If they only knew...
By Kelly Glorioso on
February 16, 2010 (Tuesday)
Right now I'm really struggling with the fact that "people" out there have no clue how much pain I'm in. I had to go to the ER again for a migraine last week and they tried everything that I knew wouldn't work because they don't want to give out any narcotic pain relief. I understand that, but when they can see that I have a history of migraines and they still spend wasted hours giving me things that I know wont help it is exasperating. A weather system started moving in yesterday afternoon and my migraine got real severe, really fast and I cried all night and didn't go to the ER because I knew they would spend hours doing "nothing" before giving me just a "little" something that helped before sending me home and my being in as much pain 2 hours later. And for the record, I don't have any pain medicine at home currently because I had to wait until today to fill my Rx - per my insurance company - they don't get it either!
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by kglorioso
on February 16, 2010 at 7:44 AM
They just don't get it
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by dorothybittner
on April 05, 2010 at 8:36 PM
I can't tell you how many times this has happened to me - the ER visits begging the PA for the drugs I know work, only to have them play around with other drugs that are expensive as hell and do nothing (and sometimes make it worse!). But I talked to my regular dr about this problem, and he wrote a letter stating the medications that stop my migraines to take with me to ER so that the next time I won't have play guinea pig to excitable PAs who refuse to give you anything for the pain until you sign a release to allow them to do a spinal tap (which happened on my last visit).
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