Sick and Tired of being Sick and Tired

May 5, 2009
Oh what a glorious life we lead with our Chronic Pain Syndrome and Fibromyagia conditions in toe. What makes matters worse is the politics of visiting doctors offices and finding one with knowledge of these conditions and the symptoms and that accompany them.

Recently, I have been running into problems with my doctors. When diagnosed I began a regimen of Lyrica, anti inflammatory, muscle relaxers and other types of medicines. I have deep hip pain and really my right side is more affected with joint pain than the right. Bigger joints bring forth bigger pain.

There are times I wake anywhere from 2 - 6 am in excruciating pain I tell my doctor and they start cutting meds. Wait a min I said I was in pain not pain is decreasing. I'm thinking what is up with this. Then I sat down with a doctor and was told because I'm 37 years old I'm really not a prime candidate for any type of narcotics. Okay, my pain isn't that bad cause I'm young - no it is bad. As I visit doctors and they tell me this works or that works I had always been wandering why???

I am on 800mg of Gabapentin every 8 hours, 10 mg Flexiril every 8 hours as needed, was on 2 50mg Tramadol every 4-6 hours for pain and got it cut to 2 tablets morning and night. I take 8mg of Zanaflex at bedtime. At a visit to a local ER they gave me injectable benedryl so I have been taking benedryl at bedtime too.

Now major problems has surfaced my doctor wants me to visit a pain clinic for treatment as they don't prescribe anything like that at the office. The pain clinic is I suppose okay but they want $180.00 for the first consultation and no treatment on the first visit. They do not prescribe anything by mouth unless you have mainstream insurance or deemed totally disabled. I'm neither at the moment. So this has put me in a very peculiar situation. Now my doctor is charging me with a refusal to go to the pain clinic, I'm not refusing I'm just not able to pay for it. On a phone call with the pain clinic it was suggested I get with my doctor to supply me with medications while I wait my answer for medicaid. Since then my doctor is now refusing any of my medications that are desperately needed for pain. Though they could be better I will still stick with it.

Research shows medical cannabis can help people like me treat pain effectively and non-harsh side affects. I tried this and now face problems as I ended up in the ER for pain management. They drug tested me and I failed for cannaboids and Opiates. For the love of Pete if they would treat my symptoms and actually give me something that treats my pain effectively I wouldn't have to scour the streets to find some sort of pain relief. Its a horrible feeling to do that but what else am I to do?


Sick and tired of being treated this way.. Do all Fibromyagia and Chronic Pain Sufferers deal with this type of treatment from medical professionals?