I have no energy to go into details and it won’t result in anything, so I won’t. But I’ve been living with chronic pain for ages and it got significantly worse to a point where it inhibits my ability to sleep and drives me mad while I try to work.
Doctors are able to observe and do observe the cause, but refuse to help me, because I lost my medical records when I was either homeless (which I was multiple times) or when I moved countries (also multiple times), which I genuinely am sure aren’t even needed and they use as an excuse.
I have last chance appointment next week. If I don’t get help, I plan to move out of this country asap, because I have to mandatorily pay hundreds of euros each month of healthcare, which I don’t receive, with doctors being extremely disrespectful, with some indirectly, but very clearly, telling me to leave this country. I’m so tired.
I can’t take painkillers because at this point they screw my stomach, making my situation even worse than the pain I have.
Feel free to share your awful stories of bad interactions with medical staff. Reading such is how I cope.
I don’t have any connections, but one time I got a surgery I needed solely because a nurse who is also an immigrant overheard the non-immigrant nurses dismissing my case without me even seeing the surgeon. She stopped me, asked about my case, told me she’ll speak to the surgeon, which she did, and then the surgeon took me in and scheduled the surgery very quickly from when it happened. I hope I get lucky next week. My pain can only be addressed with a surgery, unfortunately.