Has anyone with mental health issues and an undiagnosed chronic illness/pain ever been blatantly lied to at the ER about a medication? Last week I had a colonoscopy and throat scope to see if my chronic pain was from GI stuff. It looked normal. I’m pretty sure now that the pain is from my endometriosis now, but that’s neither here nor there. So later that day, my son head butts me in the stomach and about twenty minutes later I’m in the worst pain. Obviously we wanted to make sure nothing was wrong since I had had a procedure earlier in the day, plus I kinda wanted something for the pain. We get to the ER and they get me in fairy quickly and the doc says he doesn’t like to give opiates to people that have been suffering with chronic abdominal pain, but that he could give me a GI cocktail that would help. I found that a little weird since no other doc I’d ever seen had trouble pumping me full of drugs, but whatever, as long as it helped with the pain i didn’t care. I mean they could have used voodoo on me and as long as it worked i would not have cared. So the nurse gives me some medication through the IV they put in. I ask what it is. She says Haldol and Ativan. Now I know what Ativan is and does, but I’ve never heard of Haldol, so, like any person who is concerned about what is going into their body I ask her. She says, and this is verbatim, “It helps with nausea and pain.” Something didn’t sound right about that, as in my many years of random pain and nausea, I’ve never had a med that did both. I’ve always had to have like zophran and then the pain med. I tried to look it up, but i couldn’t spell it and even google was like, i got nothin. At the time I just wanted relief from the pain so I was like, sounds good to me! The pain did go down, it didn’t go away as it NEVER goes away, but I was able to loosen up enough that I wasn’t tensing and making it worse. Fast forward to yesterday at my therapy session. I was telling my therapist all about it and the drug that was for pain and nausea and she was just like, “ummmm Haldol is an antipsychotic, it does neither of those things.” Cue my faith in that particular ER crumbling. They straight up lied to me, ya’ll. They treated me like a psych case because they could find anything “wrong” with me. They saw my mental health diagnoses and the buck stopped there. I couldn’t sleep last night so I accessed my health records and read the report. It was very professionally worded, but basically said, we’re recommending follow up with GI to cover our asses, but we think it’s either severe anxiety or she just wants drugs. And it didn’t help that at my colonoscopy the nurses had to stick me six times because they couldn’t find a vein so I looked like I had freaking track marks up and down my arm. I wrote a lengthy complaint and now I’m just waiting on a reply. As anyone else had an experience like this? #PissedOff
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