I am a chronic pain patient. I relocated from another city in Texas to Arlington. I was a patient of a wonderful pain management physician for 3 years in the city I relocated from. My previous physician was not familiar with doctors in the DFW area therefore could not refer me to a pain management physician in this area.
I really can't remember why I chose Dr. Sardar but it was a bad move for me. The 1st visit with Dr. Sardar was non productive as he had not received my medical records. I should have known it was a bad clinic when I realized they did not take random urin specimens. A good pain Mgt. Clinic will have built in processes such as random urin specimens to weed out the drug seekers. Although I could understand the Dr's reluctance to continue prescribing the same type and amount of pain meds without medical records, I was shocked that he would make very negative remarks about my previous pain Mgt. Physician and cut my pain meds down by 75%. The next 30 days, I lived in excrutiating pain.
I should have been smart enough to leave from his care then, but decided to continue until he received my records. Dr. Sardar had received my medical records upon my 2nd visit. I had a spinal chord stimulator implanted from my previous physician. Dr. Sardar talked down to me like I was a 2 year old child. He actually told me my previous physician "stuck it to me" when he implanted the spinal chord stimulator and had my dosage of pain meds way too high. I tried to explain to him that the spinal chord stimulator along with the dosage of meds had taken 3 years from my previous physician to finally control the pain so I could have some relief & actually function. Dr. Sardar was always talking down to me as if I were a 2 year old. He refused to give me the same dosage or the same effective medication as I had previously taken from my doctor. I lived in terrible pain until I could find another physician that actually cared and would treat my pain with the empathy that we all expect from physicians.
Changing pain management physicians is something that a person must be very careful about. Too much activity in this area can easily be viewed as Dr shopping, which is illegal. I made sure I had all my medical records in my hands to present to the doctor upon my first visit as I changed doctors. Now that I was forced to change physicians, I now have a total of 3 pain management physicians in 12 years. 1 of these was due to a relocation.
I am a senior citizen and realize that pain meds are not to be taken lightly. I only take pain meds to allow me to function & only take them as prescribed. I am dependent on these meds. I am not addicted to these meds. I live in pain on a daily basis, but thankfully I have found a physician that sincerely cares and actually does manage my pain.
Pain management physicians are faced with stringent rules when it comes to prescribing pain meds. It takes a special physician that can deal with all of the laws and rules that they must constantly deal with. . Unfortunately, there are people that try to acquire these pain meds for the euphoric high. Physicians have to be very careful to identify these people that try to beat the system.
It is my opinion that Dr. Sardar has chosen the wrong area of practice as a physician. His clinic and his personality is not conducive to help patients with chronic pain I would not recommend him to anyone that is faced with severe chronic pain that requires the stronger pain meds to function. read more
