I am frustrated. All of this is just CRAP! I was injured a year ago and am no better off than the day it happened. I am still having headaches, my upper AND lower back hurt, my arms and now my legs too, feel heavy and painful. I have tingling and numbness in both hands and continually drop things. I would do almost anything for 1 nights really good sleep. I know they (WC) don't care if I am better or not, BUT I DO. I feel like all they want to do is drug me, which isn't really helping me much anyway. Is this ever going to end????
Have u had any MRI'S done of your cervical and lumbar area?? Those areas could be the cause of what you are feeling.
Be firm with your doctor's and put your foot down. Demand the try, and search other areas to help you try and get better with relief from pain and such, other then just throwing scripts at you.
It will not end Boo. They will keep throwing scripts at you and then eventually you will be shut off from them paying for them scripts. Hopefully you have insurance other than WC because you will have to pay for them yourself or suffer at a certain point when they get sick of paying for them.
I went two years with so many diagnosis and at least 20 doctors that did not know a darn thing to do and to this day I have one doctor now that agrees I am not a Fake and really does have pain and RSD. Thank god for this doctor as if I did not have her on my side and believeing the pain I am in I think I would be in a nut house.
Do as others have said and demand to have procedures done, testing etc. to find out what really is going wrong. If you have to use your own insurance to get a second opinion then do so. If not, you will continue to just be kept drugged up without knowing where or what your pain really is. This of course is only MY opinion because I have been put through this whole ordeal only to now be dropped by WC because I wanted to have a SCS implanted in me and the WC IC had a IME done to have a doctor say I was just a drug addict that needed to be put into a rehab to get help and that a SCS would not help me.
Talk about making me even more depressed but I have now relieved myself of this so called WC system that does not help a injured person but only ruin their lives. DO NOT LET THEM DO THIS TO YOU. Get help from other resources if needed before you get worse. Also if I were you I would get legal representation to fight this WC system as you will eventually need it when you have them put you through these IME's to cut off your services or fight your ratings.
BooBoosNeck
It's just a shame that this happens, I would be demanding more tests.. Also if your DR does not know your not sleeping well make sure to tell them because rest is very important when trying to heal.. Maybe a script is needed to help you sleep, I had the same problem I just could not sleep, ( in to much pain ) but they put me on ambien, and worked awsome the 5mg put me to sleep but still kept waking then 10mg was the best. They also gave me adavan and xanax but had bad reactions to both... I still had the problem of pain waking me up so they told me to take my oxxy time released an hour before bed... When I came of oxxy I took 1 vicodin 5/500 and my 10mg ambien and I was able to sleep...
But I sure hope you can get some help with it....
I wish you best of luck.............Bronco
The Above have given You Great Advice, I would Surely be Pressing the Dr.'s for Either Answers, or Referrals to One who Does!! Be Strong, and Please Keep Us Informed!!
Fight for what is right with your body. Press that Dr, if s/he willnot listen talk to others in your area and find one who will listen... and cooperate with you to a point that u feel good about them. Get and attorney if you do not have one. Again ger referals from friends and neighbors. Get the best for youself DR's and Lawyers. I would never fight wc dr's and lawyers without haveing the best for myself.
BE YOU OWN ADVOCATE FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT
Fight for what is right with your body. Press that Dr, if s/he willnot listen talk to others in your area and find one who will listen... and cooperate with you to a point that u feel good about them. Get and attorney if you do not have one. Again ger referals from friends and neighbors. Get the best for youself DR's and Lawyers. I would never fight wc dr's and lawyers without haveing the best for myself.
BE YOU OWN ADVOCATE FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT
I tried to find an attorney but was told (by everyone of the Lawyers I called) that they would not become involved in my case until I was denied medical care or given an impairment rating. What kind of crap is that?? I guess I could keep looking but all eight I called said the same thing. I have had an MRI done, an emg and two CT's of my head. No one has ever addressed my lower back or even followed up on the carpal tunnel I was told I had by the neurologist. I get severe pain in my knee and for the severe headaches I get I was given oxycodone and told to take them when i need them. But what is causing them??I have bulging discs from c2 through t3 and I was told I am non operative because I have spondylosis and DDD. It's just getting ridiculous and why do they need to be like this?
Geez thats just terrible as it sounds like the lawyers you talked to are just in in for the money... I would keep calling until you find one that bites... What they say is correct, but only if you are recieving ttd and getting the medical attention you need... I my self have had an easy time and have been aproved for almost everything I have asked for...........but then I hear the problems others have and it makes me sick.. I have been in the system for almost 2 years and I have not needed my lawyers help yet except for a lien the hospitol put on future settlement wich the bills have been paid for by wc after I bit.hed enough.
I hope you find the answers to you problems...Bronco
