Doctors not treating fibromyalgia?!
Question: Doctors not treating fibromyalgia!?
Dear doctor,
When a fibromyalgia patient comes to you and they are in tears because they live day in and day out in terrible pain it is not right ofyou to assume they are depressed and send them on their way with antidepressants telling them it is their depression causing their pain!.
It is you dear doctor that is causing their depression!. How!? Well when people are in pain they beleive the doctor will do everything they can to ease their suffering and when the doctor fails to treat their pain or take it seriously the patient is sent out the door with no hope!.
What are the patients options!? Well they can go to the ER on a regular basis and be emotionally abused some more by the staff and then marked as a drug abuser or at the least made to feel that way!.
Or they could just go home and commit suicide!. I have read several stories on people with Fibromyalgia who have commited suicide and if you would like to hear one of them just go to youtube and look up Fibromyalgia and suicide!.
People with Fibromyalgia are very lucky when they find a caring doctor but they are few and far between!.
Doctor if you had to live one ay in the life of a person with Fibromyalgia I garauntee that your approach on this matter would change greatly!. You would become obsessed with finding a cure and in the meantime bring as much releife to those suffering from Fibromyalgia as possible!.
It is not fun to wake up with a head ache, stiff back, sore legs, sore stiff kneck, and pain shooting through out every joint, muscle and bone of your body!. To top it off your tired because the sleep you did have was not refreshing enough or you could only sleep a couple of hours because the pain didn't let up!.
I ask you does this sound pleasant!? Does it sound like something that you should just learn to live with!.
I ask you what would it feel like to break your leg and dislocate a shoulder and go to work and act as though everything is fine!. Wouldn't the pain be to much!?
Well for allot of people with Fibromyalgia the pain is to much and when the patients cry the doctors are not moved in any way to find their patient, the one they are suppose to be CARING for a good treatment plan to treat their pain!.
Some doctors say oh Lyrica it's the Fibromyalgia miracle drug!. I can tell you doctor that it is not the case at all!. It might help some people, but it doesn't help as many as you all would like us to beleive!. Frankly for most it causes more problems than it's worth!.
This whol exercise and loose weight thing is for the birds too! Can you beleive that allot of people suffering from fibromyalgia were thin or at least at a healthy weight before they were left to suffer!.
People with fibromyalgia are not looking for an easy way out as some nurses and doctors beleive!. I know I have read through doctors and nurses blogs!. I see what they think of people sufferinf from fibromyalgia!. They think we want disability and that we want to be on drugs!.
Well I can tell you doctor that my doctors office doesn't write out narcotic pain medciation and if that was what I was after I could have easily change to a doctor I know that will!. Also if I was afterdisability I would already have applied since I have not been able to work in more than a year!.
I keep hoping that I will find the help I need so that I can go back to work and resume as much of anormal life as possible!.
I have played the guinea pig for far to long and have been made very sick several times in the process!. I'm tired of this!. I know what works for me, but dare I ask and have you think I'm a drug abuser!.
I know what works for me because times when I have had UTI pain and been given pain medication for it!. I used those pain meds to treat my Fibromyalgia pain and guess what doctor I felt good for the short time I had them!. As in good I mean normal, I could clean my own home, sleep at night, and if that was my regular medication I could have possibly even went back to work!.
I'll keep quite though for fear if I mention one thing particular that I know will help you will automaically assume I'm addicted to this particular drug and my pain would never stand a chance of beinf treated or taken seriously!.
So for now I'm your little guinea pig doctor!.
How long will it take you to realise that all you have to do is give me pain medicine and I could be able to function!.
Drug test me I don't care, but you might be surprised to learn I have no drugs in my system and also you might be surprised if you do a back ground check and see that I have never had a drug problem!
sincerely your guinea pig,
A fibromyalgia suffererWww@Answer-Health@Com
When a fibromyalgia patient comes to you and they are in tears because they live day in and day out in terrible pain it is not right ofyou to assume they are depressed and send them on their way with antidepressants telling them it is their depression causing their pain!.
It is you dear doctor that is causing their depression!. How!? Well when people are in pain they beleive the doctor will do everything they can to ease their suffering and when the doctor fails to treat their pain or take it seriously the patient is sent out the door with no hope!.
What are the patients options!? Well they can go to the ER on a regular basis and be emotionally abused some more by the staff and then marked as a drug abuser or at the least made to feel that way!.
Or they could just go home and commit suicide!. I have read several stories on people with Fibromyalgia who have commited suicide and if you would like to hear one of them just go to youtube and look up Fibromyalgia and suicide!.
People with Fibromyalgia are very lucky when they find a caring doctor but they are few and far between!.
Doctor if you had to live one ay in the life of a person with Fibromyalgia I garauntee that your approach on this matter would change greatly!. You would become obsessed with finding a cure and in the meantime bring as much releife to those suffering from Fibromyalgia as possible!.
It is not fun to wake up with a head ache, stiff back, sore legs, sore stiff kneck, and pain shooting through out every joint, muscle and bone of your body!. To top it off your tired because the sleep you did have was not refreshing enough or you could only sleep a couple of hours because the pain didn't let up!.
I ask you does this sound pleasant!? Does it sound like something that you should just learn to live with!.
I ask you what would it feel like to break your leg and dislocate a shoulder and go to work and act as though everything is fine!. Wouldn't the pain be to much!?
Well for allot of people with Fibromyalgia the pain is to much and when the patients cry the doctors are not moved in any way to find their patient, the one they are suppose to be CARING for a good treatment plan to treat their pain!.
Some doctors say oh Lyrica it's the Fibromyalgia miracle drug!. I can tell you doctor that it is not the case at all!. It might help some people, but it doesn't help as many as you all would like us to beleive!. Frankly for most it causes more problems than it's worth!.
This whol exercise and loose weight thing is for the birds too! Can you beleive that allot of people suffering from fibromyalgia were thin or at least at a healthy weight before they were left to suffer!.
People with fibromyalgia are not looking for an easy way out as some nurses and doctors beleive!. I know I have read through doctors and nurses blogs!. I see what they think of people sufferinf from fibromyalgia!. They think we want disability and that we want to be on drugs!.
Well I can tell you doctor that my doctors office doesn't write out narcotic pain medciation and if that was what I was after I could have easily change to a doctor I know that will!. Also if I was afterdisability I would already have applied since I have not been able to work in more than a year!.
I keep hoping that I will find the help I need so that I can go back to work and resume as much of anormal life as possible!.
I have played the guinea pig for far to long and have been made very sick several times in the process!. I'm tired of this!. I know what works for me, but dare I ask and have you think I'm a drug abuser!.
I know what works for me because times when I have had UTI pain and been given pain medication for it!. I used those pain meds to treat my Fibromyalgia pain and guess what doctor I felt good for the short time I had them!. As in good I mean normal, I could clean my own home, sleep at night, and if that was my regular medication I could have possibly even went back to work!.
I'll keep quite though for fear if I mention one thing particular that I know will help you will automaically assume I'm addicted to this particular drug and my pain would never stand a chance of beinf treated or taken seriously!.
So for now I'm your little guinea pig doctor!.
How long will it take you to realise that all you have to do is give me pain medicine and I could be able to function!.
Drug test me I don't care, but you might be surprised to learn I have no drugs in my system and also you might be surprised if you do a back ground check and see that I have never had a drug problem!
sincerely your guinea pig,
A fibromyalgia suffererWww@Answer-Health@Com
Answers:
i'm not a doctor but i am a nurse, and have been one for 20 years!. let me explaine something to you!. fibromyalgia is not just pain it is a pain caused by nerves!. you can not deaden nerve pain!. you can only decrease it with certain pain medications!. understand too that, unfortunatly society has created the drug seeking patient!. the doctors livelyhood, is based on his license to practice medicin!. if he is ever investigated for giving narcotics out freely, he is putting his livelyhood on the line!. i know you are angry and in alot of pain!. i totally understand!. i have arthritis and am allergic to all nsaids (vioxx, celebrex) and have to take lortab when i get pain medicine!. my doctor hardly gives ibuprofen for broken bones and i respect that!. but i had to prove to him i could use these medications responsibly!. he also had to almost code me at his office becuase he gave me a sample of mobic and he had me wait there until he knew if i was going to have a reaction!. he had to give me breathing treatments and a shot of fast acting steroids!. but even though he knows i can't take them he insist on seeing me every year!. so find a doctor that is ethical and knowledgableWww@Answer-Health@Com
Fibromyalgia is a modern disease, some doctors don't understand it, but some rheumatologists can treat it!.Www@Answer-Health@Com
Many doctors don't understand the disease, and for a long time there really wasn't much in the way of effective treatment!. But Lyrica appears to be effective, and you should try it if you haven't!. (A prescription is required!.)Www@Answer-Health@Com
Wow!.!.!.sorry to hear you're going through all of that!. I think I have fibro also but I haven't been able to go to the doctor for it yet (no insurance, other problems taking all our $$$)!. I know what you mean also about it being hard to stay active or to lose weight, when it hurts too much to exercise!.!.!.
Have you considered changing doctors!? Finding the right doctor could make a big difference for you!. Somehow we seem to look at doctors like they're some sort of superior being, but really they're just human with the same sorts of prejudices and dislikes as other people!. When you find one who is sympathetic to you and interested in finding a cure for you, not just shutting you up for the ten minutes that an office visit lasts, it can make a real difference!.
Another thing to consider!.!.!.buying the pain meds you need online, or going to Mexico or Canada and buying some to bring home for personal use!. It's hard to consider when you're trying to be a good, law-abiding citizen!.!.!.but if you're not getting the treatment you need sometimes you have to do what you must to help yourself!.
Anyhow, I hope you feel better!.!.!.for me the pain and fatigue seems to come and go, I will have no symptoms for several months or even a couple of years, and then suddenly it hits me and I'm struggling to function for a few months until it passes again!. It does seem like every time it comes back it's worse than the time before, though!.Www@Answer-Health@Com
Have you considered changing doctors!? Finding the right doctor could make a big difference for you!. Somehow we seem to look at doctors like they're some sort of superior being, but really they're just human with the same sorts of prejudices and dislikes as other people!. When you find one who is sympathetic to you and interested in finding a cure for you, not just shutting you up for the ten minutes that an office visit lasts, it can make a real difference!.
Another thing to consider!.!.!.buying the pain meds you need online, or going to Mexico or Canada and buying some to bring home for personal use!. It's hard to consider when you're trying to be a good, law-abiding citizen!.!.!.but if you're not getting the treatment you need sometimes you have to do what you must to help yourself!.
Anyhow, I hope you feel better!.!.!.for me the pain and fatigue seems to come and go, I will have no symptoms for several months or even a couple of years, and then suddenly it hits me and I'm struggling to function for a few months until it passes again!. It does seem like every time it comes back it's worse than the time before, though!.Www@Answer-Health@Com