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]

but if I do take in 8mg and then 8mg that would be double then what I take in a day by splitting up.  Not only that but if I take a whole one it gives me a migraine and I fall asleep sitting up at work literally.  I just dont think it's harmful to me and I dont think it's the addictive behavior I think it's just what helps me feel more healthy and functioning and also supposed to help with the pain more.  And I would do as you and he said but then I can't function sick and tired :(

[FLaddict]

i agree with wait2long on the dose times. It was intended for once per day or every other day dosing. Due to the long half life that makes it possible. Taking it throughout the day is reliving your addictive behaviors.

[JENN5]

So you guys think that I'm better off taking 16mg a day instead of 8mg and I should walk around with a migraine and risk my job sleeping at my desk?  NOT being smart at all guys dont mean it like that...but just saying - How can that be BETTER for me?

[JENN5]

especially when i DO need it for pain too?

[IBKleen]

Have you considered that you are either having a reaction to the Sub or you are on too high of a dose. If they are causing migranes and you are falling asleep, something is wrong.

[JENN5]

by the way I DID try that for two weeks and I had to tell my boss that the side affects of just starting it out was making me tired.  So now that I do it this way I dont have to worry cuz I'm fine.  Here at work including all my loved ones have commented all positive on me when I got my dose to what I felt was right.  So I just dont see how doubling up and taking less times making me sick and not helping pain can be good for me just cuz soem think it's the addictive behavior kicking in.  If it were addictive behavior for me like I thought it was the first few days then I would want to take more not less even if it were fewer times throughout the day.