Drug Seekers- the Wrongfully Accused

[canoehead]

For those that have gone to the ER with real pain and been dismissed, poorly treated and ignored. You will get refunded all your money, and the script of your choice personally from the idiot who figured that since you didn't fit into THEIR idea of pain, it couldn't be real. Also will be able to WHOMP them with their own baseball bat if they have one, "(WHOOMP) See how it feels, you moron?! Betcha want some good drugs now huh?!"

[curleysue]

Future nurse-

I know how frustrating it is waiting for your doc to call and at five till five you call again saying, "Now what am I supposed to do?" I have a doc like this right now who has denied me my twice a week magnesium infusion till he can see me. Okay so at the end of the week when my heart is racing and skipping beats and my mucscles hurt so bad from cramping, than that is when you want me to go to the ER? When it would be cheaper for him to just write the order for twice a week like it was last month?! I mean its really terrible, I have been getting magneisum infusions for 1 year and when I heard my insurance was cutting me off I decided to try once a week cause eachtime I have an infusion its $500. So when I found out last week that I couldn't make it once a week I had to go to the ER on a saturday cause he refused to see me on the Friday. So this week I tried to get into him but because we live in a small town all the other internist are not accepting new patients so he is the only thing I have. But we won't change my stupid order till he sees me on the 14th of March! Its so frustrating. Sorry I had to vent.

Yah, and I have been caught in your situation also with a migraine. Then you end up at the ER at 5:30pm and they look at you like you some kind of idiot or drug seeker. That you purposly waited till 5:30pm so you could get a shot of demerol and phenergan and go home? Oh well. At least now I have found a pain doctor who gave me shots to take at home when it gets too bad. Thats always nice. Take care. Curleysue :rotfl:

[caroladybelle, BSN, RN]

But is this actually true? I was under the impression that "stronger" doesn't really apply when discussing pain meds. It's also quite common for different people to have different reactions to different drugs. So if his Oxycontin wasn't helping his pain couldn't he have been given Morphine, or Dilaudid to see if it was more effective? Also, he might have just needed something for breakthrough pain to take with the Oxycontin. If that was the case, he could have been given a shot of something and instructed to contact his pain management doctor for a regular prescription for break through meds.

I just don't feel that it was accurate for you to tell him that there is nothing stronger than Oxycontin.

I would like to hear other opinions on this please.

There are plenty of drugs stronger on a mg to mg basis than oxycontin.