01-02-2009, 06:46 AM
has anyone gotten cellulitus from lesions,ulcers or shingles from rsd. and if so how did your work comp company deal with it
or if you havent and continue to read please let me know what you think is going on with the work comp we all know they play games but im trying to see how or what they will try and come up with to continue not to pay my ttd---thanks
i'll warn you now it is long and after typing this im thinking there is probably some other place on this site to put this--i apologize i should of searched the entire site first--im kind of new--i was going to erase it but its taken me all nite and you know what just knowing i had someplace to vent last nite and this am was something i really needed--i feel i can go on another day-and i thank god for showing me the place to go to get rid of all the what ifs in my head
i got rsd after a passenger(i work for an airline)knocked me down in the aisle with a beverage cart and my legs went under the cart. i was being treated for rsd and therapy for a contusion to the knee. w/c paid ttd and all bills for 10 months--then would only pay my ttd--i quess they thought the rsd would get better on its own. at that time i had open sores--whatever you want to call them shingles ulcers,lesions--my doc was wanting the okay to due injections--they refused.
2 months later still had the same open sores and all the burning etc that goes along with rsd--and now go into septic cellulitus shock--coma--50/50 chance to live.
they paid ttd and hospital bills throuighout the whole thing
then ime says 4 months later that i no longer have rsd its all cellulitus and there is no way to tell that the open sores are where the bacteria entered--even though the docs could pin point the spot of entry--therefore injuries have healed from the accident and if it wasnt for my preoccupation with pain i would be able to do secondary work(I WAS ON THE SAME MEDS BEFORE THE CELLulitus that i was on then--morphine pill--oral morphine zanax-cymbalta,lyrica.trazadone,bactrum,benedrly,klonopinflexrile,narcotic cream and hydrocodone(its all given under a strict pain management program)(didnt want u to think i was a junkie--but this is how bad i suffer from the rsd pain.--so w/comp now stops my ttd
well this w/comp failed to give the ime all my records especially the one from the infectious disease doc that cleared me of cellulitus 2months before this appt--this ime just assumed i still had it because i was still on the same antibotic that i was for the cellulitus--but i was on it for something else.--nothing surprises me with thiese ime but this guy wrote an 11page document on how the cellulitus was affecting certain parts of my body-he went on and on and on
i have since had 3 of my doc depositions stating at that time i did not have cellulitus,but rsd(the infectious disease docs dep is coming up next week. one of my docs who use to treat me for rsd told w/comp during the dep that he wasnt for sure if i was off from the rsd or a drop foot that he was treating me for--but he did tell them he handed my rsd treatment over to the pain management co.
all of a sudden they want me to go back to the same ime who wrote that 11page lie--they'll even overnite me money for a hotel meals gas etc.--sorry couldnt go i was scheduled for a trial stimulator--so they set it up for 2 weeks later. of all dates the 23 of december in chicago 3hours from my home.
by the way i do have an attorney but alot of times they wont tell you what they think--all he said was to go(i really didnt have to they arnt paying any med or ttd)so we can get this all over with. he did say if the trial stimulator worked then we would diffently win in court as it would prove that the pain was from the rsd(meaning they would have to pay for this surgery since they have refused all treatment saying im just lieing and trying to stay off work longer--heck i cant even get a foot in a shoe
i went to their play game(appt) where someone is watching it from another room and phoning him with questions to ask etc--what a get up!
what w/comp and their quack did not know was the drop foot had healed and here i was again no cellulitus--doc's dep to prove it--no drop foot--yet my legs, feet are swollen--im in a wheelchair(have been for a year) my skin is molted and im taking the same meds. he freaks when he finds out that i have to sit in a bio sequiential machine for hours not just for my legs but arms also -as i told them from day one the rsd spread to my upper limbs. obviously sees im not in a leg brace that they thought id be in so now starts asking me if i have had any infectioons or hospital visits since the last time--yeah once for a gall bladder attack due to the medication but thats it--he asks me this at least- no lie- 10 times--i think he was trying to get me to mention the drop foot but thats not an infection and ive learned only to answer the question they ask
wants to know why i havent had any treatment for the rsd if i have it--because you told them i had cellulitus and w/comp refused to pay for anything after that.
wants me now to get totaly undressed--measures the swelling continues to prick me with a pin until i tell him to knock it off--keeps trying to intentionaly touch the right side of the leg which is extremely hypersensitive--grabbing my neck asking if it hurts--my shoulders--are you sure you havent had any other infections--NO--now he really gets mad because i cannot hold back the pressure of his hands on my legs--dahhh i have no muscles now thanks to you--tells me i shold of been working on this the last 6 months--yeah i afreed with him and mentioned again i got no treatment because of his report. now he trys to pull my leg up(im laying flat)to see how high it will go---remember i had the trial stmulator put in 2 weeks ago-he know knows this but does not now the insertionof the wires caused massive swelling due to the rsd,but we opted to keep it in to see if when the swelling went down i could get any relief--that pain was just under the rsd pain--so he says tell him when it hurts--he lifts it a little and i tell him to stop--the back is still sore and id be darned if he was going to make it worse--he snorts at me and trys the other leg--same thing lifts it up -i tell him to stop-he says oh come on it cant hurt that surgery was weeks ago--i told him i dont care what he thinks but it hurts and thats it--he grabs my folder off the desk and says goodbye!!!!!!!!!
so here i sit daily- thinking since i cant do anything else, and thinking isnt always good due to the meds.were they trying to get me in when i had a drop foot so they could some how say that is why i was still off and they needed some other reason before the infectious disease docs dep next week to justify not paying me all these months as he to will say i was cleared of cellulitus 2 months before i even saw the quack to begin with--will they try and create something again that i do not have--he made me move my feet up and down so he could see(and those spies behind vclose doors) that i do not have a drop foot--yet theyn somehow have to explain the swelling--coldness--molting--why a doc would perscribe a bio machine for me(its by perscription only and only after you have tried everything to releive swelling)
a couple months ago they had my attorney tell me they were willing to settle but dont demand a million dollars--well my rsd is full body-with the stimulatorr in it only takes away some of the pain and then only if the stimulator is at the highest it can go--but then your unable to walk because of the intensity,it doesnt take away the swelling, the faulty brain function that still is there as i still need most of the pain meds to(i did this because if i could even get off one pain med its one less thing to hurt my other organs)function.i still need therapy to get back what muscles that have wasted--but i cant drive--my husband cant afford to take off work so i would need transportation or a at home trainer
my attorney said with the income i was making and the amount of damage to the body the case is worth over a million.
of couse i told them i had no intention on settling
everytime after a dep they throw an amount at my atorney--i think the last offer was 200 thousand--thats 2 and a half years a pay--i have no insurance--i cant work where do they think im going to get money to live on after 2 and a half years--my meds alone are over 2 grand a month.
hers's what i think and i thank anyione who has taken the time to read this--i need someone elses opinion besides a husband who doesnt want to talk about it --just wants to kill them all--an attorney who knows things but holds things back from me and from me, because my mind is so far gone from pain,med and all their games
i think that they finally got the infectious disease doctors reports stating when i was released from his care--that after 3 docs dep all stating i have rsd not cellulitus and all stating i am the only person they know who really likes to go to work and knowing the last dep coming up was the infectious disease doc who will state also i did not have it then---that they were doing nothing but searching through each dep looking for something else to blame my time off work---and when they heard i had a drop foot they went in for the attack and in their hurried rush they did not get an update from the doc who treated me for the drop foot who would of told them that i only had one follow up visit and the drop foot went away as fast as it came. how can they possibly continue to deny me ttd and medical treatments(i live in illinois by the way) do you think they will create some other sci fi illness. i cant see them admitting hey we were wrong heres your back benefits and will pay for future treatments. have you ever had a w/comp company try and figure out how to handle this--as the workmans comp boardis going to see the specialist who treated me for the cellulitus released me way before the first appt--all other docs have given the same statement under oath and with their own last scheduled appt there was nothing wrong with me other than rsd.
and feedback, advice, thought or chat--im just at the teetering stage of letting their mental games get to me
this site has been my savior for the last six hours--im sure you know what i mean
thanks to all who listened , i know i can now make it another day
cheers!!!!
me!!!
or if you havent and continue to read please let me know what you think is going on with the work comp we all know they play games but im trying to see how or what they will try and come up with to continue not to pay my ttd---thanks
i'll warn you now it is long and after typing this im thinking there is probably some other place on this site to put this--i apologize i should of searched the entire site first--im kind of new--i was going to erase it but its taken me all nite and you know what just knowing i had someplace to vent last nite and this am was something i really needed--i feel i can go on another day-and i thank god for showing me the place to go to get rid of all the what ifs in my head
i got rsd after a passenger(i work for an airline)knocked me down in the aisle with a beverage cart and my legs went under the cart. i was being treated for rsd and therapy for a contusion to the knee. w/c paid ttd and all bills for 10 months--then would only pay my ttd--i quess they thought the rsd would get better on its own. at that time i had open sores--whatever you want to call them shingles ulcers,lesions--my doc was wanting the okay to due injections--they refused.
2 months later still had the same open sores and all the burning etc that goes along with rsd--and now go into septic cellulitus shock--coma--50/50 chance to live.
they paid ttd and hospital bills throuighout the whole thing
then ime says 4 months later that i no longer have rsd its all cellulitus and there is no way to tell that the open sores are where the bacteria entered--even though the docs could pin point the spot of entry--therefore injuries have healed from the accident and if it wasnt for my preoccupation with pain i would be able to do secondary work(I WAS ON THE SAME MEDS BEFORE THE CELLulitus that i was on then--morphine pill--oral morphine zanax-cymbalta,lyrica.trazadone,bactrum,benedrly,klonopinflexrile,narcotic cream and hydrocodone(its all given under a strict pain management program)(didnt want u to think i was a junkie--but this is how bad i suffer from the rsd pain.--so w/comp now stops my ttd
well this w/comp failed to give the ime all my records especially the one from the infectious disease doc that cleared me of cellulitus 2months before this appt--this ime just assumed i still had it because i was still on the same antibotic that i was for the cellulitus--but i was on it for something else.--nothing surprises me with thiese ime but this guy wrote an 11page document on how the cellulitus was affecting certain parts of my body-he went on and on and on
i have since had 3 of my doc depositions stating at that time i did not have cellulitus,but rsd(the infectious disease docs dep is coming up next week. one of my docs who use to treat me for rsd told w/comp during the dep that he wasnt for sure if i was off from the rsd or a drop foot that he was treating me for--but he did tell them he handed my rsd treatment over to the pain management co.
all of a sudden they want me to go back to the same ime who wrote that 11page lie--they'll even overnite me money for a hotel meals gas etc.--sorry couldnt go i was scheduled for a trial stimulator--so they set it up for 2 weeks later. of all dates the 23 of december in chicago 3hours from my home.
by the way i do have an attorney but alot of times they wont tell you what they think--all he said was to go(i really didnt have to they arnt paying any med or ttd)so we can get this all over with. he did say if the trial stimulator worked then we would diffently win in court as it would prove that the pain was from the rsd(meaning they would have to pay for this surgery since they have refused all treatment saying im just lieing and trying to stay off work longer--heck i cant even get a foot in a shoe
i went to their play game(appt) where someone is watching it from another room and phoning him with questions to ask etc--what a get up!
what w/comp and their quack did not know was the drop foot had healed and here i was again no cellulitus--doc's dep to prove it--no drop foot--yet my legs, feet are swollen--im in a wheelchair(have been for a year) my skin is molted and im taking the same meds. he freaks when he finds out that i have to sit in a bio sequiential machine for hours not just for my legs but arms also -as i told them from day one the rsd spread to my upper limbs. obviously sees im not in a leg brace that they thought id be in so now starts asking me if i have had any infectioons or hospital visits since the last time--yeah once for a gall bladder attack due to the medication but thats it--he asks me this at least- no lie- 10 times--i think he was trying to get me to mention the drop foot but thats not an infection and ive learned only to answer the question they ask
wants to know why i havent had any treatment for the rsd if i have it--because you told them i had cellulitus and w/comp refused to pay for anything after that.
wants me now to get totaly undressed--measures the swelling continues to prick me with a pin until i tell him to knock it off--keeps trying to intentionaly touch the right side of the leg which is extremely hypersensitive--grabbing my neck asking if it hurts--my shoulders--are you sure you havent had any other infections--NO--now he really gets mad because i cannot hold back the pressure of his hands on my legs--dahhh i have no muscles now thanks to you--tells me i shold of been working on this the last 6 months--yeah i afreed with him and mentioned again i got no treatment because of his report. now he trys to pull my leg up(im laying flat)to see how high it will go---remember i had the trial stmulator put in 2 weeks ago-he know knows this but does not now the insertionof the wires caused massive swelling due to the rsd,but we opted to keep it in to see if when the swelling went down i could get any relief--that pain was just under the rsd pain--so he says tell him when it hurts--he lifts it a little and i tell him to stop--the back is still sore and id be darned if he was going to make it worse--he snorts at me and trys the other leg--same thing lifts it up -i tell him to stop-he says oh come on it cant hurt that surgery was weeks ago--i told him i dont care what he thinks but it hurts and thats it--he grabs my folder off the desk and says goodbye!!!!!!!!!
so here i sit daily- thinking since i cant do anything else, and thinking isnt always good due to the meds.were they trying to get me in when i had a drop foot so they could some how say that is why i was still off and they needed some other reason before the infectious disease docs dep next week to justify not paying me all these months as he to will say i was cleared of cellulitus 2 months before i even saw the quack to begin with--will they try and create something again that i do not have--he made me move my feet up and down so he could see(and those spies behind vclose doors) that i do not have a drop foot--yet theyn somehow have to explain the swelling--coldness--molting--why a doc would perscribe a bio machine for me(its by perscription only and only after you have tried everything to releive swelling)
a couple months ago they had my attorney tell me they were willing to settle but dont demand a million dollars--well my rsd is full body-with the stimulatorr in it only takes away some of the pain and then only if the stimulator is at the highest it can go--but then your unable to walk because of the intensity,it doesnt take away the swelling, the faulty brain function that still is there as i still need most of the pain meds to(i did this because if i could even get off one pain med its one less thing to hurt my other organs)function.i still need therapy to get back what muscles that have wasted--but i cant drive--my husband cant afford to take off work so i would need transportation or a at home trainer
my attorney said with the income i was making and the amount of damage to the body the case is worth over a million.
of couse i told them i had no intention on settling
everytime after a dep they throw an amount at my atorney--i think the last offer was 200 thousand--thats 2 and a half years a pay--i have no insurance--i cant work where do they think im going to get money to live on after 2 and a half years--my meds alone are over 2 grand a month.
hers's what i think and i thank anyione who has taken the time to read this--i need someone elses opinion besides a husband who doesnt want to talk about it --just wants to kill them all--an attorney who knows things but holds things back from me and from me, because my mind is so far gone from pain,med and all their games
i think that they finally got the infectious disease doctors reports stating when i was released from his care--that after 3 docs dep all stating i have rsd not cellulitus and all stating i am the only person they know who really likes to go to work and knowing the last dep coming up was the infectious disease doc who will state also i did not have it then---that they were doing nothing but searching through each dep looking for something else to blame my time off work---and when they heard i had a drop foot they went in for the attack and in their hurried rush they did not get an update from the doc who treated me for the drop foot who would of told them that i only had one follow up visit and the drop foot went away as fast as it came. how can they possibly continue to deny me ttd and medical treatments(i live in illinois by the way) do you think they will create some other sci fi illness. i cant see them admitting hey we were wrong heres your back benefits and will pay for future treatments. have you ever had a w/comp company try and figure out how to handle this--as the workmans comp boardis going to see the specialist who treated me for the cellulitus released me way before the first appt--all other docs have given the same statement under oath and with their own last scheduled appt there was nothing wrong with me other than rsd.
and feedback, advice, thought or chat--im just at the teetering stage of letting their mental games get to me
this site has been my savior for the last six hours--im sure you know what i mean
thanks to all who listened , i know i can now make it another day
cheers!!!!
me!!!
