DrugBuyers.Com: Firing Doctors

Man, I should have fired the whole team, except for my compassionate PCP! I had/have about 100 things wrong with my back...I waited 4 weeks to get an appt. with the ortho's PA!!!!!! He proceeds to give me an epidural in my SI joint, WITHOUT benefit of any Xray guidance, which I found out AFTERWARDS is S.O.P. He most definitely hit a spinal nerve, and not only was the pain not lessened, it INCREASED exponentially! I called two days later to let him know I was in even more severe pain, and his response was basically 'you can't possibly be..and if you are, then tuff s***'. After three days of abject suffering through a long holiday weekend, I called my PCP, and explained what had happened. He was APPALLED, to say the least, and immediately put me on 90 mg. of Avinza/day (sustained release morphine)and referred me to pain management. Well, enter the PMD. HE decides my problem is all related to diseased facet joints, and sets me up for nerve ablasion. THAT DIDN'T WORK EITHER. And this must be the only PMD in the Western Hemishphere that doesn't 'believe in' prescribing pain meds...by this point, it was out of the hands of the PCP. I turned to a legit OP for pain meds. Ended up quitting my job two weeks after I returned to work from 3 months of medical leave, after one of the biggest drug test 'stings' I have ever seen. Was hit with a random urine,(random, my a**) they found legitimate prescription drugs in my system, along with Valium, which I initially had no explanation for, but remembered that I had had IV sedation during the nerve ablasion 10 days before...hmmmm...one would think that proof of this would have been sufficient to explain my situation, but to no avail. Was referred to "Employee Assistance Program", which is anything BUT, and was told I had to go off all of my meds, even while still under treatment! I told them to stuff their job, which in a year and a half had ruined my back in the first place. I am now stuck with a much lesser paying job, and no health insurance, and CHRONIC BACK PAIN. I am looking into finding a good medical malpractice attorney, since I am now convinced that the root cause of most of my chronic pain is the botched epidural, which was not done under the guidelines it should have been. Wish me luck..sorry to ramble, but I have never received such poor treatment in my life, and it basically cost me my job, because I took a stand and said that THEY would not dictate what meds would be prescribed for ME. Keep in mind that I had received my annual performance eval the week upon my return from medical leave, and it was OUTSTANDING, so there was no issue with job performance. The bottom line was with a back issue, possibly requiring further surgery at some point, I had become a financial liability to them.

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