Vincent
Senior Member
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- Baltimore, Maryland USA
Don't ever tell the ER you are on pain medication. I go to urgent care and explain my POTS and that's why I'm so confused right now because I literally do not have enough RBC going to my brain and why I feel better laying down. This is the third time symptoms have gotten so severe I had to seek out urgent care. Anway, this urgent care -unlike others I have been to -is unable to give IV fluids, or just wouldn't give them to me.
I tell them I have confusion and headache when standing. Urgent says they are not equipped to handle me and charge me 35 dollars for the pleasure of sending me to the ER.
At the ER dr says, and I quote: 'why do you think you are confused'. Oh gee, I don't know, thats like saying 'why do you think you like spaghetti', because I like spaghetti, you fucking idiot. Just because I can solve your simple arithmetic and logic questions does not mean I'm not impaired.
Instead of just giving me an IV drip without an interrogation I had to get a drug screen, some other blood work that was never explained to me nor values given, and a brain CT. It all comes back 'normal'. Dr comes in asks if I want more IV I say 'yes, but I don't want to sit here another 2 hrs', so I get discharged. No medication to control headache, no referral given, just a one page computer print out with 'Anxiety' and 'Volume Depletion'.
Who the fuck discharges someone from the ER with no follow up, no referral!? I just moved here two weeks ago, you need to do that for everyone you discharge especially someone like me!
So in the future, my pain medication is my business and my business alone.
I tell them I have confusion and headache when standing. Urgent says they are not equipped to handle me and charge me 35 dollars for the pleasure of sending me to the ER.
At the ER dr says, and I quote: 'why do you think you are confused'. Oh gee, I don't know, thats like saying 'why do you think you like spaghetti', because I like spaghetti, you fucking idiot. Just because I can solve your simple arithmetic and logic questions does not mean I'm not impaired.
Instead of just giving me an IV drip without an interrogation I had to get a drug screen, some other blood work that was never explained to me nor values given, and a brain CT. It all comes back 'normal'. Dr comes in asks if I want more IV I say 'yes, but I don't want to sit here another 2 hrs', so I get discharged. No medication to control headache, no referral given, just a one page computer print out with 'Anxiety' and 'Volume Depletion'.
Who the fuck discharges someone from the ER with no follow up, no referral!? I just moved here two weeks ago, you need to do that for everyone you discharge especially someone like me!
So in the future, my pain medication is my business and my business alone.