Can I ask you what CONTRACT you are talking about?
Wow! That sounds terrible! Makes you think what the heck would the drs do to help if you were to go through serious withdrawal as well as pain issues just because of simple error as yours?!
Scary stuff!
I only took the one pill he gave me...cuz that is all you r allowed at the ER so u don't break ur contract. My fiancee got all my paperwork while the nurse helped me to the bathroom, so I didn't think (naturally cuz I had a pain Dr) that I had an RX!...I found out when he bought me the heating pad & handed me the rx bag...so I just kept it, & called 1st thing in the am. I am so sorry my message was not clear..I was so upset that they saw it fit to take the $250.00 in cash then throw us out like I was a meth head for god sakes..I owed nothing to them, and they took the cash, (which they also recently knew I had to move in with my fiancee as I was illegally evicted from my marital home while my ex of 17 yrs & 2 children knew I . I & was in the hospital. He also chose not to tell my children that I had a stroke. So they has no idea what was going on & where I was. So, they knew I didn't have the money to just give away for no services and to be scolded like a 5 yr old in front of other patients...who had a puzzled look on their face as well. When The nurse gave me 15 mg tablets to take 2x's a day for around 10 days...I had to ask what in the world would happen to me & what to expect as I have never been w/o pin meds for 13 years straight. She dropped me from 180 ER morphine a day to 15 mg every 8 hours of the IR & 15 mg IR every 6 hours as needed..but gave me 5 pills. In total it was not enough to detox safely & there was no reason to put me through that. I eneded up in the hospital with all my levels lof natural vitamins in my body so messed up I was violently ill and I drank 2 gallons of water at night & 2 in the evening to avoid being ill as much as I could. When I saw the hospital DR I explained wht happened and asked if he would help me ween off so that I could try other non narcotic meds..He said it was a bad idea since my back was now so messed up & wrtye me a script for 30 of each! FRUSTRATION IN NC! TY tho for taking the time to read my rants as I said...If u have any Q's at all hit me! I'm not fragile and I will tell u the 100% truth! Thank you again my friends!
Well, Since 1999 I have had breast cancer, liver failure (I don't drink or smoke btw..lol) My appendix ruptured when I was 6 months pregnant with my daughter, I went for a DNC and this was the kicker...While biopsying my uterus...he missed! He took that metal pole and rammed it all up through my intestines and colon. Then when I awoke from the DNC I felt like I was in labor and felt like I could not walk! He finally ( because I couldn't walk) admitted me for what he called ":woman pain" for 3 days I lay there dying. By the time he got the biopsy back he locked himself in my room to pray with him..I asked "Pray with you or for you?" A surgeon was trying to get through my locked door and the GYN finally opened it, however it was a bit later..on the wy to the OR I started to slip away and he jumped on me & beat the hell out of my chest..God love him! & again in surgery I passed clinically for about 4 minutes.. So at that time i got better over 2 yrs and during that time was sent to a Dr who for close to 10 years I had not 1 problem with..NOTHING. I lost my pain dr...(who was really just 4 nurses (not PA's even) cuz I fell fractured my spine and went to the ER...I was given 1 pill at ER which is allowed. However My fiancee went to buy me a heating pad and when he came upon my discharge papers filled a RX, paid with his credit card & signed for it. I TOOK NONE OF IT! called asap in the morning twice...got no call back. Fell again and the day I got out oif the hospital after 4 days I had to go to my apt. They never said a word..Took the $250.00 for the visit, I had urine screen ,gave them my pill count which was fine and this new nurse said "we're discharging you, please sign...I tried to give her the full bottle of percocet with RX papers attached. She would not look at it. My fiancee explained calmy..ok can we please explain to you what has happened cuz since she has walked in here all we've been asked about id the $250.00 & no mention of the fact that she is using a walker!!! You've not even asked why..She said, "I don't care" He told her about the rx & again tried to give it to her..She said to him "Ur not my patient" Ben explained that they thought I had a mini stroke and I had just had an angiogram 2 days b-4 & lost feeling on my right side...She said to him : I am not an ER dr." & The whole time she never stopped gathering papers for me to sign saying I broke the rules...I refused to sign them ,she said u must & asked her why are u gonna try to chrge us $250.00 if we don't..(I was self pay, lost insur. through divorce a year ago) She wrote me an RX..Here I am with my jaw still hanging open, not believing what I've heard and as we drive away my fiancee says.."Oh look t ur Rx's to make sure they r right cuz for the last 4 months she has messed them up badly. (Once she wrote my break through 15 mg IR tab as an ER...Since I had no insur I has to use both my 3x's a day ER 60 and for breakthrough, 15 mg ER! I had no $ to replace her mistake and she said "Oh well no big deal they r pretty close to the same...ahh NOPE there r not! They made me feel loopy for the 1st time in 12 years!!! & They did not work for breakthrough pain of course! So that was $160,00 in the trash basically! I'm a mom of 3 who is not hooked on pills or a pill head. I don't drink or smoke & never done any illegal drugs! Never failed a urine screening & Never missed a pill count. I think she made so many mistakes that the DR..(we'll call him Ozz cuz I never met the man!) Decided she made too many mistakes in 3-4 months maybe and unfortunately I was one she seemed to make a mistake on my script all the months she worked there.??? IDK I desperately need a spine Dr now though, someone who I can make an apt asap to figure out how to get better , sit, sleep, stand without being cut open for the 22nd time!..lol UGGRR! TY for writing be back. it means a lot to me that u took the time to read my "rants"...lol Thanks to you all <3
A lot of what you posted I don't understand, but a few things i think I do understand regarding your post. If you were already under the care of a pain specialist, and under a pain contract, why did you accept the percocet prescription in the first place? Why was it even filled? Why was it even written? Did the doctor who wrote you the percocet prescription for the 10 tablets know you had a pain contract? Was it because you "ran out", or were missing your "regular" pain medications? It's going to be very difficult for you to get a new doctor to treat your pain with controlled substances, if that's what is going to be needed. I understand the doctor never called you back. I also understand that it's generally okay in emergencies to get treatment without fear of any "backlash". Like i said, I don't understand a lot of your message. I do wish you luck finding a new doctor to help you, i just know it's not going to be easy at all.
shinty
So is the chronic pain from the recent falls?
Pain clinics don't care WHY you broke the agreement, just that you broke it.
Have you tried other ways of coping with the pain(not sure what the pain if from) in the last 13yrs?
Can your regular dr. get you a referral to another pain clinic?