Martin- I am beyond sorry and pissed for you. To answer you - YES I have been in that rolling, crying and nausea pain more then once. With our brain injury it is not a good thing.

I am waiting to see if a blood clot is causing my numb leg and then surgery. I will keep you in my prayers and heart.

Moonie

martin, i just want to go slap your dr. i've ended up in the ER in the fetal position crying. it's horrible. i'm so glad they helped you out. drs are so worried about their records they forget about patients. i hope you're set for the weekend. and you surely don't need to be pushed to another stroke. feel better first and write a letter when you can.

hugs

Wow sweetie. Normally they suspect anyone complaining about pain as drug seekers. I'm so glad they saw you as legit and got the problem solved. I hope you're feeling better!

Martin so sorry you reached that point. You never should with your brain injury. Sounds like your hospital isn't trauma level where they do vitals and then send you to wait. Your vitals alone would have got you the doctor stat. Never should that happen.

Hope you are fixed up for your next refill and it you need a med change you should let them know at your next appointment. Talk to them about your pain. Let them know if it is with you all the time or if you have a certain time it flares. A good PM doctor will find a way to manage, not remove all, but manage your pain. A level 5 is the best I get but I can live with that and my expectations are no higher.

Hugs my friend

Martin what a relief the hospital worked with you! Usually they won't. Sorry your level got so high, please try to put some back for these emergencies. I never want you to have to suffer like this again, damn ins co!

Hmm maybe some Xanax or other techniques when your stress levels go thru the roof would help also. Not being snarky.....stress increases our pain levels and makes those meds less effective.

The past couple of days I've been where you are and yet I'm working on calming myself. When my pain is this high....pain meds don't work.

Many hugs of comfort

hi Martin im so sorry your suffer so much i hope you dont get to that point ever again!

Hi Martin, I'm sorry for all you went through today. My pm dr always makes sure I make my appt for refills at least a couple days in advance so something like this doesn't happen. He still writes for the correct fill date, but I at least can drop them off the night before so they're ready. Toni had a good point on the xanax. I'm just glad you were treated and hopefully can rest up this weekend. Maybe work on some deep breathing techniques or meditation in which you just listen to say the ocean or rainfall... Just a thought bud in hopes of helping.

Love & Hugs
Lisa

Martin, I cannot imagine the pain you were in. I hope you have enough to make it through the weekend. I ran out of 2 of my pain meds this morning. I have to drive 180 miles round trip to pick mine up. I do not have the energy.

I hope you have low pain this weekend.

Gentle hugs.

Hello,
Thanks all for replies and support. My wife was researching and found you are NOT supposed yo go off this medication for any reason cold turkey nor try and squirrel any away. But the PM doesnt care. Im just a number.
They treated me right at the hospital because its the same hospital where i had my brain hemorraghe 4 years ago and they had 14 doctors and nurses from on call working on me at 3am. It is an easy lookup for them.
As far as the xanax goes i have plenty. I took 2 at 8am yesterday. It bought me two hours. Fell asleep only to wake up in excrutiating pain that was unbearable and necessitated an immediate drive to ER.
Doing a little better today, thank you all. What is increasing my pain is now doing two peoples jobs for 13 months. A whole nother post. I had a talk with my boss wednesday. Told her that i was wondering if they were looking at getting me some help. She said yes ppl will try and pitch in internally. So i said to her that while i am 100 percent healthy (a total lie) and able to do my job, the current call volume does make worse my current documented disability of chronic and severe headache. Wanna know what her answer was????
She said but you have no medical restrictions right? R u frigging kidding me
Disgusting greedy rotten bastards!

Martin

martin, employers hear what they want to many times. i'm sorry you have one of those. i wish you could get out of that place or have your doctor advocate for you. my god, man, don't say that b/c it'll be documented. rock and a hard place, so i won't throw advice at you, but i sure want you to be happy and healthy and playing some poker, bud.

Hi Seren,

What part did i say that you thought was wrong?

Martin?

100% healthy is all. didn't mean to come down on you, but you do have disabilities. i'm no labor atty, but i think you would be to your advantage to have that on record. again, i may be totally incorrect, but there is the Disabilty Act.
i always hope for the best with your situation. hugs

Hi Seren,
I always appreciate your feedback, no worries. The 100% thing is a long story, but with my company if you indicate that you are less than 100%, they look to get rid of you. It happened to my friend with fibro. She mentioned fibro and her physical challenges and two weeks later she was gone.
I think i said i was fully capable of doing my job, but the extra workload since they fired my co-worker was not helping my condition. I Am leaning towards disability, i know its hard to get but 95% of the ppl with my condition dont work.
My company is small 40+ so they dont have to offer FMLA,. But i knew what you meant, you do have to be careful what you say. Rock and hard place describes it well.

Ty

Martin