Re: Pain Management Dr.'s are a joke!!

From: Kelly Murray (mkmurray@cyberport.com)
Sat Nov 23 19:13:15 2002


He surely sounds like a not very qualified pain management doc compared to the one I have. Mine wanted to look at my last surgery tape and did every thing possible to ease my pain. He even brought my name up in a conference clear accross the states to get suggestions for adhesion pain. There is a procedure that supposedly works where they zap certain nerves. But you have to go to a QUALIFIED PLACE. I was going to go to Dallas for this but am going to Germany for surgery next month. Please find another pain man. doc. There are caring ones out there. Mine said that if Germany didn't work out for me, he would help me all that he could. He has watched me decline these past several months. Kelly -------Original Message------- From: adhesions@adhesions.org Date: Saturday, November 23, 2002 07:42:34 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ADHESIONS Subject: Re: Pain Management Dr.'s are a joke!! To the person who posted this email... You poor thing! How dare that pain doctor not look at your records and at you as a person! Things such as this really tick me off! One goes to the pain doctor because they have pain - and the so called pain doctor needs to look at every patients pain differently. Most pain doctors, all doctors need to educate themselves on adhesions. Sure, adhesions do not cause pain, it's what the adhesions do to all the inners that causes devil pain! I don't think they look at the whole picture. Thank God for your doctor - he knows adhesions cause pain and was only try to get some help for you. Anonymous, if you ever feel like venting, anything, please feel free to email me directly @ Chrissy492@aol.com ~Chrissie In a message dated 11/16/2002 2:07:21 PM Eastern Standard Time, adhesions@adhesions.org writes:
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Pain Manangement  Dr. 's Are A Joke!!  A Must Read:::::
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To Whom It May Concern,

Recently, I started pain management at the advice of my surgeon.  He now
is regretting having sent me!!!
Pain management may work for some, but then there are others it will
only cause you to get worse such as it has with me.  In fact, it almost
killed me! In fact, I'm still recovering!!!!!

All I can say is,,, like any Doctor, some do believe in Adhesions, some
on the other hand can't seem to accept that they even exist!!!! I have
so many surgeries over the past few years for Adhesions alone,,, then I
go to this pain management Dr.  for him to tell me " Your pain is NOT
from Adhesions,,, no your pain is muscular" so we will send you to
physical therapy for a few weeks then we will do this "trigger point
injections" into your abdomen!!!! Sounds fun huh?
Instead of prescribing me the pain meds I would normally take and have a
good response with, he decides to use me as a test subject and prescribe
something new that landed me in the hospital fighting for my life due to
having a severe reaction to this medication!!!

For whatever reason, this pain management Doctor refuses to accept that
my problem is "Adhesion" related! He seems to think my problem is simply
muscular!!! He refused to look at the surgical pictures of my Adhesions,
and also refused to look over the report from my surgeon,,, who was the
one that sent me there in the first place!!!! So after a few weeks of
doing physical therapy and not having a single bowel movement in 14 days
and even becoming distended, this Dr.  { quack } went ahead with the
"trigger point injections" and medication that caused me even more
problems than what I was already dealing with!!!

Everything from severe itching head to toe to swollen eyes redness in
the eyes, to difficulty breathing and even a severe color change in my
flesh!!! When I called this clinic and Dr.  up to tell them of the
symptoms,,, their response was, " well what do you want us to do about
it"????

It is in your best interest, to find out prior to any treatments, if the
attending Dr.  believes in Adhesions or not!!! If he does not believe in
Adhesions causing you pain,,, I suggest you pick up all your belongings
immediately and walk your happy little behind right out of that jerks
office before that Dr.  does to you what was done to me.

I only just came home from the hospital this morning, although I am
still having some effects of the reaction, I do feel a lot better than I
did going in so I guess that is a plus!!! And the fact that I am still
alive is another plus I guess!??! lol

Like anything, including Doctor's,,,,,, if your not comfortable,,,,,
trust your instincts,,, their usually right!!! I only wished I had
listen to insides,,, but I thought if I didn't comply ,,, that I would
end up without any Dr.'s help at all!!!! Boy was I ever wrong!!! Thank
goodness my surgeon is a tremendously great Dr.  and does listen, when
he found out what was going on,,, he has insisted I do not return to
this pain management clinic ever again!!!! But the down side to this
incident,,, is now I am facing surgery again due to the blockage and I
just had surgery 3 months ago,,,, and here we go again!!!!!

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