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Old Aug 01, 2010, 10:31 PM
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I have had issues with my primary treating me weirdly after my "breakdown". I have gone to the same doctor's office (different doc, of course) since I was FIVE YEARS OLD!!! But now, suddenly at 34 I am a mental case who imagines problems and I seem to only annoy him. I feel very dismissed and marginalized and it's an awful feeling. I have had legitimate reasons to have pain meds several times in the past and he's flat out refused to give me anything.

Oh another annoying dr situation was when I had a pretty bad car wreck and went to the emergency room, they determined I had whip lash and pulled muscles (maybe they are the same thing?) and the lady was literally writing me a prescription for muscle relaxers because she's TELLING me that I am going to be hurting really badly soon (I was still sort of in shock) and then she sees my bipolar diagnoses and says flat out "oh I cannot give you this because you're a mental patient!" So she instead gave me a shot of PHENEGREN! because she said it would at least help me fall asleep that night. Like somehow because I'm bipolar I wouldn't feel the pain or need the meds or hell, I don't even know. But it has honestly made me very leery of even telling "other" docs (besides my pdoc) anything about my mental history or meds I take.

Yoda, I am really sorry that the doc just left you hanging like that. Tooth pain is extraordinarily hard to deal with. I hope things get better. Oh ya, I used to have a badly broken tooth (impacted wisdom tooth) and when I was at my wit's end with pain, I would either rub flexall or put a "pain patch" for like back pain on my face. Usually this would sort of dull the pain (that and a ton of aleve) enough for me to sleep a bit. Also a heating pad on my pillow sometimes helped. Oh I truly feel for you, I have suffered so much because of my crappy teeth!
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