I went to him for a long time, but he quit caring & so did Megan his head Staff, if she even ever…read moredid? It saddens me to write all this. At first Irecommended him to everyone. I thought he was the best until he quit caring!! My entire spinal cord, My entire neck is metal, rods, screws, plates, both hips, my feet, but not entire. I have fibromyalgia, arthritis in might entire body, especially where all the metal is, as well as a lot of other issues.
I'm telling you this so you understand when I tell you, I'm in an excruciating pain, you understand why. I was looking for a new pain doctor before he got upset when I confronted him & he told me "we were not on the same page" & sent me a generic letter saying he was no longer going to be my doctor. It also said, which is also a law that he would provide for me for the next 30 days. He lowered the muscle relaxers when he was supposed to increase them & lowered the pain medicine per day when he was not supposed to. My pain is unbearable and stops me dead in my tracks at times and he knows this, he doesn't care!!! He changed both without saying anything. Again, if you read you will see I cannot have my pain meds lowered.
The worst, I have not even mentioned yet,
Twice Megan said to me " I cannot help you" both times of course she was able to
One time the last time, my pharmacy did not have the pain pills so I needed her to send it to a new pharmacy & needed her help finding one that had the meds that her other patients had gone to and gotten the meds. She told me "she could not help me, there was nothing she could ", another words I would have no pain pills.
For the hundredth time, I had to tell her
" obviously you have never been in chronic severe pain" or you would understand, I cannot be without my pain pills! Which any pain management place should know! The other time she told me "she could not help me, there was nothing she could do " she sent an order with the wrong description so it didn't go through the insurance. When I called her at first, I gave her the codes & what to say. She did not do it incorrectly and it did not go through the as approved. All she had to do was redo it but, no, she said." I can't help you there's nothing we can do." AGAIN.
The other Office called her & in 2 seconds it went through and was taken care of. Dr. Martinez sees her tex and doesn't think anything wrong with them!!! which shows once again he doesn't care anymore. Which is really, really sad!!! It saddens me to even say any of this!
My last visit I begged him for 20 minutes for a prescription pain cream that helps. It is not a controlled substance just prescription strength Voltaren.
He told me on the end " when it's not covered, are you gonna come back & tell me I'm right?" of course it was covered. I brought it with the sheet from the pharm & quoted him and "asked him if I was right?"
When he said I needed to find another doc "we won't on the same page" he was right.
No, we were not, He quit caring.
I was already looking for an another Dr, but hadn't found one yet. When I begged him for 20 minutes for that cream it was, in front of a student. I pray to God that student does not think that's acceptable behavior from any doc. There are more examples but sadly, you get the drift. Normally, I would never wish my pain on my worst enemy. But I wish him & Megan would be in this kind of extreme awful unbearable pain for a year at least, Than, maybe just maybe they would care again!! I say this for his patients he has now & his future patients. I don't know if Megan ever cared, but I do know he did at one point. Maybe he was insulted that I was still in such pain I don't know.? Again I was trying to find someone else, who cared & listened, before his letter!! how could anyone who cared someone's muscle relaxers and pain when their pain is so sharp it stops them dead in their tracks & all they can do is say oh my oh my God until they can move! A nurse advocate from the insurance company is actually having to get involved, since they do not acknowledge any of my text to correct the doses on my pills. They also never answered their phone anymore. AI does & then send you a Tex saying you left a message which they still do not return half the time.
Again, it saddens me to write this!!!