What are the patients’ rights and is this considered ACCEPTABLE?
I have a torn meniscus, loose cartilage, and bone spurs along with arthritis in my knee and was scheduled for arthroscopic knee surgery.

I had (PAT) Pre-Admission Testing the day before and insisted on meeting the anesthesiologist and discuss the treatment plan – I have a very bad case of emetophobia and get panic attacks and get claustrophobic. So the Doctor who is the head of the department met with me and agreed to the plan similar to what has worked in three of my oral/gum surgeries – 3 ativan tranquilizers and local pain med/injections. So the Chief agrees the the ativan and say sure he’ll do a spinal and I should be out of recovery in about an hour.

Yesterday, day of the surgery,when I get checked in I see the Chief anesthesiologist and confirm the plan. About an hour later “some guy” walks up claiming to be the anesthesia doctor – I tell him no DR. x the chief is doing my operation and he says no he is. Then he says he is useing “light anesthesia” I say NO I had Ativan and and supposed to get a spinal and before I finish my sentence I am out until I half wake 3.5 hours later and get out of recovery a total of.5 hours later – no spinal.

Today I find ot he is NOT even a doctor and LIED saying I ageed to this (Of couse the first I saw him is when he lies about who the chief is and I’ve had a total of 4 ativans and am injected when I dispute his comment.
To add the first person I spoke with since said she was a patient advocate and then passed the buck. I darn near had a stoke arguing that had a right to know what he shot me up with and then my parents getting on me saying that I am ungrateful tbe I survived “unscathed” . But they are adamant that they’s want to be “under” (with a general) and get p.o.’d when I ask how they would feel if their doctors knew that and agreed but then WOKE THEM up right in time for the cutting.

I am grateful I came out ok – but I was in recovery 400% LONGER than what I was told the worst case scenario would be. And no apologies, just a bunch of lies! -
Oye, my bad typing.. Thank you for the answers.

I wanted to use Ativan, because it has worked well in 3 (extreme) gum surgeries, when I was relaxed, could respond to directions, but didn’t remember the fact that they cut my mouth and had to grind bone. I didn’t expect it to be a way to enable them to abuse my wishes.

Thanks for the advice.

Ok well my situation is pretty weird. I am 13 years old, my parents have split up, my Mum walked out and my Dad is not able to take care of me and my 4 year old brother full time. So me and my little brother are now living with my Grandmother. She is able to take care of us, but she cant leave the house for long, as she has arthritis. So i pick up my little brother from school, after my school day is over (i finish 20 mins earlier than him so that gives me 20 mins to get there. Anyways back to my cat. When me and my brother moved in with my gran, there was no way we were going ton leave my cat behind. She is 11 years old in April. She has had diarrhea on and off since june last year. Each time, we took her to the vets straight away and got treatment for her. That was when everything was fine in my family, but since september, we have been living with my gran, whose only income is her pention. This means that we cannot afford to pay £70 each time we go to the vets. This time my cat is in a really bad condition.
She has lost her voice completely,
She has Diarhea again,
She is not eating properly,
She has become skinny and i think i can feel her ribs!!
Today, shese been lying down like shese in pain, or sitting with her borrom off the ground leaning forward, taking sharp deep breaths and when she gets up again there is a puddle of pee!!! She has done this 13 times today! i
have counted how many times i cleaned it up.

There is this vet, where you can take your pets if you are on very low income and cant pay the full fee of a normal vet. My grandma has been registerd there for 4 months (since we moved in)
but we cant take her there, because my gran is not able to leave the house for more than 2 hours! I dont know what to do please help im scared for my cat!! please dont tell my to give her up. It will break me and my grans heart. My cat has been my best friend since i was 2 years old and i cant live without her. How can i get the cat to the vet??? Also it is only open during school days during school hours, and i will not be able to take time off school.

Is there certain medication that should not be taken with Sarcoidosis. I have recently lost someone to this diease who was being treated for Rheumatoid Arthritis. She was receciving a weekly injection ( not quite sure of the full name but its nickname is Gold Injection) and i’m just wondering if this would have effected her in anyway as she was told she could not have it one week because of having just a cold?
Also do doctors find it really hard to diagnois between the 2 illnesses or should it have been picked up over the past year and a half? She had all the symptons and now we have researched it, it seems obvious to us, should the doctor not spent time looking over his notes a bit more to realise the treatment for artheritis wasn’t work??

Well here is the short version. I have joint pain along my fingers and knuckles. My hands sweat all the time, and my hands swell everyday more than 5 times a day. The swelling lasts about 5-25 minutes.

More info: I was in the 4th grade and went skiing for the first time in New Mexico. My hands began to swell and become useless because my hands were swelling inside my gloves and i was rushed to the emergency room. They thought i had arthritis. Well now im the 9th grade, and im having terrible episodes of swelling/sweating/and joint pains. I have been going to multiple different doctors and having multiple x-rays. Does anyone else have this issue and got treatment of some sort?
Thanks.

I have suffered from low back and hip pain (different pain in both sides) for several years. The pain and associated symptoms (numbness and pain that radiates down my leg/legs) have continued to grow worse with every passing month. In addition, I suffer from chronic insomnia, sleep bruxism, and frequent headaches. I am afraid that if this continues, I will be unable to work full time. I have already severely limited my lifestyle to exclude all unnecessary physical activities. Simple chores such as cooking and cleaning have become exceedingly difficult to complete.

Diagnostically, I’ve had several x-rays and one MRI of my lower back. These have shown that I have a very minor case of scoliosis and my pelvis is tilted to the right. Additionally, I do have a herniated disk/degenerative disk disease at L4/L5 and bursitis in my right hip. I have also had a variety of lab work, which has ruled out Rheumatory arthritis and Ankylosing Spondylitis (negative HLA B27 blood test).

My doctors are unwilling to offer any further diagnostic tests, and seem to doubt some or all of my symptoms. Can anyone offer any additional possibilities, either diagnosis or tests? I have run out of ideas and am unwilling to accept that all this pain is completely unrelated. My current list of diagnoses contains about ten or fifteen different problems; some related, others are not.

I do not know if I can stress enough the severity of the pain, or the fact that the pain is not located in one place or limited to one type of sensation. Each diagnosis can explain only one part of the problem, but because everything is getting worse more or less together, I think there is some kind of overall problem. Forgive me for rambling, but I am desperate at this point. All conventional treatment has failed (physical therapy, chiropractic care, epidural steroid injections, pain management, etc.) and the only surgery that has been mentioned thus far is the possibility of a spinal fusion in the future, which I have been assured that it is not a guarentee and comes with its own list of permenant disabilities.

Any ideas are appreciated.

i have a half coley and half germansheperd. He has arthritis on his back legs and he struggles to jump up on bed and jumping of it. we’ve just spent £800 for an operation on him so were skint da now to buy painkillers for him at vet.

Anyone got any advice how i could ease the pain a bit for him until we get painkillers.

Thx fir yir helps. xxx
‘Forever blackeyed’ How kin a take him tae da vet if it like £40 fir 5 painkiller u spaz F*ck. Read wa i said!!
the operation had nothing to do with his legs. he got operation coz his stomach wasnt producing acid to digest food so he was constantly sick. we didnt mention anything to the vet about his legs coz he wasnt that bad. he could jump about and that but he just got worse a few days ago.
Im not writing an english essay, im quickly asking a question…so…i don’t need perfect grammar and correct spelling and punctuation. Just wastes time.

There was an incident in my home recently. My brother is very ill, the police in my area are well aware of this, 2.5 years ago he stabbed someone, and he has not been called to court yet.

Last night, my brother snapped out due to withdrawal from opiates, he cut himself, threatened to commit suicide, and exclaimed he was going to kill me, my mother, and father.

He punched my disabled, elderly mother in the leg which was extremely painful for her, she gets spasms all over her body anyway, she cried when he hit her, and my Mother doesn’t cry unless it really hurts, she had to limp over to the bed. She has a collapsed/bulging/ruptured discs, rheumatoid arthritis, neuropathy and a neurostimulator in her back which has wires that connect to her spine, if he had hit her in the right place, he could paralyze her. We called the police, told them everything that happened, my brother had taken off, the officers returned later with paperwork for my mother, they went into his room to make him get up to talk to him, looked at his wrist, one of the officers said it was very deep. He then called an ambulance, my brother refused treatment, which the officer said is his right. My mother and I tried to get it thru their head that he is dangerous and has the characteristics of a murderer, that my brother listens to his music, and fantasizes about different ways to kill us, etc. My brother also told the cops he planned on finding acid and pouring it on my face. They wouldn’t arrest him.

They said the most they could do is tell him he isn’t allowed inside the house for the night, my mother told the officer he would just sneak back in the house thru his window, so the officer went back outside to talk to my brother, and I guess he told him to keep it cool and go to bed. When they left, he went ballistic again, exclaiming how he is an informant for the police, and he can do anything he wants, breaking items, more threatening, shoving me (he scares me so I leave the room.)

Moral of the story is… I don’t think this is right, a friend of mine told me in Delaware it is the law that if there is domestic violence in the house, they HAVE to arrest him. My parents have tried kicking him out, the last time they did he gave us a “warning” by breaking a window, he also said if they do he is going to burn the house down with us in it, I know people make stupid threats all the time, but this kid is capable. My brother is 25 years old.

If anyone could please help me find information on the Delaware Statutes, point me in the right direction, or who I can call to talk to that may be able to override this small police department, please. We are worried about our lives. They did tell her she can put out a warrent, but on the paper they gave her, they put down that the victim was not injured, they said it was nothing more then offensive touching, they also noted that no drugs were involved, even though my mother and I informed them he steals medication from both my mother, and father, and he is on several anti-psychotic medications, that he does not use properly. He takes so many he can’t keep his eyes open. (Today my mother is calling his doctor to inform him of the situation)

Please, any advice would be helpful.
They don’t care… Elsmere cops are…. I don’t want to say the word, but I think you’ll get my drift, they just don’t care. I called County, state… Attorney General, Victim assistance. No help, they say call Elsmere, The fact that they put on the paper that my mother was not injured, and no drugs were involved when I told the police he is an addict in withdrawal, concerns me. Cops never protected me…….the cops even lied on the paper they said his weapons were his hands and feet. I am calling them right now. This is so unfair, I don’t want to lose my mother.

I have degenerative arthritis in my knees and ankles. Most days it is so bad I cannot walk. I’ve had a bone scan that showed how bad it was (very severe, and i’m only 31), then was referred to a dr for treatment.
Well, the dr won’t give me anything more than Naprosyn, which isn’t nearly strong enough. She says she doesn’t like to prescribe anything that can be addictive, so no painkillers. Meanwhile, i can’t even play with my child most days, can’t get out of bed some mornings because I can’t unbend my legs. I went to a second dr, who said he didn’t like to prescribe painkillers either for the same reason. And that if I saw another dr for help, it could be considered dr shopping and I could get arrested for that. So what the hell can I do?? I am in crippling pain here. Should I go ahead and find another dr, even if it might get me in legal trouble? I need some relief. Life is intolerable like this.
They wanted to prescribe a med to help stop the damage that is way above what I can afford. It’s $400 a month, and I don’t have rx coverage with my health plan. So they just said basically “learn to deal with the pain” which isn’t working. My joints are so locked up and swollen I can’t even move most days.