to make sure that I don't end up with a problem. [li]Have you thought of switching Doc's? Most people do not become addicted to pain killers. They become physically dependant. There is a big difference! The doctors are afraid to prescribe narcotics because of all the new laws and lawsuits. What did they do at the pain clinic? I am supposed to go to something like that for fibro at the Mayo Clinic. They call it a fibro pain clinic. I hope that I can figure out a way to go soon. This pain sucks[i]. I hope that you find some relief soon. 
