Ohhhh... that would explain the absence, still, get well soon

Honestly, I know it all seems like lame excuses. I was lying on the couch whining about needing to work and my dom wouldn't let me... >D

Well I'd rather have you healthy and delayed then uptodate and suffering

Ouch! Hope you have a speedy recovery.

Oh dear...sorry you had to spend your weekend with that :(

I've found some doctors just don't push their questions far enough. The whole "people know their own bodies" thing is biting care in the ass. People just assume they can read each others minds or if someone doesn't say something then nothing is wrong, but often enough people just don't ask questions the right way. Doctors need to push more. Be more hands on. Not force you into something so much as be the expert they are supposed to be and find out what's wrong so they can treat you properly.

Well, in this case I had to push them to even listen to me. Because the x-ray on my shoulder and lungs and ekg and blood were all good, they assumed I was having a manic breakdown, and instead of helping me they injected me with anti anxiety meds, then morphine. (The night before I was there the nurses had to kind og beg the doctor to give me more pain killers instead of anti anxiety meds). so instead of crying on the bed, I was just silently weeping...I assume because they couldn't stand my moans of agony. So, after calling the psych (1:30am) and being asked if I was suicidal, I stared slack jawed and asked "if you came in with a torn ligament or something and they called the psych on you, would you be offended? I AM IN PAIN." and he stared and sighed and walked out of the room. I heard him saying there was nothing he could do. Ya...no shit. I called the supervisor and let her know what happened, how I had been treated, and filing a formal complaint against the e.r. doctor.

Doctors: Getting screwed over by the people you least expect.

Good. Make some noise, because that is some bad BS right there. My mom used to be a nurse, and she saw this kind of thing happen. What she likened it to is being institutionalized. She'd see nurses or doctors fail to communicate and give proper service to their patients and I think her reasoning for it (reason's aren't the same as excuses, however) pretty well nailed it on the head. Enough time spent in the institution and they start to fail to remember that their patients are living human beings in need of their care, they start seeing them more as symptoms and conditions that need treating. This causes them to slowly relax their standards, because if you stop seeing your patients as people, it stops being as important. Again, not an excuse, and it requires something to snap them out of it (like being reprimanded) or if they fail to regain their empathy, they need to be removed, because this is how people are made to suffer needlessly.

Not to mention, when you get docs like that it honestly makes you want to schedule the doctor a psych exam. *condescendingly* "Now, what makes you THINK you're a real doctor, hmm?"

morphine doesn't work for nerve pain?

did not know this...

Morphine has moderate effect on nerve pain. But is certainly not the drug of choice.

It's good for nerve endings, like wounds. Not spastic muscles or a cluster of messed up nerves. Of course...they wouldn't listen to me then, either.

Ouch. I hope you feel better soon. :(

Feel better. *Lots of hugz*

Thank youuuuuuu D: D: D:

Well, I hope you get better soon. Do they know why you are having nerve pain? And what the expected treatment is going to be?

LOL. No no no. Of course not. They gave me pain pills and said gtfo (which really only worked moderately, and the pain is still there, though I've been resting and healing whatever I did to it). I have to schedule a consult with my regular doctor to get an MRI which will show soft tissue damage. Now, if it were ME as the E.R. doc, I might have called the MRI specialist before I called the pysch specialist. Gotta wake someone up? Lets make sure its the right fucker.

if they can play it off as psych, then it's way easier for the ER doctor.

Jeez, that sounds terrible. I hope you're feeling better soon and can get those problems taken care of, whatever is causing it. *huggles gently*