Doctors and pain medication?

[TheMadMan]

Why do doctors ALWAYS want to treat with pain medication and not find out the causes of the pain issues? When they do diagnose, they create this mystique that YOU NEED the pain medication and then when problems develop from use of the pain medication, they want to treat you with more.
I can't take pain medication because it has created pancreatic issues. (Severe pancreatic issues) They won't talk about surgery or any other treatments. It is hard to get injections for the issues presented and they just write another script?
Is this really treatment?

[TheMadMan]

Thank you all for your reply.
Recently, the doctor I was seeing for pain management and who was giving me shots, tole me...'due to Obamacare, I can no longer treat you with shots but I can refill your pain medication'...
Then after I reported him to Medicare and called his office to cancel my appointments 'because the doctor could no longer treat me', I received a call back withing 5 minutes, telling me that the doctor made a mistake in the billing process and 'the shots are covered'. I will discuss this with the doctor upon my return but I am scheduled for tests at another facility and further treatment.
I no longer trust this doctors judgment. I was originally told, the shots out of pocket would cost $400.00 and then was told $300.00.
I want to face this doctor one more time for sanity sake.

[trixy71]

I'm sorry your not having much luck, I would have thought that many doctors would PREFER the injections over medication, they make more money that way. Can you get a second opinion? Good luck to you!

[Kalvin]

I think there's several reasons:

Time constraints
Financial considerations and constraints
Outrageous costs of diagnostic procedures and imaging
The fact that in many cases, particularly spine related, Doctors don't fully understand all the pain generators.

Simply put, sometimes they just don't know what to do.

[Dr. Kokil Mathur]

Hi!
I can understand your frustration, but sometimes there is no real answer for such questions. Degenerative disc diseases cannot be reversed. Despite surgery and other treatments often there is no respite. Also, at times the spine involvement is at multiple places, making surgery impossible.
So, doctors too have to rely on available conservative treatments to help reduce pain. No definitive answers can be given as there are actually no answers for this. A doctor cannot tell the patient—“You have to live in pain all life—especially if the patient does not have a terminal illness’. Some doctors have busy practices and do not have the time. Sometimes the whole medical system of a country makes it difficult for the doctor-patient to explore all possibilities, along with other factors such as cost, insurance etc.
In chronic pain conditions, alternative therapies such as traction, manual therapy, physiotherapy, exercise, hydrotherapy, homeopathy, acupressure, and aromatherapy works wonders. Hope this helps to some extent.  Take care!

The medical advice given should not be considered a substitute for medical care provided by a doctor who can examine you. The advice may not be completely correct for you as the doctor cannot examine you and does not know your complete medical history. Hence this reply to your post should only be considered as a guiding line and you must consult your doctor at the earliest for your medical problem.

[TheMadMan]

I see no one has an answer for me. Nice...