Sunday, May 03, 2009
Pain management - Rant
how would you like to sit and wait for the pain management doctor for 3 -4 hours EVERY month for them to see you for three minutes and write you a prescription for the very last medicine that they can legally write for you and you won' t violently puke up, or at least not every time, plus it barely works, just takes the edge off the pain and takes 1 to 2 hours to work, lasts for about 1 -2 hours, and yet you have to wait for 6 hours before taking the next dose.

I don't want to do that, It causes pain, stress, anxiety, wasting all my time, sitting in the doctors office chairs having full body spasms being irritated to know end, in pain because you have to sit there so long, and to top it off no fresh air in a stuffy room with tons of other humans stinking and sweating, and no air condition. the windows and doors are bullet proof and darkened so no one can see inside. you get surprised piss tested and pill counts being degraded worse than a three year old, just as if you where on parole for committing some horrid, hideous, violent crime,
sounds like a crack house/prison combination.

well thats what it's like to be in pain management, than you never see the same doctor or nurse, you sit and pray for the nice ones, not the ones that treat you like **** because they enjoy making you feel small because by no fault of your own you ended up with chronic pain for life, and after being degraded by the pissy ones you get to go back out to the waiting room with tears in your eyes after being forced to listen to their BS just so you can get medicine that is literally destroying your body one organ at a time,

You have to take those pharmaceuticals because so you can shower and brush your teeth and get to the store, and if you are lucky, you may be able to help your family members or another disabled that needs help so that you are contributing to society,

you are super lucky if you can keep a job, but I've seen where the best case senario is a very painfull 4 months max before your mind & body falls apart (mind because you are still in untreated pain, and untreated pain makes you insane plus you have every one yelling at you and putting you down both at work and at home because you are not able to do the work that needs done), and you get threatened getting fired constantly because of all the mistakes you make and because you can't get around very well and you work too slow, and your co workers resent you because you can't carry your load, and they isolate and tease you to no end, you can' tdefend yourself from that perverted janitor that comes in the bathroom everytime you go in there and there isn't anyone else with you, and trys to corner you in the dark halls, and the other boys join it and the company doesn't protect you because your work work load is of no value to them, and after all of that, end up bedridden again for the rest of the year or more.

and thats not all. then you get to wait another 1/2 to 1 hour in another waiting room to finally have your prescriptions handed to you so you can leave. The next pain management office is 60+ miles away.

I would rather just have the right to use cannabis a safer more effective medicine that obviously would be healthier and cleaner, mentally and physically, than the **** I have to go through now.

Thanx for sharing mr Cannabis. I had to stop working last May due to chronic pain and I know a little of what you are going through. I must continue with the opiates because MMJ just isn't enough or of the right kind. I'm trying some different indica dominate plants this year to make a stronger medicine..

yea I didn't think that one through, I would still need an opiate, but not as strong, but I wouldn't be in as much irritating pain sitting there for hours, with MMJ, because it reduces inflammation, gets rid of nerve damage pain and full body spasms and full body pain, and twitching, I can't take anti seizure or anti inflammatory anymore, and only occasionally can take muscle relaxers, my body rejects them or/and it tears up my insides.. puts holes in my gut, but you are right you have to have the correct type pluss I don't like head buzz, infact I don't like to be high, drunk, and especially opiate doped at least not the synthetic type, if I had a choice I'd rather be high, but patients don't have to get high to get relief, and thats what our justice system isn't hearing from us, pain patients just get normal.(of course unless you want to smoke more and get high)
Oh and I'm a ms cannabis.

MJ + Light Opiates = good pain relief (from experience) Well, at least it works better than just one or the other.

I understand your feelings -- especially with the cow-workers. I hope you figure something out that works for you.

I'm glad I have avoided pain management so far, but it's still a giant embarrassing hassle to get meds that work. (Hence why I toke.)

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yes, getting pain management is degrading, you get treated like a dope addict/child instead of an adult person in chronic pain, who knows what side effects we can live with,

they never stop and think that people don't want to be in pain 24/7 and most people do not want to live life drugged,

you are already treated like a criminal when you walk in the door, not a patient and definitely not like an adult, though you have proven yourself for years. Then you get a ****y nurse or doc straight out of school, who think all pain management patients just want drugs and are bad people, and the first time they ever talk to you, they have a smart butted attitude that makes you want to smack them upside the head. it isn't enough that your in pain, they have to make things even more irritating for you.

if you can stay away from pain management than do, plus you can't use medical marijuana because you are surprised drug tested, so the pain never goes away and is left under treated, especially if you have nerve damage and spasms