[Moreta]

My back is really acting up today. My pain level is a 9 and I'm having problems walking. So I figured I should go to the ER so that maybe they would do something for me.

WHAT A JOKE.

They gave me lortab and a steroid pack....

WTF?

My pain is a 9 and all they can give me is lortab?

I told them that lortab did nothing and I asked if I could get a shot of something, and the damn dr said we don't treat this kind of pain with a shot. I just need to be able to walk again or my back is really going to lock up, like it has now. I took 2 lortab when I got home and all it gave me was double vision.

I swear people don't want to treat me right b/c it says I'm bipolar in my record. Maybe I'm just being paranoid. But now I'm so angry and depressed idk what to do with myself.

[krisakira]

When I went to the ER for back pain I DID get a shot! So I don't know what they are talking about. So sorry.

[~Christina]

Moreta

I am sorry that you were not given anything that will relieve your pain. My local Er's seem to only give pain meds if you have a limb hanging by a thread. Doctors are so worried about being tagged for given to many X prescriptions to patients. Gotta Thank the Drug seekers for that one.

It sucks , it's wrong. Are you able to get into see your regular Doctor and get actual help?

I really hope you can find some relief.

[Moreta]

I can't get into see my back dr until july 8th....

I'm hoping I just sleep it off tonight. I have t @ 8 am and a job interview at 9:15.

I seriously need to find my cane.

[~Christina]

I hope you are able to rest tonight. T session might be helpful and help you focus for your interview, good luck I hope it works out for you

Can you get put on a list at your Doctors in case a sooner appt comes up?

[Moreta]

The dr doesn't have a cancellation list. If it still hurts this bad tomorrow I'm going to see if I can get an emergency appt. The only bad thing is, is that I had an emergency appt a little over 2 weeks ago. He's probably going to get tired of me. ha. I think I need to get a cortisone shot or something. The problem is they don't last long. He won't give me narcotics cause I was addicted to them like 7 years ago. So I don't have many options.

[Dylanzmama]

Argh-I hate hearing stories like yours. I had HORRIFIC chronic pain from TMJ dysfunction and I was always assumed to be an addict and my pain ignored. Luckily an addiction specialist Rx'ed narcotics eventually.
Hang in there!

[vjdragonfly]

Moreta, I understand where you are coming from. I was down for a year with my back (couldn't even walk my second grader to school). The best I got was muscle relaxers and physical therapy and neither one done squat. I have a record of my back deformities since I was 14 and I hadn't been dx bp yet. It is just the stupid ***** doctors that don't give a flying **** about what you are going through especially er. As long as your not dying they throw you out the door asap.

I really hope you can get the care you need. It is impossible to function when you are in that kind of pain.

[ultramar]

For the record, and I understand if you don't know this, but steroids (I suspect you were given a taper of prednisone) is the most powerful anti-inflammatory there is, and it is not something prescribed casually. Prescribing that and Lortab is about as strong as you're going to get in the ER. I'm sorry you're in so much pain, though after a couple of days of the steroids hopefully you'll start feeling better. From my experience (as both a patient and a healthcare professional) it's extremely unlikely that having a mental health diagnosis is going to affect the treatment you needed.

Hope you feel better soon, I know what it's like to be in excruciating pain!

[~Christina]

Moreta, How are you doing today ?

[Moreta]

Still the same. I had to cancel t and reschedule my interview. I even called off work. I was going out to my car this morning and my back seized up. Luckily I made back into the house.

I feel like such a loser b/c I can't do things due to my back. I just want the pain to stop.

[faerie_moon_x]

I hope you feel better soon. (Hug) it's terrible when doctors don't listen

[eskielover]

Just for information....there is a difference between being dependent on narcotics & being addicted to them. I have been on narcotics for my migraines (which is unusual treatment for them....but nothing else worked, not even the neck fusion I went through)....have been on the same high dose since 2003 (10 years).....yes, I would go through withdrawal if I went off of them.....but I don't even feel anything but normal while taking them...no high, no down, no nothing just physically able to function again. Addiction is when the person starts to want the medication for the feeling the drug give them not just the ability to function again.

After fracturing my back a couple of years ago, I think the pain medication has helped me with that also, even though it didn't start out being for that. The say that if the narcotics improve your quality of life, that is when they are willing to give them. My new pain specialist had me to to a pain psychologist before he was willing to take me on as a patient who already had been on the medication for 5 years just to make sure I was being up front & honest....but 5 years of being on the same dose without a change was proof that it wasn't an addiction also.