Re: Frustrated to the Nth degree
From: Sally Grigg (lostcst@mcn.org)
Wed Aug 1 18:26:40 2001
Bring all of your records together, copies of your doctor's written reports of
your medical problems especially operation reports, test results, etc. You
have the right to copies from any doctors you have seen, copy pages from the
adhesions site (http://www.adhesions.org) look at back e-mails from Helen Dynda
about pain and other topics relevant to your situation, print them out, lots
of them, type up a cover letter explaining your problems, keep it thorough but
as short as possible. Present yourself to your chosen doctor or pain
management clinic and go through this board to find a good one, any old doctor
will not do, a bad doctor or pain management place is worse than none. When
you have you appointment remain calm, but firm and describe your level of
pain. Good luck. It's hard. Look at the adhesion web site for information.
You can spend weeks searching and still keep finding good information and it's
time well spent. With kindest regards, Sally Grigg
PositiveThought7@aol.com wrote:
>
> Has anyone ever been able to get all their doctors to agree on a method
> of treatment for pain management?? The Primary Care sends me to a pain
> specialist, he in turn sends me to another because my kind of pain is
> not his speciality. From there, additional paperwork & medical history
> must be updated from all the doctors and I find myself spinning my
> wheels while they get their collective heads together. In the meanwhile
> I am still in pain and running very low on patience, time & money. Any
> ideas on how to get them all together?