Was at the ER until 5am. The orderly first came out and didn't write anything much down and told me to repeat it all when the doctor comes out to talk to me and her dad. Hours later a nurse came out and said it had been really busy and the doctor would see us soon. At 4:45am a nurse came out and said the doctor went home...and this was at a pretty good hospital in the area. Medical treatment is pretty bad in the US :\ I was like "uhh, the docs need to know certain stuff about her perscription psych meds, the name of her psychiatrist, stuff that aggravates the injury, stuff about HER SUICIDE ATTEMPTS" and the nurse is like "well, you can write it down on a piece of paper and I'll attach it to her charts".
When I asked if I'd get to talk to the doctor tomorrow then to tell him about everything that's been going on she couldn't give me an answer. She also said because I'm not married to her, she's not sure if I'll be able to talk to anyone. Which is fucked up as I'm the one who knows all her medical history for the past 2 years. I'm going back in 8 hours with her dad and I'll spend the next 2 days sitting in the ER room I guess.
I didn't reply to my fiance's texts or her many, many calls because she was angry, they were angry and I thought anything I said right now would escalate and make her more pissed.
The only thing that got to me was when she said:
"Answer the goddamn phone. I'm being treated like a criminal. I have no rights. Whatsoever. My phone is a 'privilege'. After ruining my life, would you, at the least, answer the phone?"
I still felt like it'd just escalate. When I left I let her know that we'd been there all night, that they were kicking us out and I left detailed notes to support her facts, that me and her dad would be back tomorrow and we're there for her and to try to stay strong.
This is a shitty situation.
Opiate prescriptions are often shorter than two weeks because they are highly addictive. Are you sure she is experiencing chronic pain and not withdrawal symptoms from her addiction?
Edit: There are plenty of pain issues that are near impossible to diagnose and/or detect with current technology.
Yeah, it's hard to tell if it's both the injury and the opiate addiction aggravating it with fake pain or if it's just the injury pain or if the opiate has lowered her tolerance for pain in general so the injury hurts more. She definitely has inflamed muscles, shortened muscles in the neck, a reverse spine in her neck, a muscle knot in her back. These are things that docs have noticed and they haven't gone away or improved over time since she hasn't been doing treatment to improve them for a while.