6 months out I'm still in pain. Comes and goes but is there all day and very intense at certain times. I though physical activity/therapy would help. And it did until muscles grew now it starts to hurt more.
Before the operation he said most patients require no pain meds at all.
I ran out of pain meds 3rd day after surgery. Asked for more he said go to the er. I was fresh out of surgery and unwilling to go through the pain of walking, car ride, new doctors poking and prodding me i was hurting enough already unbearable.
So I toughed it out until my 7th day followup visit. I walked in with bags under my eyes cause I couldn't sleep from the pain. He asked if I was high and chuckled. I looked at him and said no not today. (Stopped a week before and after surgery to smoke)
Told him about all The pain and how it is unbearable. He didn't write me a new script (I needed one). I only use pain meds for their serious intended usage. If all else fails. He sent me home without any treatment or diagnosis. He treated me like an addict every visit by refusinng to treat me for 6 months straight.
I hate how he passed false judgement on me like every other doctor ever who refuses to treat my serious needs.
I started smoking that night cause I needed pain relief very badly to which it helped but not much.
Saw him at 1 month still presenting with bad pain on the same spot no diagnosis no treatment just wait it out.
saw him at 3 months told him was still in very bad pain. He asked me what I wanted him to do. I said I thought it may be a tight muscle needing loosened so I asked for a muscle relaxant to help with physical therapy/stretching. They did nothing cause it wasn't muscle related.
He assured me it would go away to wait it out.
Today is about month 5.5 after surgery showed up and they charged me $140 For a office visit. I scoffed at the receptionist and said "office visit? More like complication"
I wait in his office and he comes in and says wgat do you think is going on? When you are legally covering your ass you don't reveal info you let the patient speak. So I said the mesh fixation tacks are causing me much pain. "I've done 7,000 surgeries and this has never happened" I can feel them through my skin in the areas with pain.
(This was a brazen because he never told me he used them and I didn't know if he did or not) but after much research and deducing. i came to my conclusion as usual. I could feel them and their shape.
Stating that's what they were without prior knowledge really set him back a second. He quieted down, physically felt the tacks And knew it was the cause seeing my painful response. without saying it I could see it in his eyes. I think this is the first time he took me serious.
At this point I explained to him the financial, insurance, inability to work to get things straight caused by the surgery limiting me. He comped me the $140.
Then at this point he kept putting his hand on the doorknob as if trying to leave without incriminating himself. I had kept asking where do I go from here what's the plan.
He kept avoiding it until I started leading the conversation.
I want surgery to remove the tacks how do we arrive there.
He said MRI imaging.
I said then what if it's the tacks
he said surgery.
And if the opposite?
He says nerve injections to settle the nerve.
I had to lead him through these ideas.
He is the doctor, how do I know all these answers already from research yet he is scared to say them?
Well now that I've run out of insurance from not working for 6 months now he decides to try to diagnose. But wait I can't get imaging done cause I have no insurance how convenient that he missed his window to help.
He finally walked out the office seemingly In a panic unwilling to give me more information. Immediately went to his office away from me. The secretary Was writing me papers as fast as she possibly could trying to get me out of his practice. I have a very resonant voice that carries at normal volume so they wanted me out of there with patients listening.
I say I need a script for an MRI he writes me one. Then I say I need my short term disability insurance forms signed to get compensated by my union for the 6 months I've been off.
AND HE HAD THE AUDACITY TO REFUSE TO SIGN THEM UNTIL I GET MY IMAGING!!!!
So the $4-5,000 in backpayments im owed for my short term disability whichbi pay for out of my own paycheck. i now dont get to help cover expenses!!!wtf!!!
I figured it out the signature turns over all medical records on the surgery and he wanted the chance to alter his notes, records or possible evidence. That's why he hid in his office I bet he is trying to cover his tracks.
My left side wasn't even presenting as any problems before the surgery yet now it's the side causing me most pain. I wonder if he did the surgery on the left to pad his Bill.
So being fed up 1 last time I'm going to setup a 2nd opinion from another specialist. They will be able to review the case and tell me if I'm being jacked around.
I'll have to enter financial assistance from a new hospital to afford my treatments :-( it's gonna get real expensive real quick.
This leads me to the idea of consulting a lawyer for a malpractice suit to cover all these new charges I can't afford not working :'-( . I'll have to drain my annuity+medical account+holiday pay+ short term disability. But that only frees up around $10,000 which is the cost of just the surgery without insurance, imaging, 2nd opinions etc. It was $800 After. This means I gonna be sunk into debt from all this. I spent my whole life avoiding debt. Now I am forced into it by the actions of another.
The positive side is that the new doctors will actually treat me and my pain, will just cost me a lot more$$
