I have been in pain ever since I got here. My pain has been treated halfway, but every attempt I made at having a PROFESSIONAL evaluate my pain, because they DO have a pain specialist here, has been squashed.
Not one doctor here has asked for a consult on my behalf for pain, and instead, I've had several doctors LIE to me about how they were going to re-evaluate and adjust my pain. I asked several time for a specialist to evaluate my pain and these doctors have made a lot of empty promises.
I finally saw someone about my back who said he was scheduling an MRI. But he was fairly hostile to me as well, and I wondered WHY when he doesn't even KNOW me. Then I found out, he talked to Dr. Henri first, before coming to see me, and for whatever reason, her hostilities were passed onto him. I thought he wasn't even going to order an MRI when it is totally indicated. I do not "imagine" pain.
For the record, I talked to some techs and YES, there WAS "retained product" in my uterus. Not a small amount either. I had a shitload of retained product, and WHO HAD IT RIGHT? I FUCKING DID. If I had gone along with what the doctors were first trying to tell me, I'd have been sent home and gone septic and at the last moment needed a hysterectomy or at actual risk of death.
So then, I met Dr. Davori, the guy about the back, and he seemed professional but I kept wondering why he looked at me from the first like he didn't like me. He just looked skeptical in every way. So he says he's ordering an MRI but then takes great pleasure in telling me he's completely cutting off the main painkiller I was receiving.
These doctors never want to be wrong and then they want to PUNISH me for criticizing or even questioning them.
I need MORE diauldid because it is NOT covering my pain and Dr. Davori comes in, after talking to Dr. Henri, and they've jointly decided not to cover my pain. Not to mention I don't think my Jewish nurse Corryne is so hot anymore because I overheard her, before my D&C, talking about me with doctors saying things like she thought I didn't want to "leave" the hospital. And she's been behind on giving me my pain meds and this last time, stalled for an hour until I was notified I wasn't going to receive anything anymore. Why in the world would she put forth the idea that I didn't want to leave the hospital? like I find this place comforting and fun?!
Dr. Davori went on a big lecture about how he was cutting off my pain medication of Dialdid, when the only time I felt relief was when they gave me 2 mg. instead of the fucking 1 mg I struggled by with. He then tells me DO NOT ASK him for anything different and tells me THERE WILL BE NO CONSULTATION WITH A PAIN SPECIALIST.
This guy KNEW I had been asking for evaluation by a pain specialist, which he and Henri are NOT, clearly. They decided they want to be in charge of making me suffer and given the rude way I was treated and the glares and hostility, I don't think this was done in MY best interest but to satisfy their need to punish me and make me suffer.
I wondered why Dr. Davori would come up with such an idea, and then I found out from Corryne that Dr. Davori TALKED to Dr. Henri before telling me he was cutting me off, and Corryne told me they decided on this together.
I found out, because Corryne came to me, telling me they want me to take METHERGINE. I burst into tears. These fucking doctors ordered me to receive METHERGINE after they cut off all my decent painkillers, and instead of raising the levels, just cut them out completely.
I was practically sobbing, telling Corryne, Dr. Henri KNEW, as any OBGYN would KNOW, Methergine causes serious and severe contractions and cramping. The main concurrent medication, given along with Methergine, is FENTYNL. FENTYNL is far stronger than Diauldid and Diauldid and high levels of morphine are SECOND choice. The reason the strong narcotic is given along with Methergine, is because every fucking doctor KNOWS it causes extremely painful contractions and cramping that, in the average woman, is only controlled by equally strong pain medications.
So here is Dr. Henri, trying to get me to take Methergine, which caused me to hemmorhage before and which pain I distinctly remember as being unbearable and untolerable without strong narcotics through an IV.
Corryne told me Dr. Henri and Dr. Davori decided on this TOGETHER. I said, Dr. Henri would know how painful it is to take Methergine, and maybe she didn't know Dr. Davori was cutting off the Diauldid? But I guess because Corryne didn't want to call them, as I asked, because I thought surely there was a misunderstanding.
I guess no, there is no misunderstanding. Dr. Henri and Dr. Davori both decided to give me Methergine AND cut off any IV painkillers which would just barely help with the pain. Davori put me on toradol and Percocet again and if I had been fine with Percocet, I wouldn't have showed up at ER because of uncontrolled pain. Toradol adn Percocet do NOT cut it.
I am making some complaints about this, because it is cruel and irresponsible to try to have any woman take Methergine and block her from receiving any painkillers which would help. You do NOT give someone Methergine without ALSO giving a strong IV narcotic, concurrently, and all you have to do is talk to another OBGYN and they'll tell you that. I've talked to pharmacists, after I first had someone try to give me Methergine with no pain control, and the guys were shocked and said all the doctors typically order Fentynl to go along with any dose of Methergine, because they all knew what kind of pain it caused.
This kind of an order, is, I think, intentional and malicious. There is no way these doctors don't know what kind of pain I'd be in--additional pain, and yet they order something that they know causes severe pain and cut off any decent painkillers.
I told Corryne I was NOT taking any Methergine unless someone was also willing to treat the severe pain that would go along with taking such a medication.
What is concerning to me, is not that one doctor had a different opinion about medications, but that he specifically consulted with someone who was already hostile to me, first, and then tells me NO PAIN SPECIALIST is getting involved. They've had all these other people seen by pain specialists on this floor, but not me. I think it's odd and looks bad when any doctor refuses a patient evaluation for medication, and then tries to slip them Methergine at the same time.
How is THAT good practice? it's NOT.
So first of all, there WERE plenty of "retained products" from the miscarriage still and I was RIGHT about that. Secondly, if they're wanting me to take methergine, it's to clamp things down or to further destroy the ectopic pregnancy. Maybe what no one really wants, is any indication of HCG after a full D&C has been done, because that just might point to retained products in the ovary, not just the uterus.
I'm so fed up with American medicine and the U.S. doctor's ego. These people are out of control with pride and power.
As for my pain, it's NOT better. THe only thing that's better, is that suddenly my stomach has stopped gurgling non-stop, and the gas and distention is gone. My entire stomach was affected by what was going on in my uterus and while I had a nurse say this isn't possible, because she said the uterus is separate from the stomach, it DID affect my stomach because now all the weird gurgling and problems are GONE. My miscarriage problems were causing not just female organ problems, but stomach problems in general. So maybe there is a leak, or was a leak, I don't know., because why would the uterine and ectopic issues cause gastrointestinal problems in my stomach? Maybe a specialist would know better than me. But they were connected, and now that things have been cleaned out, in general, I don't have this symptom.
So Dr. Davori left me with the message that no painkillers of Diauldid would be given to me unless or until something turned up on MRI about my back. Well, something SHOULD "turn up", but I'm concerned, because like one of the radiologists for sonogram told me, radiology is entirely, 100% "OPERATOR DEPENDENT". If you have someone taking the wrong angles or bad photos, you have nothing. If you have someone not using the highest resolution or a bad machine, you have nothing. If someone doesn't know what they're doing, you get nothing, and if someone DOES know what they're doing and wants to take angles which make it appear there is nothing wrong with you, this is possible too.
If something doesn't turn up, I will be highly suspicious of what kind of angles and MRI shots were ordered. I know something is wrong, and has been wrong and is getting worse and it will be entirely inconsistent for an MRI to come up with nothing.
Oh, also, I found it very odd, that after talking to Dr. Henri, Dr. Davori took a big tangent about how he hoped I wasn't getting police and the government and legal people involved in my case.
?????!!!!!! what the fucking hell.
He said he was concerned that doing diagnostics would lead to a big legal case and HE didn't want "ANY" part in it. He wasn't going to write diagnostics or letters to support my case, and it sounded like he wasn't even going to do an MRI if he thought I was using it for legal purposes. I told him I had not even filed a restraining order against the woman and that I just wanted my health back so I could WORK.
He went on and one, about how some people brought in the FBI, and police, and lawyers, and on and on, and he didn't like it.
I just want a fucking good MRI to be done, with no room for error, and I want to talk to someone about my complaints regarding the fact these doctors are refusing me reasonable medical treatment for pain and won't even get a consultation from a professional about it, and then try to get ME to take fucking METHERGINE, while telling me and assuring me there will be zero pain control.
Nice. Real fucking nice.
I was polite and nice to Dr. Davori anyway, asking him where he was from, and when he said Iran, saying I'd known some really nice people from Iran through tutoring them in English. I didn't get the feeling he liked me, and after talking with Dr. Henri he was condescending to me too. I don't know what Henri said to him.
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