Addiction pt 2 of my posts

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I'm sorry if I sound so aggressive and upset...I don't intend to. I just get so

ill thinking about doctors that just don't take their responsibility about

people lives seriously...ya know? I have a 14 yr old daughter who I love

dearly, it it wasn't for me persisting and insisting, I couldn't/wouldn't be

able to be the mother she needs...to be her mother and not her have to mother

me.

She kept me going and kept me fighting to get better after my car accident. I

just wish that the doctors would have listened to me and actually 'heard' me.

My body was so sick after the emergency surgery...getting all the meds I didn't

need out of my system and getting on a regimen that was beneficial to me and

helped me get my quality of life back...not make that quality so poor i was a

bedridden mess.

I forgot to mention that the 'quacks' told me that it was ok to take that much

because they couldn't help me...that I would need to take that much for the rest

of my life because I was going to be bedridden within a year. To get use to

it...it was reality and i needed to accept that reality. I was on so much

meds that I couldnt' think clearly and was just trusting they knew what they

were talking about.

Finally found the brain cells to get out of there and go to my neurosurgeon

where my mother and sister met me...thank goodness they got me in to see him and

he was so wonderful.

Just wish they other doctors would have looked for a way that would have saved

me from being 'bedridden' ... instead of just doping me up. I had told them I

was concerned with the amount of meds and that I couldnt' function with that

amount. They just didn't care and it wasn't just me...met many patients that

had them that were concerned also. They almost killed an wonderful lady, her

daughter stepped in and got her to another doctor that helped her.

Sorry for the ramblings.

Rhee

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Rhee,

I have to agree with you about Dr. over-medicating people in general. Now I

have NEVER had that experience with pain meds, as I can barely get them even

with extreme pain. But they ARE willing to give me all kinds of psych meds,nerve

pain meds, anti-depressants and multiple other drugs that literally made me feel

like I was going crazy, and according to my husband DID go crazy. It took a long

time to get off those meds and I'm still working on one of them.

My brothers Dr's put him on multiple meds without conferring with eachother

and this caused him to become unfunctionable and almost loose his job. He just

took their word that they knew best and ended up having to go to the hospital to

detox for 3 days from prescribed medication.

Sorry that is what happened to you. Seems like sometimes they just want to

throw pills at you instead of fixing the real problems. Frustrating.

Caitlin

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