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Riverdale, GA
May 7, 2018
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Members shared deeply frustrating experiences of being dropped by doctors or having pain medications drastically reduced, with several... Read more

Members shared deeply frustrating experiences of being dropped by doctors or having pain medications drastically reduced, with several describing the trauma of scrambling to find new providers before prescriptions run out and feeling abandoned by the medical system. Many members recounted being left in severe, undertreated pain due to rigid government policies around opioid prescribing, with one member describing being bedridden with CRPS and unable to access care despite permanent disability status, and another noting that doctors can legally discontinue patients for almost any reason with minimal notice. A recurring theme was the profound sense of injustice and dehumanization, with members expressing that even pets receive more compassionate end-of-life care than chronically ill pain patients navigating an unforgiving healthcare system.

A MyChronicPainTeam Member

Unfortunately, a doctor can discontinue you for any and no reason. I THINK ethically they need to continue to write you scripts for 30 days after notification of d/c. However, you really need to ask around regarding a good doctor. Good luck! 👍

May 12, 2018
A MyChronicPainTeam Member

Forgive me if I am out of line but are the rest of you from the USA. Phraseology is marginally different, but also here in UK doctors can & do take you off their list but it is usually for serious reasons like you assaulting the Doctor!!. The benefit of having the NHS is that doctors don't get paid more or less for treating you nor does the cost of the treatment come into it. It is not perfect by any means but everyone is entitled to a doctor & also whatever care & treatment they require although these days some of the newest ones are so expensive they have been put off limits except to private patients.
Not going down the political road but it would take an awful lot of people to complain (not just of pain but lack of medical entitlement) before any governments listen
The world is becoming a sad place

May 18, 2018
A MyChronicPainTeam Member

I have had Dr's. Throw their hands in the air saying there is nothing more they can do for me sending me on yet another frantic search for a dr/Dr's who are cabaple and willing to go the extra mile and do their job, dangit

May 16, 2018
A MyChronicPainTeam Member

Good luck been ignored for serious liesions for years,no diagnoses,Dr.s make fun of me,anyone else,organs and bones showing neglect

May 29, 2018
A MyChronicPainTeam Member

I am recently dropped ....and even while under the doctors care I have been to 30 new patient consultations referred by Medicare because I am permanently disabled since 2011 with serious conditions spinal stenosis in neck shows up as severe in my mri and degenerative disk disease...and now the worst of all CRPS in both legs and feet ...like a diabetic I’m losing my ability to use my legs and walk even with a cane and/or walker ...meanwhile 2 years ago I was considered total and permanently disabled and verified by federal government in order to forgive my student loans...as I live on 1107 social security disability benefits a month ...limited hours from the Ihss care taker I was approved for ...yet in today’s climate I can’t access a doctor and will be out of meds end of this month ....most days I’m bedridden because my legs are so swollen and painful I can’t even get out of my bed....because the slightest of gravitational pressure from something as simple as walking ...feels like walking on shards of glass.....I have no desire to be tortured anymore from in adequate treatment for pain ...after I had to fight the part d insurance and appeal to finally be approved for my same quantities and frequency dosage of meds that I have been on for like 6 years now...and now with Medicare part A,B ,and D and 𝕄𝕖𝕕I-cal to supplement and being abandoned by my primary ..in less then 30 days ....I can’t get a new pain specialist or primary to treat me ...I don’t know what else I can do.... if I was somebody’s pet At least I’d be euthanized out of sympathy....that’s right I’m saying it ...peoples pets get treated with more empathy and or sympathy then the chronically ill and disabled pain patient ...

May 18, 2018

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