beginning help: Many of you have been following the on-going battle I have been - Help.com

hurrah. This sounds positive. I guess you have to waive annonymity in order for the case to be investigated.

Good luck to you.

What I like about your post is you are showing people that taking action helps find a solution. Too many help.com users simply give up and live like passive victims.

Good for you and thanks for sharing.

I’d definitely say that there’s light at the end of the tunnel! Hope you get a GE close to you–who is also both competent and compassionate!

In the case of the GE in question, I believe that he had a run-in with the law in the recent past. Maybe some junkie fingered him as his/her “source.” He may have been totally innocent–but the experience made him paranoid. He probably got so paranoid from the DEA or the local police checking on him that he’d withhold an aspirin from his own kid!

That’s the problem with this misbegotten “war on drugs.” It’s turned the USA into a virtual police state. Cops are always breaking down the wrong door in serving those infamous “no-knock” search warrants, the only purpose of which should be a hostage situation. Minorities are profiled and pulled over on the street and cops threaten them to make them consent to car searches. Careers are destroyed by false positives on drug tests. And the cartels? The war on drugs–and the resulting increase in their price–has made the cartels even stronger. They effectively rule Mexico right now. Some “win” for the “war on drugs,” isn’t it?

And it has even come between doctors and their patients, and has even resulted in terminally ill patients being in pain because doctors are underprescribing pain medications–all because of the stupid “war on drugs.”

This “war on drugs” has had the same effect as Prohibition–it doesn’t really stem the supply, but it enriches the suppliers and criminalizes kids and others who may “experiment” with illicit drugs. What’s worse–some kid wanting to see what it’s like to smoke a joint, or the cops breaking down the door of a 92-year-old grandmother and gunning her down? Yes, the grandmother thing really happened in Atlanta–the cops got the wrong house, shot the grandmother who thought she was defending herself from a home invasion with her rusty revolver, and then planted drugs in her home to make it look like a “crack house.” The coverup failed when they tried to get a regular “informant” to back up their story–he went to the newspaper instead! Now the three drug cops are in prison, but the grandmother is still dead.

Yes, Puck, you did the right thing–and you have undoubtedly saved another patient from getting the same shabby treatment from a scared, paranoid doctor who is worried more about the “war on drugs” than he is about his patients!

Oh yes, the light is coming, the tunnel exit is very close!
Fantastic!

Great!

Well not before time! I seriously dont know how youve put up with it for so long, Puck.
I woulda been climbing the walls.
Good luck with everything. x

Awesome! Best wishes!

I always believed there would be A. That is good news. Make sure you thank your parents too. More people than just in this ‘room’ were pulling for you and still are.

It’s always nice to hear a little good news , good for you.

You’re welcome.

Huzzah! ^.^

okay- if i knew how i would have a picture of the cartoon penguins doing a happy dance.

celebration! thanks for sharing the news. hope things continue to improve

Hey this is great news…:)
Its about time, eh?
I hope that every single day brings peace and good health to you Puck.
Geeze you deserve the break…
Here’s to tomorrow and the next day, and so onnnnn….:)
Best to you, Puck…always. Cara.

Thank you for sharing the great news. Perhaps the situation with your previous doc, and now with the one in Seattle giving medication that has helped after only one day, your condition can only improve :)

This is fantastic news! I’d hug you and celebrate with you if I could! I strongly believe that this is the metaphorical candlelight that’ll lead you to the grand light at the end of the tunnel!

that’s sweet, i hope that doctor will realize his mistake

Hope the former Gas-SOB gets what he deserves.
I know (indirectly) what you’re going through.
A long time ago, when mom was alive, she went
in for a colonoscopy. The GP knew she was also
a heart patient and that she took coumidan (a blood thinner).
It was determined that she needed some polyps removed.
The doc removed them, but without first taking her off of
the blood thinner she took at the time (because the ba$turd
was too fu(#in’ lazy to work with her Cardiologist).
So, the result was continual internal bleeding until she
almost died from it.
Bearing in mind the nearest ‘real’ hospital was well over
75 miles away. Not nearly the distance you have traveled
but still far enough away.
But here in Alaska, doctors get away with negligence ALL
the time because Alaska is so far removed from the continental
US. That, and no one really gives a $#!t as to what happens
is this corner of the world.

THX
:/
:)

YAY! This was the highlight of my day for sure.

The only remotely similar experience I have had is a failure by Doctors to diagnose a double hernia for three years, the discomfort travelling the world during that time was considerabele. In the end a specialist diagnosed it instantly. Oh I suppose a bigger issue was wrongly treatin eczema for forty years till my skin fell apart As ever Daft you have my best wishes,

I haven’t lost all hope in Doctors and my GP has been helpful since I was diagnosed with work related stress. However, even in hospital with a blood born infection (cellulitus) , Doctors failed to explain the condition and on one occassion ignored the fact I was not to be given Penicilin based antibiotics (I stopped the nurse just as she was about to attach the drip to my vien). I just thought- what will it be like when I am old and have to fend for myself in hospital. Oops timing out…to be continued

What I want to say is that all of these experiences will contribute to you being a very strong and effective individual. At twenty I took on the social services to win back unemployment benifit. I pointed out the work I was asked to do was outside Health & Safety regulations as it was not part of my job role. I won. My parents had no experience of challenging authority and freaked out then, and on other occassions. You may not appreciate this until a new problem presents itself, but you will have gained masses of skills that will serve you well in life :)

I’m glad to hear some good news about your condition, and I sure hope to hear more. :)

Glad you’re making some progress!

AWESOME NEWS!! Thanks for letting me know what has happened, and this is a good thing since you are giving everyone else so much awareness of this sort of thing by sharing it. I know that you will be on the right road again soon and that all this has made you stronger and able to to bear up to many things. You are going to not only get to the end of that tunnel but you are going to come completely out of the dark by exposing his misbehavior you teach others to so the same.
Big hugs
L

Hi Daft, How did the test results go from yesterday?
I do hope you wont have to resort to pain killers for the rest of your life.
Thanks for the update and did you ever doubt there would be light at the end of that tunnel>? C’Mon you just keep staying positive and don’t let this beat you, and of course, keep :)ing!!! Lots of Love, X

tara ra ra booom.. pah.. tara ra ra ra boom…pah.

Da deee da boom… da dee da boom…

(mums initiates a celebratory conga around help.com’s corridors)

Glad to hear things are looking up!

*joining in Mums conga line…*

Glad to hear that puck. I don’t know how you’ve managed so long. I’m glad you’re a fighter. Glad you have some people supporting you. thanks for letting us know the good news. I hope they hurry up and he gets what he deserves so you can get the relief you need.

Mmmmm….it must be frustrating but there has to be a reason for all this and they just need to keep looking and ruling out. You have had bloods done haven’t you and they have checked for EVERYTHING?

Ain’t nothing insane about you don’t you worry about that.