TMJ Resources - Our Family - Patient Talk
I was diagnosed with TMJ back in august, but it hasn’t been a solid diagnosis, so I can’t get the proper treatment. Instead I spend all day in pain and agony. When I beg for help or more meds for comfort, I receive attitude from the receptionist. At one point, the receptionist told me that to not to drink caffeine, that I just had a migraine and that her migraine doctor is good. Another pain specialist nurse told me that I didn’t need oxycodone and that I was overreacting. Instead of thinking, “Wow this person has to be hurting to take oxycodone”, they look at it as, he just wants to be "high". How unprofessional is that? How did these mean people get into this profession!
Medical professionals should be caring and sympathetic. They think they know everything, when in actuality doctors get sued for malpractice daily, so this mean that they don’t know everything. Being a doctor doesn’t mean you can read people minds, nor write them off as a addict.
I have been suffering for almost 5 months now. I have been on pain killers for that duration. One of the ER doctors has written a report that I’m drug seeking, because I’m impulsive. He is either trying to be a hero, or he is tired of me whining. Only we know our hell. Many of you probably can relate to this. I live daily at home alone, in shame, in disbelief of the medical community. I have spent time planning out suicide. Not just because of the pain, but because I’m treated so poorly, begging for help. My dignity has been destroyed. A smoker begging for help for cancer relief gets treated better than me. I am convinced they know what’s wrong with me, but know they can make tons of money off leaving me in limbo. I don’t know what to do, my family life is in limbo, I’m barely hanging on to my to my wife. When I die, only then will someone sympathize and say, “Why did you all let him suffer!” Always when its to late!
