Re: Pain Clinic Update cont'd
From: gking@myrickre.com
Fri Jul 16 18:35:04 1999
At Fri, 16 Jul 1999, chris wrote:
>
>Hi again:
>
>The pain clinic called and said no, they would not be able to make a
>verbal report to my pcp and that he would get the faxed report on
>Tuesday. So I took 600 mg ibuprofen and planned to take it every 6
>hours. 5 minutes later the pcp calls (guess the nurse told him I was
>very upset) and tells me the reason he said no was because there are two
>drugs that sound exactly the same, Celebrex and Celesta (something like
>that) and he wanted to read the report to be sure which one it was.
>Celebrex is an antiinflammtory and Celesta (or whatever) is an
>antidepressant. I told him the doc said "one of the new
>antiinflammatories with less side effects" and the fact that I knew the
>Celesta was an antidepressent convinced him I guess because then he said
>"well, in that case if you're sure we can try Celebrex and see if it
>helps. Come into the office and pick up some samples". I can't start
>it until tomorrow because I didn't wait long enough before taking the
>ibuprofen! At least I won't have to fill a prescription (very expensive)
>if the samples don't work as well as I'm hoping for.
> Hey, was this an example of effective communication?
>
>--
>Chris S.
>
Hey Chris,
Sounds like you handled the "communication" thing very well. Too bad
they had to upset you so before they did something about it. I hope the
medication works for you. I am a firm believer that "other" outside
forces can complicate adhesion pain. I know I have adhesions, and the
pain I have partially comes from that, but there is something else going
on in my GI system that is aggravating an already bad situation. I sure
hope they find something. This last episode of bleeding and infection
have been going on for almost three months now and I am sooo tired. I'm
sure all of us can relate to the pure fatigue that sets in from being in
pain for so long. Best wishes over the weekend. (Thanks for the tip on
Fleet. Probably too late for me to do this go around as it's Friday
night and I'll never get the doctor to call me back over the weekend!?
but I will keep it in mind for the next time, as I'm sure there will be
one.) I guess I'm sounding like I'm having a pity party, sorry. Just
tired. Take care. Ginny