Just wondering if anyone can relate....... In our facility...we tend to get these frequent flyer patients of the following type:
Females...in their 20's or so.....with complaints of abdominal pain.....no etiology ever found....yet they keep coming back and coming back and are absolutely the biggest drama queens in the whole world!!!! It's not so much the abdominal pain itself...I know..because I have terrible endometriosis and know what abdominal pain is like.....but it's just the way they come across....so helpless..and screaming out in pain.....I'm not a person to not believe one's pain....but sometimes it's just so damn obvious that it's all for show. Like this gal I had lastnight....when her BF was there...she was screaming..."OH I need morphine, etc'....but when the guy was gone.....she was quietly sleeping. Oh...by the way...her pain never got below a ten out of ten......even after a total of 30 mg of MS....... I feel like I'm being a bad nurse or a "not caring" nurse....but man....sometimes it drives you crazy!! I guess it's because I have had multiple ovarian cysts, tons of endo, and many organs adhered tightly together...lol..and still put in my 8 or 12 hour shifts and not said boo...some people just need to "buck up a little"...I guess that's basically my point. I better shuttie now....I've worked all night and I just realized..what I've said really didn't make that much sense...just needed to vent I guess.
