Several of you posted encouraging replies to my posts about the problems I was having w/ my pain clinic and I really wanted to say THANKS SO MUCH!

The afternoon that I wrote my last post about how the nurse at the clinic was rude and brushed me off, I had called my husband to tell him what had happened. So guess what he does..?!!
A couple hrs. later, Tim's calling me to say he went straight to the clinic after work and told them he wanted to talk to my Dr, if possible, but he ended up getting one of the nice nurses that we've seen a couple of times. He explained everything that's happened with the Dr's assistant who prescribed the useless antidepressants as well as the nurse practionor that decided to switch my Roxicontin for the useless Vicodin.He told her about how I'd been in so much pain and how I'd been treated earlier on the phone.
The nice nurse took all this directly to my 'real' pain Dr. and he told her to that he wanted me in the office the next day! (yippie!)
Next day, I saw the one assistant, Steve, who listened to everything I/we had to say and had no problem switching my meds back as well as bumping the dose up a tad. I was so relieved, but still scared cuz I had to admit that I'd used more Vicodin than was originally prescribed, but upon hearing my reasons why, Steve (and my real Dr.) were quite under-standing. Unfortunately because I did what I did, I'm forced to get my scripts on a weekly basis now instead of monthly, but that's ok... it's only temporary. Once I see the psychiatrist and they figure out what to do with me since I can't take antidepressants, I can return to the monthly prescriptions. Guess they just wanna make sure I'm not suicidal. Which I'm not, I just cry a lot now and especially when I get angry as hell! LOL The most important thing to me is that everything's straightened out for now and my pain is more manageable.
My husband on the otherhand is quite ticked off because of how the nurse practioner ignored what I was telling her & just went ahead and put me on a less potent med at a lesser dose. Since he's the one that has to live with me (and my pain), I can hardly fault him.
When my husband asked Steve about that, all he could say was that Amanda (the nurse practioner) was new & he couldn't say just what her reasoning was. Not much of an answer, I know, but Tim plans on talking to my 'real' Dr about this when I see him in Jan (!). He's also writing a letter to lodge a formal complaint with the office mgr and plans to deliver it on Monday!
I'm just stunned that Tim's getting so involved! LOL I know he might have thought I was exaggerating how I'd get treated while seeing my various doctors, but now that he's been coming back into the visits w/ me, he actually sees how things go down. Guess I have my own patient advocate now, huh? lol But it sure is nice to have someone else on my side when it comes to all this.
And there I've rambled on yet again so I'll just say a final THANK YOU for listening and will pray that the others out there that are having the same problems get resolutions to their problems like I have! It's a constant battle, but we gotta keep trying!
FIGHT THE GOOD FIGHT & BE VICTORIOUS, MY FRIENDS!!!!!!!!!! *smooches* ;)