HOLY SHIT what a Fn day
So this morning I had an appointment with my regular GP. Part of it was about pain medication, as Ive said before its strong stuff and they are concerned about prescribing it (more on that in a minute). She wants to review my meds, potentially do blood tests etc and a pharmacy review to try and work out any interactions and more importantly whats stopping what from working as they both work in the same area or something. Sounds good to me, if I can be treated with less medication Im happy with that, will cost me less too.
Asked about a new referral to same Psychiatrist but with different company. She said she was going to wait until I have the one off Psychiatrist appointment on Friday and get the report so she can pass on relevant information. Makes sense but it also means it will take longer for me to get in to the Psychiatrist as we could wait a week to get the report and its a month until I can see my GP, though on a cancellation list. So it could be a long time until I actually see a Psychiatrist on the regular.
Then it came to the Pain Specialist so turns out Im one of the rare cases where there are 2 sources of pain in the spine and treating the SI Joint revealed that there was something wrong with the facet joint so now I am waiting on an appointment to have injections to work out whats wrong there. The next available is in August, but they are trying to get more time in an operating theater but yeah its gonna be a long wait. In the mean time Im to keep taking the strong pain killers.
I dont like the pain killers, it makes me drowsy after taking a couple, but Im a bit diminished before hand, Im often up in the middle of the night in pain so I have pain killers then (Im allowed) so even when I have my first for the day its compounded by my over night.
Next problem is doctor shopping, getting into a doctor where I go is hard, like an appointment with my GP to book today is over a month away, so you kinda get who you get but with this pain killer they dont like you going from doctor to doctor, even if its in the same clinic. So I need to see the same doctor every 3 or 4 days preferrably one that has already prescribed the pain killers. Rang the practice and explained the situation and I got one appointment and told to talk to him about what I can do, there is some drug of dependancy form so maybe that will work.
Im kinda worried about being on this pain killer for a really long time because its addictive and I have addiction problems. Though its different to getting addicted to alcohol, your doing it to yourself and you are drinking more and more for the same buzz. Im taking the same dose everyday, so if I get addicted to it, it's not my fault.
I dont like the idea either because I dont like the stuff, I dont like the feeling of not being in control or being impaired. Like I hate not being able to write on here or doing an email because Im so drowsy.
