God syndrome and we Civilian patients

[woolyinoregon]

   Have any of you had to confront a doctor about a drug or lack of drug therapy?.that was administered for a long period of time and then they jerked you off your pain meds altogether?
   Do any of you ever have the feeling that a doctor is somehow a higher life-form than a patient?.......have any of you heard about "GOD SYNDROME"?.......cuz I'm havin one heck of a time getting my own doctor to step down off her pedestal and think like a common human being.
   Do any of you think that when going to a doctor for a problem "you have expectations when you go there".....cuz I think most folks really have expectations of soemhow walking out of a doctor's office with the feeling that they have been healed or they have been treated and health is just hours or days or weeks away or that they can live a little easier with the drugs they've been prescribed..........And I dont think this is unreasonable.....but maybe doctors think it's unreasonable.

woolyinoregon
Nathan

[Tuckamore]

What physicians sometimes forget and patients should NEVER forget is that we hire them. The work for us, just like a plummer, landscaper or whatever.  If your plummer screws up your plumbing what do you do??? That's right, you fire him and so you should a physician. If I had to drive 125 miles to obtain good and ethical medical care I would. My current physician is 38 minutes from my home and the hospital she has practicing rights at is 45 minutes away. In Wisconsin winters can be horrific and it can take me well over an hour just to keep my appointments. But I go and I would drive 3 hours if I had to as she is the best "plumber" I have ever had....lol.

So Wolly I encourage you to hire a health care provider that will understand and treat your medical issues. You should be able to trust and respect your doc and visa versa. Life is too short to have uncontrolled pain. And as many can attest even with proper medication we can still have pain, for me lots of it on some days.
  
And as a side note the hospital may not retaliate against you even in an unobvious way. If they do they will face even stronger citations and larger fines.

Take care and good luck. Please keep us posted. Tuck

[woolyinoregon]

Hey guys,.......Thanks Tuck, good advice but there isnt a pain managment doctor within75 miles and I cannot see another doctor in this town for political reason due to my doctor.  I'm really sorry you guys are in the situations you're in,....It does seem to me that doctors are very similar to politicians,....once they are in office, you cant speak to them in commonfolk language anymore, it's alot like trying to talk to a state representative or a congressman or a senator,....patients are just somehow a lower life form.  I too filed a complaint against the local hospital and as a result, the hospital was cited and the ER diretcor was either fired or moved to another function but the hospital did get cited and fined.....Even still,....thats doesnt mean I did something good, it just means that if I got back there, they'll most likely make sure I dont get seen in a timely fashion or admitted or whatever might need doing......I feel invisible as I'm sure most of you do. There ought to be a federal bill for patients rights, one that would guarantee "safety, fairness, inclusion in treatemnt and the right to contest a doctor's decision without retribution"....but there simply aint!

wooly

[StacyCPHT]

did you waive it over your head for maximum effectiveness??? (the motrin) Wooly- Find a pain management doctor, you confronted yours and they outright lied about your truely neg drug test. I ran into the samething and was called an addict by a doctor... Had them say I had a wrong DX of fibro and question if I had RA. I am almost 8 mos pregnant. I have begged them to drug test me offered blood, hair urine whatever. They are hung on that my script for 4 mos had 6 diff doctors write it in 2 wk supplies. DUHHH The maternity office I was seeing before transferred to high risk had 8 docs and different ones wrote the script/ SAME FREAKING PRACTICE! But a Dr took a whole afternoon calling every drug store in town and obtaining my script info. She looks like a real dumb ^ss now after I filed a libel complaint with her hosp, and the local board of medicine for fraud and abuse. Take those steps your self. Get a pain mgmt doctor, they get it and specialize in stopping it. I can't find one that will touch my case now because I am pregnant and was rapid detoxed from 10-15mg Oxycodone rapid that had been my dosage for 3 yrs plus.I have 5mg vicodin.30tb every 2 wks. Fair?

[Ghilly]

I have had doctors who have a God complex, but fortunately my pain management doc isn't one of them.  The funny thing is, of all the doctors I have gone to, my current doc is a very well-known neurologist / neurological oncologist, and if any of them had the qualifications to pull off a God complex, this guy does.  But he's not like that at all.  What I like best about him is that he basically lets me write my own prescriptions.  If I tell him that I'm getting used to my current dose, or that I need something stronger for breakthrough pain, he asks me what I feel would work and then he writes the prescription for it.  For the last two years, oxycodone has been working wonderfully well for me, so he was giving me 300 tablets a month with four bottles of Oxydose 20mg/ml liquid for breakthrough pain.  As I got used to the dosage, he would add two bottles of liquid a month to the 300 tablets.  Two months ago I told him that it was right down to the wire, that my meds were juuuust lasting until the 30th day, and I was afraid that I was going to start running out early, so he added another 2 bottles and now I'll be good to go for probably another 18 months at my current dose.   Some of the doctors I've gone to over the years that I've been in PM have acted like I should kiss their feet because they wrote me a prescription for prescription-strength Motrin!   Talk about drunk with power!

Ghilly

[Melissa70817]

Ummmm....YES, I have had this same problem.  BUT, since my doctor is one of the rare ones who will prescribe me narcotic pain meds, I stick with him.  I have friends here who have other docs that say their docs refuse to prescribe them narcotic pain meds.  With FM even the narcotic pain meds don't work but they bring your pain level down from say a 9 to a 7 and sometimes not at all.
My doctor speaks to me in medical terms, like I know what in the world he is talking about, I'm not a doctor, I'm a bookkeeper.... Start spitting out numbers and I might be able to understand.  Any suggestion I have towards finding out what is wrong with me is shrugged off or totally laughed at.  I told him I thought I had a yeast over growth in my body because I have all of the symptoms, he literally laughed and told me he doesn't believe in it.  
I feel like I'm in a catch 22 situation because I cannot imagine living without the narcotics.  I don't know how the people that I know can stand it without the narcotics.  

[Tuckamore]

The "God Syndrome" exists in some doctors. Keep looking, good medcail providers are not a dream, they do exist but can be hard to find.
I am sorry you have not found the "right" doc. And I am sorry that these things happen to most everyone. Hang in there. Tuck