I ended up with a concussion last weekend, and declined the Zofran the doctor wanted to give me for my nausea, because IV Zofran makes me vomit even more profusely. I asked him for Phenergan instead, since it’s what my GI prescribed me. He refused, claiming that he won’t prescribe it because people take it to get high. I hadn’t taken my PO until that moment because it does contain a sedative, and I wanted to have my head cleared before I took any of my nighttime medications that can occasionally make me tired (Baclofen, and Zanaflex for the spasms caused by my RSD).

I asked for no narcotics, or even any sort of pain medication (I can’t take advil or aspirin because of the Cymbalta I also take for my RSD), because I actually don’t like the feeling of being high (you can believe that or not), and I’d managed to go two months without having to take any because of the aforementioned RSD. Hell, I even chose my new pain management doctor *because* he doesn’t like giving narcotics. However, this didn’t stop the doctor, who sent his PA to check me out, and didn’t come in until I said no to the Zofran, from labeling me as a drug seeker. Since he won’t give Phenergan, I asked for Compazine, or Dramamine instead, even though they don’t really help as well as Phenergan. He told me I could take the Zofran or nothing at all.

I’m very lucky when it comes to my Gastroparesis (which was caused by a former PM prescribing Cymbalta and Trazodone, and my getting Serotonin Syndrome from it), because I can eat thanks to my pacemaker. However, once I start to throw up, I don’t stop. I spent four hours retching up food, then stomach bile, and then finally blood, because this doctor refused to give me any anti-nausea medications. I couldn’t even take my PO Phenergan because every time I tried to swallow it, the water would make me vomit yet again. It finally stopped today, twelve days later.

Oh, he also informed me that it’s not possible to receive a concussion from a standing position. I asked my General Practitioner about this a few days later, when I went in for my post-concussion check-up, and a Tetanus shot (Cut myself on something in the garage. Whoops) and she was extremely confused.

So here comes my question: What would you have done in my case? Would you have prescribed the Phenergan?

I was the only patient in the (pediatric) ER, so it’s not like I was wasting valuable time he could be spending with other patients.

About ten minutes after he left, the IV started making the RSD in my arm freak out, and it started to turn purple, and get bad goosebumps (I get them when I’m in a lot of pain in one specific spot, or when something is touching my legs) on my arm, so I called the nurse in to remove it. I’m sure that made me look like a drug seeker in his eyes, since I was leaving with fifteen minutes left in my fluids.