Shitty Fucked Up HORRIBLE time @ the doctor
I had the WORST experience at the doctor today. She comes in, asks me how I am, (this is my rheumatologist, btw). I say, ok I'm hurting here and here and there and I say I can't sleep. I haven't been able to sleep longer than 2 hours at a time. She says 'That's not my problem.' I just loooked at her stunned, but kind of shook it off. Then as the visit went on, she started writing me a prescription for yet another medication I knew wasn't going to work. I says 'I hate to, but I have to ask you for a prescription for some pain medicine.' and she said 'No, I'm don't write pain pills, that is a controlled substance and I don't write controlled substances at the drop of a hat. You have to actually *need* them.' and I said, 'I wouldn't even ask but my lawyer told me I should always have a prescription for one just for social security disability reasons.' and she said, 'Then get him to write it if he's so smart.' I just looked at her with a dropped jaw and said, 'I think I need to find another doctor.' and she said 'fine. go. don't bother coming back. I'm just wasting my time with you.' as I started to leave, really upset and angry at this point, she said 'you need to take this form to the check out because I spent time with you and my time isn't free.' I threw the form on the checkout counter and said 'I'm not coming back' and left without paying them a damn penny.
I went to her for help and this is how she treats me? I'll bet a dime she put in my chart that I had drug seeking behavior and I don't. I hate pain pills, but sometimes I really really do need them. She just acted like she didn't want to be there, didn't want to help me with anything. I wasn't really upset that she wouldn't write me any pain pills, I was more upset with her high-strung attitude. She made me feel so insignificant and unimportant, like I was just gum on her shoe. I wanted to punch her. I'm going to the patient advocate of the hospital system she's employed by tomorrow. No doctor should make their patients feel like she made me feel today. I was crying and shaking and just.. I don't know.. I'm just so damn upset over this. Doctors need to know that the things they say and do effect people, sometimes for a lot longer than they'd think. I think it's more-so for people in my position, people with a chronic conditions that require life-long medical care. I've had this condition since I was 19 years old - I'm 32 now. I know what I need to take care of it. I know what works for me and what doesn't. She kept saying 'I don't think you have rheumatoid arthritis.' I know I don't you moron! I have something completly different! I was never ever diagnosed with RA. It's something completely different and very rare. I require special care for it and I thought she'd know what to do, but obviously she doesn't. I hope the patient advocate can do something about her. Doctors like her shouldn't be practicing medicine on people.
I went to her for help and this is how she treats me? I'll bet a dime she put in my chart that I had drug seeking behavior and I don't. I hate pain pills, but sometimes I really really do need them. She just acted like she didn't want to be there, didn't want to help me with anything. I wasn't really upset that she wouldn't write me any pain pills, I was more upset with her high-strung attitude. She made me feel so insignificant and unimportant, like I was just gum on her shoe. I wanted to punch her. I'm going to the patient advocate of the hospital system she's employed by tomorrow. No doctor should make their patients feel like she made me feel today. I was crying and shaking and just.. I don't know.. I'm just so damn upset over this. Doctors need to know that the things they say and do effect people, sometimes for a lot longer than they'd think. I think it's more-so for people in my position, people with a chronic conditions that require life-long medical care. I've had this condition since I was 19 years old - I'm 32 now. I know what I need to take care of it. I know what works for me and what doesn't. She kept saying 'I don't think you have rheumatoid arthritis.' I know I don't you moron! I have something completly different! I was never ever diagnosed with RA. It's something completely different and very rare. I require special care for it and I thought she'd know what to do, but obviously she doesn't. I hope the patient advocate can do something about her. Doctors like her shouldn't be practicing medicine on people.