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Still sick and searching for a diagnosis
Chronic Pain | Last Active: Jan 10, 2022 | Replies (8)Comment receiving replies
I am so sorry for your situation. I have been on that path until recently I lost it when I was having leg pain on my left side. I called my doctor one day, has been my doctor for most of my life, the nurse got to argue with me and she acccused me of looking for any diagnosis. I told her it was true that I wanted a diagnoses since I have been in pain for a long time and was tired of going to their practice over and over again. Pretty much he never ever saw a reason to send me to the specialists of any kind. He said I was just getting older. The last time he said I had a bruise in my bone probably and I was not able to know what was happening to me. After about four month of pain and I mean pain he finally send me to an orthopedist. The NP sent me to get an mri and lo and behold I had a protrusion in my back, disc bulge and mild stenosis. So much for my remarkable on that xray. I actually my doctor has only look for the word normal or within range in all of my blood test and never thought hey this lady might need to see a specialist cause she has had high calcium results for like 10 plus years. So, now everyone around here in the hospitals look at me weird. I tell you I don't know what it is that they read about me but after a few seconds of reading in their laptop their attitude changes toward me. Any way, he refused to ask for an MRI and had to wait four to five months to get one ordered. It really bothered me because now I know that my insurance doesn't require a referral.
Enough about me, you probably have to ask your insurance. I am pretty sure that hospitals don't care who you see as long as your medical insurance pay for it. If you don't feel your doctor care or is taking you seriously, common sense would dictate that you change him or her. Please don't do like I did. Stay with the same guy for years and year. And who know what has he written about me that I can see. I would like to see a doctor that the medical system in not Covenant. But I don't know where I can go that I will find doctors that will see me as a worthy human and not believe whatever they have written about me.
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Dear lordy! Your situation is just about a mirror to mine. So sorry for not nice people.
I am in a small island town. So yes I understand. A ton of DR's but,,, mine was the same way. No no no no for almost 7 years even though it was his idea to use a cane because of weakness in my left leg. I was bad, it came to a point where he told me to start weaning off pain meds. (3, hydrocodone a day)
I told him he must love seeing me suffer. And that if I didn't have a MRI asap! I'm out! 30 days later at my appt. He basically tossed the report my direction and mumbled referral. Nothing explained. The ortho. Surg was on vaca. But had a zoom with me, he told me i basically had 48 hours to get in a ER To be transported to have emerg. Surgery. It Is A Miracle Im Walking. Stenosis 50%, Cauda Equina. (Compression of all root nerves)Me 6 mo. Post laminectomy, discectomy, clearing of the formina. I will forever have a limp, I have perm. Saddle numbness, I retain urine because I don't feel when I need to go. Catheter. Anal prolapse. 🙄 and honestly if at 60 I was told i would never have feeling (down there) again? well, I would have had more fun when I was younger. Sister, I feel your situation. We Need To use our voices! WE know our bodies. They are not the gods we were told they were as children. Whew I wrote a book? Hope all is much better in 22!