Can't stand my sub doctor

[JENN5]

Hello too all :)  I've been sick so today finally feeling better (strep throat).

Anyway had my doctor appt yesterday.  My sub doctor.  Dont get into see my pain doctor til Jan 9th and it cant come soon enough - I"m having a lot of very bad pain days and it's worse then ever.  But there are good days too just more bad now.

Anyway, I go there and after waiting and hour and a half (cuz he chit chats with the nurse and is slow - very slow) so after waiting an hour and a half with crazy people in the waiting room (judging you say?  No there was a lady starting fights with people, another lady who throw paper at me! etc)

Anyway I go in talk to the med asst and she asks questions etc.  He comes in and says ok how is it going.  I say ok with the meds but I dont take a whole pill at a time. (he wants me to take 2 8mg a day - I found that it gives me a headache and makes me more tired if I do - so I take in quarters or halves and I dont take 16 a day I take 8 or 10 and that's better) but noooooo he says to me no dont do that you take 2 pills a day as a whole only patients that take this for pain management take in lower doses and you are NOT using this for pain management.  (screw you just cuz I wanted off the other pills does not mean I dont NEED THIS FOR PAIN a hole! cuz I do I can barely move!) I tell him I do NEED this for pain and start trying to explain yet again all that is wrong with me - he just cuts me off and says if your sore take a motrin.

HUH?  DO YOU HAVE ANY IDEA WHAT PAIN I AM IN YOU JERK.  No you dont and you dont give a ****.  He gave me a script for another 30 days and walked out.  Obviously I cannot use him for anything BUT the sub and he looks down on me for it and doesn't think or care that any thing is really wrong with me.  He dont care a bit.  (he is actaully a doc for older people and something inside the body not exactly a GP but still he should know the basics).  

So I have to wait til Jan 9th to see my pain doc and sit and suffer without any meds for my back and my leg.  

ANd question:  Since he's obivious a sucky doctor - how often do you guys see him for sub?  Is it every month normal or am I just getting stuck going every month cuz they want to bill me once a month for a 2 second rude and uncomfortable visit?

Also 16mg still from when I started?  I thought he would have started tapering me or talked about tapering me down :(

[JENN5]

You must be thiking of someone else?  I take less then what I was told to take.  I take 8mg not 16mg and I dont even have a husband nor am I suicidal :(

[notmenow!]

I am on suboxone for pain management the same PM MD that had me on all the oxycontin and norco. It was after the spinal infusion that we decided to give suboxone a try but I take sub in combination with Lyrical for nerve pain 300mg 3x per day and 8mgs sub every6hrs a day, At first I experienced the headaches that do go away. If your looking for a drug to replace the effects of a full opiate agonist suboxone is not for you, You have already said that your over take your pain meds or use your husbands pain meds, What if he had cancer and realy depended on his pain meds what would you do then, The fact is suboxone does have an analgesic effect on pain but only last about 5-6 hrs that why divided doses are required along with the Lyrical, You should have picked a PM MD  that can write for suboxone if need be, Sounds like you have many issues that you need to deal with some of which are phycological, I am however glad to hear you are currently not suicidal as you have mentioned in your numerouse previous posts. I think you would benefit by seeing a mental health professional. I am not trying to cause a meltdown for you. I just feel as though you need additional help. How many days total have you been on the suboxone?----------------NOAH

[FLaddict]

Start looking for a new doctor while you have a full script.  If he treats you this way then there is no question.. just find another doctor. Maybe everything happens for a reason.. you may find the best doc ever out of this experience.

[imanaddict]

That sounds like a good plan, just do exactly what you feel is right for you. He doesn't know what your body is telling you to do, so just do whatever works for you because you are the one who has to live with it, not him.

Have a great Thanksgiving!!

[JENN5]

That's what I think too that 16 is too much for me.  I tried talking to him the 3 times I've been in there.  I tried telling him yesterday that I'm going for surgery in January but he cut me off telling me about taking a motrin :|  He doesn't listen to me one bit.  Do you know that when I went there last month first on it that I typed up a schedule chart in excel putting down how much I took when and how I felt and my questions/comments/etc.  Because I was and am determined to make this work.  Well he didn't even read it.  Glanced at it said I must have a lot of time on my hand and asked me if I even had a job.  (which I already told him earlier I had a good job down the street from his office where he knows).  He just talks so down to me and doens't want to hear me.  And my most important things is getting off the pills to but my pain is getting mroe severe and now my nerve down my right leg is affected (used to be just me left) and I'm terrified of more major stuff having to be done instead of just the outpatient surgery coming up.  But I can't get a word in with this guy.  When I first went in there he gave me no guidelines on any of this of what to take or anything - told me different things - I really felt he is not knowledgeable with sub.

[JENN5]

ANd plus now that I"m thinking back....when I was on more sub twice a day I came on the boards here and the other board I'm on crying saying it's not working for me etc and was so depressed and hurting.  Once I lessened it to 8-10 and broke it up I"m ok.  So I feel this is what is right for me and it's not cuz I want to take it more times during the day.  As a matter of face I almost 'forget' to take it during the day.