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Last week I had an appointment with an orthopedic doctor for my hip. FYI: I had bursitis on that hip and last March I had the bursa removed but there is still pain when I walk. And winter cold really aggravates it.
So back to the doctor. He suggested a IT Band Expansion (surgery) where he would go into the same hip and open it up and cut the muscle. Kind of like scoring it. It might alleviate the pain, but no guarantees.
So what does this have to do with my corn blog? Medications. As I've mentioned before all medications in the United States has corn in them. The orthopedic doctor suggested a morphine drip for a few days after surgery but he could only give it to me for that long so I wouldn't become addicted.
That scared the bejesus out of me. Weeks of after surgery with no pain medication? I asked some corn free friends and only one said she got a script from her doctor and took it to a compounding pharmacy.
A compounding pharmacy makes your medications eliminating the (in my case) corn and gluten. Of course it's expensive but it's either pay up or be in pain! But we don't have a compounding pharmacy in my town.
I finally found a pharmacy this morning that would compound pain medication in Colorado Springs. So I went down to the office of the orthopedic doctor only to be told he doesn't prescribe pain medication before the surgery. So I had to plead my case. They took the information to him and he wrote the prescription for pain meds. I've faxed a copy of the prescription to the compounding pharmacy and am waiting for her to call me back. I need to know how long it will take them to make the pills. Surgery is scheduled for Feb 1st so if they can't fill the prescription I need to push back the surgery date until I have pills in hand. If she can have the prescription filled in time I will take the hand written prescription to Colorado Springs tomorrow morning.
Thank you doctor for listening to me. I get that so seldom anymore from the medical field.
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