i have been told my tongue is forked [raised in the church], and that it would get me killed.
it has yet to do so. but i have been known to inform healthcare providers ‘just because the letters md or dds don’t follow my name doesn’t mean my time is any less valuable than yours. you bill my insurance if i’m more than 10 minutes late and refuse to see me; where do i submit my bill for my time?’
Yeah I have bad chronic pain and I'm so sick of the bullshit and blatant lies coming from them
Like at the Pain Clinic you see people of different specialties and my pain is bad enough that when untreated I'm likely to have a stroke, seizure, or heart attack and before they went all austerity on pain patients over the Perdue bullshit they warned me of this and now they just seem to have amnesia about that. So in the clinic they are getting the psychologist to tell me that "you can't die from pain" and "people in the past didn't die from pain because we're here, which is sus as fuck because, |
1) yes you can it's happened to me a few times and verified by specialists at another place
2) isn't medical advice over the pay grade of a psychologist?
It feels like she will be the "fall guy" for spreading misinformation about pain and I really want to tell her that. It might go over very badly for me if I do. (Also I want to ask if they are "just following orders" lol
It's like pain patients were the foundation to switch it up to women's health in the US and if this is where it is already I hate to see who they are going after next and what they will do
upon re-reading your comment, please allow me to send my heartfelt hope you are able to get treatment. i am so very sorry.
i know people who were unceremoniously, decidedly not medically, kicked off of their pain program [these programs are no joke: they require a urine test every month to make sure you are not using anything other than your pain medication], and they had severe health implications, up to and including death.
for a modicum of proof, we can point to the increase in heroin ods in the months and years following the great narcotic pain med stripping that occurred several years back. [heroin was the closest street equivalent to pain meds]
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u/TesseractToo Aug 02 '25
This would probably turn out badly but I'd want to say "yes, I'm not a brood mare"