Re: pain clinic even worse than I thought

Thanks HW. Too bad I had been in touch with them a couple of times a week min the whole time... They just lied. Plain simple...lied.
Debs


Hawaiian Wayne wrote:

On Oct 28, 5:27 pm, Debs <YOURFOOTdebs02...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Thanks for the idea but they don't even give me much in the way of drugs
to start with. They are so damn incompetent! It should be illegal!!
Debs



Joe_Z wrote:

"Debs" <YOURFOOTdebs02...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:5okrebFn3tnhU1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Well... I didn't think that my pain clinic could get any worse than just
basically ignoring me but... they have. I checked my mail tonight, haven't
done that in a while and what do I find in my mail? What could I have ever
found? The ins co OK'd my surgery for Oct 18th and 'somehow'... my pain
clinic never knew?? How can it be? My pain Dr said he wanted to do my
surgery on Oct 18th. he repeated this to me over and over again on my appt
with him on Oct 22!!! Now I see in my mail that the surgery for the 18th
was APPROVED!! Is this cruel and unusual? My pain has increased
logarithmically since Aug. I can barely walk and am trying to make it on a
max of 2 hours of sleep a night and my pain could be way decreased, WAY!!,
if I had had the surgery before. Why? Is there an answer? I will have to
deal with this tomorrow but... I am literally close to cutting off my
feet. Nerve pain sucks and I just don't know what to do. My pain clinic
seems to think that nerve pain is nothing, like a splinter or hang nail. I
just couldn't believe my eyes when I opened that letter. I am getting
closer and closer to the saw. No feet no pain... What's the worst that
could happen? NOTHING!!!

Thanks again guys, I just can't see this getting any worse but each time
it just does...What have I done? Really I just can't take it.

Debs

They may want you to lower your meds for the surgery but I could be
wrong, maybe just lower it but not cut you off I would think, just my blind
shot in the dark, bestluck to you...Joe- Hide quoted text -

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Aloha Debs!

First and most important, I'm so sorry that this happened. Have you or
will you be calling the clinic tomorrow to find out whether they even
got the same letter you did or at least an explanation as to how this
could have happened?

You sound worse than I am at checking my "snail mailbox" and I thought
I was the worst! I only check mine twice a month on average. I have my
own P.O. Box along with the 'family's' due to me having my own
accounting business from mid 2002 through December 2004. When the
business ended, I kept the box because there is not such thing as
"street delivery" for USPS mail. Of course there is for UPS, DHL, Fed
Ex and the like and if you are a newcomer to this rural island and
need a P.O. Box, there's a waiting list as long as our arms. I decided
to keep mine not out of greed, but out of necessity in case anything
negative ever happened to my marriage due to this CP. If you can't get
a P.O. Box, then you have to get it "General Delivery" and I don't
like how that "sounds". Makes everyone that has it sound 'homeless',
don't you think?!!? Anyway...

Debs, what I've found to be so very true is to NOT DEPEND on the
clinics, hospitals, doctors office (regular AND specialists that
you're sent to) and so on to make sure they get information they need
for anything on their own. Unfortunately, as if being proactive about
getting the proper treatment for our pain (like just FINDING a good
doctor), we also have to act like the "middle person" between docs
offices and pharmacies, we also have to stay "on top" of our insurance
carrier to make sure that all the necessary paperwork gets to the
proper people, hospital or clinic (and pharmacists in some cases).
That's the 2nd of the THREE steps of something the American People of
old (meaning, in the late 60's and back) never had to give a second
thought about. All the proper infrastructure was set up so if your doc
needed an x-ray of your for your next appt., you can bet that it would
be there without your involvement. Nowadays, the PATIENT has to wade
through the "red tape", get the physical film and hand deliver it to
the doctor when he walked in the little exam room!! (Of course just
recently, now a it's CD that has the films on them.) I'll never forget
the FIRST TIME I had t do that...I'd NOT been to a doctors office for
at LEAST 10 years and no one directly TOLD me to bring my film with
me, it never crossed my mind that it wouldn't be there unless I,
myself, got it and gave it to him! Imagine my astonishment when I
discovered THAT? I was also disgusted that a simple thing like an
orderly or clerk not being able to get x-rays and other films for
doctors and make sure s/he had them well ahead of time so s/he could
look at them BEFORE the actual appointment. I think another
"joke" (pure sarcasm) is thinking a doctor can flip your films up into
the back-light thingy and in a matter of a minute or less (usually
MUCH less!) be able to tell if there are irregularities! I'd think s/
he'd be able to make a better call if s/he didn't have a patient
nervously staring at them. Don't you? I felt like some sort of a
"slave" to my own doctor and that what I was doing was something that
I thought I'd always been paying for anyway. It all just seemed to
silly to me.

As usual, I'm going off in my own little story-land again. However,
when I do that, I do hope that there are some who read this and can
relate a little to what I say.

What we all have to do now in order to keep things like what happened
to you from happening to you again or to anyone for the first time is
BE THAT MIDDLE-PERSON! Call the doctors or surgeons office and see if
they have all the paperwork a week ahead of time, if not, get on your
insurance company's ass. If they say they processed it already and
mailed it to the doctor/surgeon...call them back and tell the lazy
bastards that it's probably sitting in a pile of unopened mail that
came a few days ago on some lowly clerks desk and how VERY IMPORANT it
is that you have all your paperwork (insurance approvals, consent
forms and whatever else they may need) in order because you've been
living in such horrible pain for too long that this surgery has become
a matter of choosing to live of die to you (or something to that
effect, you know? Just make it sound as close to critical as you can
without them thinking you are crazy or going crazy - LOL! OK?) Oh...an
always try your best to keep your COOL. If you start to snap at them
or sound sarcastic or demeaning, they will pour on their defenses,
which they are very good at, and you may get NOTHING done.

I don't know if you've read some posts about how we all have to "play
the GAME by their rules"? Well, this is part of the GAME. We have no
choice but to put up with them and if we play their 'game' correctly,
WE will get what we NEED. If we don't play it correctly and sound like
this is something we only WANT them to do, odds are that after you
hang up the phone, that's all the person on the other end will do to!
We all know that won't do diddly-squat.

So now I guess what you have to do is not to point or play the "blame
game" right now, that won't help in getting your surgery re-set-up,
will it? Just show and tell the doctor what you've discovered and
leave the "blaming someone on his/her staff to them". Tell him what
you did us without the anger in it and quickly move on to getting this
surgery set up and DONE!

Kile you said, that saw is getting closer and realistically, I believe
you KNOW that isn't the right thing to do. So the sooner you put this
behind you the better and get going. I know it's hard to do that.
Especially when you think you should be recovering right NOW instead
of still SUFFERING, However, facts are facts and we have to play along
as I stated above or nothing will get moving.

This time though, don't forget to stay on top of your insurance
company, and ALL INVOLVED to make sure all the "ducks are in a row".
VERY IMPORTANT!!

Well, that's my 3 cents Debs. For whatever it's worth.

Aloha Just For Now,
Hawaiian Wayne

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