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Being treated like a drug seeker

Fri, 05/25/2018 - 11:11
I recently moved to a new state and after 2 weeks, I started having severe neck pain and left side weakness, so I went to the er. They gave me tramadol and sent me home. A week later my left side of my face went numb, I went back in and they did all kinds of tests and the dr told me to tell Drs I cant take tramadol because it can cause seizures. I never knew this so when I went to a new primary dr, I told them about the tramadol, I got a weird look and he left the room. When he came back, I was treated completely different and they would not give me anything for he pain, not even a muscle relaxer. They wanted to push gabapentin but I've had no success with that in the past and the withdrawal was awful coming off it so I told them that. They scheduled an MRI and I went home to suffer. I called crying for 3 days begging for anything to just let me sleep thru the pain. No. After 3 days of pain and not sleeping, I had 3 seizures in 24 hours and went to the er and was admitted. I'm here in the hospital now and they keep asking why I cant take tramadol. I am in so much pain and am being treated like a seeker. I told them, I don't care what you give me, I just can't stand the pain. They offered gabapentin, that doesn't work overnight so I refused. I asked for Toradol, they said no. I'm about to limp out of here against medical advice. I explained to them that I feel I am being treated differently after telling them I can't take tramadol but I was following what a Dr told me and the internet is pretty clear about that med being no good for seizures. I also explained that my seizures were under control until I was left in pain and not sleeping for a course of two weeks and that I needed the pain managed. They don't care. I have no script history in the last few years of narcotics. I'm on a neuro floor in the hospital yet they seem clueless about photosensitive epilepsy, drop seizures and seizure triggers.

Comments

Did you tell them your doctor

Submitted by just_joe on Sat, 2018-05-26 - 13:42
Did you tell them your doctor told you not to take it and why? With a side effect of seizures it can cause seizures in people who are seizure prone. epileptics are seizure prone. My PCP knows all of the medications I take just like the neurologists I see know all of them. The reason is a medication a person takes for one thing can cause issues with another.

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