Are you sick...

of MS, doctors, taking medications, being tired and too much more to mention?

Today, I am sick to death of doctors who think they know more about me than I do!!

I go to (most likely went to) a pain doctor who has become so suspicous of his patients being or becoming addicted to drugs that he has this huge chip on his shoulder.  Last month, due to a mistake by the pharmacy, my pain meds were reported as being prescribed by a different doctor (which was the doctor that referred me to him in the first place!).  Even though it was a mistake, all of the sudden I must be a drug addict or the fact that I didn't get a refill in October, I must be hoarding drugs! Really?

I didn't realize that all narcotic scripts filled are reported to a database run by the DEA, did you?  Guess what?  That database can never be changed or fixed.  So I went to the pharmacy and received a letter from them that they made a mistake and put in the wrong drs name.  When I went back this month, I kind of expected an apology for making me feel like a low-life.  Geez... how niave I can be!

Instead (if I would stop interrupting him), I received a lecture on how he was just doing his job; three figure malpractice fees; deposition hearings; lawsuits; pressure from the DEA to follow their rigid rules, and that no matter how "nice" of a person he thinks I am, I'm still a potential drug addict. OK then...

I know and I respect the fact that he is just doing his job...  I really do.  Does this mean that because I need to take a narcotic for pain that I will always be lumped in with a group of people that will forever be mis-trusted, suspected, and judged?

Any comments??

Till next time, Valerie