{"id":4178,"date":"2016-05-17T17:08:45","date_gmt":"2016-05-17T17:08:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/?p=4178"},"modified":"2016-05-17T17:08:45","modified_gmt":"2016-05-17T17:08:45","slug":"where-the-hell-is-dr-house-when-you-need-him","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/2016\/05\/17\/where-the-hell-is-dr-house-when-you-need-him\/","title":{"rendered":"Where the Hell is Dr. House When You Need Him?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I am SO frustrated with Group Health doctors who are completely unwilling to provide any meaningful treatment for pain.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Last night was my worst ever, felt like my spine had been plugged into a 220 volt outlet and every pain nerve fiber in it overstimulated.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I had burning all over my body, severe allodynia, and it took on a new property where if my wife touched my lower left leg, not only would I feel intense pain where she touched but also I’d feel the touch in my chest and throat.\u00a0 It is as if my entire nervous system were one big short circuit.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 This in spite of 1200mg of gabapentin, 6mg of melatonin, 750mg of gaba, 325mg of aspirin, and by late in the morning a substantial amount of marijuana.\u00a0 But absolutely nothing was touching this pain and it was controlling me. I tell you if someone had offered me a bag of heroin I would have stabbed it in my veins or snorted it, the pain was that severe.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Yesterday I got chewed out by my neurologist for sending him too many e-mails.\u00a0 Well, I wouldn’t if he’d respond to them but in the absence of any response I just assume they went to >\/dev\/null.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Today I get e-mail from him suggesting my problem is that I need better stress management.\u00a0 I explained to him that my only substantial stressor at this time was the pain that he was refusing to manage effectively.\u00a0 I have a wife that loves me, lots of friends, at least two kids that still talk to me, I practice meditation, I pray, I belong to and attend a church, a good small church with people that actually care, I go to a Bible study and a men’s accountability group.\u00a0 Honestly, in terms of stress management I don’t know what I could be doing better.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 This is making night time sleep and daytime functionality difficult to say the least.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I am SO frustrated with Group Health doctors who are completely unwilling to provide any meaningful treatment for pain. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Last night was my worst ever, felt like my spine had been plugged into a 220 volt outlet and … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","wpautop"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4178","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4178"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4178\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}