I live in Las Vegas, NV, does anyone know a doctor who is willing to prescribe pain meds?
For the past 6 years I have been experiencing extreme whole-body pain, but my spine is what really kills me day after day. I had a baby 17 months ago and all of my pain symptoms seemed to go away for the most part during that time. But after my child was born, the pain came back worse than ever before. I forgot to mention I'm a 25yr old female.
Not only did I start having severe pain in my back, but also in my limbs, hands, feet, shoulders, hips, knees, and muscles. For whatever reason, I started getting noticeable tremors, severe cramps and spasms in different parts of my body (especially my legs and back), migraines (at least 5 times a month), pins and needles, and temporary paralysis that would start in my hands and eventually go up my arm and into my face. On top of all this I have many other issues that began like IBS, frequent urination, extreme fatigue but insomnia at night, ice cold hands and feet, the list goes on and on.
I wake up every morning feeling like I'm so stiff and in so much pain that I can barely stand it. The pain has come to the point where I can't sleep even with sleeping meds. Laying down for too long causes my back to burn like its on fire. I also wake up with horrible swelling, mainly in my hands, joints, and face.
I recently went to the ER back in August and they said I could possibly have MS, fibromyalgia, a rare form of migraines, Lupus, etc. I got a referral to a nuerologist who I've been seeing for a month now. I had a Ct scan and MRI of my head with nothing abnormal. But he wants me to get all these other tests I can't afford until I find work. Since I've had endometriosis and ovarian cysts since I was 15 years old, I have a high tolerance to Lortab. So for the pain, my doc put me on Lortab 10mg at first (which did nothing), then Nucynta (which gave me horrible side effects), and now he will only give me 50 Percocet 7.5mg taking 1 every 8 hours which does not help. Supposedly, this is for "breakthrough" pain, and I guess he is NOT understanding that I have pain 24/7.
I went down to his office recently and tried to explain that I have to take at least 2 percocet every 6 hrs for any pain to be relieved and since I'm trying to find work, I care for my child full-time, and I'm in the process of moving, I need to have reliable pain management. I forgot to mention I'm also taking Lyrica and Ibuprofen. He basically made me feel like I was a "drug-seeker" because I was making up these dramatic stories about my life in order to get pity. I asked him how he expects me to pay for these procedures and tests if I can't work due to pain, and he once again made me feel like I was a drug-seeker. And let me just say that I'm highly against street drugs, alchohal, and medication abuse.
So now I'm at a loss of what to do. I'm not asking to be put on super strong pain meds like morphine or something, I just want something that works, and enough of it that my quality of life improves for me so I can take care of my son, work, and go back to school. I'm seeing a rhuematologist on november 9th, and hopefully he will be more concerned and caring then how I'm being treated right now.
But my main question is, is there anyone living here in Las Vegas, NV that has a doctor who has a good bedside manner, listens to their patients, and isn't against pain meds??? I'd really rather not be on any meds at all but until I can get a diagnosis, I can't be living in extreme pain like this.
I haven't had an MRI of my spine yet, or even and x-ray. But, my neurologist prescribed me Lyrica and that helped with the pain in my body but not in my back AT ALL. I'm on oxycodone 7.5mg/325 but its not even worth taking because the pain is so severe that it doesn't help. I try explaining this to doctors and they think because I'm petite that I should be able to to take a lortab and be fine. I feel like i'm being undertreated due to people who actually do abuse drugs.
Public Comments
1. a doctor is going to want to do tests to find out what is wrong before prescibing a lot of medsthis does not sound like fibromyalgia
you say your back seems to be the focus of the problem.have you had mri of the spine?
