RUN AWAY, RUN AWAY from that doctor. He is a Nut in Physicians Clothing.
The reason "doctors" tell you it is psycho-symatic is because they are failures at doing what they should have been trained to do in at medical school. Learn the facts, research the possible reasons, to the testing and come up with a LOGICAL, HUMANE, and SENSITIVE method of TREATING the patient.
I have witnessed too many of these fakers and have not given them the previledge of earning anything from my Insurance Company.
I would trust a Veteranarian to treat me before going to some human doctors. A vet can treat a dog, cat or horse without having to listen to them tell them how they feel.

I have no answers...I went in and seen a new Internist...after telling her I am sensative to meds...exspecilayy the anti depressant meds...she hands me 3 prescrips...I have no clue what they are...I get them filled and get them home...my daughter takes a look at them and says OMG...they have you on 3 Anti depressnat meds here..WHY ??..yea...no clueshe had told me up at the clinic one was for severe headaches...one was for muscle pain...the other for my my sevevre MOOD swings...but would not ONE take care of all 3 ??...and I cannot even take the One because they floor me...my daughter told me that if I take them AS PRESCRIBED I will simply be in my bed all day every day...DRS!!!...I do not understand the way they THINK !!!

Thanks so far guys Im trying to calm down and yall are helping!!!!!!!!!!

Can't you just feel the politics in these decisions that are being made. Doctors don't want to be on the radar of the DEA or the insurance companies. They would rather have patients suffer and tell them it's all in their head. I'm mad as hell how about you?

I'm so angry, I'm shaking right now. I can't take that some DR's just can't understand our pain and that the insurance companies get to make all the decisions. It's just not right.

Unfortunately what you did can be considered "drug seeking behavior." I know...I KNOW! It's bS and all sorts of wrong, but that's how they are trained to see us. I urge you to go watch "The Chilling Effect" on the Pain Relief Network site.

Ugh...I hate stories like this. Melinda.....time for a new doctor. I'm sorry you had to go through that. I HATE thatyou had to go through that. I'd love let these losers know JUST what we think of them. You know, they're WIMPS! They are afraid to Rx meds that we need. Wimps! What ever happened to "DO NO HARM"!!?!?
They DO ALOT OF HARM by treating us like this?!?!?

I'm sorry it just gets me so p---ed off....

Please let us know when you find a new doc who will give you the relief you deserve. I want to know you're OK!?!?!?

Hugs...

Morus

Melinda:
I put up a post w/ the link to the video I mentioned in case you wanted to check it out. Wait till you get to the "abberant behaviors" part... I think Drs just wait till we display this (through no fault of our own!) in order to bounce us out. Soooo unfair! >:/

BABY, NO MATTER THE PAIN, ALWAYS ASK THE DR WHAT HE IS GIVING YOU INSTEAD OF PUTTING OUT THE MONEY FOR STUFF YOU CAN'T USE. I KNOW THAT YOU HURT, BUT THAT'S ALL I KNOW OF TO TELL YOU....LOVE...HELEN...START MON, FIND ANOTHER DOC....ASAP...

MELINDA, YOU'VE HEARD IT 100 TIMES, FIND ANOTHER DOC ASAP, THIS ONE IS NO GOOD TO YOU. THEY FEAR THE FED. GOV. SO MUCH THAT THEY WON'T DO THEIR JOBS, WHICH IS, FIRST DO NO HARM.....LOVE YOU...HELEN

Thank you all Many hugs and much love

I am right there with ya. I just went thru this last week with my rheumo. I have been seeing him for over 2 years now. At my very first apt., i remember my rheumo saying to me, wow i dont know how you are dealing with all this pain you are in and working and taking care of 4 kids. I said IM NOT!
At that apt. (at least i think it was that one, or maybe it was the 2nd apt. with him) he put me on the morphine patch. Told me if i had any problems to call. Patch didnt work so he switched me to ms contin, along with many other meds. He has always tried to keep my pain under control, is very kind, and I always felt like he really cared. He knows im not a drug seeker. When i went in to see him monday, i asked myself sitting in his damn office crying to him, who the hell is this man? This is not my rheumo!
And it all stems from a gosh darned medical conference he went to that was all about fibro. He told me that all docs are learning more about fibro and that the only med that will be prescribed eventually by most docs for fibro is lyrica as is the only fda approved med and that its been proven that narcotics do not help fibro, he told me that the reason i was in a flare right now was from the ms contin and that if he took as much ms contin as i did he would be laying on the floor passed out.
I just lost it, i told him i couldnt go off my narcotics and work and take care of my kids.
I am on the hunt for info to prove him wrong about the narcotics not helping us, if he takes me off all of my meds but the neurontin and xanax im going to another doc, either that or i will end up going to work under the influence of a controlled and illegal substance. And i dont give a crap anymore.

I know the feeling, the only thing i can suggest is we need to try and find another doc, if they feel we r seeking meds we need to somehow prove to them this pain and how exactly it makes me feel.

My rheumo told me that the ms contin doesnt come any higher than 100 mg but that high of a dose i only given to patients that are dying. After the fact i found out later hes full of it.

Hang in there, i know its a pain but we need to go on a ew hunt for a doc.

We can cry together ok? god knows thats all ive done all week and am hurting so badly from overdoing it today at work.

What does he want u to go see a councelor for? what good is that going to do in regards to getting your pain level down?

Hang in there.

Some medical experts somewhere dont truly know what fibro is, and or what we go thru so they are pushing it aside, at least that i what my take on all of this is, it just seems that the medical community all over is just not getting it!
Sad, very sad.

NOBODY KNOWS HOW WE REACT TO PAIN MEDS, I CAN TAKE A BOAT LOAD AND IT NOT FAZE ME JUST HELPS DULL THE PAIN, BUT IT DOES HELP, NO HIGH, NOT LOOKING FOR THAT, JUST EASE MY PAIN. SO FARD FOR US TO TRUST DOC AND SEEMS LIKE THEY AE TEACHING THEM TO NOT TRUST US....LOVE....

I agree that it's a combination of lack of knowledge and effort, and fear of the DEA. Also, a Dr. in a practice with several others has to do what the majority, or senior partners want. It may not always be what your doctor wants to do. In your case though, it sounds like he needs some more education.

Let us know when you find a new doc, and hang in there. We're all with you and will help in any way we can.

That doc doesn't know what he is talking about. You need a doc that understands about our daily challenges. You need to find a doc that knows and accepts that we have REAL pain. My sister has to go to a pain specialist. I haven't progressed that far yet and hope I never do. Most family docs don't keep up with up to date info and they really need to. I don't blame you for being angry.