“Pain Management” in my experience is that you Do. Not. Get. Any. Relief. In fact in a state like here, the goal is you don’t get any meds. The whole “management” part is to reduce the flow of prescription drugs so the politicians, insurance and the doctors show they are TOUGH on DRUGS

Sorry if I sound a little bitter. Not sorry. Jeesh.

When my roomie's pain management doctor was replaced, the new one waited until he showed up for his usual nerve ablation procedure to tell him he's "too heavy" for the table (where he's already had this exact thing done half a dozen times).

So, instead of experiencing the relief he was looking forward to, now my friend gets to look for a new pain management doctor and get referrals and wait through all that shit when he is ALREADY at a high pain level that could've been avoided if the new doc had just gone through the new patient files and said "oh I'm too fatphobic to treat someone like this like a normal human being" so my buddy could've started looking for a new doc already.

Assholes.