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I suffer of a chronical pain on my right side, it is up untill now 'an unknow diagnosis', and i could handle it pretty much with 2 Vicodin per day and had a normal life, worked, run errans and a long etcera .... and always trying to find what the pain could be ....
I went from one doctor to another, i had all the imaginable tests, mri, mra, ultrasounds, x-rays and so on and so far .... and more or less every two or three months this pain went up to level 10+ so i needed to do walk in to the ER, where i was treated with
morphine,
demerol, dilaudid and another long etcera .... it came to the point that Vicodin stopped working, and so did morphine, demerol ..... and one night in one ER i was treated the worst, the doctor that was on shift, told me "you are abusing of the ER system to kill your withdrawls of 'street drugs' ....." i looked at him and couldn't beleive what i was hearing .... and finally he literally put me out of the ER of Security Guards ... When I was in the parking lot, i called my best friend, he came over picked me up and try to talk to the doctor, but the doctor stood in his position repeating one more time "that i was abusing of the ER system, bla bla bla ...".
The next step was; i asked for an appointment with the Risk Manager of the Hospital, and my friend and myself went to the meeting and mentioned our complains, she offered us to have a follow up meeting with the Head Master Doctor of the ER, so we did. (Bad idea
) and this doctor offered me to be referred to a Pain Specialist Doctor, on the Hospital's charge, with no charge for me .... now i do realize he was scared that i would go with a lawsuit, so he offered me 'paying for the pain doctor and also for a 'letter offering me the apologies ....' which i never received and i'm convinced i will never get.
Making the long story short, i went to the Pain Specialist (my second mistake
trust) the Doctor looked at me, asked me two or three questions, did not look my body, did not read which medications i was on, and oh !!!! put me in
Methadone, the first week i felt wonderfull, the pain was gone, the second week it worked not as good as the first one, so i called the doctor and told him i was having bad side effects, he saw me for the second time and mentioned "you have to give it time ...." so i did ! (my third mistake
) when i went into the third week i was feeling terrible, so i went to the doctor again and he again said "give it time" and the story goes ..... up untill i came into a month and a half were i just couldn't get up of bed, the pain was high in the sky, i couldn't go the bathroom without somebody's help, so my friend took me again to the private practice of the Pain Doctor, and he gave me
Fentanyl, and for one reason or another i did not want to try them, so i went to the ER and the morphine did not worked, nothing worked, and here i was stuck, with pain level +10, not eating, having seizures, trembling, and with my blood pressure going up and up.
Finally my friend made a decition and took me to his primary doctor, and we explain the situation, and the first thing this doctor asked me "if i was a person on
Carbamazepine (Tegretol)" and i answered "yes" and he said "they can kill you with Methadone, because Methadone does a very bad interaction with Carbamazepine" so he started to bring me out of the Methadone .... and the end of the story was that after that i had to do walk in to ER almost every day, the last one i arrived with a blood pressure of 213, yes 213
Finally i got out of Methadone, but it caused a severe damage on my 'brain pain sensors' instead of blocking them from pain, it did the opposite, open them up, and now any little pain feels like a level 10+, and the doctor doesn't know if this is gonna be for ever or not, the only thing they can do now, is trying to get the level of
Tegretol back to normal so i don't get any more seizures, and in the future they are going to try with
Neurontin, but right now the doctor doesn't want to do any more changes in my chemical inbalance, he is trying to bring back to my normal.
After six months i could go back to work five days ago, finally my blood pressure has been taken care, not completly, but at least out of 'life threating', the seizures are still there and may be they will never go away.
Now i know what is hell, and i pray to go back to my old good chronical pain, which i could handle it with 2 Vicodin a day and have a normal life, i promised myself and asked my friend to promise me "not to take me to a ER unless i'm bleeding or have a bronken bone ..." and if a doctor comes up with the story that 'i'm abusing of the system..." i will keep my mouth shut, and if anybody wants me to go to a Pain Specialist i will run 150 miles per hour away ! what they did to me was changing a person from a working wooman, with a unknown diagnosis and a chronical pain, into a person that became addicted to morphine, demerol, dilaudid, and that's why now nothing works.
Thanks to God i'm out of it now, but my level of pain increased and i have to deal with my seizures.
This is a true story, and as i mentioned before, i still think is a bad tv show.
I'll be arround and wish all of you the best.
Please say NO TO METHADONE, AND IF ANYBODY HERE IS IN TEGRETOL, PLEASE BE AWARE ! and do research as my friend did for me.
Krisy
Be Aware = METHADONE NO 
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